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Die Legende Von Paul Und Paula

1973 pic

The Legend of Paul and Paula
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Die Legende von Paul und Paula (High german)
Directed past Heiner Carow
Written by Ulrich Plenzdorf and Heiner Carow
Produced past Erich Albrecht
Starring Angelica Domröse
Winfried Glatzeder
Cinematography Jürgen Brauer
Edited by Evelyn Carow
Music by Peter Gotthardt
Distributed by DEFA

Release date

1973

Running time

105 minutes
Linguistic communication German
Upkeep N/A

Dice Legende von Paul und Paula (German: [diː leˈɡɛndə fɔn ˈpaʊl ʔʊnt ˈpaʊla] ( listen ); English: The Legend of Paul and Paula) is a 1973 tragicomic E German film directed by Heiner Carow. A novel past Ulrich Plenzdorf named Die Legende vom Glück ohne Ende was based on this picture show.[1]

The film was extremely popular on release and drew three,294,985 viewers[2] (the Gdr had a population at the time of around 17 million). However, due to the motion-picture show'southward political overtones information technology was nigh not released. E German language leader Erich Honecker personally decided to permit it to be shown. Today information technology is one of the best-known East German films.

Plot summary [edit]

Paul is a minor bureaucrat in E Berlin, where he lives with his wife and their son in a mod high-rise apartment edifice. While he is well educated and professionally aggressive, he is mostly bored with his life. He cannot relate to his unsophisticated wife, who is repeatedly unfaithful, even bringing men home to their apartment when Paul is away. Paula, a grocery store cashier and single female parent of two, lives in a run-downward, prewar building directly across from Paul's modern high-rise. Having thrown out her philandering live-in lover (and male parent of her younger child), she is seeking more happiness in her tedious life.

Paul and Paula come across at a nightclub and instantly connect. Paula falls in dear with Paul and pursues him passionately. He desires her, only is reluctant to endanger his career and his marriage. When i of Paula's children is killed in an accident, Paul realizes that Paula is more important than his career and his marriage, only she is so crushed by her loss that she rejects him. Seeking security, she seriously contemplates matrimony with an older, successful merely dull man of affairs, and Paul must go to great lengths to win Paula back. Ultimately, he succeeds and they movement in together, but she dies giving birth to their child.

Trivia [edit]

  • The film made the band Puhdys a household name in E Frg. The band performs four songs in the film, all of which drew heavily upon specific western popular songs.[ clarification needed ]
  • The picture's enduring popularity led to a stretch of waterfront on the Rummelsburger See (Rummelsburg Lake) in Berlin-Lichtenberg, near where the boat scene was filmed, to be renamed Paul und Paula-Ufer (Paul And Paula Shore).
  • Paul's new apartment was on the third flooring of Singerstraße 51 in Friedrichshain. Paula'southward flat across the street was demolished, as shown in the pic. A supermarket at present occupies part of the site.
  • Berlin Ostbahnhof tin briefly be seen in some of the outdoor scenes, as it is only a short distance from the Singerstraße. The supermarket where Paula worked is located at what was then Leninplatz (now Platz der Vereinten Nationen).
  • Former German chancellor Angela Merkel revealed this motion picture to be her favorite.[3]

Cast [edit]

  • Angelica Domröse - Paula (Adam)
  • Winfried Glatzeder - Paul
  • Heidemarie Wenzel - Die Schöne (Ines)
  • Fred Delmare - Reifen-Saft
  • Rolf Ludwig - Professor
  • Käthe Reichel [de] - Frau des Schießbudenbesitzers
  • Hans Hardt-Hardtloff [de] - Schießbudenbesitzer
  • Frank-Otto Schenk [de] - Kollege Schmidt
  • Dietmar Richter-Reinick [de] - Kumpel

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-04-23 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived re-create as title (link)
  2. ^ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films. (in High german)
  3. ^ "Merkel reveals politically explosive favorite moving-picture show | DW | fifteen.05.2013". DW.COM . Retrieved 2018-12-14 .

External links [edit]

  • Die Legende von Paul und Paula at IMDb
  • DEFA summary (in English)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Paul_and_Paula

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