A Lively Christmas Eve
- Erwin Geschonneck: Walter Lörke
- Mathilde Danegger: grandmother
- Karin Schröder: Anne Lörke
- Arno Wyzniewski: Thomas Ostermann
- Günter Junghans: Karl Lörke
- Rosemarie Schelenz: Waltraud, called Peggy
- Walter Jupe: Dr. Klink Höfer
- Marianne Wünscher: Woman Klink Höfer
- Karla Runkehl: Woman Siebkorn
- Hans Bussenius: projectionist
- Fred Delmare: Taxi driver
- Gerd Ehlers: Drunk Ex -Fleischer
- John Frenzel: printing workers
- Walter E. Foot: Professor Flimrich
- Klaus Gehrke: Young Workers
- Horst Giese: Giese
- Hans Hardt- Hardtloff: Drunk
- Horst Jonischkan: Corporal Nasprzik
- Siegfried Kilian: precinct
- Ingeborg Krabbe: waitress
- Yvonne Merin: Woman with dogs
- Rudolf mill: Fat man
- Dieter Pröhl: Director
- Günter Rüger: Man out of the office
- Ingrid Fast: waitress
- Gerhard Scholz: Director
- Erik Veldre: student representative Dieter
- Jutta Wachowiak: Woman of the student representative
- Erich Weber: printing workers
- Paul Berndt: Party Guest
- Ursula Blank: Party Guest
- Hermann Kant: Party Guest
- Arthur W. Neubert: Party Guest
Oh, how joyfully ... is a German Christmas movie DEFA by Günter Reisch from the year 1962.
Action
Dresden on December 24, 1961: Walter Lörke, director of labor and management in the VEB " 13 August " has to step in as Santa Claus for a colleague and was glad to finally go to work to home, where he wants to spend with his family peaceful Christmas. The family is next to the grandmother from just 18 become daughter Anne and the young son Karl. Walter's wife died some time ago. The quiet is disturbed hard not only because of Charles verswingter Christmas plates and the tree decoration in the space style. Daughter Anne also appears with short hair and the announcement that she had invited a friend - her boyfriend. Walter is applied, especially since Anne has also spontaneously invited the unloved because religious neighbors.
When Christmas dinner is even more evident: Anne wants to marry her boyfriend, Thomas Ostermann. One of the reasons is their pregnancy. When Thomas, who works as a piano carrier, the Party line and DDR - associated Walter also says to his face that he is against the state, Walter leaves outraged the apartment. He walks into a pub, where he reported a drunken ex- butcher that Thomas ' father is proofreader at a newspaper, that also has to work on Christmas day to night. Thomas was a very smart student, but I have not "float" and can therefore not allowed to study. By Thomas ' father Walter learns that Thomas in the school in which boys Nasprzik had a friend whose parents have gone to the West. The friend was therefore entitled to operate the class teacher will not go to high school, so Thomas began to rebel. From Father Thomas had learned that the only fair fight is against the wrong; Thomas wanted the future to be convinced and the other fell so annoying. The high school he could only pass because his father started for him. When Thomas learned of this, he pulled out bitterly from the parental home. Since then, he abhors protection and relations to prevail.
Walter visited with Thomas the wizard of Social Sciences of the University, Dieter, who had been in the Admissions Committee of the University in the previous year, student representatives. Because Thomas ' social judgment despite his excellent grades was below average, it was not approved by the Admissions Committee to study. Dieter sets Walter explained that had stood in the rating among other things, that Thomas is making fun of the FDJ, was arrogant, not the educators eighth and current time ironically confront. Thomas sought to rely only on his good report. The defends himself that belong to the core principles of the legitimate fight against injustice. Dieter makes it clear to him that there was no fairer fight than the current one, since it was the "fight against the age-old injustice in human history ". Only when the Commission can assess whether Thomas is one of the " good guys" in the sense of the state, they can allow him to study. Walter and Thomas go back to Walter's apartment where Thomas is welcomed not only of Anne but also of his friend Nasprzik. Walter has recognized that Thomas has actually admitted only honorable for a friend, and accepts the connection of Thomas and Anne. He has also made further dialogue with Dieter and thus a first step towards a second study start for Thomas possible.
Production
Oh, how joyfully ... is based on the play And on Christmas Eve of Vratislav Blazek. The film was shot from 1961 to 1962 in Dresden. The apartment Lörke the family is on the Borsbergstraße close to the Holy Spirit Church.
Oh, how joyfully ... experienced on 7 October 1962 at the Thalia in Potsdam -Babelsberg its premiere and ran on 12 October 1962 in the cinemas of the GDR. On 20 October 1963, the film was first seen at DFF 1 in GDR television. In 1986, the film witnessed Like the old have sung a sequel.
Writer Hermann Kant has a cameo as a party guest. By Walter Schulze- Mittendorff the movie costumes come while Alfred Meier Hirsch was responsible for the Filmbauten. Speaker of the film is Gerry Wolff, while Rolf Losansky acted as assistant director.
Criticism
Renate Holland-Moritz praised the script, the 'of any such unity, conviction and brilliance in the dialogue [ is ] that nothing can go wrong. "
For the filmdienst was Oh, Holy Night ... "above- average comedy with satirical barbs against dogmatic beliefs and unjustified generalizations, brilliantly played. "