Bear Ye One Another's Burden
- Jörg Pose: Josef Holy
- Manfred Möck: Hubertus Koschenz
- Karin Gregorek: Matron Walburga
- Heinz Dieter Knaup: Dr. Stülpmann
- Susanne Luning: Sonja Kubanek
- Johanna Clas: Woman Grottenbast
- Doris Thalmer: Sister Inca
- Hermann Stövesand: Sibiu
- Peter Hölzel Truvelknecht
- Gert Gütschow: Dr. Sabroki
- Monika Lennartz: Heiliger's mother
- Hans -Jochen Roehrig: Jochen
- Ute Lubosch: parakeet friend
- Wilfried Pucher: parakeet
- Sina Fiedler: Truvelknechts table Dame
- Annett Kruschke: Hubertus ' bride
- Ellis Gentiles: Old lady
- Detlev Witte: Senior Comrade
- Klaus Tilsner: 1 Comrade
- Uwe Carpathians: 2 Comrade
- Stephan Baumecker: 1 Grenzer
- Alexander High: 2 frontiersman
Bear one another's burdens ... is a film directed by Lothar Warneke after a scenario by Wolfgang Held, which was produced by DEFA and premiered in 1988. The film received the rating " particularly valuable " and became a hit with audiences in the GDR. In 1995, Wolfgang Held published a book with the same title.
Action
The plot of the movie takes place in the early 1950s in a private sanatorium Schloss Hohenfels. The protagonists - Josef saint, a young inspector in the police and convinced Marxist, and Hubertus Koschenz, a Protestant vicar - divide, as both are suffering from tuberculosis, an involuntary hospital room. Both initially bear their controversial beliefs demonstratively. However, inevitably resulting discussions show the passage of time on a lot of common humanistic ideas. Joseph disease takes an ominous development, while Hubertus ' condition improves slowly. Hubertus can relate novel potent drugs from the West over ecclesiastical channels, these can then but - at first without his knowledge - leave the sicker Joseph. A secondary line of action describes the emerging love between Josef Saints and also difficult to tuberculosis diseased Sonja Kubanek who dies in New Year's Eve 1951. At the end, holy and Koschenz meet at the grave of Sonja.
Criticism
" Although a somewhat stereotyped designed, yet likeable film whose plea is supported for dialogue between Christians and Marxists of wit and good performers. "
Background
" Bear one another's burdens " is a quote from the book of Galatians (Galatians 6, 2). A first scenario by Wolfgang Held for the film under the title " ... and each bear one another's burden" is autobiographical and already created in 1973, but in 1986 began the processing of the substance by the DEFA in collaboration with the State Secretariat for Religious Affairs. At the premiere of the film sitting next to Kurt Hager retired bishop Albrecht Schönherr. The movie has been seen by over 1.2 million viewers and seen as a sign of an incipient dialogue. In the film, a Communist and a Christian meet on an equal footing - a first in the East German film history. In the figure, the Christians ideas of Emil Fuchs, a theological teacher Lothar Warneke, who dedicates the film uncredited Emil Fuchs reflect. The very fact that the film was ever produced, was something special - it is said in a documented audience opinion. The reception of the film was the subject of an investigation by the Central Institute for Youth Research.
In his book "Last and dear grief box " goes Wolfgang Held in a retrospective on the history from his point of view, and presents his thoughts on a possible continuation of the story.
Location for the sanatorium Hohenfels was the Wasserburg Müggenburg.
Others
The film marked the beginning of a film series of the Ecumenical Working Group Prenzlauer Berg on " Faith and Church in East German films ." At the performance on 23 January 2013 UCI Cinema "Colosseum " in Berlin -Prenzlauer Berg ruled such a rush that despite additional performance in another movie theater many prospects got no place.
Awards
38th International Film Festival Berlin
National film festival of the GDR
Arts Award of fdgb
Other national awards
Other international prices