Die Hochzeit von Länneken

• Otmar Judge: Henning grave
• Brigitte Beier: Bärbel Pröpping
• Hanns Anselm Perten: Heinrich Pröpping
• Agnes Kraus: Friederike Pröpping
• Harry Hindemith: Johannes grave
• Dorothea Thiesing: Marta Fögenteich
• Wolfgang Arnst: Fritz Kemper
• Maria Besendahl: telegraph Timmsche
• Ralph Borgwardt: Schuster
• Werner Czalla: Fritz Wussow
• Fred Delmare: Karli
• Christa knee: Rotraud Wussow
• Ruth Kommerell: Helene Wussow
• Arthur Kupke: Max Wussow

The Wedding of Länneken is a German feature film by Heiner Carow DEFA from the year 1964. It is based on the novel by Herbert neighbor, who was also involved in the screenplay.

Action

On the island Länneken in Bodden there in the cold winter of 1929 a dispute that continues to the present day: at that time starved fishermen and Heinrich Pröpping, called "king" and John Grabe, called "Admiral", discovered that they both have the had received use permit for one of the richest fishing fishing grounds. The former best friends became bitter enemies, and attracted quite Länneken in their Stret into it. Later, Fischer Fögenteich received an authorization to the square and between Pröpping and grave reigned now a deafening silence.

Some years after the war are the fishermen of Länneken in the fishing cooperative. Pröpping and grave are in different brigades and both significantly wealthier than other fishermen who have to work on fishless places. More and more, it comes to the protest of the other fishermen who want to have allocated a portion of the rich fish stocks its brigade. Not only is the battle for the fishing grounds moved Pröpping and grave. Her children challenge them: Henning grave and Bärbel Pröpping are against the will of the parents a couple. When the two talk to each other on their respective cutters, John calls his son angrily to switch to the other boats. A little later it comes to cooperative meeting in which his father Henning accused to have saved his wealth from Nazi times to the present. John disinherited his son in front of the whole village community. Henning also can not prevail with his proposal to merge all brigades, so that everyone can benefit from the good fish stocks.

Henning is now living with John and his girlfriend Bärbel. In particular, the strictly religious mother Friederike Pröpping sees this constellation reluctant, but they feared a premarital pregnancy of her daughter. But it can not prevail over her husband, who hopes that the able Henning comes in his brigade. Henning refuses, he wants to stay with its considerably weaker brigade and bring it forward. Henry reacts angry and insulted Henning as Bolsheviks, but apologized the next day.

The old fisherman Fögenteich dies and Henry acquires from the widow of the traps in the fish-rich waters. He realizes that his and John's stubbornness at the end of both might be falling behind and wants to reconcile with John. Both her and Fögenteichs Reuse she would let be the largest brigade of Länneken. John, however, rejects reconciliation. Despite his father's quarrels Henning and Bärbel continue to anticipate together. They dance in the village inn and Henning is palpable, as a villager Bärbel offended. It comes to the big brawl that ended Bärbel unnerved. Back at the home of Henry this is thrilled to Henning but had beaten him. He announced the engagement of spontaneously Henning and Bärbel, but Henning interrupts him. He had not fought for him. Henry gets angry and declares that his daughter should not marry a Bolshevik. Henning notes, however, that Bärbel will decide alone and if necessary against the will of the Father. Henry disinherited Bärbel. These secretly spends the night with Henning and caught the next morning from the mother. She travels from rashly, but returns shortly afterwards to Henning back. She has realized that she really did not want to let the parents talk purely in their lives to. A short time later, the wedding of Barbara and Henning takes place and it comes to the reconciliation of John and Henry. The peace is short-lived, but gives the cooperative the newly wed couple fishing rights for decades fought fish-rich area. There can be large protests on the part of fishermen, but Henning says that anyone who wants to can come in his brigade.

Production

The Wedding of Länneken 1963 turned with Hiddensee. The costumes created Marlene Froese, the Filmbauten come from Willy Schiller. The film experienced on February 28, 1964, Kino International Berlin premiered. On April 3, 1964, the film was released in theaters in the GDR.

Criticism

For the filmdienst The Wedding of Länneken was a " directorial unconvincing attempt political doctrines in a grippy cinema history to sell". Although the contemporary criticism of the GDR praised the fact that the film " the toughness of anachronistic forms of life " will for the first time brought to the big screen and the movie to a "social conflict " fix, but criticized that the film would not go beyond a characterization of opposites. Also Renate Holland-Moritz wrote that the conflict between the two families will not yet solved " psychologically shows ."

Cinema said that in the movie " Romeo and Juliet moved to the young GDR" will; the criticism of the GDR had titled in reviewing the film in 1964, " Romeo and Juliet Länneken ".