Hochzeitsnacht im Regen

• Traudl Kulikowsky: Gabi
• Frank Schöbel: Freddy
• Gerhard Bienert: food master
• Günter Junghans: fiance
• Herbert Köfer: Head Coach
• Elke Rieckhoff: fiance and dancer
• Gerd Ehlers: host
• Peter Reusse: Fritz
• Dietmar fruit: Hans
• Axel Dietrich: Kalle
• Ina Martell: fiancee
• Hans -Dieter Tyrock: Little Mr.
• Gerd E. Schäfer: Moderator
• Otto Stark: Doctor
• Agnes Kraus: Mrs. Muller
• Horst Kube: Mr. Meier
• Axel Triebel: Hairdresser
• Egon Czaplewski: Jockey
• Edgar Külow: Riding Instructor
• Gina Presgott: older Berliner
• Peter Dommisch: young man
• Evamaria Bath: Standesbeamtin
• Hannes Vohrer: great man
• Willi Schrade: second young man
• Ernst -Georg Schwill: third young man
• Nico Turoff: nurse
• Günter Rüger: nurse
• Horst Papke: Railway Employee
• Gustav Stöhnisch: Hotel clerk
• Manfred Otto: Egon
• Lilo Grahn: secretary
• Ursula Genhorn: secretary
• Elke Leschnik: third fiancee
• Bernd Stübner, Lothar Hanff, Dietmar Seyffert, Peter Berger, Klaus Sehmisch, István Farkas: Members of the motorcycle gang

Wedding night in the rain is a German musical film DEFA by Horst Seemann from the year 1967.

Action

Gabriele haircut, called Gabi wants to jockey. You will receive from their friends and customers a jockey saddle paid and goes to Berlin, where she hopes in Hoppe garden on a job. The local head coach of the horses but does not take them seriously, but there was never a female jockey. Gabi is now out of work and after a night in the exclusive hotel " Unter den Linden" and nearly broke. You looking for an apartment, but you get the only residence in Berlin. The again, there are only if you have a job - a vicious circle. Without further ado, Gabi decides the only way she wants to marry a Berlin apartment with.

On the street it is addressed with a time from the host of a game show who wants to listen to a question on camera a witty response. As Gabi tells him her dilemma, she wins a stroller in which she drives henceforth walk her jockey saddle. By transferring the men have now become aware of it and she decides to marry the motorcyclists Freddy, who promises her a precious apartment in Berlin. The marriage, however, it is clear that he actually lives in Jena. The house in Berlin emerges as a tent by the lake and Freddy as a normal Berlin tourist who also has no interest in horses.

Freddy's friends want to help the young couple and begin construction of a wooden house on the island in the lake. Gabi gives her secret dream to become a jockey, and can not persuade the feed Master of Hoppe garden to let them work out three times a week. When Freddy comes behind their actions, the marriage is on the verge of collapse. However, his friends and the food master stand on the side of Gabi, which pulls away from the campground. Only the disappearance of Gabi Freddy opens his eyes - he loves them. He sold his motorcycle to allow Gabi a trip to Budapest to a young international horse races. He mixes a rider of the Berlin team sleeping pills in his drink, allowing Gabi clandestine participation in the race. Gabi wins and so surprised the food master who trained them, as well as the head coach, who now accepted as a jockey. And also between Gabi and Freddy there is a happy ending: Both marry nor in Budapest for a second time.

Production

Wedding night in the rain was the first feature-length directorial effort Horst sailor and the second movie musical of the DEFA. Crooner Frank Schöbels speaking parts are synchronized by Ingolf Gorges, as sailor, who was romantically involved at the time with actress Traudl Kulikowsky on Schöbel was jealous.

The film was partly shot in Budapest. It contains numerous songs that are sung, among others, Frank Schöbel, Chris Doerk, Ruth Homann, Manfred Krug, Vera Schneidenbach, Horst Krüger and Gerd Michaelis Chor, such as:

• It not only gives you ( K: Thomas Natschinski / T: Gerrit Grafe ), sung by Frank Schöbel and Team 4
• Truth ( K: Thomas Natschinski / T: Hartmut König ), sung by Frank Schöbel and Team 4

The film was, now Chemnitz premiered on May 14, 1967 in the Europe - light games in Karl- Marx-Stadt.

Criticism

The contemporary critics criticized the representational talent Kulikowskys and noted that " the evidence that lead actress Traudl Kulikowsky can also play [... ] not provided [ was ] ." Other critics felt that the film would his own claim not just to present the issue of equality as an image strong musical: " The frantic narrative and the forced wit spill the remarkable moments when pushing pictorial imagination and musicality to the synthesis of personal cinematic expression. "

The film saw service in wedding night in the rain "attempt at a musical; despite strenuous imagination and emphatic show values ​​rather cumbersome and without enough wit. "