Lissy (Film)

• Sonja Sutter: Lissy
• Horst Drinda: Alfred Frohmeyer
• Hans -Peter Minetti: Paul Schroeder
• Kurt Oligmüller: Kaczmierczik
• Gerhard Bienert: Father Schroeder
• Else Wolz: Mother Schröder
• Raimund Schelcher: Max Franke
• Christa Gottschalk: Toni Franke

Lissy is a German feature film from the year 1957. The film was based on the novel by Franz Carl Weiskopf.

Action

Lissy Schröder is a worker Child from Berlin. Her parents are social democratic and educated them accordingly. The cheerful young woman in the early 1930s, however, lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. This seems to her the clerk Alfred Frohmeyer to give. She marries him, soon comes the first child. But Alfred loses 1932 Lissy his work and his marriage to him has not advanced. Only when Alfred Contact the NSDAP gets, the tide seems to be turning. He quickly rises to the Nazis to the SA storm leader. The longed- class life is for Lissy now within reach. She holds a maid and begins to play the piano. But her own parents want to suddenly have nothing to do with her old friends shun. Only brother Paul, although formerly Communist, also joins the Nazis. Lissy gets into isolation and learns that she does not make happy the so awaited prosperity. The marriage with Alfred in a crisis. Finally, when her brother Paul is killed by the Nazis because of his past, white Lissy what they got involved. She leaves Alfred and begins a new life.

Reviews

" Political and social backdrops are indeed told from one side of communist point of view, but the suggestive photographed, exquisitely mounted and played film is timeless and his subject - the preservation of virtue and decency against violence and lies -. Discussion worth to a great extent "