Story of A Young Couple
- Yvonne Merin: Agnes Sailer
- Hans -Peter Thielen: Jochen Karsten
- Willy A. Kleinau: Dr. Ulrich Plisch
- Hilde Sessak: Carla
- Harry Hindemith: Burmeister
- Martin Hellberg: Mobius
- Hanns Groth: Frank Lutz
- Alfons Mühlhofer: Ernst Winkler
- Preusker Horst Jonas
- Albert grave: Otto Dulz
- Brigitte Krause: Brigitte Dulz
- Gisela Rimpler: Felicitas Bach
- Friedrich Gnass: Hotel Concierge
- Egon Borsig: Registrar
- Alwin Lippisch: Director Hartmann
- Ursula von der Schmidt: Mrs. Hartmann
- Gertrud Paulun: honor in the Circuit Court
- Theo Shall: prosecutor
- Carlo Kluge: 1 defender
- Marianne Fahl: Rita Strobel
- Ludwig Sachs: usher
- Arthur Schilsky: Americans in the " Seagull"
- Frede -Marie Dohna: BGL - chairman
- Viola Recklies: Girl in the VVN group
- Hans Rodenberg: American Director
- Robert Trösch: manager
- Anna -Maria Besendahl: dresser
- Gustav Adolf Keune: 1 actor
- Conrad penny: 2 Actors
- Heino Winkler: 3 Actors
- Lutz Götz: 1st meeting participants
- Walter Schramm: 2nd meeting participants
- Nico Turoff: 3rd meeting participants
- Eva Stechow: meeting participant
Novel of a young marriage is a German feature film DEFA by Kurt Maetzig from the year 1952. The film was criticized for its highly propagandistic trains.
Action
In 1946, the young actress Agnes Sailer comes from Dresden to Berlin here to play theater. Due to the failure of an actress she is immediately engaged for the role of Recha in Lessing's Nathan the Wise. The Temple Lord plays the charismatic Jochen Karsten, with whom she later goes on tour hamsters and they come closer. Even before the premiere marry both. The premiere turn is overshadowed by an incident: The director of the propaganda film Jud Suss, Hartmann, sitting in the audience and must be referenced by the manager Möbius of the hall. Only a few weeks later, however, occur during the public trial of Hartmann numerous friends Jochens for the director.
Together Agnes and Jochen are through tough times, as Agnes for many weeks is hardly responsive for pneumonia. From the four- sector city will soon be a divided city. Agnes is increasingly active in East Berlin, which Jochen face of massive propaganda can be suspiciously wants. Agnes, however, argues that the mentalities in both districts are just different. She takes in a socialist film starring - at the premiere Jochen leaves prematurely the cinema hall and shall then so disparagingly of the plate propaganda of the substance that Agnes bursts into tears. In the West Berlin newspapers, the film is panned by a friend Jochen, who had expressed still positive about the film and lead actress at the premiere. While Agnes developed a cultural program for the opening of new buildings at the Stalin Allee, Jochen plans to perform at a cultural evening in which a girl 's choir from Dresden to sing - supposedly they were rescued from the GDR, but in fact kidnapped, as the East Berlin newspapers. Write Agnes asks Jochen initially, not to go and finally presents him with a choice: Either he remains or the common marriage has ended. Jochen takes part in the event, which is only half attended and must realize in the end that Agnes was right. The occurs at the ceremony to mark the inauguration of the new buildings of the Stalin Allee, as it has been otherwise engaged in very different associations of the GDR. At the end of the event it is next to the activists the only one that also receives a lease for one of the new apartments.
Jochen, meanwhile, is frustrated in West Berlin: His theater engagement is terminated because theater director Plisch to prefer to turn to the film. He offers Jochen day of his divorce date a role - as a Nazi in a movie, the Hartmann should rotate. Jochen is shocked and says from. On the road it looks briefly at how a group that campaigns against the militarization, is deposited in West Berlin. He picks up one of the flags with the dove of peace and goes to the divorce court. He admits Agnes to have changed since their separation and gives her the flag. Together they walk off.
Production
Novel of a young marriage was in 1951 turned and saw on 18 January 1952 at the Berlin cinema Babylon and the DEFA film theater chestnut avenue premiered. In 1954 he was shown as part of the week of German Films in China in 1957 and ran at the same event in the CSSR. In 1991 he was part of a retrospective of the Berlinale.
The propagandistic film is made on one side with the cultural policy in East and West apart, real personalities from the arts and culture served as a foil for certain characters in the film: Mobius says Wolfgang Langhoff is, Burmeister is Boleslaw Barlog and director Hartmann to represent Veit Harlan. " [ T] he stereotyping acts as embarrassing as the cheers for Stalin and the avenue named after him ," said Frank Burkhard Habel retrospect.
Reception
Due to the strict black-and- white drawing of the film - even Sartre piece Dirty Hands will be in the film by Agnes as anti-socialist and The Devil's General rejected as militaristic - the film itself was savaged by critics of the GDR. "Unfortunately is still made with the mallet very much with us ," stated Albert Wilkening 1952. Der Spiegel noted ironically that " the novel of a young marriage of National Awardee director Dr. Kurt Maetzig ( Marriage in the Shadows ) [ ... ] even the line most loyal to progressive [ was ]. "
Director Kurt Maetzig saw in the face of criticism forced to make a statement and said:
" With the film, the novel of a young marriage ' we made the collective, which created this film, the artistic experiment, one of the biggest problems that moves every honest German today, namely the division of our country and the possibility of its reunification to make, . We chose a marriage story, because let into the two spouses express a certain extent, the two parts of our torn motherland, because their love corresponds to the sense of unity of our people, their separation the separation of East and West Germany is to compare and because we finally in it can perform the finite reunification, we only have to fight in reality. "
For the filmdienst novel of a young marriage was a " propaganda film depicting the events in Berlin 1946-1951 from strict SED - view [ ... ] Artistic insignificant, the film is an authentic contemporary document about the hysteria and the resulting distortions of truth in the Cold War important and meaningful. " Likewise ruled film critic Ralf Schenk, the novel of a young marriage in 1994 as " artistic hanebüchenes, but politically very interesting time document called ".