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Die Schlüssel

DDR 1973/1974 Spielfilm

At the Berlin-Schönefeld airport, Ric and Klaus meet a married couple from Krakow, Poland, that is on its way to Paris. The Polish couple leaves the key of their Krakow flat to the Germans for a vacation. This trip is meant to allow them both to get to know each other better and to understand each other better. Klaus is a diligent student, Ric a working woman who is employed in a factory. She is without ambition and it is her only dream to settle into family life with husband and children one day. Klaus tries to encourage her to make more out of her life and to qualify for more responsible tasks but his words fall on deaf ears. Again and again, both have to ask themselves if their diverging philosophies of life fit together after all. After another of many controversial discussions, Klaus leaves the flat to buy some cigarettes. Ric who believes that he wants to leave her for good, is panicking and frenetically follows him when she is hit by a cable car and is fatally injured.

 

Credits

Director

  • Egon Günther

Screenplay

  • Egon Günther
  • Helga Schütz

Director of photography

  • Erich Gusko

Editing

  • Rita Hiller

Music

  • Czesław Niemen

Cast

  • Jutta Hoffmann
    Ric
  • Jaecki Schwarz
    Klaus
  • Magda Zawadzka
    Helena
  • Jerzy Jogalla
    Frantisek
  • Jadwiga Chojnacka
    Großmutter
  • Leon Niemczyk
    Pawlik
  • Anna Dziadyk
    Hanka
  • Wolfgang Greese
    DDR-Vertreter

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Berlin")

Alle Credits

Director

  • Egon Günther

Assistant director

  • Elke Niebelschütz

Screenplay

  • Egon Günther
  • Helga Schütz

Scenario

  • Egon Günther

Script editor

  • Werner Beck

Director of photography

  • Erich Gusko

Assistant camera

  • Norbert Kuhröber

Still photography

  • Klaus Goldmann

Lighting design

  • Werner Baatz

Production design

  • Harald Horn

Set construction

  • Franz F. Fürst

Property master

  • Kurt Dombrowski

Make-up artist

  • Horst Schulze
  • Margot Friedrichs

Costume design

  • Christiane Dorst

Editing

  • Rita Hiller

Sound

  • Edgar Nitzsche

Audio mixing

  • Gerhard Ribbeck

Music

  • Czesław Niemen

Music consultant

  • Karl-Ernst Sasse

Cast

  • Jutta Hoffmann
    Ric
  • Jaecki Schwarz
    Klaus
  • Magda Zawadzka
    Helena
  • Jerzy Jogalla
    Frantisek
  • Jadwiga Chojnacka
    Großmutter
  • Leon Niemczyk
    Pawlik
  • Anna Dziadyk
    Hanka
  • Wolfgang Greese
    DDR-Vertreter

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Berlin")

Unit production manager

  • Hans Mahlich

Location manager

  • Heinz Fröhlich
  • Wolfgang Lange

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
2658 m, 97 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 21.02.1974, Berlin, International

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Die Schlüssel

Versions

Original

Duration:
2658 m, 97 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 21.02.1974, Berlin, International

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/die-schlussel_ea43d4a769db5006e03053d50b37753d