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Zum Beispiel Josef

DDR 1973/1974 Spielfilm


Josef Neumann has always been an outsider to society, and at the age of 30, he has already lived an adventurous life when he comes to the GDR. He was raised as a foundling by nuns, made an apprenticeship as a construction worker, went to the Foreign Legion, and was a seaman and a tramp. Now, he is working at the Warnow shipyard. Brigadier Bruno has a lot of sympathy and patience with the unconventional Josef, but Josef cannot fall in line with strict orders and again and again acts against the rules. Most notorious are his jumps that he had learned in the Algerian war, where his jumps had saved his life. Thanks to Bruno′s intercession, people forgive him when Josef jumps through the closed door of a bar. But after the next jump, even Bruno gives up on Josef. Now, only Julia could support Josef. He loves her, but she is not able to leave her husband, although they are already divorced. When Josef decides to leave, Julia nevertheless arrives at his door and convinces him to stay.

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Credits

Director

  • Erwin Stranka

Screenplay

  • Erwin Stranka

Director of photography

  • Peter Brand

Editing

  • Margrit Brusendorff

Music

  • Uve Schikora

Cast

  • Jürgen Heinrich
    Josef Neumann
  • Hans-Peter Reinecke
    Bruno Hagedorn
  • Petra Hinze
    Julia
  • Monika Woytowicz
    Ute
  • Eva-Maria Hagen
    Erna
  • Sanije Torka
    Nanette
  • Fred Delmare
    Alois
  • Harald Wandel
    Eule
  • Klaus Gehrke
    Stefan
  • Pedro Hebenstreit
    Berthold

Production company

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

Alle Credits

Director

  • Erwin Stranka

Assistant director

  • Maya Löffler

Screenplay

  • Erwin Stranka

Scenario

  • Günter Karl

based on

  • Herbert Otto (Roman)

Script editor

  • Gerhard Hartwig
  • Christa Müller

Director of photography

  • Peter Brand

Assistant camera

  • Hans-Joachim Knospe
  • Hans-Joachim Zillmer

Production design

  • Georg Wratsch

Set construction

  • Franz F. Fürst
  • Helfried Winzer

Prop master

  • Werner Zettler

Make-up artist

  • Christa Grewald
  • Rosemarie Stäglich
  • Lothar Stäglich

Costume design

  • Barbara Braumann

Editing

  • Margrit Brusendorff

Sound

  • Rosemarie Linde
  • Günter Springer

Audio mixing

  • Gerhard Ribbeck

Music

  • Uve Schikora

Music performer

  • DEFA-Sinfonieorchester (Potsdam-Babelsberg)
  • Uve Schikora-Gruppe (DD)

Cast

  • Jürgen Heinrich
    Josef Neumann
  • Hans-Peter Reinecke
    Bruno Hagedorn
  • Petra Hinze
    Julia
  • Monika Woytowicz
    Ute
  • Eva-Maria Hagen
    Erna
  • Sanije Torka
    Nanette
  • Fred Delmare
    Alois
  • Harald Wandel
    Eule
  • Klaus Gehrke
    Stefan
  • Pedro Hebenstreit
    Berthold
  • Bernd Storch
    Erich
  • Rainer Etzenberg
    Fritz
  • Fred Ludwig
    Kurt
  • Hannjo Hasse
    Ausbildner in der Legion
  • Lothar Schellhorn
    Reporter auf der Werft
  • Klaus Bergatt
    LKW-Fahrer
  • Detlef Witte
    Volkspolizist
  • Karl Schilder
    VP-Fahrer
  • Fritz-Ernst Fechner
    Werftdirektor
  • Jurij Rjecka
    Oberingenieur
  • Werner Piontek
    Mehlmann
  • Klaus Ebeling
    E-Karrenfahrer
  • Klaus Powollik-Ronay
    Paul
  • Peter Pauli
    Pärchen von der Pinguin-Bar
  • Christa Scheuner
    Pärchen von der Pinguin-Bar
  • Matthias Molter
    Geschäftsführer der Pinguin-Bar
  • Manfred Ott
    Kellner
  • Rolf Martius
    Utes Freund
  • Ruth Kommerell
    Richterin
  • Heinz Behrens
    Körber, Julias Ex-Mann
  • Christel Kern
    Sprecherin der Aktuellen Kamera

Voice

  • Gerry Wolff

Production company

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

Unit production manager

  • Helmut Klein

Location manager

  • Rolf Martius
  • Werner Pfeifer
  • Hartmut Plettau
  • Detlef Willecke

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)

Shoot

    • From 1973: Rostock (Warnowwerft Warnemünde, Teepott Warnemünde, Neptun Werft, Ostseestrand beim Hotel Neptun)
Duration:
2533 m, 93 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Mono
Screening:

Voraufführung (PL): Juni 1974, Warschau, Filmwoche der DDR;
Uraufführung (DD): 20.09.1974, Cottbus, Eröffnung der "2. Tage des sozialistischen Films", Kammerlichtspiele;
Kinostart (DD): 04.10.1974;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 18.05.1976, DFF 1

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Zum Beispiel Josef

Versions

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
93 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Mono

Original

Duration:
2533 m, 93 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Mono
Screening:

Voraufführung (PL): Juni 1974, Warschau, Filmwoche der DDR;
Uraufführung (DD): 20.09.1974, Cottbus, Eröffnung der "2. Tage des sozialistischen Films", Kammerlichtspiele;
Kinostart (DD): 04.10.1974;
TV-Erstsendung (DD): 18.05.1976, DFF 1

Awards

Kunstpreis des Freien Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (FDGB) 1975
  • Kunstpreis des Freien Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (FDGB)
1974
  • Prädikat: Wertvoll
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