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Musterknaben

DDR 1959 Spielfilm

The friends Bassi and Edwin, both of them construction workers, are the black sheep of their brigade. They are constantly late for work and basically unreliable. Furthermore, Bassi and Edwin neglect their housemates, as do, in fact, all the brigade′s members. After they meet the pretty girls Thea and Susi, however, they start changing their attitudes. The young ladies are part of same living community, and when Bassi and Edwin pick them up for a date they barge into a turbulent residents meeting. For fun, Bassi and Edwin pretend to be the expected officials – not knowing that they are going to have trouble to get out of these responsible roles.

 

Credits

Director

  • Johannes Knittel

Screenplay

  • Gerhard Bengsch
  • Johannes Knittel

Director of photography

  • Ernst W. Fiedler

Editing

  • Wally Gurschke

Music

  • Günter Hörig

Cast

  • Hartmut Reck
    Bassi
  • Rolf Herricht
    Edwin Schüch
  • Brigitte Krause
    Thea
  • Gudrun Wichert
    Susi
  • Erwin Geschonneck
    Arthur Wedel
  • Peter Marx
    Kaiser
  • Fritz Diez
    Weber
  • Paul R. Henker
    Scholz
  • Hans Klering
    Grimm
  • Werner Lierck
    Tetzlaff

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Johannes Knittel

Assistant director

  • Rita Arendt

Screenplay

  • Gerhard Bengsch
  • Johannes Knittel

Script editor

  • Dr. Hans-Joachim Wallstein

Director of photography

  • Ernst W. Fiedler

Still photography

  • Max Teschner

Production design

  • Alfred Tolle

Set construction

  • Karl-Heinz Krehbiel
  • Helfried Winzer

Make-up artist

  • Elfriede Herrmann
  • Rosemarie Wittke

Costume design

  • Walter Schulze-Mittendorff

Editing

  • Wally Gurschke

Sound

  • Erich Schmidt

Music

  • Günter Hörig

Cast

  • Hartmut Reck
    Bassi
  • Rolf Herricht
    Edwin Schüch
  • Brigitte Krause
    Thea
  • Gudrun Wichert
    Susi
  • Erwin Geschonneck
    Arthur Wedel
  • Peter Marx
    Kaiser
  • Fritz Diez
    Weber
  • Paul R. Henker
    Scholz
  • Hans Klering
    Grimm
  • Werner Lierck
    Tetzlaff
  • Gerd Biewer
    Benno Graf
  • Sabine Thalbach
    Röschen Grimm
  • Jean Brahn
    Fritz Krause, Fahrer
  • Lotte Loebinger
    Klara Wedel
  • Agnes Kraus
    Alte Lehrerin
  • Edith Volkmann
  • Dorothea Thiesing
  • Maika Joseph
  • Gabriele Hoffmann
  • Max Klingberg
  • Walter Stolp
  • Oswald Foerderer
  • Peter Kiwitt
  • Wolf Lucas
  • Günther Polensen
  • Senta Cordel
  • Paula Schindler
  • Helga Raumer
  • Ursula Fröhlich
  • Axel Triebel
  • Ilse Bastubbe
  • Werner Dissel
  • Waldemar Jacobi
  • Johannes Maus
  • Gustav Püttjer
  • Ursula Braun
  • Habbo Lolling
  • Irmgard Weber
  • Ursula Goin
  • Peer Jäger
  • Dieter Brose

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Unit production manager

  • Alexander Lösche

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
2014 m, 74 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 27.11.1959, Berlin, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Musterknaben
  • Arbeitstitel (DD) Das Beschwerdebuch
  • Weiterer Titel (DD) Alles aus Liebe

Versions

Original

Duration:
2014 m, 74 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 27.11.1959, Berlin, Filmtheater am Friedrichshain

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