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Lissy

DDR 1956/1957 Spielfilm

Lissy

Vending machine restaurants on the streets, working-class housing in Wedding with the organ-grinder in the courtyard, and the fascist SA pub on the corner capture the authentic historical setting and mood of 1932 Berlin.

Also the destiny of someone like Lissy - an eager girl from a working-class family who has a thirst for life and who marries a Nazi - was commonplace in Berlin in 1932 and belongs to the years which witnessed the rise of the National Socialist regime. However, Lissy soon realizes that financial security is not the sole basis of a decent and respectable life. The story of the German petty bourgeoisie in uncertain and troubled times, Lissy is a young woman caught up in the political turmoil of the early 1930s.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Konrad Wolf

Screenplay

  • Alex Wedding
  • Konrad Wolf

Director of photography

  • Werner Bergmann

Editing

  • Lena Neumann

Music

  • Joachim Werzlau

Cast

  • Sonja Sutter
    Lissy
  • Horst Drinda
    Fromeyer
  • Hans-Peter Minetti
    Paul Schröder
  • Kurt Oligmüller
    Kaczmierczik
  • Gerhard Bienert
    Vater Schröder
  • Else Wolz
    Mutter Schröder
  • Raimund Schelcher
    Max Franke
  • Christa Gottschalk
    Toni Franke
  • Mathilde Danegger
    Sprecher
  • Horst Friedrich
    Warnke

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Konrad Wolf

Assistant director

  • Frank Winterstein
  • Michael Englberger

Screenplay

  • Alex Wedding
  • Konrad Wolf

based on

  • F.C. Weiskopf (Roman)

Script editor

  • Dr. Hans-Joachim Wallstein

Director of photography

  • Werner Bergmann

Camera operator

  • Hans Heinrich

Assistant camera

  • Günther Sahr

Optical effects

  • Ernst Kunstmann

Still photography

  • Rudolf Meister

Lighting design

  • Viktor Höhn

Production design

  • Gerhard Helwig

Set construction

  • Hermann Asmus
  • Horst-Dieter Adam

Property master

  • Adolf Kilian

Make-up artist

  • Otto Banse
  • Vera Schlawin

Costume design

  • Elli-Charlotte Löffler

Editing

  • Lena Neumann

Sound

  • Werner Klein

Music

  • Joachim Werzlau

Source music

  • J. Petersburski (Tango "O Donna Clara", 1930)

Music performer

  • Adolf Fritz Guhl

Lyrics

  • Beda

Cast

  • Sonja Sutter
    Lissy
  • Horst Drinda
    Fromeyer
  • Hans-Peter Minetti
    Paul Schröder
  • Kurt Oligmüller
    Kaczmierczik
  • Gerhard Bienert
    Vater Schröder
  • Else Wolz
    Mutter Schröder
  • Raimund Schelcher
    Max Franke
  • Christa Gottschalk
    Toni Franke
  • Mathilde Danegger
    Sprecher
  • Horst Friedrich
    Warnke
  • Annemarie Hase
    Frau Kaluweil
  • Otto Eduard Stübler
    Direktor Hoppe
  • Willi Schwabe
    Kassierer Gold
  • Gerd Michael Henneberg
    Staudinger
  • Else Korén
    Frau
  • Hela Gruel
    Hausmeisterin
  • Christiane von Trümbach
    Hausmeisterin Engelmann
  • Käte Alving
    Nachbarin von Lissy
  • Edith Klatt
    Verkäuferin
  • Georg Feicht
    Dr. Danzinger
  • Klaus Erforth
    Pauls Freund
  • Walter E. Fuß
    Mixer
  • Axel Triebel
    Fromeyers Hauswirt
  • Wilhelm Gröhl
    Geschäftsführer
  • Karl-Heinz Weiß
    Führer der SA-Staffel
  • Augustin Kovacz
    Scharführer
  • Hans Waldemar Anders
    Polizeioffizier
  • Gerhard Rachold
    Junger SA-Mann
  • Erich Nadler
    Frankes Nachbar
  • Rolf Bergmann
    RFB-Mann
  • Rolf Ripperger
    Fromeyers Kollege
  • Siegfried Weil
    Kellner im "Bierpalast"
  • Willi Dehnert
    Schupo vor Bahnhof
  • Hans Schwenke
    Schupo
  • Marga Haschker
    Lissys Nachbarin
  • Willi Linke
    Ober im Gartenlokal
  • Erich Braun
    Rausschmeißer

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Unit production manager

  • Eduard Kubat

Location manager

  • Gerhard Freudel
  • Horst Lockau
  • Erwin Rose

Original distributor

  • Progress Film-Verleih (Berlin/Ost)
Duration:
2425 m, 89 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 30.05.1957, Berlin, Babylon, Freilichtbühne Bürgerpark

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Lissy

Versions

Original

Duration:
2425 m, 89 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DD): 30.05.1957, Berlin, Babylon, Freilichtbühne Bürgerpark

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