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Happy End

DDR 1976/1977 TV-Spielfilm

Happy end

If you take the shortest route, there are 827 steps between school and his parents’ house. Sometimes he walks it in 857, sometimes in 912 steps. But if the boy forgets the number of steps he’s just walked, he has to go back to the beginning again. There are many reasons for him to lose his concentration, because the walk home is a com plicated process.

 

Nobody has a clue what the boy’s movements are all about. Until one day he meets a girl called Lila who has the biggest eyes he’s ever seen and who has a voice that makes you want to go through thick and thin for her…

Source: 55. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Manfred Wekwerth

Screenplay

  • Manfred Wekwerth

Director of photography

  • Roland Dressel

Music

  • Kurt Weill

Cast

  • Fred Delmare
    Bob Merker
  • Rolf Hoppe
    Jimmy Dexter
  • Christian Grashof
    Johnny Flint
  • Bruno Carstens
    Kommissar
  • Peter Aust
    Sam Worlitzer
  • Heinz-Dieter Knaup
    Paul Nakamara
  • Leon Niemczyk
    Oxlett-Bandit
  • Inge Keller
    Frau Oxlett
  • Wolf Kaiser
    Bill Cracker
  • Dietrich Körner
    Rechtsanwalt Collins

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Alle Credits

Director

  • Manfred Wekwerth

Screenplay

  • Manfred Wekwerth

Adaptation

  • Roland Dressel
  • Manfred Wekwerth

based on

  • Elisabeth Hauptmann (Bühnenstück)

Director of photography

  • Roland Dressel

Music

  • Kurt Weill

Lyrics

  • Bertolt Brecht

Cast

  • Fred Delmare
    Bob Merker
  • Rolf Hoppe
    Jimmy Dexter
  • Christian Grashof
    Johnny Flint
  • Bruno Carstens
    Kommissar
  • Peter Aust
    Sam Worlitzer
  • Heinz-Dieter Knaup
    Paul Nakamara
  • Leon Niemczyk
    Oxlett-Bandit
  • Inge Keller
    Frau Oxlett
  • Wolf Kaiser
    Bill Cracker
  • Dietrich Körner
    Rechtsanwalt Collins
  • Renate Richter
    Lilian Holiday
  • Walter Lendrich
    Hannibal

Production company

  • DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Commissioned by

  • Fernsehen der DDR (DDR-FS) (Berlin/Ost)
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DD): 29.05.1977, DDR-TV

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DD) Happy End

Versions

Original

Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
Orwocolor, Ton
Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DD): 29.05.1977, DDR-TV

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