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Prepared For Love
Original title: Vorspiel
feature film - GDR, 1987, color, 92 min.
Coming-of-Age Film, love story, contemporary film

Director Peter Kahane
Producer DEFA Feature Film Studios
Script Thomas Knauf, Peter Kahane Camera Andreas Köfer Music Tamás Kahane, Karl-Ernst Sasse
Stills Klaus Goldmann

Cast
Hendrik Duryn (Tom), Susanne Hoss (Corinna), Antje Straßburger (Floh), Ahmad Mesgarha (Major), Karin Schröder (Stadträtin), Hermann Beyer (Dr. Lange), Daniela Dittberner (Simone, Jugendliche), Nora Galk (Sandra, Jugendliche), Samira Glumbig (Antje, Jugendliche), Katja Wichert (Kitty, Jugendliche), Uwe Bendrath (Luther, Jugendlicher), Marco Masera (René, Jugendlicher), Fernando Metzner (Nando, Jugendlicher), Horst Seifert (Fuzzi, Jugendlicher), Arianne Borbach (Bibliothekarin), Konrad Schwalbe (Professor), Brigitte Beier (Gardinenverkäuferin), Ines Rösler (Flohs Kollegin), Gerd Funk (Meister in der Autowerkstatt), Ulrich Teschner (Strenger Einlasser)

Synopsis
Love in Schönebeck - a film about young people in the province. Tom, 17, apprentice, quite shy, meets Corinna who moved from Berlin to Schönebeck. Her father is director of a museum who once left the small town with the words: “It is too oppressive and dishonest…” Tom tries everything to win Corinna’s heart. He is in heaven when he helps her to prepare for drama school but then he hears that she is in love with his friend Major…

Festivals and Awards
Max-Ophüls-Festival Saarbrücken 1988: Award of the Lord Mayor

Further Information (partially only in german)
This Film was presented in the follwing series:

• Info PDF Filmreihe Liebe. Leidenschaft und Sozialismus
Die DEFA Liebesfilme thematisieren Fragen über das persönliche Glück des Einzelnen, die Frauenfrage, Partnerschaftsprobleme


• Info PDF Jugend im Film der DDR
Jugend als sensibler Gradmesser sozialer und kultureller Veränderungen