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A Berlin Romance
Original title: Eine Berliner Romanze
feature film - GDR, 1956, b/w, 81 min.
love story, Coming-of-Age Film, drama

Director Gerhard Klein
Producer DEFA Feature Film Studios
Script Wolfgang Kohlhaase Camera Wolf Göthe Music Günter Klück
Stills Waltraut Pathenheimer Poster Art Heinz Ebel

Cast
Annekathrin Bürger (Uschi), Ulrich Thein (Hans), Uwe-Jens Pape (Lord), Erika Dunkelmann (Uschis Mutter, Uschi’s mother), Marga Legal (Hans´ Mutter, Hans’ mother), Erich Franz (Uschis Vater, Uschi’s father), Horst Kube (Max), Karl Weber (Bauunternehmer), Hartmut Reck (Harald), Paul Pfingst (Berufsschullehrer), Hermann Wagemann (Polier), Eckart Friedrichson (Moses), Helga Wachaletz (Karin), Günter Großsteinbeck (Heini), Karl Kendzia (Mitarbeiter der HO), Paul Pfingst (Berufsschullehrer), Edeltraud Proft (Kind Gisela), Günter Lange (Kind Paul), Ernst-Georg Schwill (Strups)

Synopsis
Uschi, a young woman living in East Berlin, gets to know “Lord“ and Hans while strolling about West Berlin. “Lord“ is quite crafty and, what is more, owns a portable radio, which right from the start impresses naive Uschi very much. But Hans, a young car mechanic who, unable to complete his apprenticeship, now washes fancy saloon cars in a garage at night, falls in love with Uschi. Later on, she falls in love with him too. With her feet not always too firmly on the ground, Uschi dreams of her “big chance“: she wants to become a model. This wish is not altogether far-fetched: after all, she was once allowed to wear dresses from her textile department at a fashion show. Hans tries to help her get into a modelling school, putting up quite a bit of his low wages. To scrape together the sum needed, he takes on an extra odd job at a scrapyard. Uschi spends a night at Hans´ s place. And when her parents reproach her for that, she leaves home and moves in with Hans in West Berlin. For the first time, she realizes how tough his life really is. He is on the dole. A more mature Uschi returns to her parents and introduces Hans to them.

Festivals and Awards
International Film Festival Berlin 1991, International Film Festival Berlin 2006

Further Information (partially only in german)
Information on this actor:

• Info PDF Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Bio- und Filmographie des Drehbuchautors anlässlich seiner Ehrung bei der Berlinale 2010.

This Film was presented in the follwing series:

• Info PDF 20 Jahre Deutsche Einheit
Spiel-, Dokumentar- und Trickfilme zu dem zeithistorischen Thema


• Info PDF 20 years German Reunification
Overview of feature, documentary and animated films


• Info PDF Filmreihe “Berlin, Berlin“
Echtes Milieu, Alltagsgeschichten, politische Vorgänge und Bewusstseinsveränderungen der Stadtbewohner, oft an Originalschauplätzen gedreht


• Info PDF Schauplatz Berlin