Before the Lightning Strikes

Bevor der Blitz einschlgt Before the Lightning Strikes is an East German comedy film directed by Richard Groschopp. It was released in 1959.

Before the Lightning Strikes was part of a wave of lighthearted comedies released in the late 1950s to provide entertainment for the viewers, after the DEFA Board noticed the publics negative response to the ideological films made earlier in the decade. The picture still encountered several problems, and the DEFA Commission in the Socialist Unity Party of Germanys Politburo insisted on it featuring contemporary socialist issues. It had to be completely revised before it was approved for screening. It was the third in a series of four comedies made in collaboration between director Richard Groschopp and writers Lothar Creutz and Carl Andriessen, who also worked on Sie kannten sich alle 1958 Ware fr Katalonien 1959 and Die Liebe und der CoPilot 1960.The West German Catholic Film Service described the film as combining entertainment with contemporary issues, made in a cabaret style. Dieter Reimer called it a witty comedy. ........

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