Story of A Young Couple

Story of A Young Couple German Roman einer jungen Ehe is an East German film, directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1952.

The script was written by Maetzig and author Bodo Uhse. In part, Story of A Young Couple was intended as a response to JeanPaul Sartres anticommunist play Dirty Hands, which was also mentioned in the plot. Assistantdirector Siegfried Hartmann told an interviewer that the film was made when the Cold War turned into a grim reality, and when Joseph Stalins cult of personality was at its height, with both those factors heavily influencing the picture. Kurt Maetzig told that in this film... we attempted to tackle a problem facing every honest German today... namely, the division of our fatherland and the prospects for reunion.OnJanuary 1952, a Berliner Zeitung columnist wrote that the film makes us sit up and take notice and we are pleased to see a film with such sound, humane groundwork. The West German Der Spiegel commented that Maetzigs work was too progressive even for the party hardliners and quoted DEFA official Albert Wilkening who disapproved of the picture, saying that unfortunately, there is still much rigidity in our film industry. ........

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