The Beaverskin

Girls in Gingham German Die Buntkarierten literally, The Checkered Ones sometimes called Beaverskin is a 1949 German drama film directed by Kurt Maetzig.

The script was adapted by author Berta Waterstradt from her successful radio drama,During the Blackout, which was broadcast in the Berlin Radio. Waterstradts screenplay was rejected by DEFA at first. Director Kurt Maetzig decided to film her script only after he realized he will not be able to create a picture based on a novel by Eduard Claudius.The work on Girls in Gingham was relatively free from censure. It was created at the time before the TitoStalin Split and the founding of the German Democratic Republic forced strict censure on DEFA according to Maetzig, the Soviet occupation authorities were determined not to force a USSRstyle system on their subjects, but to allow them to develop their own model of Socialism. Although the censors did criticize several points in the plot, like presenting the Proletariate worker Paul as rather passive, Maetzig and Waterstradt refused to make any amendments. The director also told he was influenced by Bertolt Brechts disapproval from his last picture, Marriage in the Shadows, which the latter described as utter kitsch, and wished to avoid making an overly didactic movie. Mark Silbermann claimed that the film was generally made in style reminiscent of Brechts works during the 1920s. ........

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