Kemmel, a sculptor with a troubled nature, wonders, as he approaches his fortieth birthday, whether he has created any truly significant work.
Direction
Wolf's delicate balance of satire and genuine pathos.
Writing
Kohlhaase's script bites the hand that funded it.
Director
Konrad Wolf
Kurt Böwe
Kemmel
Ursula Karusseit
Gisi Kemmel
Martin Trettau
Hannes
Marga Legal
Referentin
Katharina Thalbach
Frau des Soldaten
Ursula Werner
Angela
Reimar Johannes Baur
Igor Klippfisch
Matti Geschonneck
Soldat
Rolf Hoppe
Tautz
Günter Schubert
Maurer
Jaecki Schwarz
Fiete
Gerhard Bienert
Wilhelm
Ute Lubosch
Regine
Vera Oelschlegel
Fräulein Fritze
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Honecker era's brief cultural thaw, this was DEFA's subtle middle finger to state-controlled art—approved by the very system it critiques.
Kurt Böwe based Kemmel's physicality on watching actual aging sculptors in East Berlin; that defeated shoulder slump? Method acting, comrade.
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