Heino Ferch - Hans Kuhlke. 2005-2006
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Before Scene:
August 1961.
Hans Kuhlke , a construction worker, his wife Catherine and his son Paul , about fourteen, live in the eastern part of Berlin.
After a visit to the birthday celebration of the furniture store owner Sawatzke Erwin and his wife Renate in West Berlin, Hans and Katharina blocked the way back home.
When they want to end up driving home the station to leave home in the east of the city, is the starting barred.
soldiers everywhere. The borders were sealed during the night made after months of thousands and thousands of people from the East had migrated to the West.
The wall is built.
Hans and Catherine initially remain at Sawatzkes. Paul, the son was in that night at home in the family home east. Now the family is torn apart.
Hans and Catherine are scheduled and a loss, what they can do. You have nothing. No money, no work, not even a change of clothes.
Hans is powerless over the situation, the actions of state authorities, he can not quite believe what a nightmare he dips into. He misses his son, to whom he has a particularly close and deep paternal bond.
time goes by.
Paul not allowed into the West. The state takes care of his education in the socialist spirit.
Hans and Catherine always go back to the fence that separated East and West. You get into a street battle. Hans is beaten and bleeding from the nose.
go back to Sawatzkes with which they had previously actually fallen because of Renate's unfriendliness.
the scene.
Erwin Sawatzke on the phone:
Renate .. I ... yes .. yes ....
long shot. Night. Artificial light.
We see that the three are large showroom of the furniture store Sawatzke . Hans is sitting on a couch exhibition, his head on the neck. He tried to stop the bleeding.
Catherine is restless to and fro. She sees in the newspaper a photo of himself and Hans. Both had tried to reach the east bank were floating, but had been ordered back.
A sensational photo of them, only in underwear, alarmed and frightened, on the front page the newspaper.
Katharina: That this is allowed ....
Erwin comes back from the telephone:
Well, I'm sorry, unfortunately, works non-det ... ... The craftsmen were there already and ham det Janze room cluttered, so in my own home, unfortunately, could not 'übernacht'n ..
But - as jesacht - Det is ja allet brand here, some have winter fashion - for you only the finest Feinst'n det ...
Catherine has also set the clueless head supported in his hands.
Erwin smiles pseudo authentic.
Erwin, seriously: Well, try erstma jez 'n' to sleep little ..
He looks around for John. Hans is still holding up the head to stop the bleeding. Again and again he has to press a handkerchief against his face, blood flows ...
Erwin turns to Hans at:
you still need watt ...?
Hans, softly shakes his head:
Nee.
Erwin
Oman Omand man! .. Which could 'not possibly be so' ne city like Berlin-wat ah sachich zerteil'n that wolln'ja janz Germany.
Well yes - but wait's from times: you will soon see ', next week is dat allet over again because wern' we laugh about it just yet, hmm?
section on Hans.
He does not hear the encouraging tone. He will not hear him.
We feel that with Hans takes a change. He seems reluctant, reserved, leaden. His eyes, his eyes show something that worries us. There is no will, no more gaze that saw a future.
blows us of something that feels like the resigned sadness of a forgotten animal in the kennel.
Erwin Or?
When Hans lifts his head, pressed his lips together, we know that his answer would he say something that would be negative.
It seems as if something in him slip, slip, fall into the depths, like a piece of earth, a stone that falls over an edge into the abyss.
We feel clearly that we see a man whose sense of to be left alone, almost drags him down presses, such as a high water wave.
Erwin withdraws, so here is a little ahead of Hans' silent refusal.
Jez schlaftma erstma. Good night!
Erwin out the light.
The room is dark, light comes only from outside, from the street lighting that seems to come through the large shop window. We understand
that the couple like two decorative exhibits would be visible from the outside, light was turned on in the room.
section on Hans.
He is slumped. breathing hard, as if every breath an effort. He seems totally lethargic, internally rigid, dull, exhausted. It is based on the arm is, with leaden movements, walks a few steps.
cut on Katharina.
We see them from behind. She stands and looks out the window.
She seems to freeze.
Hans goes to a tanning over.
his handkerchief he holds in both hands. There is no particular movement or somehow abnormal Attitude. But the way these two hands to hold onto the piece of cloth shaken. The gesture will be swept by a resigned, unprotected solitude, where we do not know if we look away, run away or cry.
Hans settled on the bed, every movement is trying hard. Again he pressed the cloth against the bleeding.
breathed.
He turns his head.
We follow his gaze and see his wife at the big glass front of the shop windows. Outside, passers-by walk past.
Hans looks for a while her, then he lets his head drop to the chest. In the dim light his face looks desperate, haggard.
Each stands on its own.
No words.
No bridges.
end of the scene.
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2005-2006 Heino Ferch - Hans Kuhlke, Inka Friedrich - Catherine Kuhlke, Axel Prahl ("The Miracle of Lengede", "Summer in Berlin" "They were not all murderers" ) - Erwin Sawatzke, Frederick Lau - Paul Kuhlke.
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