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Wikipedia article




'52 Weeks Make A Year' is a 1955 East German drama film directed by Richard Groschopp. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam.

Plot



In a little Sorbian village in East Germany, old farmer Krestan owns a little land and few animals, which he intends to inherit to his daughter Lena. When the government announces a plan to collectivize all the farms, Krestan is reluctant to hand over his property, and his neighbors share his sentiments. But when they realize the great advantages of collective ownership, they happily join in.

Cast



* Hans Wehrl as Krestan Serbin

* Lotte Loebinger as Serbinowa

* Irene Korb as Lena

* Kurt Oligmller as Peter

* Erich Franz as Gessner

* Fritz Schlegel as Ladusch

* Lore Frisch as Sonja

* Fabian Wander as Herbert

* Johannes Arpe as Mller

* Dorothea Thiesing as Marta

* Aribert Grimmer as Baumann

* Hans Joachim Schlermann as Professor

* William Gade as Kubank

* Heinz Kammer as Rinke

Production



The film was adapted from Jurij Brzan's novel by the same name, published in 1953. '52 Weeks Make One Year' was the first East German film about the collectivization of agriculture in the country.

Reception



The Socialist Unity Party of Germany's magazine, 'Einheit', dubbed '52 Weeks' as one of the films "that were completely supportive of the struggle for German unity and against imperialism and war."Zentralkomitee der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands. 'Einheit', 1956. [https://books.google.com/books?ei=F3bOTfX5OsuFhQf5nNmPDQ&ct=result&id=XLhfAAAAIAAJ&dq=52+Wochen+sind+ein+Jahr+DEFA&q=52+Wochen+#search_anchor p. 638]. Sylvia Kltzer wrote that the film was made in Socialist Realist style.Sylvia Kltzer. 'Satire und Macht: Film, Zeitung, Kabarett in der DDR'. Bhlau Verlag (2005). . p. 91. Johannes von Moltke noted that while "suffused with images of rural bliss... rhythms of nature and local tradition" typical to the genre of Homeland films, '52 Weeks' "is not entirely irreconcilable with the belief in progress" and is an example to the East German agrarian pictures that focused on the benefits of the collectivization.Johannes von Moltke. 'No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema'. University of California Press (2005). . pp. 171172. The Catholic Film Service called it "formalistic, but with good acting."[http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=titel&wert=58497 '52 Wochen sind ein Jahr' on the German Film Lexicon.]

References




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