The Girls in Gingham ( Die Buntkarierten )

The Girls in Gingham (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Buntkarierten
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Kurt Maetzig

Written By:
Kurt Maetzig
Berta Waterstradt

Actors:
Camilla Spira ..... Guste Schmiedecke
Werner Hinz ..... Paul Schmiedecke
Liselotte Lieck ..... Großmutter
Friedrich Gnaß ..... Großvater
Carsta Löck ..... Emma
Ursula Diestel ..... Frieda
Yvonne Merin ..... Marie
Kurt Liebenau ..... Hans
Brigitte Krause ..... Christel
Hanni Herter ..... Suse
Yvonne Sturm ..... Erika
Hans Alexander ..... Levin
Walter Bluhm
Susi Deitz
Lothar Firmans

Synopsis:

The increase in industrialisation in the Germany of the early 20th century made the difference in poor and rich much more apparent. The life of simple people was hard. The focal point of The Girls in Gingham is Guste, who, as a maid, has to look after her lords and ladies. When the First World War breaks out, her husband is conscripted. Guste has to support the whole family by toiling as a hand-grenade maker. The young woman soon grasps that she is working for the continuation of this senseless war. She quits… The Girls in Gingham is a cinematographic journey through time and empire, through war, economic crisis, the rise of Nazi fascism and into a further, even crueller Second World War. It is a tense, moving and dramatic story.

It has been 100 years since the start of the First World War. More than 10 million people lost their lives between 1914 and 1918, and twice as many were injured or crippled. The First World War was a significant theme for the film artists of the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA), the East German film company founded in 1946. The suffering of working people, the misery of life in the factories and poor accommodation in cities, the growing organisation of resistance to warmongers and profiteers, as well as the battle for a better world are the topics of this extraordinary collection of films.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 March, 2015.