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Story
Car mechanic Anton Grubske is never short of a trick or two. In 1945 he manages to avoid being sent to a POW camp and returns to his home town in Brandenburg. There, he marries his boss’ daughter and brings his workshop up to scratch. At the same time, he and an old girlfriend are active on the lucrative black market and pretty soon Anton is an Ostmark millionaire. Then one day one of his gambles goes wrong. Will his craftiness get him out of trouble this time too? Seen by around 800,000 cinemagoers, this fast-moving comedy with excellent dialogues was one of DEFA’s most popular productions.
Director
Günter Reisch (1927-2014) was known for his DEFA comedies, in which he portrayed the opportunism and sneakiness of everyday life in the GDR amusingly and with fine irony.Info
Anton der Zauberer
Fiction Feature
German
DDR Deluxe//FF2014
1977
106 min
OV
Günter Reisch
Günter Reisch, Karl Georg Egel
Ulrich Thein, Barbara Dittus, Anna Dymna, Erwin Geschonneck, Marina Krogull, Erik S. Klein, Jessy Rameik
Günter Haubold
Bärbel Weigel
Wolfram Heicking
Hans-Jörg Mirr
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Deutsche Kinemathek
Deutsche Kinemathek, DEFA Film Library (USA)
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Deutsche Kinemathek, Konstanze Schiller (defa-filmverleih@deutsche-kinemathek.de)
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