Story
Paul and Paula have known each other for a long time, they grew up in the same neighbourhood. Paul has made a career and is married, although unhappily. Paula works in a grocery store and lives alone with her two children. She is about to get married only for safety. Paula and Paul meet each other in a bar by accident. They fall in love, and this feeling very soon develops into a profound emotion. Paul enjoys the moment of happiness, but does not want to risk his position as an employee at the Ministry of Foreign Trade by getting divorced. Paula feels betrayed by him. And when her child dies in an accident she blames herself for it and splits up with Paul. Only now does he realize how much he loves Paula. But she rejects him. He starts to fight for her and and wins her love back. But Paula dies at the birth of their child.
Director
HEINER CAROW (*1929 in Rostock † 1997 in Berlin) was a German director and vice-president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR as well as a member of the West Berlin Academy of Arts. From 1950 to 1952 he attended the directing class at the DEFA Nachwuchsstudio under Slatan Dudow and Gerhard Klein. His first film as a director was made in 1952 under the title Bauern erfüllen den Plan. After 1952, Carow worked at the DEFA studio for popular science films. There he wrote scripts and made ten short documentaries. In the 1970s, Carow made several successful contemporary films, including The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), which achieved cult status in the GDR, and Ikarus (1975), about the life of a child of divorce, which Carow himself described as his best film. After Bis dass der Tod euch scheidet (1978), he worked on several projects that could not be realised. Carow became a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR in 1978, of which he was vice-president from 1982 to 1991, and a member of the West Berlin Academy of Arts in 1984. After 1991 he worked mainly for television. In 1996 he became director of the Film and Media Art Department of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Arts.Info
Die Legende von Paul und Paula
Fiction Feature
German
Spezial | FF2023
1973
105 min
OV
Heiner Carow
Ulrich Plenzdorf, Heiner Carow
Angelica Domröse, Winfried Glatzeder, Heidemarie Wenzel, Fred Delmare, Rolf Ludwig, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Käthe Reichel, Frank Schenk, Dietmar Richter-Reinick, Eva-Maria Hagen, Jürgen Frohriep, Christian Steyer
Erich Albrecht
Jürgen Brauer
Werner Blass, Georg Gutschmidt
Evelyn Carow
Peter Gotthardt
Harry Leupold
Barbara Braumann
DEFA Studio für Spielfilme; DEFA Gruppe Berlin