Story of a Young Couple

Story of a Young Couple (1952)

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A young married couple - both of them actors - work in the divided city of Berlin. Agnes, the young woman, is on location in East Berlin, and Jochen, her husband, works at the Westend Theater in West Berlin. This young marriage is in danger of breaking up as they vehemently defend their diametrically opposed views. The way they see politics, art and the world differs extremely.

Date of release
1952-01-18
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kurt Maetzig

Casting

Interesting facts

Story of a Young Couple is an East German film, directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1952.

Production

The script was written by Maetzig and author Bodo Uhse. In part, Story of A Young Couple was intended as a response to Jean-Paul Sartre's anti-communist play Dirty Hands, which is also referenced in the plot. Assistant-director Siegfried Hartmann told an interviewer that the film was made when the Cold War turned into a grim reality, and when Joseph Stalin's cult of personality was at its height, with both those factors heavily influencing the pi…

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