Zille und ick (1983)
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Cast
Kurt Nolze, Daniela Hoffmann, Doris Abeßer, Thomas Zieler, Erik S. Klein, Helmut Schreiber, Hans-Otto Reintsch, Marianne Wünscher, Fred Delmare, Eckhard Müller, Angela Brunner, Uwe Zerbe, Wolfgang Borkenhagen, Marietta Anday, Werner Lierck, Mona Stein, Marliese Mirkoff, Ingeborg Sillmann, Berthold Schulze, Klaus Schäuber
After losing his job in turn-of-the-century Berlin, Heinrich Zille pursues his dream of painting ordinary people’s lives.
The story
In turn-of-the-century Berlin, Heinrich Zille is fired after 30 years of service, leaving him penniless but free to pursue his passion for painting. He wants his art to document ordinary people’s lives, yet the people he draws distrust the odd, comical man who is always sketching them. It takes time for him to convince them that his intentions are sincere. Zille also develops a special relationship with Jette, a singer living in a tenement courtyard who longs to leave her milieu and finds work at a “Tingeltangel.”
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Heinrich Zille, a little over 40 years old, is fired by his employer in turn-of-the-century Berlin after 30 years of service. Although he is now penniless, he can finally devote himself to his passion for painting. He wants to use his art to document the lives of ordinary people. But they dislike the odd, comical fellow who is always drawing. It takes him a long time to show them that he is sincere in his intentions toward them. He develops a special relationship with Jette, a singer in a tenement courtyard. She wants to escape her milieu and gets a job at the “Tingeltangel.” There, she ends up in the arms of a factory owner's son, who seduces her and then abandons her. But she still has Ede, a lodger who sleeps at her mother's home and has long loved her—and she realizes that he is the right man for her.
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