Bevor der Blitz einschlägt
Before the Lightning Strikes is an East German comedy film directed by Richard Groschopp. It was released in 1959.
Plot
Heinz, an ambitious reporter of the Berlin am Morgen newspaper, had made a fatal error when he prepared an article about a locomotive's factory, confusing the successful and motivated Schneider Workers' Brigade with the negligent Schindler Brigade. He also presented the tyrannical manager as a paragon of virtue. Heinz's editor, Christine, decides to send him to the factory for another mission, and this time he should mingle with workers by joining them. Heinz, who takes the new assignment with little enthusiasm, becomes a highly motivated laborer and even manages to influence the Brigades' members to stop quarrelling. He also helps the manager to reconnect with his subordinates. Heinz's second article is welcomed as brilliant.
Cast
- Annemarie Hase
- Christine Laszar
- Erik Siegfried Klein
- Friedrich Richter
- Gerd Biewer
- Hannes Fischer
- Hannjo Hasse
- Herwart Grosse
- Horst Drinda
- Horst Kube
- Jochen Thomas
- Johannes Arpe
- Manfred Krug
- Margret Homeyer
- Peter Dommisch
- Rolf Herricht
- Rudi Schiemann
- Traute Sense
- Werner Dissel
- Wolf von Beneckendorff
More details
| author | Carl Andrießen |
|---|---|
| director | Richard Groschopp |
| editor | Helga Emmrich |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | confuse factory |
| musicBy | Hans Hendrik Wehding |
| producer | Willi Teichmann |
| productionCompany | DEFA |
| publisher | Progress Film |