''Her Third'' () is a 1972 East German (then GDR) film directed by
Egon Günther
Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017) in:
and starring
Jutta Hoffmann
Jutta Hoffmann (born 3 March 1941) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Her Third'' (1972)
* '' Lotte in Weimar'' (1974)
* ' (1978)
* ''The Assault of the Present ...
,
Barbara Dittus
Barbara Dittus (11 July 1939 – 25 June 2001) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1959 to 2001.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
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2001 death ...
,
Rolf Ludwig
Rolf Ludwig (28 July 1925 – 27 March 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1952 to 1997.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1925 births
1999 deaths
Male actors from Stockholm
Germ ...
and
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role i ...
. The film is based on the short story ''Unter den Bäumen regnet es zweimal'' by
Eberhard Panitz
Eberhard Panitz (16 April 1932 – 1 October 2021) was a German writer, screenwriter, literary editor and publicist. He wrote epic works, documentaries, audio plays and scripts for films and television. He was committed to socialist realism, and ...
and tells the story of the single mother Margit looking for a new partner. The film was produced in 1971 by the DEFA film studio and premiered on 16 March, 1972 in
East Berlin
East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...
.
Plot
Margit Fließer (Jutta Hoffmann) is in her mid-thirties, has two children and has been divorced twice. She works as a mathematician in a medium-sized company where she is well respected by her colleagues. Margit has a shy and repressed personality due to her past and her childhood. Margit became a nurse in a Protestant order following the early death of her mother. Realizing that this vocation is not really for her she starts her studies at a university preparatory school. She falls in love with the lecturer Bachmann (Peter Köhncke), who becomes her first husband. The marriage fails, and she enters a second marriage with a blind man (
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role i ...
). But her new husband is a disappointment and this second marriage also fails. She now decides to find "her third" husband herself and not leaving it up to fate. She chooses Hrdlitschka (Rolf Ludwig), a colleague, but only after some efforts and with the help of her friend Lucie (Barbara Dittus) she is successful and wins Hrdlitschka as her third husband.
Cast
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Jutta Hoffmann
Jutta Hoffmann (born 3 March 1941) is a German actress. She has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1961.
Selected filmography
* ''Her Third'' (1972)
* '' Lotte in Weimar'' (1974)
* ' (1978)
* ''The Assault of the Present ...
as Margit Flieser
*
Barbara Dittus
Barbara Dittus (11 July 1939 – 25 June 2001) was a German film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1959 to 2001.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
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1939 births
2001 death ...
as Lucie
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Armin Mueller-Stahl
Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role i ...
as The Blind Man
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Rolf Ludwig
Rolf Ludwig (28 July 1925 – 27 March 1999) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1952 to 1997.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
1925 births
1999 deaths
Male actors from Stockholm
Germ ...
Erika Pelikowsky
Erika may refer to:
Arts and Entertainment
* Hayasaka Erika (''Megatokyo)''
* Erika (''Friends'')
* Erika (''Pokémon'')
* Erika (''Underworld'')
* Erika Itsumi ''(Girls und Panzer)''
* ''Erika'' (film), a 1971 Italian thriller film
* "E ...
as Reverend Mother
*
Christine Schorn
Christine Schorn (born 1 February 1944) is a German actress. Schorn has appeared in multiple films and TV shows including '' Apprehension'' (1982), ''According to the Plan'' (2007) and ''Das Leben ist nichts für Feiglinge
''Life Is Not for C ...
as Young Woman
*
Jaecki Schwarz
Jaecki Schwarz (born 26 February 1946) is a German actor. With around 120 film and television roles throughout his career, he worked prolifically with DEFA, the East German state-owned film studio, as well as Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF), the sta ...
as Young Man
*
Klaus Manchen
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Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
* Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseba ...
as Lucies's friend
Awards and honors
''Her Third'' won two National Prizes in 1972, a third class national prize for
Egon Günther
Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017) in:
for Achievements in Directing and a second class national prize for Jutta Hoffmann for Achievements in Acting. The film was screened at the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...
in 1972 and at the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
in 1972, where Jutta Hoffmann won an award for Best Actor in the category ''Venezia Critici''. ''Her Third'' was also chosen as East Germany's official submission to the 46th Academy Awards for
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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, but did not manage to receive a nomination.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
See also
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List of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
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List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Germany has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the creation of the award in 1956. The award is handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length m ...