Her third (Der Dritte)

Streaming video - 2014

After having two children with two different men, a newly single and liberated Margit discovers herself. Her entertaining amorous pursuit of a colleague is a testament to the evolving independence of East German women in the early 1970s. Starring Jutta Hoffmann, who received the Best Actress award for this role at the 1972 Venice Film Festival. Margit Fliesser is a mathematician in her mid-30s who works in a medium-sized company; she has two children and has been divorced twice. Her colleagues like her and respect her professional skills, but she is somewhat shy and inhibited. The reasons for this lie in her past. Following her mother's premature death, Margit became a nurse-trainee, but at some point realizes this vocation is not for ...her. She then goes to college, where she studies with Bachmann, who later becomes her first husband; in addition to being her first great love, he also becomes her first great disappointment. Her second relationship to a blind man doesn't work out any better. She now decides to take things into her own hands. She picks her "third one" herself, no longer leaving it up to fate. Although this involves considerable effort and the aid of her friend Lucie, Margit achieves her goal: she wins over her colleague, Hrdlitschka, as her third husband. more