Lot's Wife

Lot's Wife

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 26, 1965

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

Lots Weib

Production Companies

DEFA

Director

Egon Günther

Description

The marriage of Katrin and Richard Lot has become a routine. She has a career and he, as a Marine officer, comes home only once every fourteen days. The children greet him with joy, but she greets him only with anxiety because their marriage is missing its key ingredient: love. She wants a divorce, but he refuses mainly out of comfort as well as due to pressure from the party. Katrin finds a strange solution: she shoplifts and is put on probation for three months. This is enough to force Richard into a divorce because he is concerned about the "moral liability" of his wife.