Lot's Wife

Lot's Wife

106 mins | Drama | Aug. 26, 1965

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.

Lot's Wife

106 mins | Drama | Aug. 26, 1965

Lot's Wife
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.
Producers DEFA
Original title Lots Weib
Directors Egon Günther
Writers Helga Schütz, Egon Günther

Cast

Marita Böhme

as Katrin Lot

Günther Simon

as Richard Lot

Klaus Piontek

as Paul Lehmann

Gerry Wolff

as Max Braun

Herbert Köfer

as Chef des Warenhauses