Wieder in Wittstock (1976)

What do people think? “I don't care,” says Stupsi, who dreams of a trip to Bulgaria and (for later) of a happy marriage. But she also believes she is capable of raising a child on her own if necessary. She works in the final quality control at the Obertrikotagenbetrieb Ernst Lück (OTB). Stupsi's colleague Edith is annoyed that hardly anyone in the company speaks their mind honestly. “I've always told the truth, I was always the black sheep,” she says, and reports on the dispute with a superior and difficulties in meeting standards. The fact that she criticizes her boss in front of the whole team earns her a forced transfer, which she successfully fights. The sisters Bärbel and Edeltraut live in the village of Blandikow. Every morning a bus picks them up for work. They are not attracted to living in the town of Wittstock, which has a population of 10,000. Their friends, the village pub with weekly dancing and the television program provide them with enough entertainment. The film is a follow-up to Girls in Wittstock, in which Koepp also reported on the young textile workers in Wittstock an der Dosse in Brandenburg. A year after the first film was shot, the factory is still under construction and the workers are mostly in their twenties. They have barely completed their training themselves, but are expected to take on responsibility in the factory.