Her Third

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). 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.

• Jutta Hoffmann as Margit Flieser
• Barbara Dittus as Lucie
• Armin Mueller-Stahl as The Blind Man
• Rolf Ludwig as Hrdlitschka
• Peter Köhncke as Bachmann
• Erika Pelikowsky as Reverend Mother
• Christine Schorn as Young Woman
• Jaecki Schwarz as Young Man
• Klaus Manchen as Lucies's friend

Her Third won two National Prizes in 1972, a third class national prize for Egon Günther 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 in 1972 and at the Venice Film Festival in 1972, where Jutta Hoffmann won an award for Best Actor in the category Venezia Critici.{{cite web|url=http://www.defa-stiftung.de/cms/(S(5r3xvz45yobhqc55hwlhen55))/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002KUN&qpn=2|title=Filmdatenbank - Der Dritte|publisher=DEFA|language=de|access-date=2009-05-31}} Her Third was also chosen as East Germany's official submission to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.{{cite web |author=H. G. Pflaum |title=On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |publisher=German Films |url=http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |access-date=2008-08-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070813145148/http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html |archive-date=2007-08-13 }}Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

• List of submissions to the 46th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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• {{imdb title|0068508|Der Dritte}}
• [http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/der-dritte_ea43d4a71a035006e03053d50b37753d Her Third] at filmportal.de/en
• [http://www.defa-stiftung.de/cms/(S(kj0uuf45z14ths452k1f5155))/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002KUN&qpn=2 Der Dritte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221222910/http://www.defa-stiftung.de/cms/(S(5r3xvz45yobhqc55hwlhen55))/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002KUN&qpn=2 |date=2012-02-21 }} on the [http://www.defa-stiftung.de DEFA-Stiftung] web site{{in lang|de}}

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Category:East German films

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Category:Bisexuality-related films

Category:Films about female bisexuality

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