Exuberant life

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Movie
Original title Exuberant life
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1983
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Hannelore Conradsen ,
Dieter Köster
script Hannelore Conradsen,
Dieter Köster
production Hannelore Conradsen
camera Dieter Köster,
Jürgen Volkery
cut Dieter Köster,
Hannelore Conradsen

Rauschendes Leben is a documentary film by Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster from 1983 . It shows drunks and drunkards in bars and at other festivities in the western part of the divided city of Berlin, across the classes.

action

The movement of the camera and sound goes through a dozen pubs, taverns and other places of residence of drunk, drunk and drunk Berliners. Between "changeover" under the Yorck bridges, Laubenpieperfest under the Charlottenburg S-Bahn bridge, moonlight trip on the Havel, "ghost zoo" in Humboldthain, "top disco" in the deep south, between snack bar in Kreuzberg and "beer saloon" on Kurfürstendamm, the corner pub in the satellite town of Falkenhagener Feld in Spandau, the Dahlemer “Joe-Beau-Lais”, to the 24-hour pub “The Last Heller”. An indescribably direct film.

criticism

On the one hand, the film was received with horror. On the other hand, the scene (e.g. in the Kreuzberg “Ice Age Cinema”) took beer crates into the performance. The film was only shown on television abroad. The legal departments of German television stations are said to have unanimously advised against broadcasting it, as personal rights would be affected ("Declarations of consent in a drunk state do not apply, and even in a sober state afterwards, the protagonists would lack memories"). Jochen Metzner wrote in the Berliner Tagesspiegel (excerpt):

“ Seldom has a film team succeeded in getting deeper, more direct insights into the pub scene in a big city, but also into the night, emotional and mental life of its residents than Hannelore Conradsen and Dieter Köster, who, among other things, already combine some notable television features Have made names. This is not a sociologically interested, illustrated work on alcoholism problems, it is rather a collection of individual, skilfully assembled milieu studies for which the documentary filmmakers, like Cinema Direct, 'just' opened the microphones and lenses, and with it Relentlessly penetrated the Berlin pubs, disco and night club jungle ... The amazing impartiality of numerous night owls and revelers in front of the camera, the sometimes even breaking self-portrayal talents are of course largely due to the effects of barley juice and schnapps. The documentary filmmakers also seem to have developed a very effective interaction technique that takes away their protagonists' fear of the camera eye, and loosens gestures and tongues. The sequences captured in this way are partly so full of authenticity, are often of such immediate effect that Conradsen and Köster rightly forego any commentary word. "

note

In the press booklet for the screening of the film at the Berlinale in 1984, the directors and authors formulate their motivation: “ Anyone who has done so much television work has to take a break at some point and maneuver himself into delirium. "

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