Death to the hippies !! Long live punk

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Movie
Original title Death to the hippies !!
Long live punk
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Oskar Roehler
script Oskar Roehler
production Stefan Arndt ,
Uwe Schott
music Martin Todsharow
camera Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
cut Peter R. Adam
occupation

Death to the hippies !! Long live punk is a German feature film and a black comedy film by director Oskar Roehler from 2015 . Roehler used it to film his own novel, My Life as a Monkey Ass . Strongly autobiographical, he tells of his youth as a punk . The cinema release in Germany was on March 26, 2015.

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The young student Robert Rother lived in a West German city in the early 1980s . One of his classmates is Gries, an openly gay Nazi punk . He is having fun at school by secretly tipping his long-haired teacher several highly effective tablets into the drinking glass before class, numbing him and then cutting his hair. Afterwards, Robert and Gries cause chaos in the classroom. Gries is expelled from the school by the director. Robert and Gries don't like the numerous hippies hanging out at school.

Robert's friend is an ambitious student teacher. Since he feels disgusted by her honesty, he follows the tip of his friend Schwarz and, now as a punk with a mohawk and leather coat, goes to West Berlin , where he hopes to experience something exciting. He leaves his single mother behind, who wants to murder Robert's uncle for the purpose of inheritance sneaking .

Arrived in West Berlin, Robert went to the nightclub run by Schwarz in search of work . There he takes a job in which he wipes the sperm of the guests masturbating at a peepshow from the windows. There he met the dancer Sanja. Before long, he followed Schwarz into a punk bar , also for drug use .

In West Berlin, Robert visits his father Klaus, who lives alone, and who keeps a six-figure sum of cash in his apartment. A few days later, Robert and Schwarz steal the money with which they are aiming for a career as drug dealers . You narrowly avoid being shot by Klaus.

By chance, Robert meets Gries again in Berlin, who works as a street prostitute and leather gay man. He accompanies him for a while and makes music with him in the “risk ”, a bar run by Blixa Bargeld .

One day it turns out to the authorities that the money stolen from Robert's father comes from RAF stocks and thus learn of his father's criminal RAF past, which is why Klaus is finally arrested and sent to prison. After Robert's mother also appeared in Berlin and then traveled to Munich , Robert and Sanja follow her there. You will witness how she first shoots her hated brother in the genitals and finally commits suicide with a gun .

Back in Berlin, Robert is also arrested and obliged to do community service in West Germany. After a traumatic experience by a resident with an artificial anus , he slits open his wrists and is then released from duty. In the end, Robert and Schwarz meet again on a truck in the Egyptian desert .

reception

The film service said that the "happily delirious, slapstick-like grotesque" rushed with " satirical destructiveness on the belated Berlin punk scene" and followed standardized 'Coming of Age' guidelines with " brutal humor". The film oscillates between "the finest trash nostalgia and the old-fashioned, at least self-ironically accentuated topic of the sell-out of the youth movement".

epd Film praised the film for its cast of actors; he is shaped by Schilling and Lau and the secondary characters are "brilliantly cast". However, Roehler rarely finds “a sustaining rhythm” in the film, his narrative style is “as lively as it is short of breath”. Die Zeit found significant weaknesses in the film. Dramaturgical problems manifested themselves in the fact that the director's tendency to exaggerate and slapstick often got in the way.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for death the hippies !! Long live punk . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 355 K).
  2. ↑ Critique of Death to the Hippies !! Long live punk . In: Filmdienst , 6/2015.
  3. ↑ Patrick Seyboth: Death to the hippies !! Long live punk . In: epd Film , No. 4/2015, p. 54.
  4. ↑ Moritz von Uslar : Der Fun des Hassens , in: Die Zeit No. 13/2015, accessed online on April 13, 2015