Waste your youth (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Waste your youth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Benjamin Quabeck |
| script |
Ralf Hertwig , Kathrin Richter |
| production |
Jakob Claussen , Thomas Wöbke |
| music | Lee Buddah |
| camera | David Schultz |
| cut | Tobias Haas |
| occupation | |
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Waste Your Youth is a German film released in 2003 that plays in the electro / new wave or late punk scene. Actors are u. a. Tom Schilling , Robert Stadlober and Jessica Schwarz .
The film title is taken from a documentary novel by Jürgen Teipels published in 2001, but has little in common with his “ thoughtful book ”. Waste your youth is also the title of a song by the Düsseldorf band German-American Friendship (DAF) that appears in the plot .
action
Harry lives in Munich at the beginning of the 1980s . He moved from the country to the city to complete an apprenticeship as a banker . After work he tries his hand at managing the band Apollo Schwabing , which leads a shadowy existence in dreary Munich together with many other synth pop bands. To remedy this, Harry organizes a concert at Circus Krone , for which he wants to win over the popular NDW group DAF . Apollo Schwabing and some other bands from the area are supposed to play there as the opening act in order to attract attention. He has posters printed in advance and hung up all over town. However, the project gets into difficulties because the planned headliner DAF has not yet confirmed at all, even shortly before the date. Harry uses a little trick (posing as a reporter for a well-known magazine) to get DAF's approval. His dream concert can finally start. But Harry's enthusiasm soon turns into panic, because although all tickets have been sold, he realizes that he cannot pay the DAF fee at all. He sells all of his valuables, his beloved records, his car, but the sum is not enough. DAF's appearance threatens to burst right before their appearance. Harry sees only one way out: he robbed his own savings bank branch. Unfortunately, he seems to be unlucky because there are only small amounts of cash there. Back at the Krone Circus, he offers the DAF manager the money as the first payment and wants to pay off the rest. However, the manager strongly refuses. Harry has to overcome his shyness towards the audience and steps on the stage and cancels the DAF performance. Before that, he reported his break-in to the police and is now walking towards the exit to face the police. Shortly before the exit, he hears that DAF are starting to play. Despite all the difficulties, his dream still came true. He turns himself in to the police and is sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence.
Soundtrack
A soundtrack double CD for the book was already available before the film was made . In addition, a soundtrack for the film was released.
- DAF - Like it's the last time
- Manicured Noise - Metronomes
- Apollo Schwabing - Pop Machines
- The Human League - Being Boiled
- Ülük frog mask - Maquinas Caminam!
- Lee Buddah - Bayerischer Hof (Score)
- XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
- Apollo Schwabing - Asteroid Alert
- DAF - The Mussolini
- The Cure - Fire in Cairo
- Clockwork Electric - Sure Fire
- Apollo Schwabing - plastic isolated
- Palais Schaumburg - We are building a new city
- Male - Risk Factor 1: x
- The Cure - A Forest
- Apollo Schwabing - Oh, yes !?
- Lee Buddah - Bank Robbery (Score)
- The electronic dwarfs - Snow White
- Apollo Schwabing - The Lion
- Mohanett - Conspiracy Theory
- DAF - waste your youth
- The stars - carefree
Reviews
epd Film states: “Thanks to the visibly enthusiastic actors and the detailed equipment, he succeeds in getting to the heart of an attitude towards life. [...] A coherent chapter in the history of the West German mentality. "
The lexicon of international films judges: “Fast staged and played youth film about self-discovery, first love and identity-creating music. As a discussion of the music, business and life forms of the 1980s, however, disappointing because he hardly recapitulates and analyzes the music and time of that time, but only uses it as a trendy color for a contemporary look. "
Jürgen Teipel , the author of the book of the same name, publicly distanced himself from the feature film and described it as “politically completely unreflective” and “nothing more than a nice story”.
Web links
- Play It Loud in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Waste your youth at filmportal.de
- Waste your youth. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 26, 2017 .
literature
- Magdalena Fürnkranz: wasted youth (s). From DAF's opus to Jürgen Teipel's attempt at posthumous documentation to Benjamin Quabeck's cinematic dystopia . In: Philipp Meinert, Martin Seeliger (eds.): Punk in Germany: social and cultural-scientific perspectives . Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2162-4 , p. 287-299 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for waste your youth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2003 (PDF; test number: 94 360 K).
- ↑ Age rating for waste your youth . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Oliver Hüttmann: "Waste Your Youth": Dance the Commerce. Der Spiegel , July 4, 2003, accessed October 27, 2015 .
- ↑ epd film no. 7/2003, community work of Evangelical Journalism, Frankfurt a. M., p. 41
- ↑ Waste your youth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Interview with Jürgen Teipel about the Berlinale 2005