... and cheeky too!

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Movie
Original title ... and cheeky too!
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rolf von Sydow
script Max Colpet ,
Thomas Keck
production Kurt Hahne for UFA
music Ernst Simon
camera Ted Kornowicz
cut Ilse Voigt
occupation

... and cheeky too! is a 1959 German feature film directed by Rolf von Sydow about youth rivalries with a number of young actors who later became famous.

action

In a major German city in the late 1950s. The "Dorado" gaming room is the meeting place for a young motorcycle gang led by the brutal youngster "Bull". They believe they can take everything out of themselves and like to mess with other young people who don't suit them. These include the jazz music friends "Westend Vier plus Drei" with boyish blond Fred, the band leader, at the top and seven other musicians and their friends. The young musicians believe that they have finally found a location here where they can open their jazz cellar , which they simply want to call “shed”. As expected, Bulle and his buddies have something against it and are so raving that the opening of the Jazzkeller becomes a fiasco. The scuffle breaks out and turns into a real brawl, and everyone has to go to the police station.

The parents of the young people who are enthusiastic about music are appalled to see where the weakness for jazz can lead, especially since they consider this type of music to be more than disreputable anyway. But Fred and his friends don't want to be denied their love for their jam sessions , so they look for another location where they can put on a jazz concert. But here, too, “cop” and his thugs get in their way, but this time not to show again who is in charge here, but with a planned crime. In front of the concert hall in the parking lot, Bulle wants to start a raid. When Bulles buddy Rockie tries to prevent this, he knocks him hard to the ground. The police intervene and arrest cop. Gradually he too realizes that his life cannot go on like this. When the waves have calmed down, the jazz fans can finally start their session.

Production notes

... and cheeky too! , whose working title was Long Pants - Short Hair , was created in autumn 1959 and was premiered on January 6, 1960 in the Ufa-Palast in Essen. The Austrian premiere took place on March 25, 1960. In Denmark, the film ran in February 1961 under the title Fart, jazz og piger . The English title was: And Saucy at That . The film was made as a result of various youthful films that began with the film of the same name by Georg Tressler in 1956 in Germany.

Hanns H. Kuhnert and Wilhelm Vorwerg were responsible for the buildings, and Helmut Holger designed the costumes . Hans Joachim Wieland was production manager.

Reviews

“The opportunity patronizingly granted to the Ufa youngsters to full-length probation led to a visual and acoustic hubbub . The young filmmakers in Berlin - who may have mastered the jazz cellar jargon but not the rules of thumb of film dramaturgy - put together a series of images with little meaning in an eager student manner. In it they divide the members of the younger generation into jazz fans and motorcyclists and suggest to moviegoers that Germany's youth is definitely making noise. The moral of this pitiful Ufa film, Jazzende Bürgererkinder (Jazzende Bürgererkinder) are consistently strong in character, whereas young motorcyclists fell victim to gangsterism at an early age. "

- Der Spiegel , No. 6 of February 3, 1960

“What was intended to be a realistic film about the 'young people of today' turns out to be bad morality, constructed according to cliché. Only interesting: later well-known actors in their earliest roles, but above all the broad jazz music interludes with Oscar Pettiford , Benny Bailey , Hans Koller , Albert Mangelsdorff and many others who document the heyday of jazz in Germany at that time . "

- Lexicon of International Films

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New in Germany: ... and cheeky too! (Germany) . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1960, pp. 57 ( online ).
  2. ↑ ... and cheeky too! in the lexicon of international filmTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used