2030 - uprising of the young

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Movie
Original title 2030 - uprising of the young
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Jörg Lühdorff
script Jörg Lühdorff
production Ziegler film
music Oliver Biehler
camera Konstantin Kröning
cut Jens Klüber
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chronology

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2030 - Uprising of the ancients

2030 - Uprising of the Young (working title: 2030 - Exploitation of Grandchildren ) is a German television film by Jörg Lühdorff that was produced in 2009 and broadcast for the first time in 2011 . The film was announced by the television station ZDF as a documentary fiction about demographic development . The socially critical three-part predecessor 2030 - Uprising of the Elderly from 2007 dealt with the future of the elderly in German society, while Uprising of the Young is devoted to the social fate of the younger population. With the new work, the author wants to describe the possible consequences of demographic change from the perspective of the younger generation . Lühdorff researched numerous scientific studies for the film.

Content-related subject areas

The topics of the debt trap , triggered by the cost of the grandmother's need for care and a serious cancer disease, the costs of which are not covered by the modern, inhumane conditions of health insurance, as part of a two-class medicine of the future are staged like an investigative report . This time, too, the journalist Bach looks for the background in the framework and uncovered a political scandal . The film critically examines the areas of the surveillance state , genetic tests for health insurance classifications , data protection , an unaffordable pension , civil rights and emerging tensions in the German population due to the widening gap between rich and poor due to neglected political measures due to the aging of the population ( demographic development ).

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In Berlin in 2030, the young Tim Burdenski was found seriously injured on the Gendarmenmarkt . After an emergency call from a taxi driver, he was taken to a hospital, but died despite a delayed emergency operation. The journalist Lena Bach begins to research because the 30-year-old has been accompanied by a television team in a long-term documentary as one of ten so-called “millennium children” since his birth on January 1, 2000. All of them come from the middle class .

The public prosecutor's office informed the public that he was caught trying to break into the heavily protected national data register and was shot dead by a SEC while escaping . Tim's long-time friend Sophie Schäfer, another millennium child, claims that Tim is not dead and that she received a call from him. After Lena learned that the body should be cremated without an autopsy report, she decides to continue investigating and to get an idea of ​​Tim's life based on documentation. Along with Sophie, she comes across further inconsistencies. Contrary to the representation on television, he apparently lived in oppressive poverty and was heavily in debt.

Despite his talent, Tim could not afford to study art and initially had a permanent position as a graphic designer. Like many others, he was fired for operational reasons and kept himself afloat with part-time jobs. Out of shame, he kept quiet about his lack of funds and fell into debt after his grandmother had become a need for care and the family had to bear a large part of the care costs. After the financial crisis that started in 2007 , most social benefits have been drastically cut by the federal government since 2015, the intergenerational contract dissolved and the state pension abolished, and the pension, long-term care and health insurance systems largely privatized. Tuition fees have also been increased significantly and a national database of personal information on all citizens has been created. Personal bankruptcies were no longer possible and so many people were driven into illegality.

While searching for Tim, Lena and Sophie discover a cell phone photo published on the Internet that shows him in the “Höllenberg” ghetto in Berlin-Schöneberg , and thus obtain proof that Tim is alive. The neighborhood in which Vincent Fischer founded the "Hope Valley" initiative is characterized by abject poverty and crime, made up of people from the impoverished middle class. The initiative is about people on the edge of illegality who have turned their backs on the state and want to replace the no longer functioning welfare state through neighborhood help and initiative . As a hospital nurse, Fischer helps severely ill patients who are indebted due to the anti-social health system to fake death certificates so that they can go into hiding. When Fischer was killed on the run from the police, there was social tension in the impoverished parts of the population and violent riots that lasted for days, which spread across Germany and were violently ended by the police.

Lena and Sophie finally get a clue about Tim's whereabouts. Paula, who is married to Tim, is seriously ill with cancer and is being treated in an illegal clinic after she had chosen a cheaper tariff years earlier after a genetic test on the personal probability of future illnesses, whereupon the health insurance company refused to offer the expensive therapy as not included in the insurance. Despite being relocated, she eventually dies. Despite great danger, Tim tried to manipulate your data, faked his death and went underground. In the end, Tim turns himself in to the police and is sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for attempted data manipulation.

Audience ratings

The documentary fiction reached 2.05 million viewers, which reached a market share of 6.1 percent of the total audience. Things looked worse for 14 to 49 year olds, where the 2030 uprising of the boys cut off with a market share of only 4.7 percent. The previous season 2030 - Uprising of the Elderly was thus, especially in the first episode, much more successful with the younger target group and achieved double-digit market shares well above the channel average among 14 to 49 year olds.

Reviews

Christian Buß wrote in Spiegel Online : “Even with the uprising of the young , as the predecessor of crime specialist Jörg Lühdorff wrote and staged, there are a few beautiful and ludicrous Bambule scenes […]”. However, "squashed in 90 minutes, all the demographic facts overwhelming the story" and the characters "stooped through the action under the weight of social data". "The charm of resistance" does not want to set in like in 2030 - the uprising of the old in the successor. "Does the title suggest a closeness to the student bookstore bestseller The Coming Uprising - the subversive potential of the young angry citizens is limited in the new ZDF fake documentary." The resistance is more likely to have "egoistic reasons" because one "doesn't really to overthrow the system, but only to get the best benefit from it ”.

In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Klaudia Wick named the television film as a vividly staged desolation, which is technically interesting but at times a bit brittle. Sometimes you would feel "the effort of the author and director Jörg Lühdorff to keep the tension sufficiently tight over this agony ". Lühdorff “mainly relied on technical gadgets: the surveillance cameras tell in the fictitious documentation what happened at night on the Gendarmenmarkt and later in the emergency room.” Likewise, “excerpts from the supposed long-term documentation about the millennial children” enable further reviews of the past. “All of this is interesting to look at on a technical level, but it seems a bit brittle at times. Because even the heroine Sophie is not exactly seen by her actress Lavinia Wilson as the emotional heat center of the film. "

Friederike Haupt said in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “A stripped-down old building against glass and steel buildings bathed in blue science fiction light in Berlin, which has now richer by a few skyscrapers - a film can be as striking, even if famous dystopias such as“ Soylent Green ”or " Gattaca " appear more subtle. But they are also further away from our present. ”The television film would repeat what“ population scientists like Herwig Birg have been warning for years [...] particularly loudly, clearly and drastically ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Schöneberg to "Höllenberg" Tagesspiegel from January 10, 2011
  2. ↑ Little interest in the future vision "2030" on ZDF DWDL.de from January 12, 2011
  3. ↑ Retire, otherwise there will be a riot! Spiegel Online from January 11, 2011
  4. ↑ Dark Times Frankfurter Rundschau from January 12, 2011
  5. ↑ Crushed by the burden of the ancients . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of January 11, 2011