Farewell disco
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Farewell disco |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Losansky |
| script | Rolf Losansky |
| production | DEFA , "Berlin" group |
| music | Reinhard Lakomy |
| camera | Helmut Grewald |
| cut | Ilona Thiel |
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Farewell Disco is a German youth film of the DEFA of Rolf Losansky from the year 1990 . It is based on motifs from the story of the same name by Joachim Nowotny .
action
The 15-year-old Henning has to cope with the loss of his girlfriend Silke, who was killed in a traffic accident. Even half a year after the funeral, he has not yet come through her death. Although he often spends the afternoons with his friends, he has decided that he wants to create and achieve something meaningful - he doesn't yet know what. He initially plans to spend the weekend with his parents, who want to go to the Zittau Mountains and on to the ČSSR , but then decides to visit his great-grandfather. He lives as one of the few people in the village of Wussina, which will shortly give way to an open-cast brown coal mine. Among other things, his father is responsible for clearing the village.
On the way to Wussina, which is 30 kilometers away from his small town in Lusatia, Henning first meets Dixie, who is the same age and who is in love with him. He briefly helps her family with renovations, but then drives on. In the mining reserve, Henning comes across an old man who is capturing the animals that have remained in the area to save them from certain death. He fears that the younger generation will lose sight of reality through their discos and indifferently watch all the madness. The man and Henning disappear in opposite directions. Finally Henning arrives in Wussina and finds the village abandoned. The apartment of the great-grandfather, who lives next to a school, still seems to be occupied, but nothing can be seen of him. Henning notices a little boy throwing in the panes of the village church. He confronts him. The boy's father argues that due to their dimensions, the discs cannot be used any further. There are large cracks in the church and even the bell has already been brought down. The man turns out to be a looter who, with Henning's help, finally cuts a tree in order to get to an iron grating behind it. During the action he is disturbed by the arrival of the police and he flees to an empty factory with his son and Henning. Here the police picks up Henning, but lets him go when he reports on his search for his great-grandfather.
Henning later made the acquaintance of a couple who met for a rendezvous in one of the ruined houses. He sees the old man again, who is saving more animals from death under the excavator, and finally notices an old widow who is looking for her grave rake in the abandoned cemetery. On the edge of the lignite area, Henning meets his father, who after all did not go into the mountains after his son left. Both dig up the place name sign and Henning questions what is happening around the village for the first time. He moves on through Wussina and notices that the young Magda's village disco is still open. Magda has found a power cord and is playing music. She feels lonely, but Henning cannot and does not want to console her. He leaves after kissing her. Dixie, who has followed him, is waiting for him in front of the building. Both go to Henning's great-grandfather's apartment and see him at the old widow's house. He tries to get the suicidal old woman to leave her home. Henning leaves without greeting his great-grandfather. With Dixie he goes to the odd old man who has kept all the rescued animals in his station building on the edge of the mining area. Here Henning's father appears and tries to persuade the old man to move out. However, he wants to stay because his house is in the exclusion zone, but will not be dredged. Henning and Dixie begin to plant apple sticks that are lying around, as the roots can prevent the slope from slipping. While Henning's father asks his son to stop the senseless action, the old man gives instructions on how to tie the trees down. Henning and Dixie water the young trees.
production
Farewell disco was after … damn it, I'm an adult Rolf Losansky’s second film based on a literature by Joachim Nowotny. Losansky had already wanted to film the material in 1983, but the scenario was rejected in 1983 by the film headquarters. "The ecological as well as social effects of the lignite mining have long been considered taboo." In 1986 the rough script that was submitted was not approved. Filming was only allowed to begin in 1989. Farewell disco was one of a series of films that were allowed to be made after a long period of prohibition in 1989, but had largely lost their relevance, including biology! , Reverse rotation can I also and first loss . Barbara Braumann created the film costumes, and Jochen Keller designed the film
The farewell disco premiered on April 5, 1990 in the Berlin Kino International and was shown in GDR cinemas the following day. It was first shown on TV on May 29, 1996 on ORB .
criticism
The contemporary criticism found that the film was not touching. The main actor Holger Kubisch was criticized, who "looks really stiff ... [...] Rolf Losansky just can't give up, he can hardly get any emotions out of him". Henning in the film is "serene like his own great-grandfather". Also Renate Holland-Moritz was that director Losansky have occupied in the film only "codfish": "There is no sound, no view and no gesture is right. The same can be said about the anti-actresses Ellen Hellwig and Viola Schweizer. "
Reference was made to the use of symbols in the film, such as the meaning of the tree, but also Henning's dream sequences, which, however, would quickly lose their poetic charm and mutate into a “substitute for action and experience”. Although the subject of the film is reminiscent of works such as Farewell to Matjora , the film is less extreme. Contemporary critics praised the film's ecological approach, which "is a surprisingly bold [...] warning about what is so irretrievably lost" and gives an idea of "like a failed energy policy that knew no ecological consideration, organic life destroyed. "
For the federal German film service , the farewell disco was a “heavy weight youth film laden with symbols on the subject of environmental destruction and the threat of rootlessness”. Other critics, looking back, found that the film was out of date due to the long realization time and was no longer explosive. The film ripples along and offers no surprises, characters and situations are drawn clichéd.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 15 .
- Farewell disco . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 391-393.
Web links
- Farewell disco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Farewell disco at filmportal.de
- Farewell disco at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 15 .
- ↑ See documents on Staat-kirche-forschung.de (PDF; 148 kB)
- ↑ Elke Schieber: Beginning of the End or Continuity of Suspicion 1980 to 1989 . In: Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 321.
- ↑ Jürgen Schwarz in: Freie Presse , Karl-Marx-Stadt, April 14, 1990.
- ↑ Renate Holland-Moritz: Farewell Disco ; Review 1990. Quoted from: Renate Holland-Moritz: Die Eule im Kino. New movie reviews . Eulenspiegel, Berlin 1994, p. 169.
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Tok: A double dying . In: Wochenpost , April 27, 1990.
- ↑ a b Helmut Ullrich: In an abandoned village . In Neue Zeit , April 11, 1990.
- ^ Farewell disco . In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Farewell disco . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, p. 392.