Anschi and Michael
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anschi and Michael |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rüdiger sober |
| script | Rüdiger sober |
| production | Bavarian radio |
| music | Jörg Evers |
| camera | Hans Osterieder |
| cut | Vera reason |
| occupation | |
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Anschi und Michael is an eight-part, German television film by Rüdiger Nüchtern about two young people in the present (1976) Federal Republic. The focus is on the two title heroes from different social classes, an apprentice and a high school student who fall in love with each other.
action
Somewhere in the Munich suburb, between social housing, corner bars, cinemas and a fairground. The toolmaker's apprentice Michael and the high school student Anschi live in two different worlds. While he comes from the simple petty bourgeoisie and does not forge too grandiose plans for his life, Anschi comes from a middle-class milieu with parents who develop some ambition for their daughter. Anschi got to know Michael in "his" company, where she wants to earn some extra money for a while during the school holidays. Teens' lives are not very different from any other of their peers. Everyday worries and needs at home, at school or with Michael's master are shown.
Unnoticed by the adults, the blonde schoolgirl develops a cautious affection for the long-haired apprentice, even if their still fresh relationship appears to be jeopardized by one or the other challenge and misunderstanding. When Anschi then has to go on vacation to Italy with her parents, Michael secretly hitchhikes after her. In fact, the two inexperienced people can overcome their fear of the threshold when it comes to sexuality, but ultimately their relationship threatens to fail because of their different social origins, which seem to make a future together impossible.
Production notes
Anschi und Michael was created in 1976 on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and was broadcast in “Szene 76”, an ARD youth magazine , in eight 15-minute episodes. The multi-part series received such a positive response that it was also brought to the cinema as a compilation on November 18, 1977.
Reviews
The production met with great interest from critics and was mostly rated very well. Below is a small selection:
Der Spiegel said about the theatrical version: “For those age group between 14 and 18 years that have been criminally neglected by German films, this is a film of strong identification value. With the exceptions mentioned, he speaks the language of teenagers and maintains a realism that can hardly be punctured by didactic intentions. "
Cinema called Anschi and Michael "an entertaining lesson about the current problems of adolescents"
"Carefully portrayed, accurate in describing reality, played fresh and spontaneously."
Erwin Keusch , the director of the remarkable contemporary film Das Brot des Bäckers (1976), praised the work of his colleague Sober: "So there is it, the German film that is missing on all sides, which tells exciting and instructive about our everyday life."
Only Bodo Fründt called the film “annoying” at the time : “It's a shame that one of the few German films that deal with the everyday life of young people differs from the notorious 'schoolgirl reports' mainly because of its more sympathetic attitude. How bad, how the 'problem' peeps out of every scene that the high school amateurs are supposed to illustrate. (...) All too often the dialogues are simply embarrassing, and all too often sober piles cliché upon cliché. "
Web links
- Anzhi and Michael in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anschi and Michael at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Limmer: Class love . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1977, pp. 109-110 ( online ).
- ↑ Cinema No. 2, December 1977, p. 41.
- ^ Anshi and Michael. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 20, 2017 .
- ↑ cit. n. Cinema No. 2, December 1977, p. 49.
- ^ Anshi and Michael . In: Die Zeit , No. 51/1977.