Asphalt (1951)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The minors |
| Original title | asphalt |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 87.90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harald Röbbeling |
| script | Harald Röbbeling |
| production | Savoy film, Vienna |
| music | Roland Kovacs |
| camera | Walter Partsch |
| cut | Erika Peter |
| occupation | |
and Viktor Gschmeidler , Milan von Kamare , Ann Korin , Helmut Krauss , Edith Meinel , Inge Novak , Helmut Janatsch , Hannes Schiel , Franz Berndt , Otto Wögerer , Margarete Fries | |
Asphalt is an Austrian moral drama from 1951 by Harald Röbbeling . The only 18-year-old Johanna Matz played her second film role here with the bar dancer Erika.
action
The film is divided into five individual, independent episodes in which the lure and dangers of modern post-war youth in gray Vienna around 1950 are reported. The protagonists of the respective episodes are called Erika (episode 1), Walter (episode 2), Gabriele (episode 3), Karl (episode 4) and Helli (episode 5). Asphalt describes the fate of these five young people, based on the Viennese police files of the first post-war years.
First episode
The teenager Erika appears as a dancer in a degenerate bar, ends up in the hands of a customer and ends up in a booth full of whores, in whose faces she sees her own, pitch-black future. She surrenders to her fate and becomes a prostitute.
Second episode
Walter, almost half a child, wants to earn money to support his starving family. So he looks for work with a brutal butcher, steals from him in a fit of anger and has to flee. He finds shelter with a fence who pulls him into his dark machinations and takes him to a burglary.
Third episode
The young student Gabriele becomes pregnant unintentionally. She would like to get rid of the child, but she lacks the money for an abortion (which was then still absolutely illegal). In order to spare herself a feared argument with the narrow-minded and strictly Catholic parents and for fear of shame, she kills herself.
Fourth episode
The disabled, ailing boy Karl is tired of enduring ridicule, scorn, bad treatment and all other humiliations. One day an event breaks the barrel. Karl goes crazy and kills someone in an affect.
Fifth episode
Helli, who is still underage, is, as one would say in Vienna, a “poor bastard”: Abused and exploited by everyone. The low point of her small, meaningless life is reached when her mother's husband rapes her. Helli breaks at this terrible experience.
Production notes
Asphalt premiered on June 19, 1951 in Vienna. In Germany, the strip was shown at the beginning of 1952 under the title The Minors . On February 9, 1959, a revised version by Richard Lubowski, “Minors accuse”, was again shown in German cinemas. In 2004 Asphalt was released on DVD in Austria.
The film is characterized by the fact that it was created without film structures and derives its flair entirely from the gray-on-gray filmed streets, alleys and backyards of Vienna, which play the actual main roles of this veristic film.
Reviews
Paimann's film lists found that the film was "only of interest for the sake of the subject".
The Lexicon of International Films found that the film was an “unsuccessful attempt in terms of content and form to conduct a socially critical study of time on environmental influences and parental failure; sometimes involuntarily funny. "
"Extremely appealing, especially in the classic contradiction, on the one hand to be a warning tale of moral decay and threatening seduction, on the other hand to be a lusty, energetic document of an unrestrained hunger for life," said the Viennale program announcer at the re-performance in autumn 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Asphalt in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from January 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ asphalt. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Asphalt at viennale.at
Web links
- Asphalt in the Internet Movie Database (English)