Boy

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Movie
German title The little Vampire
Original title Boy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Roland click
script Roland click
production Rob Houwer
Bavarian Broadcasting
music Roland click
camera Robert van Ackeren
cut Jane Sperr
occupation

Bübchen is a German feature film from 1968 and Roland Klick's first feature-length film . In 1969 the film came back to the cinemas under the distribution title The Little Vampire .

action

A married couple live with their son Achim and their one year old daughter Katrin in a German suburb. In the gray everyday life everyone lives past each other.

Achim's parents go to a company party with their neighbors, the Behms. Their daughter Monika, who is currently in her teenage years, is supposed to take care of the children in the meantime. Monika reluctantly accepts her role, and when her secret friend Otto comes by, she leaves Achim and his sister alone. At first he plays bored with the whining toddler and then puts a plastic bag over his head. He drives his obviously suffocated sister to a junkyard on a wagon and hides her in the trunk of an old car.

After returning home, the search for the child begins. Achim and Monika are interrogated by detectives, but both are clueless. Monika's friend is suspected because his car was seen nearby and he is taken into custody.

When the contradictions between Achim's and Monika's lies became more and more evident, Achim's father was the first to suspect the facts. He discovers the corpse in the trunk of the car, takes it with him and finally disposed of it in the machinery of his workplace. Life at home then seems to go on as if nothing had happened.

background

In terms of its structure, the film is similar to other productions of the New German Cinema that were made at this time. As in murder and manslaughter and tattoos , the viewer does not experience a crime from the point of view of the investigator or victim, but from the point of view of the perpetrator. The film was shot in May 1968 in Hamburg, Neumünster and Lübeck. It premiered on October 8, 1968 at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival .

Reviews

  • Heyne Filmlexikon (1996): “ A ten year old kills his little sister; the murder is covered up by the father. A thoroughly disturbing film about violence and the bourgeois family. "
  • Reclam's Lexikon des Deutschen Films (1998): “ Director Klick does not say a word about the motive or reasons for the shocking murder, the brutality of which, due to the age of the perpetrator and the self-evident nature of the action, reaches the limits of what is bearable. "
  • On the occasion of a retrospective on the 80th birthday of Roland Klick in several Berlin cinemas in 2019, Thomas Groh wrote in the taz : “Against the backdrop of the most beautiful BRD sadness, his debut feature film Bübchen (1968) tells of a neglected boy who murdered his little sister for no reason - a The dismantling of the economic miracle petty bourgeoisie, held in calm images, but all the more furiously seething. The critics of the time, but also the competition from New German Film, saw the film as too little psychological, too speculative. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Groh: Cinema retrospective on Roland Klick: Who dances with the genres . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 4, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed July 4, 2019]).