Baby (1984)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | infant |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Frießner |
| script | Uwe Frießner |
| production | Clara Burckner |
| music | Spliff |
| camera | Wolfgang Dickmann |
| cut | Tanja Schmidbauer |
| occupation | |
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Baby is a German crime film by Uwe Frießner , which premiered on February 23, 1984 as part of the International Forum of Young Films in Berlin .
action
Baby, in his late twenties overflowing with physical energy, is standing in his karate suit on the fields outside Berlin during his morning strength and fitness training . A short while later you see him masturbating in the bathtub and so, annoyed by the radio reports about acts of terrorism and missile defense projects, relieving pressure. Baby lives alone in the Märkisches Viertel in Berlin and earns his living as a doorman in a discotheque on Ku'damm , where songs by the Spliff group are hip, because living according to strict principles, he makes his way through life in an honest way. Baby also does not drink alcohol, does not smoke and dreams of her own karate school.
During his work he gets to know Pjotr and René, two young men with criminal inclinations who impress the rather cautious and fearful baby because they are allowed to pass the disco by simply nodding at the cash register. René, in particular, shows caring features when he treats Baby's fist, which he injured in a disco fight. However, Baby is increasingly drawn into criminal activities by his new friends. Once the two of them use his car for a break-in, another time they steal gasoline while Baby is at the wheel of the car. Baby soon loses his job through no fault of his own and lets Pjotr and René trick her into robbing a supermarket messenger, and in a moment of panic, Baby shoots a security guard.
Baby then falls into a kind of catatonia , and it is Pyotr, who has hitherto acted like a father, who tries to get him back on his feet by helping him expand an apartment in which Baby wants to set up his studio. Soon they get a visit from René at the construction site, who, dressed in classy clothes, wants to say goodbye to his buddies and set off for the south. In the meantime, however, René was careless when it came to spending money and thus lured the police on his trail. Later, on the phone, Baby finds out that René had been arrested at Tegel Airport .
production
Rod
Baby is the second film by director Uwe Frießner . The film's producer, Clara Burckner , was elected to the board of the New German Feature Film Producers Working Group in Munich in 1978 and had already acted as producer for Frießner's directorial debut The End of the Rainbow in 1979.
occupation
For his second feature film, Frießner had occupied himself with the casting of amateur actors for several months. The actors Udo Seidler , Reinhard Seeger and Volkmar Richter , who played the roles of Baby, Pjotr and René in the film, have never been in front of the camera before. Seidler, who also plays a passionate karateka in the film, took first place in the light contact Europe in the class up to 65 kg in 1982 .
publication
The film premiered on February 23, 1984 as part of the International Forum for New Films in Berlin and was released on DVD by Basis-Film Verleih .
reception
Robert Fischer from filmzentrale describes: Without wanting to absolve baby of moral or legal guilt, Frießner takes sides with this lost boy and dedicates every scene of his film to him and his dreams, fears, longings and weaknesses. The insights and insights that Frießner allows into the motivation and psychological constitution of the robbery (!) Baby lead to a far greater degree of truthfulness than anything that can be read about "such" criminals day after day in the gazettes. A selected other criticism is: Seldom do films with limited resources achieve such authenticity that one believes to smell every stale beer and every dying butt, to taste the dust and the sweaty aroma of a puma cage. No one is so close at heart to the losers of our society as Frießner, who shows us in Baby how little we stand out from them in our needs. In addition, the protagonists showed a tenderness that you rarely get to see in a crime film: Frießner's tough guys are crankily sensitive and vulnerable, but above all, as criminals, they are not professional.
Web links
- Baby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Baby in the lexicon of international films
- Description of the film by Caroline Fetscher , SPIEGEL 15/1984.
- Baby in the Berlin Film Catalog (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Baby (1984). About the desire for a karate school in West Berlin in the 1980s ( memento from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: filmreviews.gemeinschaftsforum.com, February 14, 2015.
- ↑ a b Robert Fischer: Baby In: filmzentrale.com. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
- ↑ Report on the Leichtkontakt Europa 1982 ( memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: chronik-karate.de, April 1982.
- ↑ Baby In: basisdvd.de. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
