Banal days
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Banal days |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Welz |
| script | Michael Sollorz |
| production | DEFA , KAG "DaDaeR" |
| music | Bert Wrede |
| camera | Michael Schaufert |
| cut | Rita Hiller |
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Banale Tage is a DEFA feature film by Peter Welz from 1992 based on the story of the same name by Michael Sollorz .
action
East Berlin at the end of the seventies. The sixteen-year-old student Michael, son of the dramaturge Peter Wagner and the toolmaker's apprentice Thomas, from a simple family, are friends. They got to know each other when they found no more space on the last tram after visiting a discotheque and they set off on foot and finally ended up at Michael's home. Here they talked for a long time about God and the world and from this encounter a friendship developed between the different boys, linked by the common wish: They want to escape the stink in their parents' home, school and company. Your rebellion is a grotesque trip through everyday life. Michael gets in trouble at his school when he is found banned literature. His father deals with the problem in his own way: he goes to bed with the director.
Thomas constantly argues with his teacher, writes leaflets that make no sense and breaks into an empty apartment in order to occupy it with Michael; however, he is busy with his first night of love. When trying to come to terms with the church underground, they come under the state security's field of vision for the first time. Michael's father brings a new, critical piece to the stage, but Thomas finds it ridiculous. At the premiere party, Thomas messes with a minister present at the performance and is arrested at his place of work the next day. Nobody knows where they are now. Michael is looking for his friend when he returns from a surprising trip to the Baltic Sea with his father. In the end, the storyline itself turns out to be a staging.
production
Banale Tage was filmed in color by DEFA-Studio Babelsberg GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg) (Artistic Working Group “DaDaeR”). The shooting took place from June to August 1990. The film was previewed on February 25, 1991 during the Berlinale and premiered on January 24, 1992 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin .
criticism
The lexicon of international film wrote: "Surrealistly inspired long-term debut of director Peter Welz, visibly influenced by the grotesque imagery of theater maker Frank Castorf, in whose Berlin Volksbühne the film is partly set."
Awards
- 1991: Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize (Prize of the Interfilm Jury)
literature
- Banal days . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 54-55.
- Banal days . In: Ingrid Poss / Peter Warneke (eds.): Trace of films, Christoph Links Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-86153-401-3 , pp. 472–473.
- Reinhild Steingröver: Absurd endgame: Peter Welz 'banal days . In: DEFA-Stiftung (Ed.): Spätvorstellung - The Chanceless Generation of DEFA Bertz + Fischer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86505-404-3 , pp. 124–157.
Web links
- Mundane day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Banal days at filmportal.de
- Banal days at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Banal days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .