Biology!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Biology! |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jörg Foth |
| script | Jörg Foth Gabriele Kotte (scenario) Wolfgang Müller (scenario) Erika Richter (dramaturgy) |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Babelsberg" |
| music | Christoph Theusner |
| camera | Michael Göthe |
| cut | Haike Brewer |
| occupation | |
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Biology! is a DEFA feature film by Jörg Foth from 1990 based on the novel "Wasseramsel" by Wolf Spillner from 1984.
action
Shortly before the end of the GDR, two young people met in a small town. Ulla is the daughter of an employee from the city council and Winfried's father is the general manager of a large company. The meeting point for the two is a stream in an untouched nature area. Here one day Ulla discovers that a weekend house is being set up in a lonely forest clearing. In addition, the stream is dammed in the vicinity in order to set up a trout farm there. Both of these excite Ulla, who is sensitized to environmental protection by her teacher, Mr. Hansen, and she begins to rebel against it with small actions. During a barbecue on the forest property, she has to realize that the builders of the weekend house are Winfried's parents.
But Ulla hopes to have an ally in Winfried, with whom she spends the first night together at the brook, and wants to organize an exhibition for nature conservation at the next fair for the masters of tomorrow 's school. However, this project does not meet with approval from the state authorities, as the construction work in the forest was only approved on the basis of the relationship with the General Director. Even Ulla's mother is now against her, because suddenly the family should be assigned a new apartment. But Ulla, who recognizes this as a bribe, is not deterred. She even went so far as to have Winfried fake a photo to pretend that a dipper is breeding in the affected area.
At the opening of the exhibition, Winfried removes the photo and explains to all visitors that it is a fake. Ulla is now alone, because nobody dares to stand up against the influential man. As a punishment, the already granted admission to the extended secondary school will be withdrawn. Even her mother and stepfather turn away from Ulla. But she has awakened understanding among her classmates and together they are now advocating the preservation of nature.
production
Biology! was filmed by the DEFA studio for feature films (artistic working group “Babelsberg”) under the working title “Die Wasseramsel” on ORWO color and had its premiere on September 20, 1990 in the Schwerin Chamber Cinema . On May 28, 1990, there was a preview at the 6th National Feature Film Festival of the GDR in the Berlin Kino International . The TV first broadcast took place on October 3, 1991 on ZDF . The song "Langeweile" by the group Pankow was played by The Breads.
criticism
The lexicon of the international film wrote: "A description of the ailing social system of the GDR, fluctuating between satirical exaggeration and involuntary exaggeration, which deals in a striking way with the catalog of topics of environmental protection, social injustice, opportunism and cautiousness."
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 76-77 .
Web links
- Biology! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biology! at filmportal.de
- Biology! at the DEFA Foundation
- Film of the month: biology! Film screening of the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ biology! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .