Burning boredom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Burning boredom |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Büld |
| script | Wolfgang Büld |
| production | Barbara Moorse Workshop Sybille Rahn ( ZDF ) |
| music | TV Smith |
| camera |
Helge Weindler Michael Zens |
| cut |
Volker Petry Bettina Bräuer |
| occupation | |
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Burning boredom with the subtitle Bored Teenagers is a German feature film that was produced in August and September 1978 under the direction of Wolfgang Büld for the Barbara Moorse workshop on behalf of ZDF and was first broadcast in 1979 in the series Das kleine Fernsehspiel .
Büld shot mainly with amateur actors . The film's title and script are based on the song Bored Teenagers by the British punk band The Adverts . The band members T. V. Smith , Gaye Advert, Rod Latter and Howard Pickup and their manager Michael Dempsey are involved in the plot and appear in the film. The actor in the character Roadent was a former roadie for The Clash and The Sex Pistols .
action
The unemployed Peter and his girlfriend Karin, who works in a hairdressing salon, live in a small town in the Sauerland . A bit of variety comes to their dreary everyday life when they meet the punk rock band The Adverts, who have traveled from London to make their concert debut in Germany. For the band there are some tangles that end with the group being thrown out of the hotel and ending up at the police station. Finally, the band members have breakfast with Karin, whose parents are away. The next day Karin and Peter follow the band and attend another concert. Then they continue partying in a discotheque, and Peter tries unsuccessfully to hook up with the attractive bassist Gaye. The next morning he wakes up hungover in the hotel bed and notices that Karin has spent the night with the roadie Roadent. Disappointed, Peter wanders through the city and by chance meets Gaye, with whom he climbs into the Wuppertal suspension railway . The track stops due to a technical defect and Gaye is late for the sound check. Karin has meanwhile rehearsed the bassline for the song Gary Gilmore's Eyes , but in the end it is not used and everything stays the same. Karin and Peter reconcile and return to their hometown and the band leaves Germany.
Film music
The film begins with a take on the turntable in Peter's room. The song Bored Teenagers is playing . Then New Church is played. Both songs are from the adverts first album Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts .
The concert recordings for the film were made on September 5th, 1978 in Whiskey Bill in Forsbach , on September 8th in Wuppertal in the University and on September 9th, 1978 in Cologne in Stollwerck and concern the single hit Gary Gilmore's Eyes and the pieces Love Songs , Television's Over and I Surrender from the album Cast of Thousands . The song The Great British Mistake concludes .
DVD 2007
In 2007 the film was technically revised and released on DVD by Sunny Bastards . The sound carrier also contains a two-part interview with Wolfgang Büld, who remembers how the film was made. The biography of the band The Adverts is printed in the booklet. There are also a number of production images, notes from the set and an interview with T. V. Smith , the band's front man.
criticism
The film lexicon Zweiausendeins describes Brennende Langeweile as a film that "paints the unprejudiced image of a young fringe group, but because of its lack of interest in social backgrounds offers no approaches for a deeper discussion", while the reviewer at Punkrocknews is of the opinion that the film from " Charme of its time “lives on. The contrast between the main actors and the band members of the adverts, who basically just play themselves, is also very interesting.
Web links
- Burning boredom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thomas Kerpen: Punk Movies: Wolfgang Büld - The Punk Years Interview with Wolfgang Büld, Ox-Fanzine, issue 66 June / July 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Teddie Dahlin: Steve 'Roadent' Conolly: Hardened road warrior or refinied cultural philosopher? Interview in Mudkiss Fanzine from September 2011.
- ↑ Booklet accompanying the DVD Brennende Langeweile , Sunny Bastards , 2007.
- ↑ Burning boredom. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Büld - Brennende Langeweile Review on punkrocknews.de