The end of the rainbow
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The end of the rainbow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Uwe Frießner |
| script | Uwe Frießner |
| production |
Wolf-Dietrich Brücker , Clara Burckner |
| music |
Alexander Kraut , Klaus Krüger , Michael Nuschke , Matthias Kaebs |
| camera | Frank Bruhne |
| cut | Stefanie Wilke |
| occupation | |
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The end of the rainbow is a German social drama that premiered on September 21, 1979 at the first Hamburg Film Festival and was produced by Basis-Film Verleih GmbH, Berlin in co-production with WDR, Cologne . The film is about juvenile delinquency and drugs , is therefore counted among the problem films, a category typical of the time, and received the German Film Prize .
action
The androgynous, 17-year-old Jimmy, who fascinates men and women with his character, lives in West Berlin in the late 1970s . Jimmy goes to the bar and bumming through to survive. He barely escapes being arrested by the police because hunger drives him to a snack stand when a raid is being carried out behind the station building. After initially sleeping on the street, he settles in a student flat share where he lives with Monika, Jörg and Dieter, who takes on a kind of father and mother role. Nevertheless, Jimmy moves on through the nightly streets and measures his territory every day: parking lots, pubs and discos, where he is only looking for fun on the surface. In truth, he is looking for warmth and tries to acquire childlike security, but his need for love is too great to be fulfilled. Jimmy hides his charm through research defiance and thinks everything is "Great, huh ?!" or "shit!" His roommates are increasingly overwhelmed with the situation, because Jimmy did not get any order from home and experienced violence instead of love.
Jimmy gets a job for a short time, but he loses it again after a few days because he is simply unable to concentrate and unable to demonstrate continuity at work. By the second day he already feels too safe at work and can no longer hide how exhausted him the unfamiliar activity is. Actually, Jimmy had expected a treasure for his work, waiting for him at the end of the rainbow, but the money he earned is not even enough for new pants. Basically, Jimmy doesn't want to work, prefers to live the day and takes advantage of his girlfriend Gabi. However, this gives him little support, especially since she cannot get rid of her drug addiction. Ultimately, Jimmy is overwhelmed by his own pride, leaves the shared apartment in order to no longer have to depend on students and opts for his criminal freedom.
background
With his feature film debut, Uwe Frießner directed the fact-based story of the youthful outsider Andy, who ended his life in 1976. He draws a drama in the social hotspot of West Berlin at the end of the 1970s and tries to achieve semi-documentary authenticity. Frießner, a graduate of the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin , lived in a shared apartment during his student days and had contact with a young person like Jimmy, who killed himself in 1976. In the credits of the film it says:
- This film is dedicated to Andy. After years of trying in vain to master his life, he decided, at the age of 18, to at least be master of his death. With a plan that promised him success for the first time, he put an end to his life between February 15 and 18, 1976 after weeks of preparation.
The film thrives on the interaction between the main character Jimmy and his environment. In the film, Jimmy is "one of those countless young people who cannot define their own story, let alone write it, and who is precisely why they are drawn into 'stories' again and again, into crime, misery and misery."
production
The preparation time with the search for amateur actors and the locations took five months, the production from the start of shooting to the premiere took about 10 months. A total of 46 days of shooting were available. Production of The End of the Rainbow was completed in 1979.
The review by the FSK led to extremely violent criticism of this itself. The working committee did not approve the film until the age of 18, since a sex scene between Jimmy and someone of the same age was not too indecent for adults, but for minors. The film should run from 16 if “all closer shots with the coital position a tergo” were removed. From the age of twelve it is acceptable if the two shots of the woman's bare bottom are also removed.
These requirements triggered violent press attacks against the FSK examiners. The Süddeutsche Zeitung accused in its article the last battle of the FSK of November 12, 1979 the examiners of voyeurism and the wrong understanding of the protection of minors . The FSK is a long overdue relic from the prudish Adenauer times, whose end can be hoped for soon.
In the article Fear of the Truth of November 12, 1979, the Frankfurter Rundschau assumed that the probably older generation of FSK examiners showed fear of the truth in their catastrophic misjudgment, while the film had been causing a sensation in two Berlin cinemas for six weeks.
After a successful contradiction in 1979, the film is now FSK 12. The film drama, which is made up of laypeople but also actors such as Heinz Hoenig and Udo Samel, is part of the New German Film and has received numerous awards and internationally under the title The End of the Rainbow marketed.
During the first Hamburg Film Festival , at which the film celebrated its premiere on September 21, 1979, Hamburg's cultural film funding was launched and West German filmmakers issued the Hamburg Declaration , which opposed the foreign control of German film.
criticism
The film was the feature was added very friendly. The article Im Teufelskreis appeared in the magazine Der Spiegel on November 12, 1979 with the view that this was finally one of those films that “take up acute issues and problems that are realistically, with emotion and tension and humor and without moral philistinism on the social Let the reality of their country in. ” On January 11, 1980, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung saw a new departure“ beyond Herzog, Wenders, Fassbinder, beyond art film ”.
The Catholic Film Service speaks of a convincing debut film, "which, through its closeness to reality, can contribute to the discussion of problems of juvenile delinquency and understanding difficulties between the generations." The jury of the Protestant film work also appreciates this aspect: the film succeeds in "social grievances and their consequences." To make buknow about the growing generation. In addition, it becomes an appeal to work effectively on the elimination of social underdogs. "
The film portal cineclub.de calls the film “an intense, rough and terrifyingly realistic debut [...] even if the visual aesthetics and the music are clearly 70s.” The film throws “the viewer into a rollercoaster of emotions. Torn between pity, sympathy, yes, fascination, but also incomprehension and rejection, the viewer follows the young person from antisocial parents. "HG Pflaum from the Süddeutsche Zeitung explicitly praises Frießner's work:" Each setting gives an impression of how exactly the director knows what and how his staging is. ”Pflaum praises Frießner's unconditional involvement in his hero's milieu and accepts him with all the defects that make him appear so brittle and repellent. Peter Buchka, also from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , said shortly after the premiere: "A surprisingly powerful, dynamic film that could help the often boring Berlin school ."
Awards
In December 1979 the jury of Evangelical Film Work named the film film of the month . At the beginning of 1980 Frießner won the German Film Prize in Silver with Das Ende des Regenbogens and in February 1980 the German Film Critics' Prize . Frießner received an award at the Max Ophüls Festival that same year . In addition, the film received the FBW title of Particularly Valuable . The lay leading actor Thomas Kufahl won the German Film Prize in gold for his performance .
Web links
- The end of the rainbow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The end of the rainbow at filmportal.de
- Information on film at the German Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ The end of the rainbow ( memento of the original from November 15, 2016 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: Sozialgeschichte.deutsches-filminstitut.de. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
- ^ In the vicious circle In: Der Spiegel, 46/1979.
- ↑ Josef Schnelle: The end of the rainbow . In: film-dienst No. 22, 1979.
- ↑ In the vicious circle. In: Der Spiegel, November 12, 1979.
- ↑ End of the Rainbow, Das . Basis-Film Verleih GmbH. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
- ↑ Rüdiger von Naso: At the end of the rainbow. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 11, 1980.
- ↑ The end of the rainbow In: www.protokult.de, p. 127 (PDF; 122 kB).
- ↑ Film: "Das Ende des Regenbogens In: berlinien.de. Accessed on September 20, 2015.
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 270
- ↑ No talk of youth bans. 'Das Ende des Regenbogen' free from 12 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sozialgeschichte.deutsches-filminstitut.de. Retrieved October 15, 2015 (PDF; 47 kB)
- ^ Catholic Film Service. Quoted in: Fear of the truth: FSK demands editing requirements for youth films. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. Under: The end of the rainbow ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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: Sozialgeschichte.deutsches-filminstitut.de, November 12, 1979 (PDF).
- ↑ Film of the month December 1979 at : In: filmdesmonats.de www.filmdesmonats.de . Retrieved September 20, 2015 (PDF; 60 kB).
- ↑ The end of the rainbow In: cineclub.de. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
- ^ HG Pflaum: Longing for warmth. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 2, 1979.
- ↑ Peter Buchka: The end of the rainbow . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 26, 1979.
- ↑ Film of the month December 1979 at : In: filmdesmonats.de www.filmdesmonats.de . Retrieved September 20, 2015 (PDF; 60 kB).
- ↑ The end of the rainbow In: www.deutsches-filmhaus.de. Retrieved October 17, 2015.
