Death in the car wash
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| Original title | Death in the car wash |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Friedemann Schulz |
| script | Friedemann Schulz |
| production | Hans Weth |
| music |
Eberhard Weber , Aron Strobel |
| camera | Jerzy Lipman |
| cut | Stefan Arnsten |
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The Death in the Wash Street is a German feature film made in 1981, a mixture of a contemporary image and a youth film drama.
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Peter is 18 years old and dropped out of school shortly before graduating from high school because he was stressed and caused stress. Now he works quite listlessly in a car wash and occasionally has fantasies of omnipotence with some potential for destruction. He says, "I'm making a mistake and thousands of cars will drive around with a scratch from me." At least one person is impressed by him in view of such adolescent sayings: 15-year-old Jutta. Peter wants more from life, he has writing ambitions and considers himself to be a great literary talent who just needs to be given a chance. In his parents' gazebo, he uses every free minute to complete his first work. In fact, the very young student can help him establish contact with a publisher. The debut should be called "Death in the Car Wash".
The book appears, but proves to be slow. Peter has to bury his lofty dreams and finds shelter with Mrs. Jesky, the tenant of another car wash. With her human closeness, the stories from her life, which was shaped by the urge for freedom and many broken dreams, and her search for a little warmth in everyday life, this aging woman gives him everything that Peter had been withheld from elsewhere - from the publishers and booksellers as with Jutta. He also found familiarity for the first time in Panos, the young, Greek guest worker who got a job in her small company from Ms. Jesky. Peter begins to bury his dreams and turn to new goals. The aging car wash owner helps him with this: one day, Mrs. Jesky disappeared and, as a young entrepreneur, leaves her car wash behind him.
Production note
Death in the Car Wash was filmed in 1981 and premiered on February 19, 1982.
Reviews
"When Rosemarie Fendel tells an eighteen-year-old about her life how she did not allow her rich parents to force her into a marriage because she wanted a man out of love, as she waited a long time, but no one came to love, until the moment when it was about love and death, as the older woman relates it and unspoken asks for a little warmth from the boy - that is the most beautiful moment in the film. It goes without saying that a woman speaks of her life without using false tones or gestures. You can see her face, her posture, hear her voice: a movie story. There is no trace of the exaggerated sensibility that otherwise makes this film so boring; where overly clear clichés make the characters fake: the editor and the lecturer talk as stupidly and pompously as one has always thought of cultural people, the father is progressively understanding, the mother hysterically penetrative. And the two young main characters - he who writes stories and works in a car wash, she who tries her limits and goes to school - have to talk in such a way that everyone can hear: the director knows the language of youth. "
“Friedemann Schulz's debut film turned out to be a hopeful and optimistic work. Even if the big chance is lost, the tide can still turn. Jerzy Lipman… put Schulz's theme in the limelight. "
“Peter left school prematurely because he was uncomfortable with the stress. In a car wash he finds the stuff his stories and novels are made of. The debut feature film by the director Friedemann Schulz in 1982 met with general approval from German critics. "
“An apparent failure who dropped out of school shortly before high school graduation appears to be achieving his goal when a publisher accepts his first novel. But success does not materialize, and in the end he continues to work in the car wash that inspired him to write his book. The sensitive portrait of a young man who, despite his personal defeats, believes in his future. A debut film staged in an ironically distant manner with apt observations from everyday German life. "
Web links
- The death in a car wash in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Death in the car wash at filmportal.de