Fist in your pocket

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Movie
Original title Fist in your pocket
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1978
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Max Willutzki
script Martin Buchholz
Max Willutzki
production Wilhelm F. Thiel
music Satin Whale
camera Mario Masini
cut Ursula Höf
occupation

The fist in the pocket is a German social drama from 1978. In this film, the director Max Willutzki thematizes the situation of young unemployed people in the Federal Republic of the late 1970s.

action

At the center of the action is a group of 16 to 18 year old boys and girls with the longings and hopes of their generation. Most of them have not found a job after leaving school and are living into the day. You are enthusiastic about rock music and motorcycles and are also not averse to alcohol and drug consumption. One of them is Wolfgang, always called "wool" by the clique.

Wool completed an apprenticeship as an industrial varnisher, but was not taken on after the end of his apprenticeship. The young man sees this dismissal, which in his eyes is unfounded, as a personal disgrace and social degradation and therefore keeps it from his friends and his girlfriend Elke as well as his parents. Instead, he works as a driver for a beverage supplier in order to keep himself afloat financially. One day, Wolle's “double life” is exposed when Elke's mother happens to see him doing his new job. Elke is disappointed by Wolles lack of trust and separates from him.

For the poorly consolidated wool, this is a low blow that it can no longer cope with. He begins to get drunk unrestrainedly and to make matters worse, his new employer fires him. At the employment office he meets the Benedictine brother Lukas. The Catholic priest is very committed to his efforts to get young people who are at risk of alcohol and drugs and who see their lives as hopeless, off the streets. As a central result of his youth work, he wants to build a youth club with the young people. Lukas has a job as a varnisher in prospect for wool, but another, Wolles buddy Eddie, is faster and snatches this wool away from under his nose. His situation threatens to get worse when he meets Archie. This obscure as well as weird personality is definitely throwing wool on the wrong track. Archie persuades him to sell stolen liquor for a profit.

One day the police stood at the door and threatened to close the youth club, which had been painstakingly set up, because the theft and stolen goods were exposed. Wool and his clique then occupy their retreat, the club. When the police want to storm the facility, Wolle decides to do one last act of desperation: he climbs onto the building roof and threatens to jump into the depths.

production

The shooting took place on 46 days between March 1 and May 5, 1978. The FSK examination took place on November 28, 1978. The premiere was on October 5, 1978 as part of a film festival in Paris , the German premiere on October 27, 1978 as part of the Hof Film Festival . Across Germany, however, the film only opened in three Berlin cinemas on January 25, 1979.

The TV premiere took place on Monday, December 15th, 1980 on ZDF.

The fist in the pocket was Manfred Krug's first feature film after he left the GDR for the Federal Republic of Germany (1977).

Götz Heymann was responsible for the equipment, the costumes are by Ursula Zeller.

The film received the rating “particularly valuable”.

criticism

The lexicon of the international film found: “Well-intentioned colportage, which is particularly ignorant in the church sector. Staging and acting of high standards. "

In Cinema it says: "In collaboration with Ernst Hannawald, who made his debut in the controversial film" The Consequence ", Ursela Monn and Manfred Krug, a renowned actor from the GDR, Max Willutzky made a committed and at the same time exciting film."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arbeiter-zeitung.at/cgi-bin/archiv/flash.pl?seite=19801215_A16;html=1
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 2, p. 979. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  3. ↑ Cinema No. 9, February 1979, p. 60