The early ripening
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The early ripening |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Josef von Báky |
| script |
Heinz Oskar Wuttig Gerda Corbett |
| production |
Artur Brauner for CCC-Film |
| music | Georg Haentzschel |
| camera | Karl Löb |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
| occupation | |
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The early mature is a German drama by Josef von Báky from 1957.
action
Inge works in a department store as a saleswoman in the women's fashion department. She suffers from the crampedness of her parents' house, in which savings are made because the choleric father, a miner , dreams of having his own house in the country. She despises life in the Ruhr area , where the air is always soot-black. In addition, she is dissatisfied with her relationship with the miner Wolfgang, who, like her father, saves in order to later enable both of them to live together. A sudden change occurs when her boss puts on a fashion show in the department store. A group of female employees and salespersons personally selected by him may appear as mannequins. Inge is praised for her figure and appearance and is even allowed to present the wedding dress at the end of the fashion show. Wolfgang wants to surprise her after the fashion show: has he bought a motorcycle (on credit) for her too? Inge, however, is abrupt because she and the other mannequins were invited to a party at his home by the well-off Günther after the fashion show ("storm-free booth").
Günther belongs to a group of spoiled, wealthy young people who like to "pimp" their free time next to school with car theft, gambling and alcohol. Günther's parents are always traveling somewhere, so that he largely lives alone in his parents' villa. His friend Freddy, on the other hand, is a child of divorce, lives alone and is so bored with his life that he even (mentioned in conversation with Inge and Vicar Englert) sees suicide as a possible way out. At the party at Günther's, the department store's "mannequins" appear, but also Hannelore, who is only 15 years old, who was allowed to come along at Inge's request. Günther and the others give all women alcohol. At some point he begins to ask some girls into the next room, where he runs a film camera that has been prepared beforehand on his instructions. Hannelore is also allowed to go into the room alone and comes out again after a while, completely overwhelmed. When Günther tries to pull the struggling Inge into the room, Freddy intervenes. He drives Inge to his apartment, but she runs away. When she got home, her choleric father was waiting for her, already beside herself over the night's excursion. When he sees that Inge's dress is torn at the cleavage , he hits her. Inge flees to her room, locks the door, angrily packs her things and leaves. Her mother tries in vain to persuade her to stay.
The next day Inge tries to organize a place for the night with her colleagues in the department store, but nobody can or wants to accommodate her. At night she finally stands in the pouring rain in front of Freddy's house. He picks her up and organizes her apartment above his, as the tenant is currently on a four-week trip. Inge's mother tries to persuade her to return in the department store, but Inge remains tough because she does not want to return home to her abusive father. When she asks Wolfgang for advice and he persuades her to go back to her family, Inge separates from him. She now lives with Freddy, who is increasingly bored of Inge's caring / philistine bourgeoisie. In addition, the priest in the area, Vicar Englert, has a serious word with Freddy and Inge. In the course of the conversation, he advises Freddy, among others, to finally make something of his life instead of always complaining about the parents' generation. During a tennis game, Günther tells us that he will have another big party in his house on the occasion of his birthday. He has a special highlight for the men: he wants to show Inge's colleague Hannelore's film recordings in a closed setting.
Inge and Freddy also appear at the birthday party. During the course of the evening, Freddy clearly shows Inge that he is bored with her and announces that he is going to leave. Inge should show Günther agreeable - Inge withdraws crying. Hannelore, who sees Günther as her first love, gives him a garden gnome for his birthday, as he nicknamed her “garden gnome”. Laughing scornfully, Günther and his friends destroy the present in front of the assembled guests and then withdraw to watch the films. Hannelore (already injured by Günther's reaction to her gift) secretly watches through a window and is horrified to find that the film shows her undressing in front of the camera while drunk. Completely stunned and shocked, she runs away. The party party gets together again a short time later and, tipsy, they all go to the colliery with two cars, where they want to ride the carousel in the overburden trucks (Seibahn). Inge asks several times where Hannelore is, but is bumped into one of the carts that starts moving. She holds on reflexively, hangs on the outside of the cart, calls for help, but can drop in time without anything worse happening to her. Wolfgang and his friends, who have just ended their shift, come to the attention of Inges' calls for help and want to hold Günther and his friends accountable. After a brief scuffle, the party group can flee in their cars. The police are already waiting at Günther's home and lead him and Inge to the station. Günther and Inge are supposed to testify to Hannelore, but Günther pretends to hardly know them. When asked about it by the interrogating officer, he expects to be led to the confrontation. Inge accompanies him. The comparison turns out to be very different from what both had thought: Hannelore fell to her death from the twelfth floor of a high-rise building out of desperation and shame. Günther collapses and Inge also thinks about it. She makes her way to her parents' house, but hesitates to go inside. In this situation she is met by Vicar Englert. He speaks to her briefly, hesitantly forgives her after she has reported about Hannelore's death and her despair and first sends her to the colliery to reconcile with Wolfgang. Englert, in turn, goes to Inge's parents and, above all, makes it clear to the father that he will have to treat his daughter with more respect and understanding in the future - like his wife.
production
The early maturity is based on the novel Who Believes in Santa Claus by Peter Heim and Klaus Bloehmer . The film was shot in Essen from July 29 to September 1957 . It had its premiere on October 17, 1957 in the Biberbau in Frankfurt am Main .
Peter Kraus sings the title I don't want to know, where you come from in the film by Erwin Halletz (music) and Hans Bradtke (text).
criticism
On the occasion of the film premiere, Der Spiegel wrote that in the film the youth “consists of Hallodris with well-cut suits and depraved hearts, who disinhibit harmless big city children of confirmation age with whiskey and champagne, and then secretly film them when they indulge in lustful games to be able to. The suspicion that all of this could only be meant as a caricature is misleading, however, because the screenwriters Heinz Oskar Wuttig and Gerda Corbett had higher things in mind: a film with a 'concern' that then emerged so extensively and comfortably from the mouths of the Actors swell like banners from the characters on comic strips. "
The film-dienst called Die Frühhreifen a “youth problem film based on the fashion of the time.” “Yesterday's problems with ex-teen idol Peter Kraus,” summarized Cinema .
Web links
- The precocious in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The early maturity at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ New in Germany: The early maturity. In: Der Spiegel. No. 46, 1957, p. 62.
- ↑ The early maturity. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de