The outdoor pool clique (film)
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| Original title | The outdoor pool clique |
| Country of production | Germany , Czech Republic |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Friedemann Fromm |
| script | Friedemann Fromm |
| production | Marc Müller-Kaldenberg |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Anton Klima |
| cut | Janina Gerkens |
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The Freibadclique is a German-Czech film drama by Friedemann Fromm , which premiered on June 24, 2017 as part of the Munich Film Festival . The film is based on a novel of the same name by Oliver Storz .
action
Germany in the summer of 1944 at the time of the Nazi dictatorship in the fifth year of World War II : Onkel, Knuffke, Bubu, Zungenkuss and Hosenmacher, so their nicknames, are members of the "outdoor pool clique". Contrary to the war propaganda and the prescribed heroism, the five 15-year-old boys in Schwäbisch Hall are more interested in American music such as swing , big band sound and the girls in their bathing suits and less in the war.
The film begins when the class with the five classmates is bid farewell to the summer vacation by their teacher with a serious expression with the wish to see them all again after the vacation.
A meeting point of the five is the plateau of the 10-meter-board in the Schenkenseebad , of which Knuffke and uncle, who have a leadership role in the clique, like to jump side by side in formation, version 101 A , "the Lightning jump", as they do call. In addition to their own fun, they also want to attract Lore's attention. This time, on the tower, Hosenmacher tells the rest of the clique that the X-ray examination, which has been announced and is viewed as rather voluntary, is actually a covert recruitment measure and that everyone classified as suitable will be forced to join the Waffen SS "voluntarily" .
You decide not to go to this investigation, but shortly after the Stauffenberg assassination you are picked up by the military police and taken to a gymnasium to be " examined ". In the truck they think about their chances of survival and how they could still avoid the signature. Knuffke promises Hosenmacher “none or all” and the other three agree. During the staged "muster", all boys present are told that the usual suitability criteria or voluntary reports to other military units are irrelevant and only a Jewish descent can prevent being assigned to the Waffen SS. Hosenmacher is the first of the clique to be forced to give his signature and, in accordance with his promise, Knuffke immediately volunteers and signs. When Uncle also wants to volunteer, the entire procedure is interrupted because of a low- flying attack and the five hope that all documents have been destroyed. The three who had not yet signed are considering actually volunteering, but Knuffke warns them not to plunge unnecessarily into misfortune and promises them to watch out for trouser makers.
Weeks later, all five, along with many others, are sent to the Western Front as Hitler Youths . Uncle dreams of Lore saying goodbye to her on the train and, like the class teacher before, wishes him “stay over”.
On the journey, French kissing gives the other hope for experiences with women, because in the villages near the front all men would have moved in and the women had not had men for a long time. Uncle is actually seduced into sexual contact by the war widow Britta sitting next to him when he goes to the cinema and is lured from the cinema to her home, where she thinks of her fallen husband while both have sex. Meanwhile, French Kiss is killed as the first of the five, he dies in another low-flying attack.
Uncle succeeds in finding out that the Wehrmacht field policeman, appointed as her special leader, is having a sexual affair with the Gauleiter's wife. In doing so, he and Knuffke extort marching orders for all four of them away from the front. On home leave, Uncle von Knuffke found out that they had succeeded in recovering reports from the SS by Knuffke and Hosenmacher from the rubble of the gym, and that Lore was killed in a bomb attack in their house.
Uncle and Bubu are assigned to the Volkssturm training and sent to work shortly after Christmas. But they desert already on the way in the general disorder during an unexpected engagement with the US Army . Jumbo, who overheard their plans, follows them and threatens to report them if they don't take him with them. When they felt safe from persecution by Nazi units who were executing deserters, the three decided to dump their weapons in a river. Following a spontaneous inspiration, Bubu only throws his gas mask into the river unnoticed by the other two and keeps his army pistol.
After the American invasion, all three return home. Back on the diving platform of "their" swimming pool, Uncle and Bubu believe they are the only survivors of their clique. The swimming pool was reopened under the occupation and Knuffke was also coming back there. He has changed a lot, speaks good English and claims to work as a driver for the occupiers. Hosenmacher, he reports, hanged himself from a US tank in the Vosges with a mine and died in the attack. He himself lost an eye when he started a fight during an interrogation by the CIC , as he later tells Uncle. Instead of Lore in her bright red swimsuit, the eye-catcher for all boys is now the striking Gunda, with whom Knuffke has a relationship. Jumbo advises the other two to try it with the dancer Ulla, who lives with him in the house, they would probably have a chance of sex with her. Uncle and Bubu then visit them, Ulla sees through them immediately and agrees to it for fun, plays with them for a while and sends them away again.
Although Knuffke warns him that it would be dangerous for him to know too much, Uncle keeps asking about his role in the US occupation and shading him to find out. When he tells Knuffke what he has already observed, he tells him everything with the warning to keep it to himself and not to let anything appear because otherwise he would be in danger: Knuffke is working with the corrupt Captain McKee by telling him buys US aid deliveries in large quantities for the German black market, which are intended for surviving Nazi victims . Knuffke thinks he is safe because McKee knows that Knuffke got behind the dealings with former Gestapo people who gave McKee Raubgold against protection from being discovered. Knuffke insists that McKee does not know who else he has told about it and who therefore could not risk harming Knuffke. And although McKee considers her his mistress, he and Gunda would be lovers and would plan their escape together as soon as he has enough money together.
Gunda contacts his uncle, as Knuffke had mentioned to her that he was his only real friend. She is sure that Knuffke underestimates McKee and the danger he himself is in, and that such an escape could never succeed. To protect Knuffke, she wants to dissuade him, and she asks Uncle to help her. But he does not know which of the two can better assess the situation and thus the danger, and cannot make up his mind to separate his friend and his love.
Later he observes how Knuffke gets into an occupying car and shortly afterwards two shots are fired. He runs after the car and finds the fatally wounded Knuffke lying on the train tracks, but can no longer do anything for him. He then watches as McKee hands a soldier a pistol with the order to make it disappear in the greatest of secrecy. He is sure that McKee shot his friend and plans to shoot him with the pistol that he has now buttoned from Bubu and that he would have wanted to throw away long ago. With this action he would also help Gunda to freedom.
Already pointed the pistol at McKee from an ambush, he, who had managed not to shoot a single person even in his military service, but not over himself and throws the gun into the river.
The film ends as it begins: the same teacher comes to class a good year later in the same classroom, but only finds about half of the original students.
The film is interrupted several times by scenes shot in black and white , which anticipate the film's actions, the murder of Knuffke and uncle's failed revenge.
production
The film is based on the novel Die Freibadclique by director and screenwriter Oliver Storz from 2008. The author, who died in 2011, was born as the son of the writer and later Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education, Gerhard Storz . He grew up in the small town of Schwäbisch Hall and was drafted into the Volkssturm in 1944 at the age of 15 . He survived the Second World War unscathed, which he would later process in his book, in which he tells of the lost youth especially of the 1929 class to which he himself belonged.
In his work as a film director, Storz was interested in the remains of humanity in the declining “ Third Reich ”, as well as the remains of inhumanity in the young Federal Republic . When his novel Die Freibadclique was published in an era with overall historical TV paintings such as Luftbrücke and Dresden , the critics were surprised to see how a great TV man here in his old age published such a small-scale, totally subjective novel, full of vulgar jargon and wet youthful dreams.
The film is a production by Zieglerfilm Baden-Baden and producer Marc Müller-Kaldenberg. It was co-produced by Mia Film, Zieglerfilm Munich, SWR, ARD Degeto, MDR, SR and NDR. It was funded with 450,000 euros by the Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg , with 250,000 euros by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the Czech State Fund for Cinematography . The director was Friedemann Fromm , who also adapted Storz's novel for the film. Like Storz, Fromm had already presented his own work on the post-war period with the three-part ZDF epic Die Wölfe , which was awarded the International Emmy , and told how a group of different adolescents built their own small economic empires out of the ruins of the war.
On August 23, 2016 filming began in Bad Wimpfen , Swabia . The city's outdoor pool was closed to visitors for a week. The main location was Schwäbisch Hall, the hometown of the author Storz. Further shooting took place in Bavaria and the Czech Republic. Filming was finished on September 30, 2016.
The film celebrated its premiere on June 24, 2017 as part of the Munich Film Festival . Worldwide distribution was taken over by Beta Film.
The first broadcast on the first took place on March 28, 2018. ORF 2 also showed the film on that day. The DVD was released on March 29, 2018.
reception
Reviews
Ulrich Feld from the Frankfurter Neue Presse says that Friedemann Fromm succeeded in transporting the audience into the horror of war and Nazi terror as well as the immediate post-war period. The director works a lot with contrasts, whereby he intensifies some things with slow motion: “Water always has a complex meaning, from the swimming pool to the pouring rain. In the film, water is often used as a symbol of dissolution. "
Christian Buß from Spiegel Online thinks, like Oliver Storz in his films and books, that Fromm also draws a sensual psychogram of those flak helpers who would later determine the fate of the Federal Republic: “The will to survive, the self-conquerability and the sloppy pragmatics, those qualities that too the youngsters at the edge of the pool, in a certain sense, formed the basis for building rubble Germany into an economic powerhouse in the shortest possible time. "
Arnold Hohmann from the Berliner Morgenpost says in his review that one should still not expect a classic war film, and the original book actually had more of an adolescent story. Fromm exaggerated caution when depicting war events, for example when he dared to depict the death of his friend Hosenmacher during a bomber attack only from an extreme height. In general, the war sometimes seems like a game here, says Hohmann, but the film benefits from strong young actors.
Nikolaus von Festenberg from Zeit Online thinks that what Friedemann Fromm and cinematographer Anton Klima have made of the novel fits the dawn of the television industry into a new sensuality in dealing with the past: “ Ku'damm 59 danced the restorative core of the with novel-like obstinacy Adenauer time out, in the small town open-air swimming pool we are there drowning the lifelong dreams of a lost generation: the dreams of the 1929 class, who no longer believe the Nazi laundering of the nimble greyhound and being hard as Kruppstahl. ”The film leaves many things behind, like the book, but unexplained.
Audience ratings
When it was first broadcast on March 28, 2018, the film had 4.79 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 15.6 percent. The market share among 14 to 49 year olds was 10.7 percent.
Use in school lessons
In spring 2019, the film will be presented as part of the SchulKinoWoche in Baden-Württemberg.
Awards
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Jonathan Berlin , also for Kruso )
- Award for the best music ( Annette Focks )
- Nomination for Best Young Talent (Jonathan Berlin)
Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2018
- Competition nomination
Venice TV Award 2018
- Gold Medal for Best TV Film , English title: Summer of '44 - The Lost Generation
Web links
- The pool clique in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The outdoor pool clique - information about the film by crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Freibadclique . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 175972 / V).
- ^ A b Arnold Hohmann: ARD drama shows special friendship in times of war. In: Berliner Morgenpost , March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Andreas Heimann: "The outdoor pool clique" in the live stream. ( Memento of the original from March 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Huffington Post, March 28, 2018.
- ^ A b Christian Buß: Nazi drama "The outdoor pool clique" on ARD: Sex and war. In: Spiegel Online, March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: "The outdoor pool clique": The dreamers of the ten meter board.
- ↑ a b c Friedemann Fromm stages “Die Freibadclique” based on Oliver Storz for Das Erste In: swr.de, 25 August 2016.
- ↑ Oliver Storz and the outdoor pool clique In: SWR Aktuell, August 26, 2016.
- ↑ Film from the region: Today “Die Freibadclique” is on TV. In: Heilbronner Voice, March 28, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20180301_OTS0186/hochkaraetige-filme-und-serien-mit-romy-nominierten-im-orf
- ^ "Die Freibadclique": First trailer for the film adaptation of the outstanding novel by Oliver Storz . Article dated February 11, 2018, accessed February 11, 2018.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: "The outdoor pool clique": At the end you jump naked. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Nazi drama “Die Freibadclique” on ARD: Sex and War. In: Spiegel Online, March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: "The outdoor pool clique": The dreamers of the ten meter board. In: Zeit Online, March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Manuel Weis: ZDF scores with lights and Cerne, Das Erste celebrates “Die Freibadclique”. In: quotenmeter.de, March 29, 2018.
- ↑ Film selection. In: schulkinowoche-bw.de. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
- ↑ Baden-Baden TV Film Festival. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .
