Made up youth (1960)

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Movie
German title Night at the Lake (1963)
Makeup Youth (1988)
Original title Made up youth
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1960/1963/1988
length approx. 90 (1960), 80 (1963) minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Max Nosseck (1960)
Werner Klingler / Peter M. Thouet (cut version 1963)
script Max Nosseck
Gerd Oelschlegel
production Axel Alexander
music Peter Moesser
F. H. Heddenhausen
Kurt Drabek
camera Ted Kornowicz
Karl Löb
occupation

Geschminkte Jugend (1960/1988) or Die Nacht am See (1963) is a 1960 German drama by Max Nosseck with Christian Wolff and Christian Doermer in the leading roles.

action

The story of the “Steglitz school tragedy”, a multiple suicide among young people that shook Berlin and the whole Reich in 1927, has been relocated to the modern era, to Berlin in 1960.

Christian is a young man who no longer joins the supposedly unsteady life of his peers. It is a clique of four West Berlin youngsters, all children from so-called “better circles”, equipped with a motor scooter or VW Beetle convertible that promises a carefree life, and parents who call a weekend house their own on the Wannsee. The brooding Christian is different, however, he leans towards this kind of superficial, hedonistic existence and therefore withdraws more and more into himself. Christian believes he has been finally betrayed when his only friend Robert starts up with his sister Helga.

While Robert feels more for the girl, for Helga, who doesn't want to miss a life in luxury, this approach is little more than a harmless, fleeting flirtation. There are violent arguments, after which Christian gradually begins to open up to his environment and friends from the clique. But the so-called “friends” do not turn out to be such, and Christian, now finally deeply confused and feeling unstable in his existence, takes up a weapon and commits an act of desperation: he shoots himself.

Production notes

Made up youth , not a 1: 1 remake of the film of the same name from 1928/29, was made in 1960 and was not approved in this version by the voluntary self-regulation (FSK). The producer then withdrew the strip and had the directors Klingler and Thouet rework it. In its abbreviated version, Geschminkte Jugend was now called Die Nacht am See and was released in cinemas on November 29, 1963 for adults over 18. The original version of Geschminkte Jugend was premiered on January 31, 1988.

The film structures were designed by Emil Hasler and Oskar Pietsch .

Historical background

The film is based on an alleged murder from 1927.

criticism

In "Films 1962-1964" one could read: "German pseudo-problem film whose pathetic inability is almost even more annoying than its speculative eroticism"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The FSK gave the following justification for its decision: The film “offers itself as a perfect example of an impairment of the upbringing for social proficiency” and continued in its judgment as follows: let the death-addicted glue trailer go out in order to become a danger for young people under the age of 18. "
  2. ^ The student tragedy of Steglitz. In: The paper . August 20, 2012, accessed on December 30, 2018 (background report on the events of 1927).
  3. ^ Films 1962–1964. Handbook 7. Critical notes from three years of cinema and television. Düsseldorf 1965, p. 122

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