The angry young men
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| Original title | The angry young men |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 (1960), 12 (today) |
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| Director | Wolf Rilla |
| script | Will Berthold |
| production | Franz Seitz |
| music | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| camera | Heinz Schnackertz |
| cut | Ingeborg Taschner |
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The angry young men is a German feature film in 1960. Directed by Wolf Rilla play Hansjörg Felmy , Joachim Fuchsberger and Horst Frank the title roles.
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Hamburg 1960. The story tells of the meeting of three very different young men from the still young Federal Republic and how their fates are interwoven. Since a serious disappointment, advertising manager Fred Plötz has tried his hand at being a disrupted womanizer who is only looking for short-term, volatile moments of happiness. When he meets the student Kirsten, who is very different from all his previous friends, the protective layer around him breaks after a long time and he begins to fall in love again. Kirsten returns his feelings. A friend of Plötzen is the lawyer of the same age, Dr. Jürgen Faber. The third main male character in the story is Dr. Gerd Schneider, senior physician at the Magdalenen Hospital. This is an unconventional doctor who is obsessed with his profession and who wants to do his habilitation with an investigation into harmful food adulterations. All three rub against the social circumstances in saturated post-war Germany of the Adenauer era. They are, as the saying goes, "angry young men".
Schneider's scientifically based, empirical investigation is a thorn in the side of the General Director Pflüger of the Drigena chemical company, because his investigations were based primarily on a Drigena preparation that is anything but particularly good. The present food law does not yet have a handle against ambivalent products of this kind. Pflüger plans to disavow the ambitious young graduate who is becoming dangerous for his company by inciting a call girl named Irene von Chledowsky on his neck. She should make friends with Gerd Schneider and get to know him about his research work. Irene uses all her weapons of a woman, but she has no luck with Gerd. Even when she went to Magdalenen Hospital for a few days as an alleged patient, he showed intense disinterest. Pflüger's attempt to oust Schneider by attempting to corrupt his employer by donating a heart-lung machine to the value of 100,000 DM in return for the dismissal of Schneider was unsuccessful.
As the last weapon, Pflüger sends the versatile Fred Plötz, a man who is not too scrupulous. He is supposed to either buy the upright doctor or whip it up in whatever way. Fred, who takes over the job without hesitation, sees Schneider and recognizes him as an old friend and comrade from the war from the time up to 1945. During a party in Fred's studio, the host and war comrade Gerd left the house for a short time. Schneider shows him several hopeless cases of symptoms of poisoning caused by drugs like Drigena's in the Magdalenen Hospital. Fred knows now that he has been hired for a bad cause. Back at the party, he pours alcohol on himself, disgusted with Pflüger and himself. In this state of self-hatred, he begins to roar and babble and calls to his Kirsten, who is repulsed by Fred's behavior shown here, that she can get involved with a few other men if she no longer takes a liking to him. Gerd leaves this party early, accompanied by Irene. In her apartment, the extremes come between the two of them.
The next day Plötz goes to Pflüger and explains that he will no longer continue his job. In doing so, he has made enemies of both the general manager and his company. Pflüger now wants to use his own means to bring Schneider to his knees: He demands an affidavit from Irene that Dr. Using his medical expertise, Schneider tried to force her to have sex after the party. Pflüger's man for the rough, authorized signatory Karlebach, takes over this job and puts Schneider under massive pressure. There is nothing less in the room than the suggestion that the doctor drugged Irene so that he could sleep with her. Schneider is threatened with a prison sentence. However, neither Pflüger nor Karlebach or Drigena expected the angry young men to hold together. Plötz immediately informs his friend, the lawyer Jürgen Faber, who is now tackling Irene in order to get her to revoke her affidavit. With this confession under his arm, he and Gerd Schneider appear before Pflüger. This means that the last trump card of the unscrupulous company boss no longer stands out.
In the specially convened press conference to donate a heart-lung machine to the Magdalenen Hospital, which was actually supposed to make Schneider impossible, he now has to give up this part of his plan. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Schneider's study on the scandalous food adulteration was publicly and hotly discussed. He is then invited to Bonn before the competent Bundestag committee. The angry young men have won. Fred is still desperate because Kirsten actually got involved with another man that night. Jürgen persuades him not to drop her now, after all, when he was drunk, that's exactly what he suggested to her. There is a debate between Fred Plötz and his girlfriend Kirsten. But it leads nowhere and ends in a heated battle of words. In a panic, however, the girl jumps out of her vehicle, runs across Hamburg's town hall square and disappears into the crowd. Fred returns to his car alone and resigned.
Production notes
The shooting of The Angry Young Men took place in the winter of 1959/60. The film premiered on April 28, 1960 in Duisburg.
The naturalized Briton Wolf Rilla was the son of the German actor Walter Rilla . Producer Franz Seitz made a small guest appearance as a party guest. Franz Bi designed the film structures that Bruno Monden carried out.
For Joachim Fuchsberger and the British Dawn Addams , this was the second meeting in a German film in a very short time. The year before, both could be seen in the spy world war drama Die Feuerrote Baronesse .
Reviews
“If the pious German film really threatens to get angry, you get a dry throat beforehand: How will that end? So here again when Rolf [sic!] Rilla and his family get upset about a large industrialist who first tries to buy a young researcher who is damaging business and then tries to shoot him down, so clumsily as not even the German police would allow. Criticism of food adulteration is too important a thing to be left to an amateur script (Will Berthold) or imitated "angry young men" ... This film ... did not get its subject under control: did not know where , and didn't know how. "
The lexicon of international films says: "A film full of pseudo-problems that cannot hide its magazine origins."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The angry young men. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 30, 2015 .
Web links
- The angry young men in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The angry young men at filmportal.de