Don Quixote's children
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Don Quixote's children |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claudia Holldack |
| script |
Christiane Höllger Claudia Holldack |
| production | Ottokar Runze |
| music | Thilo von Westernhagen |
| camera | Jörg Seidl |
| cut | Helga Vierhaus |
| occupation | |
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Don Quichottes Kinder is a 1980 German feature film by Claudia Holldack with Angelica Domröse and Dietrich Mattausch in the lead roles.
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Just as Don Quixote once competed against windmills in order to defeat an imaginary enemy in a duel, so too Kristine and Heinrich, two typical representatives of the 1968 generation, have had a long struggle against the establishment and its institutions that they hate. Tired and a little exhausted, they came to terms with the circumstances around a decade and a half later and came to terms with them, becoming part of the bourgeoisie and the establishment themselves. The children of this Don Quixote generation are called Babette and Alexander. When the two meet as a result of a newspaper advertisement, Alexander is currently in a difficult phase: he feels lonely, his disaffected 68 parents are living in divorce. In the end, their relationship only followed the rituals of pseudo-progressive '68 rhetoric, everything was just a single lying cramp.
The loudly proclaimed phrases turned out to be lies in life and dragged Alexander down into their homemade crisis. For Alexander this phenomenon of parental integrity after both separation means the search for a strong bond of his own that will free him from his loneliness and give him new support. He finds that in Babette, a life-wise girl who opens up new perspectives for him.
His father, whom he has been missing since his parents separated, is up and away, and his mother, still ideologically stable, is infinitely annoying with her imposed attempts at emancipation. But in the end, Babette and Alexander's friendship also turns out to be a role model for the failed mother Kristine, who is able to gain knowledge from the relationship between the adolescents for shaping her future life.
Production notes
Don Quichotte's Children , a film-television coproduction, was made between May 2nd and June 22nd 1980 in Berlin (West) and Lower Saxony. The strip produced by Ottokar Runze was premiered on April 3, 1981 at Berlin's Filmbühne am Steinplatz.
Eleven-year-old Tushka Benthaak, who made an impressive film debut here as Babette, is none other than the later famous Australian actress Tushka Bergen .
useful information
Director Claudia Holldack comes from Quedlinburg and received training as a midwife before joining the film in the early 1970s .
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films found that the idea of reviving the lifestyle of the '68 generation with this film was "a beautiful concept that unfortunately was not implemented without clichés and confusions."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cinema No. 5, May 1981 (issue 36), p. 80
- ↑ Don Quixote's children. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2018 .
Web links
- Don Quixote's children at filmportal.de
- Don Quixote's Children in the Internet Movie Database (English)