Don't turn around - the golem is walking around

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Movie
Original title Don't turn around - the golem is walking around /
The age of leisure
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1971
length 135 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Beauvais
script Dieter Waldmann
production SWF production
music Hans Peter Haller
camera Ulrich Burtin
Gerd Schäfer
Helmut Stoll
cut Günther Naumann
Imrich Sille
occupation

Don't turn around - the golem is walking around or The Age of Leisure is the title of a German two-part TV series that was directed by Peter Beauvais in 1971.

action

The dystopia took place in 2300 and is located in Cologne. The citizens do not move in the open air, but in a hall system like in a modern trade fair complex. You don't work anymore, because technology and lawbreakers take care of that, who are externally identified as criminal slaves by "facial distortions" and a crooked gait. Brain surgery was performed on them. The clothing is uniformly overall-like and life is accordingly monotonous, a “world leisure center” uses computers to determine how the day is to be spent. In place of the previous compulsory work, a new compulsory leisure time has now taken place. All that remains is to wait for death, which is especially exciting when it comes to other people. A lottery has emerged where you can bet on the next death.

In this society, which has issued reproductive regulations based on individual intelligence, Sig Prun wants a child. Since he does not reach the intelligence norm, he is denied fulfillment. He disregards the ban and fathered a son with his wife who had to be hidden from now on. When the curious offspring runs away one day, the father tries to find him. He roams through his city and comes across a hidden entrance to the cathedral. In it he discovers a man doing (illegal) planing. He is impressed by this use of time and asks what he is working on, what will result when it is finished. The answer he gets succinctly is that his job is to make shavings out of wood. Obviously there are other people who strive for creativity and fulfillment, namely so-called “semi-intellectuals” who are united in the underground and who are engaged in rebellious reconsideration.

In the end, Sig Prun is caught and, after a lobotomy, released back into society - as a stooped, disfigured slave, whom the children can knock on to pass the time.

Data

Previous broadcast dates:

  • Part 1: October 3, 1971 ( DRS ), October 21, 1971 ( ARD + ORF 1), November 9, 1976 (S3), November 18, 1986 ( 1 plus ), February 9, 1988 (1 plus);
  • Part 2: October 4, 1971 (DRS), October 24, 1971 (ARD + ORF1), November 9, 1976 (S3), November 18, 1986 (1 plus), February 16, 1988 (1 plus)

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