Inside and outside
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| Original title | Inside and outside |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 91 minutes |
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| Director | Andreas Gruber |
| script | Andreas Gruber |
| production | Adi Mayer Film KG |
| music | Reinhold Kletzander, Johannes Prischl |
| camera | Hermann Dunzendorfer |
| cut | Egon Humer |
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Inside and outside is a film by director Andreas Gruber . It is Gruber's first feature film that was also released as part of the edition Der Österreichische Film .
Content and plot
Inside and outside, the difficulty of the psychiatric field is shown using the example of the social worker Renate Steeger and the patient Alfred Hauser. Trainees in the field of social work visit the psychiatric clinic “Mind” in order to complete an internship there, which consists of dealing with a patient in individual sessions. Renate is assigned to Hauser because she has mastered the specially desired and necessary qualities of playing chess and French.
At first, Renate Steeger can not understand the emotionless, purely professionally motivated treatment or rather the custody of patients in psychiatry and is outraged and angry about it. She wanted to get to know the people instead of reading the medical history. Paradoxically, the patient refers Hauser himself to his medical history and answers the many questions with reluctance. The psychologist's recommendation to visit Hauser's mother first is only followed later by Renate. First of all, she reads Hauser's French-language notes. With a brief look into a hand-written vocabulary booklet, Renate realizes that Hauser has written the same word translation twice on each double page of the little booklet: “attendre → wait / wait → attendre”.
When Hauser is back after escaping from the institution and Renate visits him, a nurse instructs her to tell him that he would come to the closed ward if he should escape from the institution again without permission. Renate is reluctant to respond to this attempt by the nurse to explain mechanisms and orders to the trainee social worker and, at the same time, to subtly ask them to become part of this mechanism in psychiatry. The nurse should tell the patient personally and directly, she says firmly.
Renate only visits Alfred Hauser's mother when the application for the incapacitation to be lifted , who does not want to consent to the incapacitation under any circumstances. When Hauser repeatedly escapes from the institution to go to his mother, he is brought back by the rescue service. When Renate found out that her protégé would still have such a strong will after four years, she was surprised and delighted at the same time. She is soberly pointed out to the principles by the veteran specialist staff; the immediate supervisor and superior Hainko lacks empathy for a strict reprimand. Hauser is temporarily moved to the closed area - he shouldn't believe that his behavior, leaving the institution without permission, would have no consequences, so the reasoning. The application to lift the incapacitation is also decided negatively.
For Christmas Renate Hauser decides to invite her home, which leads to dissatisfaction with her boyfriend. When Hauser shows up unannounced at Renate Steeger's private address after Christmas, she almost realizes that she has not kept the necessary distance to the people treated during her internship. After the internship is over, Renate Steeger is told by Ms. Hainko that Hauser won't speak anymore. The budding social worker is then confused and at a loss.
analysis
The typical behavioral patterns and treatment concepts in psychiatry are shown chronologically. First of all, using the classic case study of refusal to provide information, giving the patient false information or promises in contradiction to knowledge and decision. Through the involvement of an inexperienced social worker and the associated lack of information and experience, the patient Hauser becomes aware of the incorrect promises.
The activities of the patients are observed, described and documented; How well and comprehensively a patient works independently in the clinic does not seem to matter; the only positive and sole value of such an activity is the silent distraction. In the medical history it is a welcome paradox that a patient has independently acquired a foreign language since the beginning of the stay in the clinic; the more precise facts do not seem to be essential; it is filed under the keyword “good leadership”. Long-term patients in psychiatry are difficult to reintegrate into society due to the rigid structures. Between the lines, the director removes concepts of an integration that has since developed, for example through small-scale decentralized forms of living. (Hauser explains to both his mother and the social worker that he would be very happy to take care of the household.)
After this preliminary resolution of previously hidden contradictions, large parts of normal practice in contemporary psychiatry are discussed. Complex modes of action are latently conveyed in individual short scenes. The surroundings, both the patients and the staff, appear authentically represented, individual patients are involved in the actions, and a conglomerate of the most varied of characters is casually described. The theme of the film is not only dealing with patients in psychiatry, but also the personal conflict of a single person in getting to know and understanding the customs of normal psychiatry and the sometimes difficult-to-understand conditions of it.
Prices
- Max Ophüls Prize, long film sponsorship award for director Andreas Gruber (1984)
Trivia
A poster with the name "Johann Hauser" can be seen in one of the clinic's offices, apparently referring to the patient Johann Hauser of the Maria Gugging State Neurological Clinic . It is unclear whether it is a prop or whether it was already in the premises before the film was shot.
In 2011, Reinhard Trinkler shot the six-minute short film Inside and Outside Part 2 as a homage , in which Heidi Baratta also plays the leading role.
Individual evidence
- ↑ (caption :) The scenes with (...) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 26, 1984, p. 13 , top right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Inside and outside, part 2 . YouTube video.
Web links
- Inside and outside in the Internet Movie Database (English)