Wearing shorts for a lifetime

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Movie
Original title Wearing shorts for a lifetime
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2002
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kai S. Pieck
script Kai S. Pieck
production Bettina Scheuren
music Kurt Dahlke ,
Rainer JG Uhl
camera Egon Werdin
cut Ingo Ehrlich
occupation

Wearing shorts for a lifetime is a biography produced in 2002 that is based on a true story and reconstructs the life story of four-time German serial killer Jürgen Bartsch . The script is based on the book Jürgen Bartsch: Victims and perpetrators of the German-American Paul Moor , who contacted Bartsch after the first trial and became a kind of father figure for the 19-year-old murderer for eight years. In addition to a large part of the correspondence between Bartsch and Moor, the book also publishes the circumstances of both processes, the different public perceptions of the case, detailed background information, and in some cases cites the tape recordings that were made for the questioning and assessment of Bartsch. The film is not speculative and focuses solely on Bartsch's point of view.

action

Jürgen Bartsch is a rather introverted boy who grows up in a household where he experiences little love and affection from his adoptive parents. He also has almost no friends. In his free time he drives around in his pickup truck and persuades boys to come with him to his cave . Here he ties her up and kills her. Then he assaults the corpses. As a twelve-year-old he himself had to experience abuse and sexual assault by a father in a Catholic boys' boarding school and discovered his sexual inclination towards boys. Although his mind tells him otherwise, Jürgen sees no alternative. He is also not offered any help. So he gives in to his instinct and kills more prepubescent boys. When his last victim escapes from his cave by chance, Jürgen's series of crimes is uncovered. He was 15 years old when he committed the first murder. He is caught at 19. Years later in the Eickelborn sanatorium, Jürgen remembers and reveals his innermost being in a sometimes bizarre monologue .

criticism

“In flashbacks, Bartsch's growing up, accompanied by rigid educational measures, is illuminated without the film deriving superficial explanations from it. Objectively cool, staged with many alienating elements, the film opens up spaces to reflect on the illness of an individual and the associated perpetrator-victim dialectic as well as the difficulties of a society in dealing with this dialectic. "

- film service

Background information

The film, which strives for authenticity, reconstructs Jürgen Bartsch's biography in detail, but deliberately avoids mentioning the real names of Bartsch's victims, although they are known today. In the credits, those boys who embody Bartsch's victims in the film - they are exclusively amateur actors - were only mentioned by their first names. The film was partly shot on original locations in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The TV version of the film mostly uses original hits of the time, which were among Bartsch's favorite music. For legal and financial reasons, new music had to be composed for the cinema & DVD version, which at least atmospherically simulates the original material.

For Sebastian Urzendowsky it is the first film in which he embodied a pedophile; In Good Boy, a television movie from 2008, he was again in front of the camera in such a role.

Awards

Director and writer Kai S. Pieck received an award for his debut film at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival . In the same year, film editor Ingo Ehrlich was honored with the German Camera Prize for the best editing; in the case of cameraman Egon Werdin, there was only one nomination. The film also received an honorable mention at the Image + Nation Film Festival 2003 in Montreal and won the 2004 Special Jury Award at the Turino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival . At the Lünen Film Festival in 2002, it won the category of best film and, after being broadcast on TV, came third in the 2003 Cinema Readers Award Jupiter for the best TV film .

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