Paroled
Released on parole is a German DEFA film directed by Richard Groschopp from 1965 .
action
The young motorcyclist Konrad Schenk, known as Conny, committed hit and miss after a collision with a cyclist. The seriously injured man, whom Conny thought was dead, died due to a lack of medical help. Conny was sentenced to two years in prison. While in custody, he qualified as a printer and obtained a skilled worker qualification. He shares the cell with Hugo Borke, who is released earlier than him and offers to help him out in six months after his release, as Conny even stopped correspondence with his girlfriend Ute at some point.
Because of good conduct, Conny is released on probation six months before the regular end of life. He is assigned to the VEB Graphische Werkstätten Berlin, where he has to work as a printer for two years. Master Helga Reichenbach is not very enthusiastic when she is assigned the ex-prisoner Conny by her boss. Although she needs a good printer in her group, she would have to graduate Kalle, a long-term unskilled worker who had previously operated his own printing machine on a temporary basis, to a sheet catcher so that the skilled worker Conny could have his own machine. This and her prejudices against Conny let her insist on a one-week training period. At his request, only Helga and her boss Katja Drechsler know about his past. Conny keeps away from the colleagues who are initially curious, but later begin to avoid him due to his defensive attitude. Conny cannot move in with his father because his new wife rejects him. But Conny meets Ute again and both become a couple again. The happy days together are disturbed when Conny receives a visit from Borke. He invites him to visit him at his favorite restaurant, Traube .
At work, Conny does not get any further due to Helga's negative attitude. He does his job well but is blamed for mistakes made by unskilled worker Kalle. Helga uses this to postpone Conny's actually determined change to the machine. When one day worker Rudi Stamann misses his wallet with a lot of cash, Helga immediately suspects Conny. She reports to all employees that Conny was in prison. He is now distrusted from all sides, although Rudi is on Conny's side. Conny gets drunk in a bar and comes into his apartment drunk. Not only Ute but also her mother is waiting for him here. Mrs. Lockhoff does not agree with a worker as her future son-in-law, because her daughter deserves something better as an academic. She asks him about his background until Conny gets too much. He tells her he was in jail. In response to her reaction, he throws her and Ute out of his apartment, making loud noise. The next morning he wants to make up with Ute, but she accuses him of having become a wimp. Later, Ute bursts into tears at her words and starts looking for Conny.
At the instruction of Katja Drechsler, Helga has to let Conny work on the printer from now on, because Conny is qualified for this work. Kalle is outraged and tries to incite the other colleagues against Conny. When hardly anyone is interested in the change, Kalle attacks Conny personally and threatens to finish him off. Conny grabs a wrench to strike, but comes to her senses when Kalle sneers that it wouldn't be the first time Conny has killed a person. Conny leaves the company with resignation. He goes to Borke, who offers him a job: he is supposed to pick up two parcels of contraband from the train station for him. Conny hesitates at first because he doesn't have a driving license, but then sits behind the wheel. Ute finds him at that moment and takes a seat in the car. She wants to stay with him and also tells him that a discussion has taken place in his company. Everyone is waiting for him, especially since Rudi Stamann has stood firmly behind him. Conny drives Ute to her workplace. When she has left, the memories of the last few days collapse on him, the humiliations, suspicions, insults. As once shortly after the accident, he now thinks of suicide and begins to speed through Berlin in his car. Suddenly a traffic policeman stopped him. A boy fell while climbing a fence and has to be rushed to the hospital. Conny takes over the ride. At the hospital he finally reconsiders and leaves the car at the hospital.
production
Parole was released in 1964 under the working title Where are you going, Conny? shot in Berlin. The shooting locations included Antonplatz , Alexanderplatz , the Nöldnerplatz S-Bahn station and buildings on Geusenstraße. The film had its premiere on June 18, 1965.
The film is considered an indirect sequel to Groschopp's Die Glatzkopfbande . Conny belonged to a motorcycle gang before his stay in prison, but they turn away from him because they neither drive drunk nor would they have left a man dying.
The costumes were created by Günter Schmidt , the buildings are by Alfred Tolle . It was the film debut of Heinz Klevenow junior , the son of Heinz Klevenow and Marga Legal .
criticism
Contemporary critics called parole "simply and simply [...] told, dignified over large parts with good actors and perfectly presented. A film that can be seen ”.
For the film-dienst , the film was “good craftsmanship, whereby the discussion of the important topic remains on the surface.” Frank-Burkhard Habel called parole an “interesting social study”, while for Erika Richter it was a “sympathetic, modest one Film [was], but it does not come close to the explosiveness and uncouth passion of the bald gang. "
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 145-146 .
Web links
- Paroled in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Release on parole at filmportal.de
- Released on parole on progress-film.de
- Dismissed on parole from the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erika Richter: Between the building of the wall and clearing 1961 to 1965 . In: Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992 . Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 191.
- ↑ Hans Lücke: At the end: "Happy beginning" . In: BZ am Abend , June 24, 1965.
- ↑ Parole. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 146 .