It (1966)

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Movie
Original title It
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1966
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ulrich Schamoni
script Ulrich Schamoni
production Horst Manfred Adloff
music Hans Posegga
camera Gérard Vandenberg
cut Heidi Genée
occupation

It is a German feature film from 1965 by Ulrich Schamoni with Sabine Sinjen and Bruno Dietrich in the leading roles as a young couple. Today, the film, together with Young Törless and Closed Time for Foxes , is the starting shot for the New German Film .

action

The young Hilke, a technical draftsman in an architecture office, and Manfred, who is about the same age, the assistant to a renowned real estate agent, live in the western part of Berlin without a marriage license. Her life seems to be in perfect harmony, nothing has disturbed her young happiness so far, which consciously evades bourgeois bourgeoisie. One day Hilke has to find out that she is pregnant. Because she believes that Manfred would find a child restrictive and that she does not want to bind him to her in this way, and because she does not want him to marry her out of a pure sense of duty, Hilke Manfred hides her pregnancy.

The plan matures in her to have "it", the child growing in her womb, secretly aborted. The doctors she consulted are of no real help, they just tell her the standard sentences they have practiced and which seem like punches that the doctors present to a pregnant woman in such cases, only to ultimately reject the operation. By chance, Manfred learns of Hilke's pregnancy. When he tries to confront his partner about it, she has found a way to abort the fetus. In the final scene, the two young people sit opposite each other in their apartment in silence.

production

The shooting took place from September 6th to October 10th, 1965. The film was shot in the western part of Berlin . The film premiered on March 17, 1966 and was released for young people aged 16 and over. The TV first broadcast took place on November 20, 1969 on ZDF .

It was the first full-length feature film by Ulrich Schamoni, who was largely unknown until then.

After half a century of highly irregular activity in the cinema, Tilla Durieux gave her farewell performance here. Well-known personalities of those years, such as the theater actor Bernhard Minetti , the film critic and director Will Tremper , the television presenter Werner Schwier , the film editor Heidi Genée and the director Schamoni himself have made other prominent guest appearances .

Awards

It was on June 26 in 1966 with the film strip in silver , excellent and received a bonus of 300,000 DM. Together with Törless director Volker Schlöndorff received Schamoni tie, the German Film Award .

Further gold film tapes went to Sabine Sinjen as the best leading actress and Bruno Dietrich as the best young actor. Gérard Vandenberg's camera work was also rewarded with a gold film tape.

It took part in the competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 . At Locarno Film Festival awarded it a special mention in the same year.

criticism

Reclam's film guide reads: "The film became famous as the prelude to the“ young German film ”. What numerous directors had demanded in the“ Oberhausen Manifesto ”of 1962 was what a 25-year-old outsider had here on a low budget and without government support The film tells its story with sympathetic informality; it dispenses with theses and practical applications, but not with its own position, which is also evident in the final image, in the impossibility of communication. [...] The style of the film is Apparently playful - a very mobile camera, fast-paced editing, cheerful interludes. The impression of improvisation is always created; but in the end everything seems carefully calculated. "

The Lexikon des Internationale Films wrote: "One of the first, exemplary works of“ Young German Films ”: In an attempt to capture everyday German reality and the attitude towards life of the young generation, director Ulrich Schamoni turns against the taboos and conventions of problem-free entertainment cinema of the 50s and 1960s. Through experimental alienation (subtitles, documentary scenes) the illusory character of the film - and the naivety of the heroes - is relativized with the aim of a critical distance from the problems presented. "

In Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films it says: "" It "portrayed the story of a young couple in crisis and in sometimes brittle, calm, but often fascinatingly agile, innovative and almost playful images (on camera: Gerard Vandenberg) became one of the first films that tried to trace West German realities of everyday life. The work, with its precise awareness of problems and its authentic style, an alternative to the 'Papas Kino' criticized in Oberhausen in 1962, met with enthusiasm and a young, open-minded audience Admission."

The evangelical film observer draws the following conclusion: "A young director tells the story of two young people, their love before marriage and their efforts to have an abortion, without justifying the renunciation of marriage or credibly motivating the rejection of the child . Psychological inaccuracy and stylistic uncertainties are balanced out by realism and narrative temperament, so that the strip should be brought to adults and adolescents from 16 as a discussion film. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 300. Stuttgart 1973.
  2. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Films Volume 2, p. 910. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  3. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 80.
  4. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 97/1966, p. 209