It's not enough to be 18
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | It's not enough to be 18 |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Tetzlaff |
| script |
Armin Georgi , Kurt Tetzlaff |
| production | DEFA studio for popular scientific films |
| music | Peter Rabenalt |
| camera | Franz Thoms |
| cut | Hannelore Greifenberg |
| occupation | |
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It is not enough to have 18 , even good day that we are , is a documentary film of the DEFA studios for popular science films by Kurt Tetzlaff from the year 1966th
action
The shift crew of a drilling rig for oil exploration consists of seven workers. They include the 23-year-old Manfred Röhr, who has just become a father, the 19-year-old Hans Meier and the 20-year-old Roland Pfennig, who was only promoted to the youngest shift supervisor in the Grimmen district on the day the film was shot. On this occasion he received a piglet from his colleagues , which they take with them to their accommodation when they change shifts. Here the colleagues spend the evening in very different ways: some are lying on the bed, others are playing cards and Hans Meier wants to take a look around the town for the girls.
The next pictures show the colleagues at work on the derrick, how they slip with their boots on the oily platform, the oil and water mixture splashes in their faces and all over their bodies and how difficult the work with the drill pipe is. In addition, they tell their thoughts from the off , which occupy them. Hans thinks that the work can even be fun if everything works out. But sometimes life can be sour after work, because only a television set helps, because the girls are always locked away by their mothers when the drill is in the area, because their reputation is not the best. Manfred thinks that work can be really fun in summer, but in winter it's far too cold and you have to change constantly because you're always dirty. He doesn't know if he would have started there if he'd had all this clear beforehand. In addition, you earn far too little money and if he finds a better way to earn money in two to three years, he stops. The colleagues also take the view that oil cannot be found for long and that the profession will therefore die out.
Bernhard Schopf was the old shift supervisor who has now been replaced. Of course, he is of the opinion that he was not so bad, otherwise he would not have become an activist of socialist labor and the collective would not have received the banner of labor award . He doesn't think much of Roland, but he just takes it. This opinion also comes from the off, while the other men try to dance the twist in the old half-timbered house that is their accommodation . The area engineer defends Roland Pfennig's appointment as the new shift supervisor. He still has a lot to learn, but people are more likely to listen to him, so performance has improved. You can also hear a colleague from the off who complains about employees who always hang their flags at the wind. They talk like that in the kitchen van and when someone from the area management is there, they say what they want to hear and this duplicity even exists among the comrades of the SED .
After six colleagues in front of the accommodation were listening to Hans Meier singing a song and accompanying himself on the guitar, the speaker noted in his conclusion that the drilling workers did not talk about being happy, nor did they say that they were socialism want to build. But he also asks whether they are always the best who only talk out loud.
Production and publication
The film data sheet of the 66th Berlin Film Festival reads:
“The film was banned in early 1966 for“ denigrating the working class ”. Shortened by three minutes and reworked in parts, it was listed in the autumn of the same year under the title Hello, that's us . Technical deficiencies in the original sound were corrected, but hardships in the representation of the conflicts were also smoothed out through changes. "
The first showing of the black and white film under the working titles It is not enough to be 18 and filmed as a youth object took place on November 11, 1966 under the title Hello, that's us .
The film received its first public appreciation after the fall of the Wall under its original title It is not enough to be 18 on April 21, 1990 during the International West German Short Film Festival in Oberhausen .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ It is not enough to be 18 Film data sheet of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival 2016
- ^ New Germany of April 24, 1990, p. 4