I'll show you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | I'll show you |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rolf Losansky |
| script |
Gudrun Deubener Günter Mehnert (scenario) |
| production | DEFA , "Berlin" group |
| music | Karl-Ernst Sasse |
| camera |
Rolf Sohre Peter Süring |
| cut | Barbara Simon |
| occupation | |
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I'll show you it is a DEFA German youth film by Rolf Losansky from 1972.
action
13-year-old Bernd moves with his parents - a nurse and a member of the army - from Rostock to the small town of Fichtenhainigen. He quickly made friends with his new classmate Doris, which, however, also earned him the ridicule of his classmates Schreier and Rolli. Doris' father is a trainer in the local judo club and invites Bernd to train. He proves capable and should become a member. However, his parents did not sign the necessary declaration of consent, as Bernd had many ideas and hobbies in the past that he gave up after a short time. In judo, too, they believe that it is just a flash in the pan .
Bernd continues to train and will soon become a permanent member of the judo team. He saves the money for his own judo suit and earns it by getting milk and bread rolls early for the women in the area. Among other things, he integrates himself into his new class during a school trip to Rostock. He also befriends Schreier and Rolli, but does not reveal his interest in judo to them. It is Doris who reveals both Bernds' leisure activity. Both then become members of the team. Bernd is one of the best of the team and is about to take his first Kyū exam, which would bring him the yellow belt if he passed. For this, however, he also needs the signed declaration of consent from the parents. Bernd forges his father's signature. He passes the exam and receives the yellow belt.
Some time later, his team's first match match, for which he is nominated. The event lasts two days, so that Bernd now has to tell his parents about it. His father has since learned from colleagues that Bernd continues to practice judo. He tries to build Bernd a bridge so that he can tell them about his training, but Bernd says nothing. He takes part in the competition under a pretext, but fails when he sees his father sitting in the audience during a fight. In the end, he is pleased with the son's ability and promises the trainer to sign the declaration of consent. The trainer dismisses Bernd from the competition, but only now does he realize that Bernd has forged his signature. Bernd, on the other hand, clears the table with his parents. Although the house blessing is crooked, the father lets him fix everything himself and at the end signs the declaration of consent. Only after a week does Bernd dare to train again. The trainer forgives him and Bernd can finally train without lies and pretense.
production
I'll show you it was filmed in Rostock from 1971 under the working title Boxer . It had its premiere on June 30, 1972 in the Luxor Palace in what was then Karl-Marx-Stadt . He opened the second summer film days for children. It was shown in GDR cinemas on the same day. On August 20, 1975, it was shown for the first time on DFF 1 on GDR television.
The main actor in the film, Friedhelm Barck, was also active in judo in real life. He had already started judo training in 1966; at the 1970 Spartakiade, Barck won a gold medal in judo in children's class A and in 1972 in Berlin he won the bronze medal in judokas for his club Dynamo Schwerin in class B. Barck earned his doctorate and teaches as a lecturer at the University of Rostock in the field of “theory and practice sporting movements (martial arts and water sports) ”.
criticism
Horst Knietzsch wrote in Neues Deutschland that the DEFA with you, I'll show it “continues its good traditions in the production of children's films and […] at the same time [achieves] a new artistic quality, such as the sensitive, individuality of the individual Gestalten can be read in a non-concealing manner of presentation and staging. ”The film“ withstands the trials of life in its conflicts ”and does not glorify everyday socialist life into a“ harmonious idyll ”. Also Morning praised the fact that the film draw parents houses realistically and parents without didactic moralizing criticize, so that the film is "cheerful light flow" will not braked. The director and screenwriters showed "a lot of understanding for the lively boy mentality, did without the raised index finger and instead preferred to take a somewhat critical view of the behavior of the adults," wrote Neue Zeit , and found that the film was "fresh and lifelike. which is brought about not least by the fact that the director understood perfectly how to let the child actors move very naturally in front of the camera. "Ehrentraud Novotny praised in the Berliner Zeitung that sport was so included in the film," that he both is able to promote the plot as well as the tension and the visual value “A weakness of the film is, however, that the material was not sufficiently poetically penetrated and so a balance“ between sporting enthusiasm, competitive spirit, rivalry and tension ”is missing.
Other critics found that the film tended towards a “prancing superficiality” and from today's point of view looked “old-fashioned, smoothing and seductive ...”. The film creates harmony "where revolt would actually be appropriate". For the German film service , it was a "DEFA children's film aimed at harmony instead of protest, smoothing out conflicts in the old-fashioned way and only insufficiently incorporating its poetic side lines - the story of Timm Thaler's sold laughs - into the plot". Frank-Burkhard, too Habel found that the film "easily overlooked many problems despite beautiful poetic moments" and therefore remained superficial.
Awards
At the Youth Film Week in Erfurt in 1973 the film received the Minister for Culture Prize and the Children's Jury Prize.
literature
- I'll show you . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , p. 155.
- I'll show you . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89487-234-9 , pp. 178-180.
Web links
- You'll I's show in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- I'll show you at filmportal.de
- I'll show you at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angel Wagenstein: 3000 viewers saw the premiere . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 5, 1972, p. 6.
- ^ GB: My way - Friedhelm Barck . In: Neues Deutschland , July 31, 1972, p. 7.
- ↑ See lecturers at the University of Rostock .
- ↑ Horst Knietzsch: conflicts from school. "Arguments" for show-offs . In: Neues Deutschland , July 16, 1972, p. 4.
- ↑ Manfred Haedler: Bernd is on the mat . In: Der Morgen , July 9, 1972.
- ↑ HU: Cheese beer for customers for the king . In: Neue Zeit , July 2, 1972, p. 4.
- ↑ Ehrentraud Novotny: It's not easy with parents . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 22, 1972, p. 6.
- ↑ I'll show you . In: Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, Lothar Wolf (eds.): Between Marx and Muck. DEFA films for children . Henschel, Berlin 1996, pp. 179-180.
- ↑ I'll show you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ I'll show you . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, p. 155.
- ↑ I'll show you on defa.de.