Fire at midnight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fire at midnight |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Ehmck |
| script | Gustav Ehmck Hans Schmid Andreas Wagner Boy Lornsen based on his novel of the same name |
| production | Gustav Ehmck |
| music | Gunter Hampel and the Galaxy Dream Band |
| camera | Hubs Hagen |
| cut | Karl H. Fugunt |
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Fire at midnight is a 1977 German fiction film by Gustav Ehmck with mostly unknown actors.
action
In a sleepy, small Frisian island village: After the suicide of his father, who was wrongly accused of a crime, Markus Unschlitt initially reacts, as expected, disturbed. This is initially expressed in harmless, small pranks , but then Markus threatens the alleged opponent with arson . The goal of his irrepressible anger is namely the universally hated head of lending at the village savings bank, whom Markus (falsely) accuses of driving his father to his death. His girlfriend Sylvie Tackert finds it difficult to calm him down. When one day, as the film title suggests, there actually is a big fire at midnight, Markus is of course immediately suspected. The boy has a hard time proving his innocence and is now threatened with being ostracized as an arsonist.
Production notes
The 35 days of shooting for the film-TV co-production Fire at Midnight took place in September and October 1977 in Westerland , Keitum and East Friesland . The final version was completed in March 1978; Fire at midnight was premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 27, 1978. The mass start was in three cinemas in Hamburg, Munich and Cologne on September 8, 1978.
Reviews
“Films with young main characters, a rarity a few years ago, seem to be on the rise. (...) Gustav Ehmck is less interested in the psychological needs of his laconically rebellious protagonist, rather he relies on the criminalistic effects of this thoroughly sympathetic story, which, however, he has staged so slowly and delicately that the tension falls by the wayside. The camerawork by Hubs Hagen was excellent: it captures the atmosphere of a Frisian island village in sunless, extremely precise shots that sometimes even make you forget the much too intrusive jazz sounds by Gunter Hampe. "
"The very thin, drawn out and poorly realized story of a boy who blames a former savings bank manager for the suicide of his father, plays a few pranks on him and is suspected of arson."
Web links
- Fire at midnight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fire at midnight at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ German Institute for Film Studies (ed.): German films 1978. Compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki, p. 53 f.
- ↑ Fire at midnight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .