Flame up
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Flame up |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 99 minutes |
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| Director | Eberhard Schubert |
| script | Eberhard Schubert |
| production | Rolf von Sydow |
| music | Gaby Müller-Blattau |
| camera | Atze Glanert |
| cut | Elke Niemietzik |
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Flamme up is a German television film produced by Rolf von Sydow in 1978 about the violent clash between Communist and National Socialist youth one year before Hitler came to power. Mareike Carrière , 24 years old at the time of shooting , achieved her artistic breakthrough with this production.
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The story takes place in the Saarland, which is controlled by France, on two days and one night in June 1932 and, on a small scale, reflects the upcoming conflict between left-wing youth organizations and the fanatical supporters of a tightly managed Hitler Youth and, on the larger scale, the emerging turn of the year 1933.
In the Saarbrücker Stadttheater the audience spontaneously sing the song of the Germans at the Rütli oath in a performance of Friedrich Schiller's “Wilhelm Tell” . Seven months before Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in the Reich, the nationalistic feelings of both ideological groups are particularly intense in this place, outside Berlin's claim to power. Representatives of the youth of the Bund , the heirs of the wandering birds, gather around the campfire during the solstice celebration to play the guitar, sing, perform folk dances and, in keeping with the romantic tradition of enthusiastic classic worship, go out into nature or just to have fun.
But the irrepressible, almost naive joie de vivre of young people threatens to lose its innocence, because fanatically incited, extremely ethnic, anti-communist and anti-Semitic boys and girls of the Hitler Youth also come to this place and begin with their totalitarian and marginalizing ideas of one to poison the serene climate of detachment of the future, of course National Socialist society. But even the young people of the communist Red Frontists are hardly inferior to the Nazis in their agitation and intolerance, and so the peaceful solstice celebration is soon severely disturbed. At the center of this agitated argument are above all Fritz, Alex and Katja, who also get caught up in the mill work of the emerging “new times”, at a moment when they actually wanted to test out completely different, much more private feelings.
Production notes
The television film Flamme up was shot on 34 days between June 12 and August 18, 1978 around Saarbrücken . The world premiere took place within the framework of the Berlin International Film Festival (International Forum) on February 27, 1979. On May 11, 1979, the cinema was released in Munich's Maxim-Lichtspieltheater. On June 20, 1979, production started at 8:15 p.m. on ARD .
criticism
“In his second television film, Schubert relies on the power of his story, not enriching it with didactic excursions. With calm camera movements he links the rural scenes, confronts the supposed idyll with lute and laurel wreath with the (still) hidden power struggles within the groups. He carefully creates a climate of total sexual inhibition, showing the naked, ecstatic bodies early in the morning in the forest as well as the secret despair of the girl, whose allied friend treats his musical instrument more tenderly than she does with her. “Flamme uppor”, despite some staging helplessness ... one of the most intelligent television games of recent times, demands unusual attention from the viewer. From gestures, looks, small disturbances and sudden eruptions of disappointed longing for love, he has to look for the clues for that time turning point, which should really only have been a solstice. So probably not for historians, but a film (excellently cast with young, unknown actors) for people who have not quite forgotten how to look because of watching TV. "
“With a guitar in hand and sun in their hearts, they went into nature - the" youth movement "of the 1920s. In his second TV film, Eberhard Schubert ("Marathon"), born in 1946, describes the break-in of the HJ Law and Order into the romantic campfire world of three young people. He selected the "right faces" from around a thousand young actors and came across a "terrible lack of knowledge about the Nazi era". "
"The film wants to demonstrate why young people at the beginning of the 1930s did not defend themselves against the appropriation by the Third Reich." Carefully in the presentation of historical facts, trying to draw a fair picture, Eberhard Schubert can still not be completely satisfactory the youth movement and awaken understanding for the situation at that time. "
Individual evidence
- ^ German Institute for Film Studies (ed.): German Films 1978, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. P.56
- ↑ Flame up. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Flame up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flame up at filmportal.de