Early frost
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Early frost |
| Original title | An early frost |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Erman |
| script |
Ron Cowen , Daniel Lipman , Sherman Yellen |
| production | Perry Lafferty |
| music | John Kander |
| camera | Woody Omens |
| cut | Jerrold L. Ludwig |
| occupation | |
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Early Frost (Cross-reference: Early Frost - A Case of Aids , Original Title: An Early Frost ) is an American drama from 1985. It was the first film that was dedicated to the topic of AIDS . The television movie was first broadcast on November 11, 1985 on NBC .
action
Michael Pierson, a successful lawyer, is rushed to hospital after having a severe coughing fit. There he learned from a doctor that he was suffering from AIDS. His partner Peter admits that he had sex outside of the relationship, whereupon Michael throws him out of the house. Michael then drives to his home to inform his family that he is gay and has AIDS.
The family is handling the new message very differently and it takes a while before they fully support Michael again. Shortly afterwards he has to go back to the hospital, where he meets the patient Victor, a homosexual who also has AIDS. Victor dies in this hospital and his things are lavishly stowed away for fear that they might be contaminated.
background
In 1981 the first cases of patients with a mysterious immune deficiency appeared in the USA, who later often died of actually harmless diseases such as rare pneumonia (e.g. Pneumocystis jirovecii ) or Kaposi's sarcoma . At the time, this immune deficiency disease almost exclusively affected young homosexual men. AIDS quickly reached epidemic proportions in the gay scene .
Early Frost was the first film devoted to this problem and also showed the social consequences of the AIDS epidemic for those affected. The film Parting Glances ( Parting Glances ), with a similar theme, was indeed already shot in 1984 but not published until 1986th About four months before Early Frost was released , 12,067 Americans in the United States had developed AIDS and 6,079 of them had died from it. At this point there was no causal treatment at all, only the opportunistic infections that occurred were combated. As a result, the outbreak of AIDS was a certain death sentence for most.
reception
The film service believes that earlier Frost is a "problem-oriented film from the homosexual milieu" and, as one of the first cinematic approaches to the AIDS problem, is "quite serious, but ultimately too smooth and therefore presented too blandly in the manner of a television game".
Web links
- Early frost in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Randy Shilts: ... And life goes on, 1988, Goldmann Verlag, Munich. P. 775
- ↑ Early Frost - short review . In: Filmdienst.de . Retrieved May 6, 2016.