Getting straight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Getting straight |
| Original title | Getting straight |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Richard Rush |
| script | Robert Kaufman |
| production | Richard Rush |
| music | Ronald Stein |
| camera | László Kovács |
| cut | Maury Winetrobe |
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Getting Straight (freely translated: the right or the right path) is an American drama film with comic elements from 1970 by the director Richard Rush . The script was written by Robert Kaufman . It is based on a novel by Ken Kolb . The leading roles are cast with Elliott Gould , Candice Bergen , Jeff Corey and Max Julien . The film had its world premiere on May 13, 1970 in the United States. In Germany it first came to the cinema on September 4, 1970.
action
There is an uproar on campus : the boys want co-determination and freedom from the constraints of an antiquated class society. There is an "older semester" between the establishment and the students, Harry Bailey, who has long since gotten through his experience in demonstrating and protesting and currently has nothing else on his mind than to take his exams and earn money. His landlady kicked him out, his car only works in a cloud of smoke, and Jan, his blonde friend, is talking more and more about marriage and that she would like to lead a “normal life” one day.
More or less calmly, Bailey watches as the university is transformed into a battlefield, as police officers and soldiers march, and as the students demonstrating with their signs and their demands are bludgeoned together. Although he rejects the role of mediator that has been offered to him by the principal, it is only when his dream of teaching children in his own way is to be taken away from him that Harry goes wild and runs amok in the oral exam when he is followed the "homosexual component" in F. Scott Fitzgerald asks. - The protesting youth has it again!
Reviews
The Protestant Film Observer draws the following conclusion: “US film by Robert Rush, which deals with the campus rebellion and the revolt of the student youth at American universities. [...] The attempt was not entirely successful; Although the main actor Elliot Gould skilfully and wittily completed a slalom between the fronts for longer than two hours, private emotions and clowning neglect the political aspect of the story. ”The lexicon of international films judges even more negatively :“ Ambivalent ”protest film », Which pretends to make a current contribution to the subject of« Adaptation and Resistance », but misses the emancipation problem in a satirical way and downplays it to non-binding conformity. At the same time, the film wants to be funny, «full of sex and humor». "
Web link
- Getting straight to the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 467/1970, p. 473
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1318