Look after your daughters!
Look after your daughters! is a German educational film made in 1962 by six (mostly young) directors who staged just as many short episodes.
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The six short films put together for this compilation are about very different girls' fates. Problems are presented that arise from sexual precocity, the lack of communication between the two parents and their respective offspring, as well as from incorrect upbringing and a lack of information. In these fates, it is insinuated, the social environment, such as false friends or disinterested adults, as well as the innumerable open and secret seductions of modern society are also often complicit. Three episodes addressed the problem of “seduced innocence”.
Production notes
The filming of Guard Your Daughters! took place in 1962 in various film studios. The premiere was planned for the beginning of 1963, but due to the collapse of Real-Film and the European film distribution system, the film could not be premiered until May 29, 1964 by the young directors involved in it. Franz-Josef Spieker's episode The Yellow Car was premiered in Oberhausen in 1963 as part of the West German Short Film Festival.
A seventh episode, entitled Money , was directed by Michael Blackwood but was not included in the final product. In it were Leopold Biberti (as Lord of Grodno), Alexander Braumüller (Axel) and Renate Kasché on (as Christa).
Some of the actors, like 18-year-old Gila von Weitershausen , stood here for the first time in front of a film camera.
Among the “young filmmakers” involved in the film, the forgotten Wolf Hart, who died in 2002, stood out as a film veteran. Hart, who started as a second camera assistant at Sepp Allgeier in 1933 , found his field of work in the field of cultural and documentary film. His contribution to the episode The Inge Case , the story of a daughter from a good family who succumbs to the seductive arts of a bad guy due to the overstimulation of the media at a wild party, was an extremely rare foray by Hart into the film with a plot.
With your heed daughters! 43 years after the heyday of German educational and moral films that flooded the German cinema market around 1919, this genre, believed to be dead, was reactivated and revitalized in the Federal Republic.
An almost identical film, Guard your daughters (but without the exclamation mark), was shown in Austria in 1922.
Reviews
“In 1962, when the people of Oberhausen were making the loudest talk,“ Realfilm ”boss Walter Koppel invited their three and four other young people to co-produce an episode film. Time passed, 'real film' came in, the newcomer was completed in early 1963, but only now is it coming to the cinemas, adapted to the current wave of sex films. Originally existing irony has been cut out, a connecting comment chatters about sociological analysis and about the bad, bad times. But this adaptation only worsened what the young directors had not done well: They show parties, casual prostitution and precocious teenagers just as mature voyeurs like to see the 'youth of today'. Causes of the bad habits do not come into the picture. "
In Paimann's film lists it says: "Allegedly authentic incidents that remain superficial due to the sketchiness and participation of debutants who create the impression of amateur actors and ... are only accepted to some extent by hardened people."
The lexicon of international films judged: “Six short films on the subject of 'Young people at risk today' - presented at the beginning of the 1960s by representatives of the then young German filmmakers. Exemplary cases from the files of the protection of minors and the care of minors are treated. The warning intention seems credible, its realization, despite appealing individual performances, is far less convincing. "
Web links
- Look after your daughters! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Guard your daughters !, 1st episode: The Soldier atfilmportal.de
- Guard your daughters !, 2nd episode: Money at filmportal.de
- Guard your daughters !, 3rd episode: The yellow car at filmportal.de
- Guard your daughters !, 4th episode: The party at filmportal.de
- Guard your daughters !, 5th episode: Topic No. 1 at filmportal.de
- Guard your daughters !, 6th episode: Inge at filmportal.de
- Take care of your daughters !, 7th episode: Holidays at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Ralf Bögner: The history of Real-Film GmbH up to the founding of the Studio Hamburg Atelierbetriebsgesellschaft (master's thesis). Münster 1987, p. 107 ff.
- ↑ Biography Wolf Hart ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Source: Der Spiegel, No. 25 of June 17, 1964
- ↑ Take care of your daughters! ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Paimann's film lists
- ↑ Take care of your daughters! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 8, 2015 .
