Jana and Jan
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Jana and Jan |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helmut Dziuba |
| script | Helmut Dziuba |
| production |
DEFA ZDF |
| music | Christian Steyer |
| camera | Helmut Bergmann |
| cut | Rita Reinhardt |
| occupation | |
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Jana und Jan is a German feature film by Helmut Dziuba from 1992, which was co-produced by DEFA and ZDF . It is based on the story of the same name by Manfred Härtel .
action
The year 1989: 15-year-old Jan, who was abandoned by his parents as a baby, spent six months in the closed youth work yard in Torgau because he tried to flee the republic and is now being transferred to an open youth work yard. Fixed hierarchies have developed within the girls 'and boys' groups in the Werkhof. 17-year-old Jana, who was abused by her stepfather at the age of twelve, bets the leader of the girl lady that she will sleep with Jan. If she wins, she should become the new leader; if she loses, she has to sleep with the supervisor Bulling. Meanwhile, the leader of the boys, Sir, shows the newcomer on the very first day who is in charge of the workshop. The head of the home boss and Jan's supervisor Bulling watch.
In fact, Jana quickly manages to sleep with Jan. Both met in the following years and made the attic of the home their love nest. They endure the ridicule of their fellow inmates. When Jana notices that she is pregnant, she initially denies this in front of the other girls and above all in front of the emotionally cold lady. She tells Jan about Christmas and also tells him that she doesn't want to have the child. Jan gets angry because he suddenly sees meaning for his life in being a father. He hits Jana, who falls down the stairs. She is admitted to the hospital, while Jan is brought back to the closed youth work center in Torgau because of dangerous bodily harm.
The fall did nothing to the unborn child. Meeting another patient in the hospital who has just lost her baby and is leaving Jana with the baby things, makes Jana want to carry her child to term. After her return to the youth work center, she becomes an outsider. Lady and the other girls treat her with mockery and mockery and humiliate her at every opportunity. Only shy Julia, even the lowest in the group, is with her. The wall falls, what the young people are watching on TV. Julia commits suicide when she learns from her mother in the West that she does not want to eat her child even after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Jan returned to the Jugendwerkhof in 1990 and made up with Jana. Both flee from the institution and want to stay with Jan's aunt for the first time. Because her motorcycle is running out of gas, both have to run. At a now empty border tower , Jana goes into labor. Jan manages to take her to the hospital.
production
Jana and Jan was conceived before the fall of the Wall, but rewritten again under the influence of the political events of 1989 . Dziuba was able to “make the film more direct and harder”. The shooting took place in 1991, among other places, at Fürstlich Drehna Castle, which served as the backdrop for the youth work yard. The film was co-produced by DEFA and ZDF and had its premiere on May 26, 1992 in Rio in Berlin . It was shown in German cinemas two days later and was released on DVD on October 15, 2007.
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote that Jana and Jan were “a portrait of a lost and abandoned youth at the time of political upheaval in the GDR. Sensitively designed and played, the film denies itself to an ostensible need for entertainment. "
Cinema found the film to be a "rugged love story from a rugged world".
Awards
At the film festival in San Remo Jana and Jan received the special youth award in 1993. Director Helmut Dziuba was honored with the director's award at the 1992 Bavarian Film Prize on January 15, 1993.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
literature
- Jana and Jan . In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 285-286.
Web links
- Jana and Jan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jana and Jan at filmportal.de
- Jana and Jan at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Habel, p. 285.
- ^ Jana and Jan. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed July 1, 2018 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See defa.de