Jet generation
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Jet generation |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eckhart Schmidt |
| script | Eckhart Schmidt Roger Fritz |
| production | Roger Fritz |
| music | David Llewellyn |
| camera | Gernot Roll |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
| occupation | |
and as guests Helga Anders , Margot Trooger , Elke Haltaufderheide , Uta Levka , Rolf Arndt | |
Jet Generation is a German feature film from 1967 with the mannequin Dginn Moeller and Roger Fritz in the leading roles.
action
In "Swinging Munich" at the end of the 1960s: the young millionaire daughter Carroll Buchheim, an American, flew to Germany from the USA to visit her brother who lives here. He has been missing for four months and disappeared without a trace. During her research, she comes across Raoul Malsen. The cynical, young fashion photographer is considered to be the hippest picture designer of his profession, his own style made him a sought-after photographer of the nihilistic jet generation of the time.
Carroll learns that Raoul was a good friend of her brother's. The pretty blonde quickly falls under Raoul's spell. He takes the women as he wants. Carroll falls in love with the self-amorous, smart and arrogant star photographer and falls for him more and more - even when she learns that he is obviously to blame for her brother's death. Raoul pulls her into bed, then pushes her back and then brings her back to himself. Carroll finds himself unable to fight back and break away from him. She says: "I am happy with the man who has my brother on his conscience."
Production notes
Jet Generation , also known under the full title Jet Generation - How Girls Love Men Today , was created from August 12 to October 10, 1967 in Munich and the surrounding area and on Lake Starnberg. On January 23, 1968, the strip passed the FSK test, the premiere was on January 25, 1968 in Frankfurt am Main. Producer and leading actor Fritz financed this film with the proceeds from his full-length directing and production debut Girls, Girls .
For the 29-year-old director Eckhart Schmidt , this was his feature film debut. The main actress Dginn Moeller was a model. Jet Generation should be her only film. Joseph Vilsmaier worked as assistant cameraman Gernot Roll . Peter Genée was in charge of manufacturing and production.
criticism
"Right from the debut film, the young German author-director Eckhardt Schmidt, 29, falls into conflict with an old film buff: his fashionable crime thriller about a generation between jet and bed is a small copy of Antonioni's" Blow up ". (...) The technically passable debut takes young German cinema to hitherto inaccessible peaks of chic and extravagance; but because he has nothing to say, he climbs cinéasthmatic. "
“An attempt at self-portrayal of today's young generation, superficial, without point of view and without critical reflection (...) The film propagates models that do not correspond to social reality; a cynical dream factory product. "
“Eckhart Schmidt's first feature-length film tries to use the means of commercial cinema to get to grips with the lifestyle of the 1960s. However, it offers little more than a string of fashionable general places in front of the chic backdrop of a Swinging Munich ", stylistically oriented too much to Antonioni's" Blow Up "."
"In terms of content, poor and unconvincing first work that appears as superficial, beautiful and mendacious as the advertising and creates a correspondingly ambivalent impression."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jet Generation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 163/1968.
Web links
- Jet generation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jet Generation at filmportal.de