Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back!
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| Original title | Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back! |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK from 6 years JMK from 0 years |
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| Director | Robert Wilde |
| script | Christian Ulmen , Johannes Boss , Robert Wilde |
| production | Claus Boje , Sonja Schmitt , Elena Gruschka |
| music | The stars, Deichkind, Helge Schneider |
| camera | Frank Lamm |
| cut | David Gruschka |
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Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back is a film with Christian Ulmen, made in 2011 . The film was released in German cinemas on January 5, 2012.
action
In the film, Christian Ulmen plays an 18-year-old student who stayed seated several times and is now given his last chance to graduate from the Paul Dessau comprehensive school in Zeuthen . A camera team accompanies him on the pretext of making a documentary about school failure.
Jonas is portrayed by Ulmen as a simple-minded but lovable student. He is portrayed a bit disorganized and shaky, but he always seeks contact with the teachers. He also manages to integrate into the class community. Jonas is given a six-week trial period during which he has to prove himself. At a class conference, his subject teachers and his class teacher then decide whether Jonas should stay at the school.
Three basic plots dominate the film: Jonas is a failure in the math subjects and thus has conflicts with the math teacher at the school. He catches him copying and shows him in class. Jonas falls in love with his much older music teacher and tries to win her heart. At a romantic dinner planned by him, which he initiated with the help of a "tutoring session" initiated by him, she tells him that she is married and that she has no feelings for him. Jonas is devastated as a result. The third plot is the band project JoMax T to go , which Jonas founded, and the planning of a concert in the schoolyard. During rehearsals, Jonas forgets some school material and some homework.
When the conference starts, Jonas tries to convince the teachers to keep him at the school. Among other things, he gives a speech over a megaphone. At the end, he is told that he has passed his probationary period and is allowed to stay at the school subject to certain conditions. At the end his band plays the Die Sterne song What just ruined you .
production
The film was shot in the music-oriented Paul Dessau comprehensive school in Zeuthen in Brandenburg. For legal reasons, the school management, teaching staff and parents' representatives were inaugurated, but the students were not. There was no script, instead the three subplots mentioned above were used as a hook to create a dramaturgy . Before each day of shooting there was a directors' meeting where the rough schedule for the day was planned.
The director of the film is Robert Wilde , who already worked with Ulmen on the similar TV series My New Friend , in which Ulmen slipped into several characters.
Jonas was released in German cinemas on January 5, 2012. The DVD version was released from the age of 6, while the theatrical version was released without age restriction. The film distribution took over Delphi.
music
The soundtrack for the film is made up of the three songs “What just ruined you” (Die Sterne), “Kalimba d'Ilona” ( Deichkind ) and “Schule ist nicht schön” ( Helge Schneider ). The digital single for What just ruined you was released on December 30, 2011 via iTunes including a video.
criticism
Overall, the film was rated positively, which is mainly due to Elmen's character, which is more authentic and, in contrast to his roles in Mein neue Freund, much more sympathetic. Ann-Kristin Schöne wrote on Faz.net :
“Basically, two worlds collide in the film: the fictional character Jonas and that of real school life. However, the fabulous implementation by both the actor Ulmen and the teachers and students make it a world: the same one in which we have all suffered and which one simply has to recognize with its logarithm. "
The lexicon of international films also praised Jonas .
“Without a social or school-political thrust, the very entertaining film takes a decidedly friendly look at the school as an institution; it is less about a structural criticism than about the tragicomic-playful conjuring up of a chapter of one's own life story with its smaller and larger "traumas". "
In the Tagesspiegel , however, the film was rated negatively.
"Interest in knowledge? Difficult to see. Gain in knowledge? Correspondingly lean. A couple of times subversive Ulmen ideas flash up: an attempt to bribe the director, a dinner for two in the music room with Maschke, bubbly and candles included. But the staging is always visible in the eyes of those who may be lured onto the remaining black ice. (...) “Jonas” (director: Robert Wilde) wants to be both funny and instructive. He just doesn't succeed in either of the two. "
The criticism is representative of a similar reception, in which it was criticized that the film could not choose between a feature film and a reality show . Epd Film also rated the film rather negatively:
“That is exactly the problem with the film: Beyond the unusual premise, it has little to offer. Once you have familiarized yourself with the constellation, hardly anything new happens. That little bit of history - Jonas tries to get better grades, starts a band and falls in love with the music teacher - doesn't hide the fact that there is neither a backstory nor elaborated characters. As a half-hour on the small screen, this hybrid of fact and fake could perhaps work, but on the big screen it is neither one nor the other - and as a hybrid form just an interestingly failed experiment. "
However, this indecision is not only seen as negative:
“It is difficult to say what this large-scale experiment should end up with, and whether there was a clear intention at all. But you can say what you see now: people who play fixed roles in a school system that is often described as inhuman, harsh and soulless. But also people who - challenged by Ulmen - have to reveal how much they fill these roles with life and soul. What comes to the fore in the case of the Paul Dessau Comprehensive School can ultimately put any school nightmare into perspective: It is not ugly at all, but touching and beautiful. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Zeuthen big in the cinema. Deutschland-i--internet.de, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b "I am ashamed only afterwards". Christian Ulmen goes to the Penne: "Jonas". n-tv , January 2, 2012, accessed August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Ann-Kristin Schöne: "Jonas": The struggle with the logarithm. Faz.net , January 4, 2012, accessed August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back! in the online film database
- ^ Christian Ulmen: Video interview on "Jonas". Musikexpress.de , January 4, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Carstem Dobschat: Die Sterne: What just ruined you - soundtrack to Jonas. Venue Music, January 2, 2012, accessed August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Jonas - Imagine it's school and you have to go back! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel.de: “A film like a double math lesson” , accessed on September 24, 2012
- ↑ Frank Schnelle: Critique of Jonas. epd film , January 1, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: "Jonas" in the cinema. Every school nightmare is put into perspective. Sueddeutsche.de, January 5, 2012, accessed on August 16, 2018 .