No murder, no manslaughter

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Movie
Original title No murder, no manslaughter
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1985
length 45 minutes
Rod
Director Uwe Schrader
script Uwe Schrader
production Uwe Schrader
camera Klaus Müller-Laue
occupation

Citizens, firefighters and police officers from Berlin-Wedding

No murder, no manslaughter is a German documentary by Uwe Schrader from 1985 . The film was shot in Berlin-Wedding , mostly at night, on extremely sensitive film material and by hand. He deliberately refrains from commenting and interviewing and does not contain any evaluations, the camera merely acts as an observer.

action

At night, two patrol cars in front of a brightly lit bar. A man is arrested and taken to prison. A few streets away, a young woman has cut her wrists out of heartache in her boyfriend's apartment. Things that happen everywhere every day and that normally nobody takes any notice of.

background

As Schrader revealed to the specialist magazine Film & TV Kameramann in 1985 , he deliberately avoided commenting and the usual interviews, everything should be explained by the scenes themselves. In addition, the director tried to make a documentary film-like, so to speak, to achieve a film-like resolution, but without intervening in the process. Schrader in an interview: “With a film like this, you have to adapt extremely to the people. This kind of shoot should also have something casual for her. I don't want to manipulate what is happening, but above all to create an atmosphere in which people behave as they normally would. My primary interest has always been to keep the scenes 'life'. The technology must also be subordinate to this. "

Reviews

“'Des'n Moloch, the city,' says a sad father whose daughter has disappeared, but rather on the run from the beatings of the mother. Uwe Schrader's report shows people in the city of Berlin , but the city is just a foil, it is certainly always present, already on the soundtrack, through the jargon that is spoken here, but it is not a piece of evidence and it is not charged. We are taken to Wedding, in the north of the city, in a working-class district, far from Kudamm and Grunewald . Schrader observes police officers, firefighters and paramedics at work: a classic reporting situation. It is difficult to actually describe how Uwe Schrader manages to film the situations that arise while observing them without making me feel like a voyeur as a viewer. Because I penetrate into the most private tragedies: the suicide attempt out of desperation, the provisional arrest for theft, the securing of a radio set as a 'source of noise', the arbitration of a dispute that was already fought with knives. The camera enables a closeness that I would never have if I were right in the middle of the action, but - paradoxically - it also makes me a distant observer who can make a judgment and at the same time feel for the people he sees on the screen: no, not merciful pity, more like connection. Uwe Schrader made this possible by holding back as a film author, speaking to me only through the camera, with the camera. An exemplary film. "

- Joachim Hauschild in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 30, 1986

" Kanakerbraut already lived from his outstanding, unobtrusive mixture of documentation and game plot, especially through the collaboration of director and camera, also shows no murder, no manslaughter, that it can be possible to film authentically, but not denouncing." look! "

- Renee Zucker in Die Tageszeitung November 18, 1985

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