Children without love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Children without love |
| Original title | Děti bez lásky |
| Country of production | Czechoslovakia |
| original language | Czech , German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Goldberger |
| production | Kratky film, Prague |
Children without love (subtitled nurseries in the review ) is a Czechoslovak film by Marie Damborska and Zdeněk Matějček from 1963. Directed by Kurt Goldberger . The film includes the negative consequences of placing infants and children in day nurseries or homes.
content
The film begins with the words: “What a small child needs most is an intense and permanent emotional bond with the mother. If this contact is interrupted and the child is not given a substitute with whom it can establish similar relationships, emotional damage will result. "
Contrasting representations of infants and children who grow up in a family, in a day nursery or in a home are shown . The security and love that a child experiences in the family gives the child security, trust and confidence. In contrast, for example, a four-year-old girl is shown in a doctor's waiting room because she is about to be vaccinated. A child's loneliness is a silent sign of distress .
In addition, scenes of children who are looked after by the nursing staff and kindergarten teachers, but who do not receive any real love and affection are repeatedly faded in. The deficits to which children are exposed, who have to do without the security of a family in the mental and emotional area, usually lead to severe behavioral and personality disorders.
production
A film by Kurt Goldberger, production: Kratky-Film Prag, 1963. German short version, Institute for Film and Image, Munich, 22 minutes, black and white.
Children without love was released on DVD by Drei Linden Filmproduktion in 2008.
background
The film was made at the suggestion of those in power in communist Czechoslovakia at the time. The Czech child psychologist, researcher and co-founder of SOS Children's Villages, Zdeněk Matějček, had been commissioned to make a film about the placement of infants and children in day nurseries and homes. The Czechoslovak government hoped for positive results, because the policy of the time stipulated that women were employed and children were housed in homes during the day.
Matějček's research on mental hospitalism and deprivation syndrome in infants and children was undesirable in communist Czechoslovakia; the film was banned; an illegal copy of the film could be smuggled out of the country and into the west. The film was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1963 and received several awards.
source
- Report on the film Children without Love with Dr. An interview with Zdeněk Matějček
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Children without love sS dreilindenfilm.de (including film trailer)
- ↑ a b Stefanie Selhorst, Michael Miedaner: Parents want closeness. Defense of a longing , Verlag Christiana, edition 1, July 2016, chapter 3, ISBN 978-3-71-711263-1