Children of our time (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Children of our time |
| Original title | I vinti |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language |
Italian French English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| script |
Suso Cecchi D'Amico Michelangelo Antonioni Diego Fabbri Turi Vasile Giorgio Bassani Roger Nimier |
| production | Mario Gabrielli |
| music | Giovanni Fusco |
| camera | Enzo Serafin |
| cut | Eraldo Da Roma |
| occupation | |
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French episode:
Italian episode:
English episode:
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Children of Our Time is an Italian episode drama about juvenile delinquency from 1953 directed by Michelangelo Antonioni .
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First episode: France
Pierre, a Parisian high school student, is a show-off who explains to his classmates that he is about to make millions (lire). Two classmates decide to kill him while they are on a trip together and then rob him and run off to Algeria. The girl Simone pretends to be in love with Pierre in order to get him to write a letter that will later serve as an alibi for the perpetrators. André shoots his classmate, whereupon everyone else flees. Pierre, who had only bragged about the (nonexistent money), does not die immediately and can still bear testimony of his own murder. André goes to the police station, accompanied by his father, to confess.
Second episode: Italy
The Roman student Giulio, the son of a professional athlete, also works as a cigarette smuggler. One night he is caught by the customs police: in a panic, he kills a security guard and then goes on the run. Pursued by his captors, he climbs onto a scaffold and falls from it into the depths. Giulio is seriously injured, but gets up again and drags himself to his girlfriend Marina, who wants to take him to the doctor. But he does not want to put himself in the hands of others and decides to seek protection within his own four walls. Giulio dies there the moment the police arrive.
Third episode: England
In London, Aubrey Allan, a boy with aspirations to become a poet, tells a newspaper that he has discovered the body of a woman. The police are alerted. Aubrey writes an article for the newspaper about the finding of the body. After a while the young man declares in his hubris that he is the woman's murderer. He believes that he has committed the perfect crime and that he can exonerate himself despite a confession, but is mistaken: In his first testimony, the judges discover the evidence of his crime and sentence him to death.
Production notes
Children of Our Time was written in the three countries in which the episodes are set and premiered on September 4, 1953 as part of the Venice International Film Festival . The German premiere was on October 12, 1956. On March 4, 1967, the film was shown for the first time on German television ( ZDF ).
The 23-year-old Frenchwoman Etchika Choureau made her film debut here. Paolo Moffa took over the production management. Gianni Polidori and Roland Berthon created the film structures. Alain Cuny and Francesco Rosi were two of a total of four assistant directors.
Reviews
“Of the three episodes told in the film, the first two are slow and sometimes artificial. The third is carried out with greater clarity and the well-characterized protagonists offer a good interpretation. "
The Lexicon of International Films said: “The second feature film by the former journalist and documentarist Antonioni tries to explain juvenile delinquency through post-war conditions. His pessimistic conclusion: a real spiritual and moral renewal has not taken place. The expressiveness of the editing and camera work already indicates the formal quality of the later Antonioni works. "
“Antonioni was certainly ahead of his time in terms of subject matter, in that he denounced juvenile delinquency, but neither saw a solution in harsher punishments nor did he want to let the older generation out of their responsibilities. At the same time, he wanted his film to be a warning to young people, for which he showed the possible consequences with his exemplary stories. This substantive approach had to fail because it did not correspond to any social opinion. (…) In terms of film aesthetics, the formal language with the three episodes and the documentary introduction contributed to misunderstanding the overall structure and judging "I Vinti" only according to the quality of the individual episodes. These appear due to the - measured against the action - short running time and the professional actors partly overstaged. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Children of our time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2020 .
- ↑ detailed review on filmzentrale.com
Web links
- Children of our time in the Internet Movie Database (English)