Cocaine - Inga L.'s diary
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| Original title | Cocaine - Inga L.'s diary |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Ruby Sharon |
| script | Günter Schlesinger |
| production | Günter Schlesinger |
| music | Frank Lynx |
| camera | Leon Coshe-Tajan |
| cut | Gigi Hummel |
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Kokain - Das Tagebuch der Inga L. (temporarily working title: Die Ratte von St. Pauli , the first version of the script was called drug hunt ) is a German film from 1985 and the last work by the director and producer Günter Schlesinger . The first performance took place on April 19, 1985. The film theaters in Frankfurt, Hamburg and other cities gave performances, some with an extension.
action
Weapons are needed again and again in the Orient, Africa and Latin America. Your price is high. It is ruining the health of millions of people. In some areas you fight for anything and everything, sometimes for freedom, sometimes out of religious fanaticism. And you buy it with the lives of countless men or women, mainly in Europe and the USA. Only rarely does anyone manage to break free from the pitfalls of international drug dealers.
Somehow Inge met a dark-looking foreigner. She is fascinated by its depth. It was easy for him to convince her to go to Hamburg. In the meantime she is also ready to dispel her financial worries with the thought of a large amount of money to be earned quickly. The entertainment district of St.Pauli gives both of them a comfortable place to stay. So two meet who have only one thing in mind: to get rich quick. Your boyfriend is already in the middle of the drug scene. This allows him to easily accommodate them in a cellar bar. He knows the landlord as an accomplice of a dealer. When his boss wants to involve him in the illegal business, he has to cede Inge to him as security and let him work in a dump.
There she soon feels that she is of no importance to him and becomes a tool only for his selfish ends. As soon as he works harder for the younger Petra than for her, it falls like scales from her eyes. Then she rears up, pulls the younger one to her side and lapses into the belief that she will free Petra from the hard material on which she is dependent. Instead, she tries to get her cocaine as a substitute in the hope of being able to wean her off with it: it turns out to be a fatal error.
When a competitor of her former boyfriend, from whom she resolutely turns away, tries to force her into the services of her hidden trade, prostitution, in his favor, she spontaneously flees with her friend.
Both roam restlessly in the big city. Then they come up with the plan to kidnap the landlord with whom they found refuge for the first time and to force him to betray his drug customers. So they turn the tables. The film thus stirs up emancipatory resentment. Because it goes against all of their former exploiters. When they face the top boss, however, she has no choice but to accept his cunning offer to continue building up the drug trade with him. They are already too involved in illegal activities. He wants to smuggle weapons. She needs cocaine to save her friend. Only escape appears to them as a last resort. But the scene is tough, dogged and relentless. While the vigilante justice of the drug gang is approaching, the ice-cold boss is already rushing into the plane to pursue the next international arms trade. He is indifferent to those who remain. Nobody will know what will become of them. The act doesn't just warn alone. She was sometimes understanding to deterring.
background
The shooting took place in the ancient alleys of Lübeck, similar to Sternberg's film The Blue Angel and in the Hamburg harbor area, apart from scenes in hotels in the Haute Volée, often in dangerous confines in ship rooms even in winding pubs or in Berlin. The financing of the production, like almost any other at that time in Germany, was based on risky foundations from the start. The demands for copy works from previous productions of the director soared into the millions. Nevertheless, he is said to have managed to complete the film with less than DM 400,000.00 in cash, a unique selling point among the expensive budgets at the time. The aesthetic concept provided for the shooting on Kodak material. This gave the film its typical western look, and the production costs also increased. He waived an application for film funding from public funds. This results from the lack of otherwise obligatory naming in the opening credits of the title. This enabled him to produce quickly on a budget that was considered impossible at the time. The amount of the income is not known. All information is based on the information provided by the current rights holder, insofar as they do not result from the film or by themselves.
The negative of the film is still considered lost. The music was originally supposed to be underlaid with a longing song by Ralph Siegel. Because of his fee plans, however, no contract should have been concluded, according to the director's statement during the shooting, communicated at the time by the production company. Frank Luchs then took over the whole part.
criticism
The Lübecker Nachrichten rated the film with a representation that gets under your skin. The trade journal Filmecho / Filmwoche labels him as saying that "... power and impotence suddenly meet, and where the addiction to dreams that fade away and money that is quickly made makes the business with coke possible". Some reacted with a pamphlet in the Hamburg "scene". The Bild newspaper stated beforehand: “... Bobo in a mink coat gets on a plane as a businessman and flies to the dealership. His next victims are already waiting. "
"Trivial film raised as a report that only pretends to warn of drug crime and the risk of addiction."
Web links
- Cocaine - The Diary of Inga L. in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Picture, Hamburg 1985
- ^ Lübecker Nachrichten April 26, 1985
- ^ Filmecho / Filmwoche, April 1985.
- ^ Kokain - Das Tagebuch der Inga L. In: Lexikon des Internationale Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2015 .