Kolp (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Kolp |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Roland Suso Richter |
| script | Frank Röth |
| production | Frank Röth |
| music | Frank Röth Roland Suso Richter |
| camera | Ernst Kubitza |
| cut | Roland Suso Richter |
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Kolp is a German independent film from 1984 by Roland Suso Richter . In the film drama about the History of Germany play Katja Flint , Heiner Lauterbach and Ottfried Fischer their first major movie roles.
action
1947 in the odenwald village of Lützbach: In the post-war period, the black US lieutenant Jack is quartered in the Kolp family's house. Since father Kolp is a doctor, the family is doing relatively well. While the father despises the military policeman as an occupier and only tolerates it reluctantly, son Hans sees him as a role model and becomes friends with him. The 18-year-old high school student is learning English from him, is allowed to drive his military jeep on excursions into the forest and goes hunting with him - which is strictly forbidden for him, but allowed for US soldiers. When Jack is ordered back home, he leaves Hans a revolver and his uniform.
His school friend Ekke, who deals in the black market in American cigarettes, “organized” a US Army jeep for him. With the help of the stolen jeep and the uniform, his disguise as a military policeman is perfect. In this way, he can deceive not only German police officers, but also US Army guards. Hans and his classmates found a gang that, in addition to cigarettes and whiskey, also steals jeeps and weapons in order to trade them on the black market. Due to the theft of weapons and military vehicles, the US military now suspects a nationalist resistance movement behind the black market gang and is on their trail.
Karl, a German who works as a civilian employee for the Americans, offers the gang a business. They are supposed to steal a truck and instead of barter goods, they would get money. After the first successful deal, Karl encourages Hans to keep going. But the gang has now broken up. The currency reform of 1948 also meant the end of the black market and the students now want to earn money with honest work. However, Hans is ready to continue stealing trucks for Karl. After his last assignment, Hans and his new love Hilde want to move west to French-occupied territory . But the US military has already set up a roadblock on his escape route. When the couple arrives at the roadblock and there is no escape route, Hans shoots his girlfriend and then himself.
background
The film is based on stories that are said to have happened in Wald-Michelbach in the post-war period . The young actor Frank Röth wrote the screenplay with the idea of offering it to producers and being able to play the leading role in it himself. After nobody wanted to buy his script and he realized that as a scriptwriter he would not have a say in the casting of the actors, he decided to produce the film independently. When all applications for film funding for his project were rejected, Röth took out a private bank loan of 200,000 German marks, for which his grandfather Josef Lauinger guaranteed with a mortgage on his house. The actors and employees involved in the film did not receive a fee, but an assurance of a share of the profit if the film makes money in the future. The shooting took place in August and September 1983 in Weinheim and the surrounding area.
The FSK working committee as the first instance only approved the film with a majority of three to two only from the age of sixteen, because it represented “criminal acts in a sympathetic manner” and therefore appeared “encouraging”. The film company appealed with the argument of the minority that the situation in the post-war period acted as a clear distancing feature and demanded approval from the age of twelve. The youth protection expert of the working committee, an official of the state youth welfare office in North Rhine-Westphalia, then explained his negative attitude in detail to the decisive main committee: Hans Kolp is presented in a sympathetic manner, which is why his activities are encouraging for young people of the same age. To do this, he listed the crimes shown in the film. In the negotiation of the main committee, all eight members were convinced of this view and unanimously approved Kolp only from the age of 16. This judgment came at a time when there was extensive discussion in German society about the negative impact of violent videos on young people.
The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 1984.
Reviews
"First feature film with some dramaturgical weaknesses, but otherwise remarkably professional and staged with a great sense of atmosphere, character psychology and ironic pointings."
"Kolp gets down to business quickly, is free of decorative flourishes and does not use explanations and instructions. [..] After a few minutes of film you can feel: Kolp is the work of people who love the cinema. "
"" Kolp "- that is the longing for the Heimatfilm and a better republic. Even after 1945, when the blood and soil were cleared away, there was this longing. The “Forester from the Silberwald” was always smiled at and it would have been better to consider that all these pussies together result in a tragedy: the search for a home in the new republic. Looking for a home in the rapidly aging republic is the young directing team of "Kolp", a dropout as a costume film. "
“It's a shame that the portrayal of girls does not go beyond the traditional image of women. The gentle blonde Hilde, for example, Hans Kolp's great love, follows her boyfriend without will and devoted to death. Your alleged tough survival experiences as a refugee are not reflected in the form of initiative, of independent action. "
“You have to imagine the production of“ Kolp ”a bit like the story the film tells. A handful of young Hazadeurs are trying to make their dreams come true within a power vacuum. [..] The naive charm of "Kolp" with its sense of "black market, swing and big dreams" allows us to overlook all kinds of dramaturgical flaws and all too brave scene resolutions. "
Awards
- Awarded the German Youth Video Prize 1984
- Semaine de la Critique as part of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival
Alternative titles
The film was also titled Kolp - Black Market, Swing and Big Dreams and Kolp - As an American, you can distribute everything .
Web links
- kolp-derfilm.de
- Kolp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kolp in the Lexicon of International Films
- Kolp at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 335 f.
- ↑ The Peppermint Peace in Die Zeit of June 21, 1985
- ^ Epd film, issue 5 from May 1985
- ^ Film Service of February 16, 2006