Girl Behind Bars (1965)

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Movie
Original title Girl behind bars
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1965
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Rudolf Zehetgruber
script Rudolf Zehetgruber
production Artur Brauner for CCC, Berlin
music Raimund Rosenberger
camera Hans Jura
cut Walter Wischniewsky
occupation

Girls behind bars is a German feature film from 1965 with Heidelinde Weis and Harald Leipnitz in the leading roles.

action

Many of the underage girls are stranded in this place: one, it is rumored, prostituted herself, the other, the somewhat compact Uschi, is a notorious thief and was admitted here because she relapsed as a thief. Lydia, so it is blasphemed, grab all the guys who are not at 3 on the tree. Monika, on the other hand, ended up in this inhospitable place because of pimping after she referred classmates to wealthy types in her school, and Berta is guilty of serious bodily harm. Karin, so buxom Uschi knows how to report, disgusted the “old” pastor. She made it look like she'd fucked him. A precocious, rotten fruit is something that Uschi finds with some respect. This place here is an educational institution or welfare institution for young girls who have gotten wrong. Fenced in and locked away, they're all girls behind bars. However, behind the rough shells of these often snotty young women often seems to hide a quite softer core. And the announced young pastor Johannes, who is eagerly awaited by the girls, should expose it.

Johannes Skornia, the new chaplain of the institution, is the absolute opposite of the institution management that seems ossified to the girls. He looks good, plays the guitar and is otherwise quite relaxed. Even at the first meeting, he hits the right note with the bully girls. Soon "the new one" realizes that Karin seems to be his worst case. It remains closed and does not allow anyone, not even their fellow prisoners, to get close to it. Her story is arguably the most dramatic: she is imprisoned here because she is suspected of manslaughter. However, Johannes does not frighten her rough and challenging manner, rather he sees Karin's case as a challenge. The girl smokes marijuana and is otherwise hardly willing to submit to the rules of the game. Over time, the asylum priest not only manages to open them, he also gets them off the drugs. When it turns out one day that Karin is not guilty of the crime of which she is charged, she is released. With the girls who stay behind behind bars, the hope grows that at some point the gates to freedom will open for them too.

Production notes

Girl behind bars was filmed from May 19 to June 25, 1965 in the CCC studios in Berlin-Spandau. The premiere of the film took place on August 20, 1965 in several German cities.

The production line had Götz Dieter Wulf , production management Peter Hahne. Heinrich Weidemann designed the film structures and Ingrid Zoré designed the costumes . For Uta Levka , the part of the rebellious Martina was the first major speaking role of her career, for the two film and theater veterans Adelheid Seeck and Ursula Herking her farewell performances in the cinema.

Girl behind bars is not a remake of the CCC film of the same name Artur Brauners from 1949.

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films writes: "Colportage drama garnished with speculative marginal scenes."

The Protestant Film Observer draws the following conclusion: “Another German problem film about discarded and slipped youth, delivered directly from the girls' welfare institution. No cliché is left out, there is a wealth of morals. A superfluous product and unworthy of any further discussion. "

Individual evidence

  1. Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 5, S. 2378. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
  2. Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 331/1965, p. 593

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