Life Begins Tomorrow (1961)

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Movie
German title Don't damn the young sinners
Original title Life begins tomorrow
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1961
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Hermann Leitner
script Wolfgang Schnitzler
August Rieger based
on an idea by
Hermann Leitner
production Ernest Müller
music Herbert Trantow
camera Václav Vich
cut Paula Dworak
occupation

Morning life begins , German distribution title Damn not the young sinner , is an Austrian social problem film from 1961. Directed by Hermann Leitner play cordula trantow , Corny Collins , Magda Schneider , Werner Hinz , Walter Wilz and Rainer Brandt , the lead roles. The film poster had the headline at the time: "In all openness: a topic that affects young and old alike."

action

The story takes place among young people in the early 1960s and is intended, as has often been seen since the film The Youngsters , to warn young people of the dangers of amorality and vice. At the center of the action is the 17-year-old Sylvia Reimers, who was made pregnant by the somewhat older Walter Dobel, a simple worker. She becomes a mother and is now alone with her problems, especially since the father of her child is quite baseless himself and has gotten into the clutches of an unscrupulous peer named Pitt. Walter owes it to Sylvia's commitment that Pitt can no longer be a threat to him. After all, childcare helps the young mother get her life under control too. And Walter also thinks about it and is ready to take responsibility for his child and to offer him a home with Sylvia.

At the same time, the story of the somewhat older Ruth Jüttner, a daughter from a good family, is told. Ruth's parents are wealthy people, the father strict, the mother indulgent and benevolent and endeavored not to completely sever contact with the young woman despite all the differences that exist between parents and daughter. Ruth soon finds herself in criminal circles, a sign of rebellion against her oppressive father and his patriarchal approach to upbringing. After Ruth repeatedly got into difficult situations and caused an accident while drunk, she is taken to a care home. Fred, a wealthy young admirer who keeps getting her into precarious situations, is not entirely innocent. The young girl's descent seems inevitable. After Ruth fled the home with Fred's help, she caused another traffic accident, but this time with injuries. She sits crying on the side of the road and stutters that she wants to go home without knowing that her parents have decided in a late night conversation to bring her daughter back home and empathize with her more and do a lot differently than before.

Production notes, background, publication

In morning life begins is it is a production of Schönbrunn film Ernest Müller , Vienna, in the summer of 1961 in the studios of the Wien-Film . Ges, Rose Hill, was born. World sales were taken over by Export Film Bischoff.

Theo Harisch designed the film structures.

Magda Schneider , a 30s and 40s film star, played her last film role here. It is thanks to a director's suggestion that Schneider’s character, mother Jüttner, is leafing through a women's magazine, on the title page of which Magda's daughter Romy Schneider is depicted.

Leading actress Cordula Trantow and film composer Herbert Trantow were daughter and father.

The film premiered on October 24, 1961 in Germany. The Austrian premiere took place on November 22, 1961. In Greece, the film was published under the title Den ftaine ta neiata .

Reviews

In a review that was written at the time the film was released, it says: “If it weren't such a long way from the good intention to the appropriate artistic design, we would have better films in this country. Director Hermann Leitner, who shot this new youth problem film based on his own idea, also provides a prime example of this almost tragic discrepancy. The new story isn't so important as the authenticity of the milieu and its people. The characters here are more or less cliché figures, which even the best acting efforts can hardly breathe life into. The fact that the film only allows two exemplary girls' fates to run side by side also leads to a more than harsh editing technique that disturbs the overall picture. "

Paimann's film lists summed up: “A plot that, despite problems, is schematic, played by the young next to the established; linguistically settled in northern Germany despite the outdoor shots in Vienna. "

“A 'warning film' about the problems of young people, sedately staged in the style of the times: the socially endangered of two girls from opposing milieus turns around, while the middle-class takes longer to become wise. Well-intentioned, but clichéd and superficial. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Don't damn the young sinners Fig. Film poster in the IMDb
    (in the picture: Michael Heltau, Cordula Trantow, Corny Collins)
  2. ↑ Don't damn the young sinners (Tomorrow begins life, 1961) Hermann Leitner
    on the page “Green is the Heath The German Film 1930 to 1980” (including remarks on the film).
  3. ↑ Don't damn the young sinners (1961) see page Edgar Wallace, Deutsche Filmklassiker und Eurokult. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ Tomorrow life begins in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / old.filmarchiv.at
  5. ↑ Life begins tomorrow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 7, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used