After five in the jungle

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Movie
Original title After five in the jungle
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1995
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Hans-Christian Schmid
script Michael Gutmann ,
Hans-Christian Schmid
music Rainer Michel
camera Klaus Eichhammer
cut Hansjörg Weißbrich
occupation

After Fünf im Urwald is a German feature film from 1995 .

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Anna is 17 years old and lives in a small, traditional Bavarian town. Her parents allow her to celebrate her birthday party alone in her parents' house for the first time. However, they are required to only use the basement as a party room. However, the young party guests quickly spread throughout the house. Drug and beer consumption complete the chaos in the house. When the parents come home in the morning, they find some teenagers asleep and the house in a chaotic state. The biggest disaster for father Wolfgang is, however, destroyed, rare Thelonious Monk - record . Anna receives the expected moral sermon from her father; In the course of this, he forbids her to participate in a casting for a commercial in Munich , which she was eagerly awaiting and for which she was given an expensive guitar for her birthday. Without further ado she pulls out to take part in the casting anyway. She hitchhikes and meets the also runaway boy next door, Simon, who has also taken his parents' car with him. Together they go to Munich. Simon is Anna's secret admirer. However, the shy boy cannot draw enough attention to himself. The casting is disappointing from Anna's point of view. Anna meets Nick, a young film production manager, who invites her to dinner. They go to his apartment because he wants to make calls beforehand. There he takes advantage of her inexperience to approach her and kisses Anna, but is interrupted by a call, whereupon he leaves the apartment and asks Anna to wait there for his return.

In the meantime, Anna's parents are looking for their daughter in a Munich discotheque, where they meet Simon's parents, who in turn are looking for their son. Together they go on a search, which is unsuccessful. The two parents return, make friends, drink together, smoke the “confiscated” hashish and begin to remember their own wild youth, which does not at all fit into the current, narrow-minded life situation.

Nick's apartment turns out to be a shared flat, and Anna lets the two roommates Zille and Ben take her to the train station, but spontaneously decides to attend their band rehearsal. When they return to the shared apartment, Zille and Ben fight, whereupon Anna and Ben break into an outdoor swimming pool area and get closer there. Anna doesn't like the situation, however, and she returns to the band's rehearsal room, where she swaps the guitar she had brought with a member of the band for his copy of the rare Monk record and finally drives home with Simon, whom she met again at the train station.

Once there, Anna finds her and Simon's parents asleep in the living room and plays the record.

Occasionally, the events are directed to Anna's little sister Clara, as her diary entries, which comment on the behavior of the adults , can be heard off- screen .

Others

Franka Potente was still an acting student at the time of shooting.

The director gave two characters in the film the names of former classmates from his high school days.

Even before the film was shown on the pay-TV channel Premiere (today Sky Germany ), the film was already being shown on Arte . This is an exception, since the films shown on Premiere usually had their TV premiere there and not on free television.

Reviews

  • Film-Dienst (issue 8-1996): An excellently played, light- handedly developed 'educational comedy ' that takes its people seriously at all times and leads them gently and wittily to insight and understanding. Worth seeing.
  • Fischer Filmalmanach: A comedy made from one piece. Every sentence a hit.

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