You are out

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Movie
German title You are out
Original title Ole dole doff
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1968
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Jan Troell
script Jan Troell, Bengt Forslund , Clas Engström based
on a novel by the latter
production Bengt Forslund
music Lars Lalin
camera Jan Troell
cut Jan Troell
occupation

Jan Troell was responsible for the direction, camera and editing of the Swedish feature film Raus bist du ( Ole dole doff ) from 1968 . He also worked on the script, which was based on the novel The Island Sinks by Clas Engström . Troell, like his two screenplay co-writers, had been a teacher himself, and Sorgefriskolan in Malmö , the “carefree school” where he had taught, was used as the location. The semi-documentary stylized film was recorded on 16 mm film and copied to 35 mm for the screening. The jury of the Berlinale 1968 awarded the work with theGolden bear out.

action

Waking up from a dream in which he is tormented by his 6th grade, the school teacher Mårtensson gets up and goes to class. He lacks any natural authority and sharply punishes any insubordination on the part of the students. They react all the more with small provocations, especially the student Bengt and Jane, who is associated with him.

Mårtensson's wife Gunvor wants offspring and has growing doubts about whether he likes children. His tepid interest in her is also related to his affection for his colleague Ann-Marie. At a parents' evening he explains that the school is in a transition from the old authoritarian style to “democratic” forms of teaching. Not all parents are convinced of the reforms. Increasing tensions between him and the class are discharged, among other things, in the fact that the students throw hard snowballs at him. In a conversation with Ann-Marie, he tries to find out how she manages to get along with the students. He realizes that the work is more difficult for him than for other teachers because he is actually on the side of the students. Gradually he breaks down in his situation. After one of the students was run over, he made unjustified reproaches and suffered another nightmare in which the accident victim was covered in blood and lay on the playground and the crowd of students chanted "Murderer!" Gunvor has since lost patience and moves to Stockholm to start a new life. Finally, the worried Mårtensson admonished the class not to swim too far out during a bath in the sea. After his futile calls, he swims out to them, where they repeatedly push him under the water until he is half-dead on the bank and resuscitated.

Critical reception

For Ulrich Gregor von der Filmkritik , the core question of the film, the "question of the right relationship between liberality and authority in education", was at the origin of serious social conflicts. The teacher fails “probably because he approaches them with an incorrectly applied double attitude of condescending understanding and irascible repression, probably also because he feels inferior and guilty towards the children.” More intuitive than analytical, Troell condenses fragments of reality and tries about an “expressionistic exaggeration of the expressive value”, as Per Oscarsson also plays with “piercing intensity”. The background of the figures is "carefully" sketched. In the same magazine, his colleague Peter W. Jansen accused Troell of stealing the public's trust through technical manipulations that feign authenticity. The “nimble meticulousness” of a very mobile camera and the coarse grain of film, “which so pleasantly lacks any gloss or smoothness”, would bring the action close to the viewer. It is all too easy to assume that the teacher figure, clichéd as an unfortunate failure, could only fail to teach “today's rebellious youth”. Troell provides "all desirable arguments for pleading for a repressive upbringing", even if he may have pursued an educational intention; the "sensations to which his film willingly gives way can possibly and at best not be misunderstood in a country whose official ethos tries to withstand the seductions of repression."

The editors of the film-dienst also did not agree on the assessment of the work. Günter Graf praised the authenticity of the location and the students, who were "used in places with oppressive fascination". Troell seriously addresses the fact that society's turning away from authority in education produces students “who torture their victim with childlike, carefree sadism. Some scenes show the premonition of the doctrine that the executioners are actually innocent, that their irritable aggressiveness, their indulgence, their collective destructive rage are inevitable against the background of this system search. Franz Everschor found the topic of the teacher, who had the right attitude but failed to implement, important, but expressed doubts about Troell's approach. The director reduces the problem to the suffering of an individual instead of investigating social causes; thus "it moves fatally close to defeatism: someone who torments himself must perish." The numerous, unjustified awards of the film were based on the tendency of the juries to agree on harmless compromises.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Gregor : Ole dole doff . In: Filmkritik , No. 8/1968, p. 542
  2. ^ Peter W. Jansen : Ole dole doff . In: Filmkritik , No. 1/1969, pp. 55–56
  3. ↑ film-dienst No. 29/1968