Skin - hatred was his way out
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Skin - hatred was his way out |
| Original title | skin |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Hanro Smitsman |
| script | Hanro Smitsman, Philip Delmaar , Germen Boelens |
| production | Marc Bary |
| music | Paleis van Boem |
| camera | Joost Rietdijk |
| cut | Marc Bechtold |
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Skin - Hass was his way out is a coming-of-age Dutch film drama from 2008.
action
The film is set in 1979, somewhere in the Netherlands . The story makes chronological leaps. The opening scene shows the protagonist Frankie Epstein (Robert de Hoog) in prison.
Frankie is young, rebellious, and increasingly destructive. He tries to escape his parents' home in various ways. He drives a moped, smokes hashish and goes to punk concerts. Punks, skins, blacks, whites and long-haired are among his friends. There are always Naziskins at the concerts. His best friend is Jeffrey, a colored skinhead who deals in drugs. Another friend is Maikel, who helps out his father in the fast food shop. Together with two punks, the three beat up a young man who belongs to a group of migrants who previously beat up Maikel. The relationship with his father Simon Epstein (John Buijsman) is disturbed. His father is a Jew and a former concentration camp prisoner who survived but broke because of the experiences. He has no access to his pubescent son and is not looking for him. Father, mother and son run a cleaning company. The father is highly dependent. The mother has to issue the bills, the father lacks an overview. But one day Anna Epstein collapses and comes to the hospital. She has cancer. Then father Simon becomes more and more weepy. Frankie visits his mother regularly in the hospital. Jeffrey's mother is a hairdresser and, to the annoyance of his father Frankie, who previously wore red-blonde curly hair, shaves a short haircut. Naziskins show the Hitler salute at a concert , whereupon the music group breaks off the musical performance. Frankie also raises his arm and tells the band to continue. Frankie and the Naziskins are beaten up and thrown out of the store. There is an argument between Jeffrey and Frankie, who accuses him of not standing by him. But Jeffrey wanted to stay out of it because he has an agreement with the shopkeeper to sell drugs there for a profit sharing. The Naziskins, to which Maikel now also belongs, want to take Frankie with them, but Frankie wants to be left alone. They later meet him during the day and drag him along. They storm into a dilapidated house in which they brutally beat punks. Then they meet Jeffrey's mother on the street, surround her and insult her. Frankie lacks the courage to take immediate action and stops in front of it. Later he wants to apologize for not having helped immediately. But Jeffrey's mother chases him away, Jeffrey hits him in the face. After Anna succumbs to cancer, two of Frankie's new skinhead friends appear at her funeral. Simon chases them all away and casts his son away. Frankie has a skull and a swastika tattooed on his chest. When Frankie and Robbert, the leader of the Naziskins, stop by Maikels father, a group of migrants turns up who want to beat up the Nazis. You challenge them and throw in the disc. Robbert and Frankie then storm out, but have to take a lot in the subsequent brawl. Suddenly one of the provocateurs has a knife in his stomach that Frankie got from his friends. Frankie goes to jail where he meets Jeffrey, who doesn't want to know him at first. There Frankie messes with Jeffrey's friends, a black clique. When they see his tattoo while exercising, they brutally beat him up in the shower. His father finally visits him in prison and a reconciliation begins. When Frankie tries to stand by another boy who is bullied by Jeffrey's friends, he becomes angry. Frankie flees, but his opponent catches up with him and stabs him in the stomach with a knife in front of the guards. The film ends with a take on Frankie's face.
criticism
“Social and milieu study narrated without much effort; the gloomy story is convincing thanks to its in-depth knowledge of youth cultures in the 1970s. "
Awards
- Leading actor Robert de Hoog received a Golden Calf at the Dutch Film Festival
Film music
The film is underlaid with the classic Skinhead by Laurel Aitken .
Web links
- Skin - hatred was his way in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Skin - hatred was his way out. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .