Games for school children

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Movie
German title Games for school children or
games for school age children
Original title Игры для детей школьного возраста
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1986
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Leida Laius
Arvo Iho
script Marina Sheptunova
production Tallinn film
music Lepo Sumera
camera Arvo Iho
cut Kersti Miilen
occupation

Games for School Children (also: Games for School-Age Children ) ( Игры для детей школьного возраста ) is a Soviet feature film directed by Leida Laius and Arvo Iho from 1986 based on a book by Silvia Rannamaa .

action

16-year-old Marie escapes from a children's home in which she has only been for a few days, because she cannot cope there. But her constantly drunk father doesn't want her around and sends her back to the facility. But she doesn't want to go back and goes to the train station first. Once there, she is almost raped by three boys and freed from this situation by a group of girls. During the brawl, the police arrive, the boys escape and the girls are arrested. Here Marie is picked up again by a teacher from the home. It later turns out that she herself was a child in the home and stayed after she was released to help the children.

In the home she recognizes Ronny as the boy who was the leader of the harassment at the train station. He had gone out to see his parents for five days, but never got there. In the home he was very popular with the other children and also a kind of spokesman here. So he decided to harass Marie further. But she had found a supporter in Tauri, with whom she fell in love. She confided these thoughts to her diary.

When one day the girls around their leader Katrin decide not to eat a soup because it is allegedly burnt, Marie does not take part in this action. In revenge, Katrin steals her diary and reads to the other children in front of all the passages of her secret declarations of love. Marie then wants to take her own life with pills, but she is rescued by the home workers.

In the course of time, Marie and Ronny slowly get closer, which is not right for the more sensible Tauri. In a fight between the two boys, Tauri is so badly injured that he has to go to the hospital. During an interrogation in the home management about the process, Marie describes what a helpful boy Ronny is and it was actually he who saved her at the train station. Nevertheless, he is taken away by the police.

production

The film, shot in color, premiered in Moscow in August 1986 under the title Игры для детей школьного возраста .

In the GDR it was first shown on the occasion of the 16th days of socialist film from September 20 to 24, 1988 in Dresden and then at the XVII. Festival of Soviet Film from October 27 to November 3, 1988 in Berlin.

In New Germany on November 3, 1989, the deputy minister for culture of the GDR Horst Pehnert announced that films that had disappeared from the public for about a year in connection with perestroika , including games for school children, could be shown again with immediate effect .

criticism

In the daily newspaper Neues Deutschland, Horst Knietzsch says that the film is artistically remarkable and has sharp social accents.

The Lexicon of International Films described the film as a critically realistic and masterfully staged film about the relationships of home children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 3, 1989, p. 6
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , September 21, 1988, p. 4
  3. ↑ Games for school children. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , May 6, 1986, p. 4