Trace of a girl
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Trace of a girl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gustav Ehmck |
| script | Egon Mann , Gustav Ehmck |
| production | Gustav Ehmck |
| music | Gunter Hampel |
| camera | Egon man |
| cut | Jane Hempel |
| occupation | |
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Trace of a Girl is a 1967 fictional film drama by Gustav Ehmck with Thekla Carola Wied in her screen debut as a schizophrenic student.
action
The young student Hanna, on the surface a typical representative of her generation, suffers from a special form of schizophrenia, hebephrenia . In her own world of perception, oscillating between madness and the search for truth, she desperately searches for personal happiness but also for poetry and her idea of freedom. Hanna's appearance of a positive, completely "normal" woman of today is more and more overlaid by strange reactions on her part, which stand in strange contrast to her being determined by harmony. This discrepancy soon takes on dramatic traits, which ultimately lead to shrill discordant notes. Hanna's decline in personality is becoming more and more obvious to those around her ...
Production notes
Trace of a Girl was Gustav Ehmck's feature film debut and was premiered on October 27, 1967. On February 24, 1970, the film was shown on television for the first time on ZDF .
Awards
- In 1968 Ehmck received the Federal Film Prize for the best young directors.
- Thekla Carola Wied received the film tape in gold in the category "Best Acting Achievement - Female Leading Role"
criticism
For the Lexicon of International Films , Trace of a Girl was "a first film that combines the report of the illness with a criticism of the attitude towards time and life at the end of the 1960s and which tries to present the individual case as a conflict in society as a whole."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trace of a Girl. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 18, 2018 .
Web links
- Track of a girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trace of a girl at filmportal.de