Starting fever
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Starting fever |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Konrad Petzold |
| script | Konrad Petzold |
| production | DEFA , KAG "Johannisthal" |
| music | Zdenek John |
| camera | Rolf Sohre |
| cut | Sabine Schmager |
| occupation | |
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Startfieber is a DEFA German feature film directed by Konrad Petzold in 1986.
action
Twelve-year-old Holger has to move in with his grandparents for a long time again because his mother is writing a doctoral thesis and therefore cannot look after him. He is already used to this, as his father was often transferred as an officer in the National People's Army and he also had to spend the transition periods with his grandparents. That's why he also knows Jens and Ralf, who are the same age. When he observed her jumping on a ski jump mat , he was of the opinion that he could do it too, and on his first attempt, he was happy in the run. From that moment he has a new hobby.
Five years later, the friends meet again at a children's and youth sports school and share a room in the dormitory. You have now qualified as a Nordic Combined , fighting for a place in the junior national team. But the youngsters are different: Holger is an excellent jumper, but a bad runner, with Jens it is exactly the opposite. Ralf, who started training as a cook, discovered after a fall that he could not overcome his fear of jumping and stopped doing competitive sport. In addition to the sporting rivalry, the boys fell in love with the same girl, the racing sled athlete Anette.
During a competition, Jens is given the task of supporting Holger in the running discipline so that the lead gained by jumping is not lost again. When Jens sees that Holger can no longer follow the race, he goes alone in the front and takes first place. His reasoning was that neither would have won otherwise. The coach perceives the behavior as an action against the team spirit and Holger goes home disappointed to stop the sport. Jens follows him, both talk and fight, now again as friends, to participate in the Junior World Championship. The result of the new team spirit is impressive: Holger and Jens stand together on the podium at the award ceremony.
production
Startfieber was filmed on ORWO color by the artistic work group “Johannisthal” and had its world premiere on February 6, 1986 in the Karl-Marx-Städter Kino Europa 70 . It was first broadcast on television on January 20, 1990 in DDR-F1 .
The exterior shots were made a. in Oberwiesenthal , Zella-Mehlis and in the Pockau training center .
The scenario came from Peter Löpelt and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Andreas Scheinert .
criticism
Horst Knietzsch from New Germany lacked an emotional, dramatic and cinematic plot that would move the viewer more intensely. For him, the film was too single-layered for long stretches.
Günter Sobe from the Berliner Zeitung asked himself after twenty minutes in quiet resignation what he was hoping for. The film offers nothing but top salad: weak book, helpless dramaturgy, poor performance, inconsequential camera work. Craft, simply craft would be in demand!
In the lexicon of international film, the film is perceived as a failed, tension-free and not very entertaining report on competitive sport in the GDR. Superficial in presenting the problem and without any representational charisma.
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 581-582 .
Web links
- Starting fever in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Start fever at filmportal.de
- Starting fever at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 11, 1986, p. 4
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 21, 1986, p. 7
- ^ Starting fever. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .