Dance on the brink

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Movie
Original title Dance on the brink
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jürgen Brauer
script Jürgen Brauer
production DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH (KAG Johannisthal)
music Ralf Hoyer
camera Jürgen Brauer
cut Erika Lehmphul
occupation

Tanz auf der Kippe is a feature film by DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH by Jürgen Brauer from 1991 based on the novel Eye Surgery by Jurij Koch from 1988.

action

While in a trailer that on a garbage dump serves the employed there workers as a lounge, the images from the eve of the celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the TV GDR are shown, a young man is not far away beaten by several men. The last attacker finally pushes his head into an acidic puddle , causing corneal damage to the eyes. The young man has difficulty moving to a tap to rinse his eyes. The next few pictures show him in an eye clinic undergoing an initial treatment. Here we also learn that it is the 17-year-old Gerat Lauter. When his parents visit the hospital the next day, his father explains to him that the chief doctor has told him that everything will be fine and that he can come home with pleasure. Gerat withdraws from the father's hand touching him. The doctors tell him that he has to get new corneas. In the flashbacks that follow, the film tells how this story came about.

During the funeral of a deceased teacher, 10th grade student Gerat Lauter discovers that the wrong people are always dying. His teacher Claudia Lohanz, who hears these words, takes him in her car and talks to him about this statement and gives him the feeling that she can understand his struggle for honesty and truth. Unlike his father, who wants to force his son to adapt to society. Both of them throw themselves up because a letter of application for an apprenticeship as an assembly fitter does not meet the father's expectations. But Gerat does not want to talk about the company of the apprenticeship in this application, even if he is offensive with his comments. That's why there is a scuffle between the two of them, which the mother only watches. There are also differences of opinion with his teacher about the application and yet Gerat feels more and more drawn to her. His father's attempt to smooth out the reactions to his application by inviting a manager of the company on the day the diploma was issued ended with his son being thrown out. When looking for accommodation, Claudia Lohanz found him a furnished room from the mother of a fellow student. This leads to a first gentle rapprochement between the two.

During a walk, he also comes across an old gasometer that is being used for work. Here he recognizes Claudia's husband and asks him whether he can work there, which he denies. The next path leads him to the city ​​economy , where he applies for a job. Although the manager honestly tells him that it's not a nice job, he accepts the position with the prospect of vocational training. Until then, he gets a job in the garbage dump, where he and his colleagues are supposed to keep things tidy. Metal is also brought to a scrap dealer for private sale , but Gerat does not accept any of the money. Again and again he tries to reach Claudia, with whom he has really fallen in love, but who gives him to understand that he shouldn't have any hope, although he is no longer a student. Even if you meet her husband, he will not hear anything else from him.

But one day Claudia stands on the dump to visit Gerat while his colleagues go on a private second shift. After a dissolute dance by the now happy couple on the dump, they end up in the trailer to sleep together. But luck only lasts for a short time, because Claudia says that her husband is dismantling the gasometer to sell the scrap for the GDR to the West . She also admits that she had known about it for a long time. This excites Gerat so much that it immediately dresses again to do something about it. He sends Claudia into town to organize people to prevent the metal from being transported away. When he notices that his two colleagues are in the process of loading the parts of the gasometer, he takes a wheel loader to stop the departing freight train. When that doesn't seem to work, he pulls the tracks out of her bed with the shovel. Now he can only flee, but is caught up by his two colleagues, Claudia's husband and a people's policeman , and then beaten up by them. Claudia's husband then pushes his head into the caustic liquid, although he was already beaten.

After the operation on the first eye and when the professor asked what he was seeing, he saw Claudia standing blurred in the hallway.

production

Jurij Koch was responsible for the scenario , who already wrote the literary model, and the dramaturgy was in the hands of Andreas Scheinert . The two doctors were actual ophthalmologists from the district hospital of the Potsdam district , where a large number of the recordings were shot.

Tanz auf der Kippe was filmed by DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH (artistic working group "Johannisthal") under the working title eye surgery on ORWO color and had on February 16, 1991 in the Panorama section during the 41st Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlin house of Cultures of the World its premiere. The cinema premiere took place on April 25, 1991 in the Berlin Progress Clubkino Felix . It was first broadcast on television on October 25, 1992 on ZDF .

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote that this film is consistently staged, freshly played by the two main actors in a sympathetic manner and that its message is metaphorically conclusive.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dance on the dump. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 30, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used