And that's called life
| Movie | |
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| Original title | And that's called life |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Géza from Radványi |
| script | Willy Clever |
| production | Alfa feature film production ( Artur Brauner ) |
| music | Martin Böttcher |
| camera | Richard fear |
| cut | Walter Wischniewsky |
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And something called life is a German film drama by the director Géza von Radványi . The black and white film produced by Artur Brauners Alfa-Film was shot in West Berlin in 1960 . The world premiere took place on January 10, 1961 in the City and Filmpalast in Hanover .
action
Irene Dirks visited every evening a youth and rowdies popular dance bar. Little does his father, a widowed lawyer, suspect that his daughter has had numerous affairs: with the musicians Victor and René, with the sporty Bob or with Mario, the owner of the bar. The reserved music student Martin Berger, Irene, is completely different really loves. When she got in touch with the boy again, there was only one practical reason for her. Martin is supposed to pick up her friend Britta from the bus station in his father's car.
Out of spite, boredom and because she wants to be someone special, Irene deceives her friends wherever she can. When Martin learns that he, too, is being fooled, he is filled with blind rage. He presses his hands around Irene's neck and comes to his senses just in time. The sensitive boy feels miserable and seeks advice from his father. But the gruff building contractor is less interested in his son's feelings than in his company's reputation. He visits the girl to dissuade her from his son. When Berger, who is not loyal to his wife anyway, confronts Irene, one thing leads to another. The cooked girl seduces him.
One day Irene learns that she is pregnant. She thinks she knows that this is Bob's child. But he just laughs at her and has plans to marry another girl. Irene tries to blackmail Mr. Berger in order to pay for an abortion . After Berger threw her out, she went to see his son Martin. When she pretends to be shy and tender and speaks of marriage, she falls for it again. When father Berger finds out, he relentlessly explains to Martin about his adventure with Irene.
Irene wants to win back the heart of the hopelessly disappointed Martin with a trick that she copied from her friend Ulla. To convince the young man of the seriousness of her situation, she swallows a pack of luminal tablets and cuts the phone line. But this time she miscalculated. Martin looks on unmoved as Irene dies from the far too high dose of sleeping pills. After the funeral, Martin goes to the dance bar and blames the other boys for Irene's death. He finally admits his own guilt. The father, who in turn only thinks about the reputation of his company, prevents Martin from facing the police. Then the desperate Martin makes a momentous decision and goes to the roof of a skyscraper.
History of origin
production
The originally planned title of the film was Angry Youth . Artur Brauner produced this late work of the youthful problem films that have been popular since the mid-1950s. Although the action takes place in Frankfurt am Main , the filming actually took place from July 11th to mid-September 1960 in West Berlin . In one scene, the Wittenbergplatz underground station can be clearly seen. The interior shots were shot in the CCC-Film studios in Berlin-Haselhorst . The buildings were designed by the film architects Paul Markwitz and Heinrich Weidemann . Claudia Herberg was responsible for the costume advice. Eva Ebner acted as assistant director . Production manager was Horst Wendlandt . Karl-Otto Alberty made his film debut here.
Film music
The film music, which has not yet been published on phonograms, was composed by Martin Böttcher . In one scene he used the melody of the title theme for the film Die Halbstarken (1956).
Others
The actors Christian Doermer and Reinhard Kolldehoff mentioned in some sources did not appear in this film.
reception
publication
The FSK released the film on October 7, 1960 from the age of 18. The world premiere took place on January 10, 1961 in the City and Filmpalast in Hanover. The Prisma-Filmverleih, which marketed the film, luridly promised an "exciting picture of the fate of an uninhibited person".
And something called life could also be marketed abroad and ran there under the following titles:
- Belgium , French title: Quand les parents dorment
- Belgium , Dutch title: Terwijl de ouders slapen
- Finland , Finnish title: Kun vanhemmat nukkuvat
- Finland , Swedish title: Då föräldrarna sover
- Greece : Orgia anilikon
- Italy : Una come source ...
- Mexico : Cuando los padres duermen
The film was released on DVD in early 2015 . The FSK approval has now been reduced to 16 years.
Reviews
"[...] whereby the" sweet life "template is applied to the youth in a generalized way; with skilled craftsmanship and, also in the junior roles, with expressive powers. "
"A lying story about bad young people and bad parents in a major German city."
Web links
- The Thin Life calls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- And that's what life is called at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 91 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 88 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2493 meters
- ↑ Spelling in the opening credits: and something is called living , on the film poster: And something is called life . In secondary sources, on the other hand, the spelling is often found: ... and something like that is called life .
- ↑ Film poster at filmportal.de
- ↑ And that's called life . In: old.filmarchiv.at. Paimann's Filmlisten , Nr. 2602_2, April 12, 1961, accessed October 11, 2016 .
- ↑ And that's called life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 11, 2016 .
