The beach is under the pavement
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The beach is under the pavement |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| script | Heinrich Giskes, Grischa Huber, Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| production | Helma Sanders-Brahms |
| camera | Thomas Mauch |
| cut | Elfie Tillack |
| occupation | |
Under the pavement is the beach is the film debut of Helma Sanders-Brahms from 1975. It became a central film of the German women's movement and the 1968 movement . Before that, Sanders-Brahms had little or no contact with the women's rights scene.
action
The film deals with the aftermath of the student revolts of 1968 in Germany from the perspective of two participants. After the two Berlin theater actors Grischa and Heinrich were accidentally locked in the changing room, they got to know each other overnight. When they meet again a few days later, they sleep together, and Heinrich cockily wants a child. They will be a couple.
Although far-reaching reforms have been initiated since 1968, both are increasingly disappointed after the ideals of the 1968 movement and are looking for new goals. After a night of intense debating about the past and the future, they are fighting for a new draft abortion law. However, their renewed excitement and relationship is soon complicated by an unexpected pregnancy.
publication
The premiere of the film was on March 6, 1975 in the Arsenal cinema in Berlin.
In 2008 the film was released on DVD by Facets Multi-Media .
reception
Wendy Ellen Everett and Axel Goodbody, authors of Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema , wrote that the film had become “a cult film of the German feminist movement”. The Philadelphia City Paper made a similar statement, noting that the film is still showing and that it is a film of "key interest."
Andrew O'Hehir wrote on the website salon.com that it was Sanders-Brahms' best film. Stuart Henderson of popmatters.com described the film as a "revelation" and a "fascinating and important film".
The two main actors won the German Film Prize in 1975 (Filmband in Gold).
Web links
- Under the cobblestones, the beach is in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The beach at filmportal.de is under the pavement
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Helma Sanders-Brahms: Film and National Identity" (Editors' Introduction). In: Everett, Wendy Ellen, and Axel Goodbody (editors). Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema (Volume 2 of New Studies in European Cinema, ISSN 1661-0261 ). Peter Lang , 2005. ISBN 3-03910-264-8 , 9783039102648. p. 157 .
- ↑ Möhrmann, Renate. The woman with the camera . Carl Hanser Verlag , 1980. ISBN 3-446-13160-4 , 9783446131606. P. 145 .
- ↑ a b The beach is under the pavement . Retrieved January 10, 2014.
- ↑ Under the Pavement Lies the Strand . Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ^ Repertory film . Philadelphia City Paper , p. 44. March 19, 2013. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Under the Pavement Lies the Strand . Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Andrew O'Hehir: DVDs You Should Have Seen - But Didn't: Beat the Winter Blahs! . February 2, 2011. Accessed December 31, 2013.
- ↑ Stuart Henderson: Under the Pavement Lies the Strand . September 11, 2008. Accessed December 31, 2013.