Crimes After School End (1959)
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| Original title | Crimes after school |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Alfred Vohrer |
| script | Harald G. Petersson |
| production | Ultra-Film GmbH ( Josef Wolf ) |
| music | Ernst Simon |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Ira Oberberg |
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Crime after school is a German feature film by the director Alfred Vohrer . The black and white film between film drama and crime film produced by West-Berliner Ultra-Film was shot in Hamburg and Sylt in the first half of 1959 . The premiere took place on June 24, 1959 in the Marble House in West Berlin.
In terms of content, the film has no connection with the film of the same name from 1975 , which was also directed by Alfred Vohrer.
content
When Priman Fabian König tries to free a chained farm dog, he comes into conflict with the police. When he was expelled from school, the teacher, of all people, who had encouraged him to do the deed, betrayed him. Even with his father, an authoritarian retired colonel. D., the young person encounters complete incomprehension. So Fabian almost inevitably gets on the wrong track, founds a violent gang of young people and begins to steal.
A little later he meets the orphan girl Ulla Anders, who falls in love with him. When Ulla learns of Fabian's criminal acts, she doesn't want anything more to do with him. But a short time later she is threatened by the pimp Horst Bregulla and Fabian saves her from rape at the last moment. When Bregulla is found dead soon afterwards, Fabian is immediately suspected. He is arrested on the basis of the testimony of the dubious witness Erna Kallies, Bregulla's acquaintance, and finally sentenced to five years in prison for manslaughter.
In the prison Fabian found the trust of the understanding prison doctor Dr. Knittel. He is convinced of Fabian's innocence and starts his own investigation. He tracks down Ulla, who has gone into hiding on Sylt, and who can prove Fabian's innocence. Erna Kallies, who had testified against Fabian in court to divert attention from her own guilt. confesses, convicted by Knittel, the deed. Fabian's case is being reopened and a lower prison sentence awaits him. He is now only prosecuted for the thefts. Ulla promises to wait for him.
History of origin
prehistory
Alfred Vohrer had already directed two successful thugs in 1958 . Among them was his directorial debut Schmutziger Engel , which was produced by the West Berlin dubbing company Ultra-Film, for which Vohrer worked many times as a dubbing director in the 1950s . Vohrer had shown himself to be a talented director on his first own films and his work was a good business success. The head of Ultra-Film, Josef Wolf , wanted to produce a youth problem film under Vohrer's direction in 1959.
Pre-production and script
As a template for the film, Walter Ebert's "factual novel " Crimes After School was first published in 1956 in the Illustrated Revue was chosen . The author already had the templates for the German crime novel Dr. Crippen aboard (1942) as well as for the British thriller Dangerous Vacation (The Man Between) (1953). The novel, Verbrechen after school , which appeared in book form in 1958 , had a much harder content than Vohrer's previous films. As with Schmutziger Engel , Harald G. Petersson was hired as a screenwriter. Paul Ronge acted as legal advisor .
The cast list again consisted of youngsters and well-known film and stage actors. Christian Wolff had only started his career two years earlier and, like his partner Heidi Brühl , had already participated in the teenage drama Die Frühhreifen . Otherwise Alfred Vohrer resorted to numerous actors with whom he had already worked, including Hans Nielsen , Corny Collins , Erica Beer , Claus Wilcke and above all Peter van Eyck , who played the understanding prison doctor. Richard Münch was hired as his authoritarian counterpart .
production
The shooting took place from March 23 to the end of May 1959 in Hamburg and on Sylt . The interior shots were shot in the Real-Film studios in Hamburg-Tonndorf . For the Design were Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt responsible. The sound engineer was Werner Schlagge .
Film music
The soundtrack comes from Ernst Simon . The glass harp played Bruno Hoffmann .
reception
publication
The FSK released the film on June 19, 1959, from the age of 18. The world premiere took place on June 24th in the Marble House in West Berlin. With his third film, Alfred Vohrer was able to prove his extraordinary talent for filming material with criminal motifs for the first time. As in his later Edgar Wallace films , among other things , he didn't skimp on fast camera pans and effective zooms .
Despite some bad reviews, the film was an above-average success. In the polls carried out by the trade journal Filmecho / Filmwoche at that time , in which cinema visitors rated current films on a scale from 1 (excellent) to 7 (very bad), the film received a grade of 2.6. For comparison: The films A Man Walks Through The Wall (2.8), Roses For The Prosecutor (2.6) And Triplets On Board (3.0) , Released In The Same Year .
The film Crimes After School Ending was also marketed internationally. For example, it ran in the United States under the distribution title The Young Go Wild . The main actor Christian Wolff received a critics award for his role at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián .
The film has not yet been shown on German television. The film was released on DVD in June 2013 .
Reviews
“This straggler of the hooligans series, which was made from an illustrated“ factual novel ”, combines such an unusually high number of cinematographic vices that its premiere looks like an oversight after the shooting has finished. Director Alfred Vohrer was unable to hide the inability of the performing children’s group (Christian Wolff, Heidi Brühl, Corny Collins). He only succeeded in proving that, as a single German American cracker, he had copied almost all common suspense tricks from Hollywood veterans; but he did not know how to incorporate it into his film about the criminal years of German schoolchildren in a way that was neither effective nor dramatically credible. "
“Otherwise you have to realize that in this film both the bad and the good appear on the screen in a rather one-sided way. Something like that is possible (despite the facts) at the expense of credibility. "
"Ready-made item from the wave of" youngsters "films that was fashionable in German cinema in the 50s, which serves the usual ingredients as crassly and enriched as possible with slowed-down" sex "."
Web links
- Crime after school in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crimes after school at filmportal.de
- Crimes after school at filmreporter.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 106 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 101 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2889 meters
- ^ Walter Ebert in the Lexicon of German Crime Authors
- ↑ Post-school crimes . Pidax film media Ltd. EAN : 4260158192880
- ^ Film: New in Germany . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1959, pp. 70 ( online ).
- ↑ Youth in the Twilight. In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , July 4, 1959, accessed on May 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Crimes after school. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .