You Are Not Alone (film)

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Movie
German title You are not alone
Original title You er ikke alene
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 1978
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ernst Johansen ,
Lasse Nielsen
script Let Nielsen ,
Bent Petersen
production Steen Herdel
music Knud Grabow Christensen
camera Henrik Herbert
cut Hanne hatred
occupation

You Are Not Alone (Original title: Du er ikke alene , Danish for "You are not alone") is a Danish drama about growing up by Lasse Nielsen from 1978 , about the awakening of love between two boys in a boarding school goes.

In 2018, six male and sixteen female former child actors accused the two directors of sexual abuse during the production of You Are Not Alone and other films.

action

The story takes place in a Danish boarding school for boys in the late 1970s, where the two boys Kim, the director's young son, and Bo become close and develop a love affair with children. At the beginning of the film, the director tries to raise funds to build a new gym for the school. The boarding school and its teaching staff are still partly shaped by Christian morals, but the new era has already arrived in the form of several teachers and servants. Later in the plot, a problematic student is expelled from school for repeatedly hanging pictures of naked women in the school rooms. The angry students then show solidarity with him and successfully protest against his exclusion and the authoritarian teaching staff, so that the director finally reverses his decision. At the graduation party, the students show a short film they have made themselves and which they were asked to make about the Ten Commandments . However, they have decided to make the film only about the phrase "You should love your neighbor as yourself". It shows the two boys Kim and Bo, who, despite all hostility, reveal what they feel for each other. You can no longer see the reactions this film evokes.

background

Initially, the Danish censors banned the film for children under twelve because children would not understand the homosexual topic. However, the ban was lifted after a few years.

Originally it was planned in the script that Kim would flee from the angry father in Bo's self-made hiding place after the film showing and be seen there with Bo in the final scene. However, this final scene was exposed too dark and could not be re-shot for financial reasons, so that the director Lasse Nielsen decided in the editing room to let the film end with the screening of the student film. In the end , both versions should have a happy ending .

The film was first released in Germany in 2007 by cmv-Laservision as the original with German subtitles on DVD. Since September 2014 the DVD also contains a German dubbed version.

reception

The film-dienst praised the film as a "[e] sensitively staged coming-out / coming-of-age drama with good young actors and a meticulously prepared local and time flavor".

Janet Maslin criticized the New York Times that while the filmmakers apparently intended to arouse interest in "the way school and the lives of the other boys", the "lustfulness" of their approach undermines everything else. There is much more “malice” in the film than in its characters. The "tender age" of the protagonist - the "special sex object" - gives the film a certain originality.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Approval certificate from the FSK. (PDF) August 3, 2007, accessed November 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Børneskuespillere from 1970's film fortæller om seksuelt misbrug . ( jyllands-posten.dk [accessed August 31, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b Interview with director Lasse Nielsen. TheSkyKid.com, October 2009, accessed March 13, 2015 .
  4. ↑ You are not alone - German language version. cmv laser vision , accessed on November 3, 2014 .
  5. ↑ You Are Not Alone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Janet Maslin: Danish Boys and Pasolini Bits. The New York Times, January 2, 1981, accessed November 3, 2014 : "Kim has silky blond hair and appears to be about 9 years old, so his tender age gives the film a certain originality. … This Danish film, which was directed in 1979 by Lasse Nielsen and Ernst Johansen and has its premiere today at the Thalia, has considerably more guile than its characters. Everyone is photographed teasingly, but Kim is the particular sex object of the film, though he does little more than smile prettily and pull his shirt off at any opportunity. Though the directors do seem intent on generating some interest in the workings of the school and the lives of the other boys, the prurience of their tactics overpowers everything else. "