Too young for love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Too young for love |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Erica Balqué |
| script |
Eberhard Keindorff Johanna Sibelius |
| production | Artur Brauner |
| music | Ernst Simon |
| camera | Igor Oberberg |
| cut | Waltraut Wischniewsky |
| occupation | |
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Too young for love is a German feature film from 1961 with Loni von Friedl in the lead role of a teenager who accidentally became pregnant. Helmut Käutner , the husband of the director Erica Balqué , played a supporting role.
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The focus of the plot is on two teenagers, 16-year-old Katja and 17-year-old high school student Klaus, son of well-off parents. Both have already had sex with each other, and now Katja, who is under the guardianship of the youth welfare office, is pregnant. Klaus takes loving care of his girlfriend, makes her happy in bed not only with himself, but also with champagne and caviar (which his father, the general manager Rennert, easily finances). The underage couple want to get married and want to give the small family to be a worthy setting. But state legislation does not provide for this, any more than the adults around them are ready to support this step. One is strictly against it and has no ear for Katja's and Klausen's wishes and dreams.
And so the two young people decide to run off to Scotland, because they have heard that in the small border town of Gretna Green you can get married as minors. Adults' understanding comes late, but not too late. Rennert's father doesn't want his son to come under the wheels of a stranger and sends him 50 pounds sterling first . In the end, Katja and Klaus prove that they are not “too young for love”, as the film title inquiringly states, and they still receive the blessing from the adult world. The young couple will return home and will go their own way, regardless of the opinion of the others.
Production notes
Too young for love was made between December 1, 1960 and January 15, 1961 in the CCC film studios Artur Brauners in Berlin-Spandau . The exterior shots were made in Gretna Green . The film premiered on March 24, 1961 in the Alhambra cinema in Düsseldorf.
Helmut Nentwig and Albrecht Hennings were responsible for the film construction, the costumes were designed by Anneliese Ludwig. Helga von Wangenheim provided the idea for this film material. Rolf Zacher made his film debut here with a tiny role.
Reviews
“ Too young for love? ... is cinema entertainment with ambition, which shows the misery of the average German screen. He is deeply dishonest in character and salary. And what's bad about it: Helmut Käutner is responsible for him. He draws for the unspecified 'artistic direction'; his wife Erica Balquè directed it for the first time, obviously keen to lead a large number of fresh young people who were about to make their debut in the studio. But that doesn't make an impression. Rather, you keep the impression of a very screwed up script that Käutner has accepted. No matter what the reason. He gave up his name and was not satisfied with the role of a lawyer with a passion for young people. (...) Igor Oberberg, Käutner's closest cameraman, captured all the scenes that the director had deliberately focused on the essentials correctly and neatly. The reason for the failure lies in the physiognomy of the people and the artificiality of the milieu. It is once again a German study of society with critical cliché figures in Komfort. (...) Is this characteristic of our youth? This and striptease among teenagers in the luxury mansion? Are parents and carers who talk so yesterday and clumsily typical of the generation against which young people raise the title question provocatively? The honest observation of everyday life results in a straight 'no' to these questions. Käutner ought to know. If he nevertheless loaded his wife's first film director, who was aiming at the generation problem, with a strong dolce vita and overly cheeky parents, the only suspicion remains that even a director of his rank promises box-office successes from such clichés. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Wrong story of youngsters, in which the parents do worse, but exaggerations in conflict position and characters are not (are) avoided."
"Well-intentioned, but threadbare constructed problem film that takes sides for a self-confident acting, responsible youth and gets stuck in clichés."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Balqué stood by her side - unnamed - her husband Helmut Käutner, who was very experienced in directing
- ↑ Too young for love? in Paimann's film lists
- ↑ Too young for love? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Too young for love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Too young for love at filmportal.de