Yesterday Girl

Yesterday Girl (working title: Anita G. ) is a stylist of classics of the New German Cinema of writer, director and producer Alexander Kluge, who had already delivered the book. The premiere took place on September 5, 1966 at the International Film Festival in Venice.

Action

At the beginning of titles appears " separates us from yesterday is no abyss, but the changed situation " and even after the act is repeated by intertitles and comments that spoke Kluge himself, interrupted. Not linear, but rather like a kaleidoscope the efforts of Anita G. is told to get a foothold in the Federal Republic.

She was born to Jewish parents in 1937 in Leipzig and grew after their return to the GDR, where she was telephone operator. After fleeing to the West, they will nurse commits a theft and was sentenced to probation. She escapes from her probation officer and moves to another city.

As a representative of a record company she is mistress of her boss, who but eventually shows his wife 's sake. Even their next job as a maid she loses because of her rumored theft. Your effort to enroll at the University fails because of their deficient educational background that shows her mercilessly blase university assistant.

As a lover of the Deputy Secretary to Pichota her fate for the better seems to be turning, but when she becomes pregnant by him, he makes them with 100 marks. The now a warrant searched Anita G. is going from one place to another, until it arises because of the impending birth of her child the police. The child is taken away from her, and the women's prison she looks forward to their upcoming sentencing.

Background

Yesterday Girl is one of the first feature-length films, which sought to meet the postulated at the Oberhausen Manifesto requirements of a contemporary film. Alexander Kluge, had taken up the fate of Anita G., which was based on an authentic judicial case from 1959 already in his four years earlier published book CVs. In statements and interviews, he prepared the public for the film, in which his sister Alexandra (actually Karin ) took over the lead role. Filming took place from December 1965 to February 1966 in Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Wiesbaden and Munich.

The presentation of the film is unmistakable due to the principles of epic theater. The individual scenes have largely self-reliance, what happened is presented in a cool, documentary, more detailed form. Suddenly appeared the real Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer as a person acting in the film and argues for a humanization of justice. Alfred Edel, then real scientific assistant, played in the film such that the entry to a film career was for him.

The FSK release was initially controversial. The release of the film for the German cinema came when he won an award at the Venice Film Festival with the " Silver Lion ".

Reviews

  • " The intention is not the emotional sympathy of the spectator; he is rather an example of this fate gain knowledge about the state of our society "( Reclams film guide, 1973)
  • " Milestone of the young German cinema" ( Heyne Filmlexikon, 1996)
  • " Kluge told her odyssey with the modern means of auteur cinema; . exciting mixture of fact and fantasy, in which the viewer can empathize his own film " ( Score: 3 stars = very good) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p.18
  • The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the film the predicate Especially Valuable. In the grounds stated in the FBW report include: Alexander Kluge shows some courage to cinematic experiment, however, was not stuck in the mere experiment, but already at the first attempt a closed shape cinematic revealed. This internal unity in the form of cinematic design proves especially the fact that Anita G. always insistent wins the unity of a whole human being, on a distinctive person and a compelling destiny in pursuit of the film. This unit in the central human figure of the film is all the more remarkable as Anita G. is shown in noisy separate verwehenden episodes that are sometimes far apart.

Awards

  • International Film Festival of Venice 1966: Silver Lion, nomination for the Golden Lion
  • Price of the Italian Film Critics ( F.I.C.C. )
  • Price of the Spanish film criticism
  • Price of the OCIC (international Catholic film office )
  • Price of the journal Cinema Nuovo
  • Price of the magazine Cinema 60
  • CIC Award of the Italian film clubs
  • Golden Rose film authors for Alexandra Kluge for Best Actress
  • German Film Award 1967: Film Award for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor ( Günter Mack )
  • Film funding ( $ 100,000 ) of the Committee on Young German film
  • Written premium ( $ 200,000 ) of the Federal Ministry of the Interior

Footnote

1966 in film Screenplay Edgar Reitz Thomas Mauch Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus Karl-Heinz Peters Epic theatre Deutscher Filmpreis
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