Featurefilm
Germany 1972
16 mm
45 min
B/W
Magnetical sound

Crew

Buch und Regie
Ula Stöckl
Kamera
André Dubreuil
Kameraassistenz
Christoph Brandt
Ton
Folkardt Prestin
Schnitt
Hannelore von Ungern-Sternberg
Produktionsleitung
Bernhard Sinkel
Produktionsassistenz
Adu Junkmann
Produktion
Ula Stöckl Filmproduktion im Auftrag des ZDF
Redaktion
Ekkart Stein

Cast

Ekkehard Scherrer
Volker Matzen
Jürgen
Jürgen Rudi
Herbert
Christian Preuss
Hans Georg Schmidt
Jürgen Alex
Rolf
Wolfgang Wanke
Stefan
Stefan Wenzel
Primus
Konstantin Sautier
Gerd
Leonhard Schaal
Franz
Walter Engelmann
Baby
Günter Altmann
Monika
Hilda Haimböck
Frau Honski
Helga Gross
Elfriede
Jutta Münch
Kommissar
Günter Geiermann

Festival Participation

Arsenal Berlin, Retrospektive 1977
28. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin,
Retrospektive 1978
1. Femme Totale im Revier, Retrospektive, Dortmund 1987
Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt am Main,
Retrospektive 1988

Contents

The 24-year-old Ekke is disturbed by the suicide of Hans Georg, a boy who was in his care at the time. He lodges in his room, because he believes that he will discover the reason for the suicide there. Whilst looking for the cause his perception of reality starts to change.

The Film

01: Suddenly someone has killed himself. Everyone assumes the truth and thinks they know what happened. They say that he did it for this reason or that... It is however impossible to know why they did it, even when you know all the facts. But when someone draws in on himself and gives up all the things that make life worth living, such as work, friends, partner, the confrontation with himself has deadly consequences. Ekkehard Scherrer, 24 years old, is training to be a sociologist and teacher. He approaches his work with young people with idealistic dedication. The challenges of his work take up all his time. When a ward of his kills himself, Ekkehard Scherrer interprets this tragedy as a personal failing which he has no choice but to sort out. But what is he looking for? A nymph or a witch, which creates everything in his head? It is impossible to know, because the problem lies within himself. A film about the impossibility of saying anything concrete about why someone could have killed himself.
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Press

01: A sensitive, tender film, which is as kind to its actors as the protagonists could wish. The camera is patient; the microphone picks up well the voices of the young, non-professional actors. Just like one-person slips into the skin of another: you don't always understand this film, but it changes you nonetheless.
Enno Patallas, Süddeutsche Zeitung
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