After Evelyne, attention shifts to her new boyfriend Ansgar. They become inseparable, although Olga tries to come between them in a dramatic way. Ansgar is weighed down by self-doubt. His father was the spiritual leader of a religious sect and his parents always treated him as an bewildering artistic genius. He defies this image and studies medicine. Ansgar can be hard and cynical, especially against people from the older generation.Clarissa, Hermann’s great love, wins a cello competition with a piece composed by Hermann. The others all focus their attention on her, which doesn’t please Hermann. The artistic friends celebrate during carnival and Ansgar dies in an accident.The series has reached 1962, the year when 26 young German film-makers, among them Reitz, published the renowned Oberhausener Manifest.
Also in this combined programme
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Zwei fremde Augen
Each episode makes one of the many protagonists briefly the central figure too. In this part that is Juan (Juan Ramon Subercaseaux in full), a… -
Eifersucht und Stolz
Leading character in part three is Evelyne. After the death of her father, she travels to Munich to find out about the mother she had… -
Das Spiel mit der Freiheit
Hermann and several of his girlfriends survey and shift the boundaries of sexuality. The poetic Helga Aufschrey pines away for lack of love and develops… -
Die Zeit der ersten Liebe
Central protagonist the series also has protagonists who are much less central Hermann Simon leaves his birthplace Schabbach in the Hunsrück and moves to Munich…
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 1992
- Festival edition
- IFFR 1993
- Length
- 100'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
- Language
- German
- Premiere status
- -
- Director
- Edgar Reitz