Die Halbstarken

Die Halbstarken

BR Deutschland 1956, Spielfilm

Synopsis

The Hooligans
Berlin in the 1950s. No longer able to stand the petty bourgeois tyranny of his father, nineteen year old Freddy has left home. Meanwhile Freddy has risen to the head of a youth gang , leading a life of crime. One day, while preparing his "biggest coup" ever, his younger brother
asks Freddy if he can help out his father, who is badly in debt. For his
mother’s sake, he agrees. But the planned post office robbery goes
wrong. In order to reassert himself as gang leader and to prove to his
girlfriend Sissy that he is a man, Freddy breaks into the a villa of a
wealthy man. Surprised by the owner, the situation escalates.

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Credits

All Credits

Director:Georg Tressler
Assistant director:Benno Hoffmann
Screenplay:Will Tremper, Georg Tressler
based on:Will Tremper (Erzählung)
Director of photography:Heinz Pehlke
Camera operator:Hans Biensfeldt
Assistant camera:Bernhard Hellmund
Still photography:Helmut Kiehl
Production design:Lothar Wloch
Make-up artist:Gertrud Schäfer
Editing:Wolfgang Flaum
Sound:Joachim Flamme
Music:Martin Böttcher
  
Cast: 
Horst BuchholzFreddy Borchert
Karin BaalSissy Bohl
Christian DoermerJan Borchert
Jo HerbstGünther
Viktoria von BallaskoMutter Borchert
Stanislav LedinekAntonio Garezzo
Mario AhrensMario
Manfred HoffmannKlaus
Hans Joachim KetzlinWilli
Karlheinz GafkusKudde
Wolfgang HeyerWölfi
Paul WagnerVater Borchert
Eduard WandreyPepe Garezzo
Friedrich JoloffTheo
Ruth MüllerRita
Egon VogelPrillinger
Gudrun Krüger
Ingrid Kirsch
Oskar Lindner
Marion Lebens
Editha Horn
Heinz Palm
Paul Bladschun
Hans Putz
Heinz Holl
Gerd Bender
Margit Moos
Benno Hoffmann
Fritz Daninger
Anneliese Würtz
Elke Haedrich
  
Production company:Inter West Film GmbH (Berlin)
in association with:CCC-Film GmbH (Berlin) (ungenannt)
Producer:Wenzel Lüdecke
Unit production manager:Gert Weber
Location manager:Erich Fahrun, Heinz Karchow, Peter Krahé
Shoot:02.07.1956-08.1956: Berlin; CCC-Studios Berlin-Spandau
Original distributor:Union Film Verleih GmbH (München)
Length:2647 m, 97 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.09.1956, 12950, Jugendfrei ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Screening:Uraufführung (DE): 27.09.1956, Essen, Ufa-Palat

Titles

Originaltitel (DE) Die Halbstarken

Versions

Original

Length:2647 m, 97 min
Format:35mm, 1:1,33
Picture/Sound:s/w, Ton
Rating:FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.09.1956, 12950, Jugendfrei ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Screening:Uraufführung (DE): 27.09.1956, Essen, Ufa-Palat
 

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 1957
Filmband in Silber, Beste Nachwuchsregie