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Retrospective

Mach die Musik leiser

FromThomas Arslan

WithAndreas Böhmer, Marco Germund, Laura Tonke, Daniela Radovanovic, Andy Lehmann, Miguel Buschhauer, Irina Hoppe

Year1994

Duration87min.

LanguageGerman

It's not easy being young. For three 16-year-old friends, Florian, Frank and Andy, the end of their school days together is fast approaching and decisions about their future – work, the army or A-levels? – are looming large. For now, however, they mostly hang out together in silence, on staircases, at petrol stations, under a motorway bridge. They smoke, watch girls, listen to music, go to a metal band concert, to the disco, the record shop and the drive-in cinema. Not even a revolver causes them any excitement. In his feature film debut, shot in his hometown of Essen with amateur actors, Thomas Arslan reveals the gestures and gaits of young people and precisely traces their attitude to life in a phase of upheaval. (B.K.)