The Right Life - Write a Play1968

16mm Film - The Right Life - Write a Play - BRD 1968

Direction: Dieter Schlotterbeck

Script: Manfred Schmitz

Camera: Unknown

Cast: Peter Dornseif, Viktor-Stefan Götz, Erhard Steinke, Traute Rose, Wolfram Weniger, Günther Ravitzka, Wolfgang Langwald, José Fernandez Schlick, Walter Wiederkehr, and others.

The screenplay for the film was submitted to Süddeutscher Rundfunk Stuttgart in 1968 as part of the 'Write a play' competition organized by its afternoon programme. The young generation was to be given the opportunity to express their attitude to life and their problems in a creative form, to see them realized and discussed on the screen. The 17-year-old Manfred Schmitz is the author of this film, which describes the professional situation of a petrol station apprentice. The teenager asks himself to what extent his actual situation corresponds to his ideas of a 'real' life.

Sources

  1. YouTube channel: The Art of Film on 16mm · video ↗ — title, description, video
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