Young Happenings captured in German cinema
German film ‘4 Kings’, a part of the film series “Young Happenings” which is screened every Friday in the Goethe Hall, will be shown at 7 pm on May 31.
“Young Happenings“ portrays young people on how they build up their own life against resistance in the current time. They are doubting and despairing social structures as well as using and changing them. The film series does not only offer an insight on crisis and achievements, love and separation of young people but also shows older ones struggling with current state of affairs and crossing social borders.
Directed by Theresa von Eltz, ‘4 Kings’ is set during the Christmas, the time of peace and family gatherings. Not so for four teenage girls and boys, Lara, Alexandra, Timo and Fedja, nor for Dr Wolf, whose charges they are in an adolescent psychiatric treatment centre. It transpires during the therapy sessions, painful for everyone concerned, that the conflicts which the youngsters face are rooted in their respective family histories. The Christmas celebrations at the centre contain happy and unhappy surprises – yet, in spite of a bitter failure, there is hope.
