Year of Production 2002
Director Henner Winckler
Screenplay Stefan Kriekhaus, Henner Winckler
Director of Photography Janne Busse
Editor Bettina Boehler
Music by Cem Oral
Production Design Marcel Schoerken
Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Production Company Schramm Film Koerner + Weber/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF/Mainz
Principal Cast Bartek Blaszczyk, Sophie Kempe, Steven Sperling
Special Effects Mike Bols
Length 82 min
Format Super 16
Blow-up 35 mm, Color
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Berlin 2002 (Forum), INPUT Rotterdam 2002, Minneapolis/St. Paul 2002, Sochi 2002, Ghent 2002, Karlovy Vary 2002 (Variety Critics' Choice), Geneva 2002, Warsaw 2002 (German Panorama), Regus London 2002, Bellinzona 2002 (in competition), Entrevues Belfort 2002 (in competition), Gothenburg 2003, Buenos Aires 2003
Awards Special Jury Award Sochi 2002, Best Direction Geneva 2002, First Prize for Best Foreign Film Belfort 2002
En un viaje escolar al balneario polaco, el tímido Ronny y un chico polaco se interesan por la misma chica. La lucha entre los dos termina trágicamente con una prueba de valor. Es la historia de una relación sentimental, aparentemente la más mostrada de todas: un triángulo amoroso. El mérito de la versión de Winckler consiste en la presentación del ambiente social, reflejando a las personas y su entorno de manera exacta. El ambiente más bien desolado del balneario en el Mar Báltico parece haber sido captado por él con toda precisión y las casas pobres y los pueblos que vemos no tienen nada de pintoresco ni escenificado.
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Henner Winckler was born in 1969 in Giessen. He studied at the Academy of Art & Design in Offenbach from 1990-1993, followed by studies in Visual Communication and Film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1994-1998. Active in scriptwriting and behind the camera, he has directed the shorts Pool, Darlings (1993) and Tip Top (1998) and the feature School Trip (Klassenfahrt, 2002).A class of Berlin teenagers travel to a run-down resort on Poland’s Baltic coast for a school trip. Official entertainments include day trips to dull towns and museums, table tennis and beach volleyball. But the kids spend more time making their own fun: alcohol binges, casual sex, picking on each other, and sampling the dubious delights of Paradise Nightclub the local disco where they mingle with the local youth. But boredom soon sets in – especially for 16-year-old loner Ronny (Steven Sperling), who seems stranded between the equally tedious worlds of adolescence and adulthood. His mood isn’t improved when the only girl he has much time for, Isa (Sophie Kempe), starts getting friendly with a local lad, Marek (Bartek Blaszczyk)…
World cinema has never been short of films about alienated teenagers, but it’s extremely rare to find one so consistently well-observed as School Trip, an enormously promising debut from director Winckler, who co-wrote the script with Stefan Kriekhaus. Their sympathetic understanding of the rhythms and details of adolescent life recalls Lukas Moodysson’s Fucking Amal – School Trip is very strong on the children’s sudden jealousies and friendships, the harsh insider/outsider dynamics of teenage cliques, their self-contained worlds designed to shut out blundering adults – the teacher “in charge” is a spectacularly ineffectual, peripheral, pretty much irrelevant figure.
But while Moodysson tricked up his movie with a distracting reliance on clumsy zooms and a wobbly hand-held camera, Winckler plays it mercifully straight. As the bald, informative title suggests, this isn’t a project that calls out for visual flash, sand Winckler’s strengths lie elsewhere – principally in his handling of his young cast. He shows a rare knack with actors, from the tiniest bit part to the three main leads, and he conjures a sensational performance out of Sperling.
His Ronny is a sustained feat of characterisation, mostly internalised, but also packed full of amusing, revealing bits of business – the ‘solo ping pong’ scene is worth the price of admission on its own. This is a young man who moves between being the class clown, an idiot-savant, an artistic-genius-in-embryo, and a would-be sociopath – sometimes all in the same scene. His young face obscured by a bum-fluff moustache and encroaching sideburns, it’s hard to tell his exact age, but he’s more mature than the rest of the gang - his biggest problem isn’t that he doesn’t think enough, it’s that he thinks far too much, although he actually says very little, and when he does speak it’s largely to voice his contempt for these ‘jerks.’ He’s so sardonic, in fact, that we can probably take the slogan emblazoned across the back of his cheap nylon jacket, ‘Free Spirits Party Place’ as an intentional bit of irony on his part.
It’s no accident that one of the museum trips see the bored-to-tears class being told about the habits of ‘an early stone age tribe.’ They endure the tedious lecture – only Ronny has the nerve to actually do something about it. He’s also the only one who has enough ambition and daring to break free of the resort’s dismal confines and explore the wider world, if only for a few hours, just as he’s careful to liberate a wasp that’s flown into one of the hotel rooms and keeps buzzing against the window, anxious for freedom.
What Ronny finds out there is sufficiently weird and funny (in an excellent hitch-hiking scene) to make breaking free seem like the only sensible option, even if the other kids see his tendency to ‘run away’ as a weakness. By the end, however, things aren’t so clear-cut – events take a tragic (though admirably unsentimental) turn, forcing Ronny into a searching self-examination and ending the film on a sober, satisfyingly ambiguous note, even as the credits roll to the upbeat racket of raucous Polish rock. Winckler could do worse than to return to this character, and this actor, in future years – Ronny could turn out to be the 21st century’s Antoine Doinel, and then some.
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