TEENAGE ANGST
synopsis
At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course of time their excessive games grow more and more violent and soon they turn against the weakest of the group: Leibnitz. Dyrbusch and Bogatsch continue to torture him, he voluntarily puts up with it because he can't manage to dispose of his tormentors, on one hand being afraid to loose their "Friendship" and on the other hand due to the consequences that might arise with his parents. Konstantin, the opportunist is the only one who sees through the moral magnitude of their games, but he hesitates too long not wanting to endanger the alleged common destiny that these boys in this school appear to have: their clique. They get caught deeper and deeper in this downward spiral of violence and peer pressure till the unavoidable happens.
original title: | Teenage Angst |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2008 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Thomas Stuber |
release date: | DE 29/01/2009 |
cast: | Franz Dinda, Niklas Kohrt, Janusz Kocaj, Michael Ginsburg, Stephanie Schönfeld, Michael Schweighöfer |
cinematography by: | Peter Matjasko |
film editing: | Philipp Thomas |
art director: | Florian Kaposi |
costumes designer: | Isabelle Baumgartner |
music: | Matthias Klein |
producer: | Sinje Gebauer, M. Reza Bahar |
production: | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Gifted Films / Gifted Films West |