After Five in the Forest Primeval
Nach Fünf im Urwald
Germany
1995
99 Min
Color
1.85:1
German
Synopsis
Why shouldn’t one venture into the jungle after five o’clock? Because then the elephants practice parachuting. Why do crocodiles have flattened snouts? Because they went to the jungle after five o’clock. The main character is 17-year-old Anna who runs away to Munich after a row with her father, a Thelonius Monk fan and aspiring mayor. At a casting, she tries her luck as a singer and becomes involved in the world of the arty, arrogant PR-lot. Her worried parents also go off to Munich in search of their prodigal daughter. However, the trip to the big city is as much of a surprising adventure and a “jungle experience” for her “crinkly” elders as it is for teenager Anna. Her sister Clara, who has stayed at home, is the only one who keeps on top of things in her little treehouse and can’t do more than shake her head in resignation at the escapades of her family … —german-films.de
Director
Hans-Christian Schmid
Hans-Christian Schmid was born 1965 in the Bavarian city of Altötting, a famous place of pilgrimage. Nevertheless, Schmid was not brought up in a ultra-catholic fashion as some of his films might suggest. Instead, he grew up in a liberal home, attended a high school that was regarded politically left, went to demonstrations for peace instead of Sunday service, and was an active member of the Green party.
From 1985 to 1992, Schmid studied documentary film making at Munich’s Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF), where he filmed his debut movie Sekt oder Selters (1989) about people addicted to slot machines as well as two more short films. In his graduation film Die Mechanik des Wunders (1992), he dealt with the organized religiousness of his home town for the first time. After graduating from HFF, Schmid got a scholarship from Drehbuchwerkstatt München to study screenplay writing at University of Southern California in Los Angeles.— filmportal.de
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