Film Studies: Collection and Collective? – TEENAGE WOLFPACK (Georg Tressler, FRG 1956); WHITSUN HOLIDAY (GB/FRG 1953)

Teenage Wolfpack (Die Halbstarken):

"Berlin in the 1950s. 19-year-old Freddy has run away from home because he couldn't stand the tyranny of his narrow-minded father no longer. Meanwhile Freddy ascended to be the chief of a youth group that shifts through life by rackets. One day, Freddy – just planning his 'biggest coup – is asked by his younger brother to help out the highly indepted father financially. For his mother's sake Freddy agrees.

The large-scale mail robbery fails, though. To redeem his image as bandit chief and to give his girlfriend Sissy proof that he is a real man, Freddy burgles the villa of a rich man. When he is surprised by the homeowner, the situation escalates." (Quelle: filmportal.deExternal link)

Whitsun Holiday:

"At Whit Weekend millions of Europeans swarm into the streets to enjoy a short holiday within Spring air. The film displays the freedom of West Europeans to organise their leisure time on their own in stark contrast to the strictly organised festivities of the World Youth Congress in East Berlin. The Marshallplan Film Unit produced only few openly anticommunistic films. This one belongs to them. After Albert Hemsing this film was 'nearly a personal statement' for Peter Baylis (who wrote and produced the 'One-two-three-series'). The film never reached commercial distribution but a range of anti-communisitc trade unions screened it during their meetings." (Quelle: bpb.de'External link)