Mache alles mit (1971)

Director:

Kurt Nachmann

Writer:

Kurt Nachmann (writer)

Release Date:

9 July 1971 (West Germany)

Cast

Marion Forster	...	Dagmar Hintze
Astrid Boner	...	Ellen Hintze
Harry Kalenberg	...	Carl Hintze
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Oliver Domnick	...	UvD
Imka Eberle	...	Mädchen im nassen Kleid
Elisabeth Felchner	...	Christina
Leopold Gmeinwieser	...	Mann auf Boot
Karin Götz	...	Mädchen im Erziehungsheim
Wolfgang Hellmund	...	Kriminalbeamter
W.R. Heyking	...	Professor Cornelius
Richard Kley	...	Theo v. Landis
Dunja Lock	...	Fräulein Schmitt
Rosl Mayr	...	Frau Grabl
Ursula Mellin	...	Fürsorgerin
Gernot Möhner	...	Gefr. Mosinger
Kurt Nachmann	...	Mann auf Strasse
Doug Parish	...	Herr Gabor
Henner Quest	...	Thomas Wenk
Roswitha Randl	...	Roszy
Waltraud Schaeffler	...	Kneipengast
Wolfgang Scherer	...	Mann auf Boot
Uli Steigberg	...	Pfarrer
Rinaldo Talamonti	...	Xaver
Ellen Umlauf	...	Tante Magda
Nico Vogler	...	Wirt
Elisabeth Volkmann	...	Frau Gabor

Also Known As:

A Bit of Everything (UK)
Bed-Partners (UK)

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Certification:

UK:X

Filming Locations:

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Lisa-Film

"Modern People don't have Taboos"

Sailing to German cinemas on the wave of the hugely popular "Schuldmädchenreport"-films (aiming to depict the "real" sex-life of schoolgirls and boys – while, in fact, delivering ultra-trash pseudo-pornography), "Mache alles mit" has never achieved similar fame nor cult status – although it must have been among the first movies trying to compete with the "Schoolgirls' Reports". The title, roughly translatable into "I do everything" or rather: "I'll join in into everything" is what 17-year old Dagmar considers to be the open-mind that people "in modernity" need to have. Thus she embraces in all sorts of sexual adventures (which are mainly shown in flashback sequences). That may sound as if she were a post-68 self-confident girl who knows what to want, where and with whom; but of course, films like these disguise conservative messages with a almost neurotic passion for the (so defined) "sickness" of "open love" (proof is usually, as is here, given by insights into the sex- and drug-dominated world of the communes). Therefore, Dagmar is presented as curious, but still shameful girl forced by social change to abandon the good values of her upbringing and "join into everything"; that is because, she is told and believes, "modern people don't have taboos". However, the viewer is never left in doubt that sexual freedom is in fact the road to hell and that chastity and "true love" will prevail once young people truly learn to appreciate what life has to offer. Which is why a conservative student is needed to show Dagmar that "join into everything" will end up "having nothing". As one would expect, this good-looking, likable guy is far from overt intellectualism and has no hesitation to wholeheartedly love at the misfortunes of those who don't share his "wisdom". (Given the fact that author/director Nachmann has faced trouble during the Nazi years and was forced to hide behind pseudonyms, it is astonishing to see shades of ultra-right-wing ideology on this films' bottom line.) In the very end, police is forced to step in, for underage Dagmar earlier took part in an orgy (by answering to a newspaper ad!) that is prosecuted as "unlawful"; and we don't know (but can only hope, the film implies), that she will have learned her lesson. Trash entertainment meets conservative ideology meets sexual exploitation (unusual for the genre, there's quite a lot of rape included): in all, an interesting mixture.