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Children under 14 years are not accountable before the law...

... but if they act against order their...

...acts are recorded in the files as a crime.

Thereby, their way is marked.

The Last Years of Childhood

21.65 Thank you!

Fruits and vegetables... special price...

Because I cannot complain,...

...but I... - If you would be more careful.

I put it back again.

Look after it.

Where have you been? You've not been home all day!

Yes... Were you in school at all?

Yes, of course. - Now eat, before it gets cold.

Yes... If... - Now...

...be quiet and eat. We have no time for you now.

I'll take care of the laundry tomorrow morning...

...and look for the spots, and try to get rid of them.

Can't you eat quietly?

Where's my beer? - Ice box, where else?

Will you get it for me?

Can't you get the beer yourself? - Well, look who's talking!

Come on, he pays for his beer or are you paying for him?

Go!

Our Master Butcher Mr. Rieds is recommending:

Come!

Shit!

Asi, come!

Quickly, we set it down there!

Oh look, a rat! Where?

There it goes again.

There are many bottles!

I will work as a construction worker. - You will...

...do toilet cleaning at most.

Who likes sausage?

Fine, eh? - Show me!

- This isn't for you. - Want to see it too!

He's crazy.

Someone's coming.

That's right!

Go away!

What are you rabble doing here?

I'll help you.

Let me go!

Quick get out!

You.

Thank you!

If my father hears of this, he'll kill me.

Why? Is your father nuts?

Not really.

You have nothing to fear, no one can come in here.

You can sit through an entire war.

You know, nobody needs to know. That's already clear, right?

I mean that you don't tell it anywhere.

Is it already clear to you? Because, otherwise you get it.

Criminal Investigation Department.

These three? - Yes.

Have you started again?

Then I'll thump you as you've never seen before.

Where were you yesterday? - Me? At the lake.

Why always our children?

In this cold? - Why not?

That I'd like to know.

And you? What about you?

He's only 13. He doesn't concern you.

He's under my control. Not your concern at all.

You can't do anything to my brother. He's under the Protection of Minors.

The first time you attracted attention was at 7, in the nursery.

And then one report after another.

And the story about your father.

Mrs. Sonntag, your son is heading into a life of crime.

You probably admit the matter yesterday at the construction site.

And you also comitted the supermarket burglary the other day.

And the matter about you demolishing the allotments...

...and you also locked up the construction worker in the loo.

And the kiosk burglary in Knorr street?

No, we didn't do it. - Come on, Martin!

But I have a report by the police station in charge.

You have several crimes committed here, almost surely.

You're not an unknown quantity, are you?

You can admit to the other stuff too.

The more you admit, the better for you.

And above all, for your brother.

Mrs. Sonntag, your oldest son is convicted...

...and there is a robbery.

Martin, if you say what you know...

...your older brother is exonerated.

Look, you slow down the whole operation...

...and sooner or later we figure it out anyway.

Your mother does not affect you?

Now, get it off your chest!

The matter is settled then. We can close the files...

...and you can go home. And your brother too.

Yes, it was me.

Well then.

And beneath is written: "I know that I have to tell the truth."

"I gave the information of my own free will... "

"...and in the presence of my mother."

Now comrade,...

...we have done quite a piece of work, us two.

Now you feel much better. You have to admit it yourself, right?

A can of beans and various other canned foods.

Then, a stuffed animal, used.

A telephone without connection.

A pair of boots, men's.

A cassette tape recorder. Cosmetics.

Where do they dig up the stuff?

If I imagine, the boy is 13...

...but lives, it seems, as an adult for weeks.

This can not be. Today, one must conform.

And just what, ultimately, decided it for the school ...

I'll show it to you.

He has made this drawing in the classroom.

Look, it is written...

"The teacher Leindecker, Born question mark ,..."

"...died on 2.8.78 because of stupidity."

This can not be. The Man is 20 years on faculty.

He's on the examining commission.

The teachers will not tolerate this.

We have taken great care but I believe that...

...something crucial has to happen now.

You're basically on your own, Mrs. Sonntag.

If your husband is released...

...you know, he will live with his girlfriend again.

It was that way before.

Then I see here, Mrs. Sonntag, in the documents.

It says here, housewife as profession.

But then I have a confidential message,...

...that you work part-time in the laundry. Is that true?

Yes, I get nothing for it.

I'm only helping, nothing else.

Well, of course, you get paid for it. - Yes, a few Deutschmarks.

Yes, but all extra earnings have to be reported.

Yes, you can investigate, I get no money there.

The police came and said that he's a criminal.

But I can't believe it. That I cannot believe.

Because he used to be different. And I have to help him, because...

...otherwise he will be locked up later.

I think I can manage, if I keep him with me, because...

...he's still not 14 years old.

Therefore he can't be put away yet.

He's already brought me much misery,...

...but it's my boy. And ...

"For months my son has not been sleeping at home."

"He hangs around in unfamiliar houses."

"I'm not in a position to oversee him myself without help. "

"because of my frequent absences the children are left to themselves. "

"I agree to an institutionalization."

"I confirm that the data in this application... "

"...corresponds to the truth. It is understood that... "

"...the youth office can, during the voluntary child care,... "

"...exercise the powers needed for the..."

"...implementation, supervision and training. "

"There is an agreement with a possible, necessary medical and..."

"...psychological assessment and involuntary commitment..."

"...of the minor."

"I am aware that I too have to contribute to the costs,..."

"...as far as it is reasonable, under the statutory provisions."

Do I have to sign there now?

Or shall I sign?

Now, this is a voluntary commitment.

This is your decision.

If you look down there, it's like a track.

Because you can't get out. One is like the other there.

But if you're fast, faster than the others.

Imagine they're after you.

You just run away. Again and again.

With a good bike, nobody gets you.

I don't know, in prison, once you're there...

...you can't run away. There's nothing but walls.

You can always run away.

Show me!

This is a storm lighter, it never goes out.

Show me!

Give me a light!

Give it back!

A bottle itself, is usually not a weapon...

...but through the use of beating on the head of a man,...

...it undoubtedly turns into a weapon in terms of the offense of robbery.

The youth, Hans Sonntag, is indeed just in his 15th year,...

...but the court had, due to the already...

...emerged and considerable criminal activity,...

...to assume a harmful addiction.

The imposed sentence of one year six months,...

...shall give the accused the opportunity to understand...

...that other's property is not to be touched,...

...which one cannot ignore...

...under the pretence of a childish prank.

The court is aware that the instigator of the action...

...is the younger brother of the accused...

...whom the law,...

...as a result of his young age, could not convict.

Want one?

You know what? Now we're just getting there, take a look at it.

And if you don't like it, I'm here. OK?

This is all property of the protectory. The clothes card goes with your files.

Here is a speaker, he brings you to the IG.

You wear the tracksuit in the group...

...you may not wear it to work.

In the group, you may only wear the training suit.

So, a tracksuit is indoor clothing the other is outdoor clothing.

We are here in the LW, that is the locked ward.

Then there is an IG: you are in it. That is the initiation group.

Then there is a CP, you know that? - No.

That is a caring pupil.

You need to know it all because no one will understand you here otherwise.

These are the house rules, you'd better learn them by heart.

Now you sit down here and wait.

Hey, are you crazy?

Just get it.

You're so good at running.

Hold him tight!

Get off, man!

What's going on? Stop it!

Where did you actually want to go? You see. You don't know.

Do you think it's so beautiful here? Our Recollect-Oneself-Room?

You're intelligent, as I read here?

You need an education, a graduation.

Here, someone can help you...

...with the tasks.

Think of your brother who is serving his sentence in Laufen-Lebenau.

Do you think it's good for him...

...when it says, you can't be retained in a home? Can only raise trouble?

How about a gentleman's agreement...

...by the both of us. You're not running away any longer and I'll help you.

Yes, now stick it in. That's enough.

Ah, you can struggle forever. It will to come to naught.

You have to take it in the hand and sharpen it. It has to be quite sharp.

And now try it again.

The only thing you are lacking is, the plug-in base must be staked.

This is very important. And then flesh it out well...

...because it's a flower arrangement for the grave on All Hallows' Day.

Flesh it out well with the branches.

We inform you, that even under the new entries in recent months,...

...not a single case of...

...escape has occurred.

The new arrivals have adapted fast.

Referring to our additional expenses...

...accordingly, we request,...

...in all these cases, the full daily rate,...

...with increased hospital charges, for single therapeutic measures...

...amounting to a 135 Deutschmark grant, per head per day.

Here now, agriculture, three stables...

...and wickerwork barns.

In good weather you can see the Alps.

The air here! The boys don't appreciate what they have here.

Table tennis room,...

...Party room, Community Room

In these spaces, the boys learn co-operation,...

...that they must learn because they were often in isolation before.

That boy there has been in completely degrading conditions.

Unfavourable social conditions, poor housing,...

...no bath, no hot water, special school,...

...parents in a desperate situation.

A habitual thief and stray, unrestrained,...

...without stability.

Today...

...he has strong, positive values and a normal work ethic.

And one day, he also passed our window-test, as I call it.

The boys sit alone and unattended in a room.

They can move completely freely. They can go, but they don't.

Fear of being alone and the urge for freedom,...

...face each other in conflict here.

In between is the window.

See, Django is back!

Who is it?

Django? Django is Django.

Is something wrong?

Is something wrong?

I've heard you're a good long distance runner.

I have my sources.

Then I got my inspiration, and a voice up there says to me:

"Hey, Django, you have to tramp again."

Are you a top hitchhiker?

Would you like to?

Or are you afraid?

There are times...

...in which it takes a lot of strength, even as a young man.

We have to bring you some sad news.

Your brother, Hans Sonntag, went on the run, three days ago,...

...from Laufen-Lebenau, with a motorcycle,...

...and has been killed in an accident.

Incomprehensible, such a young man.

The tragedy is that he was at best behaviour in recent months...

...as I was told.

This is terribly embarrassing for me.

Come, calm yourself! Calm down! - Well, here I am.

Come, calm yourself! Come!

The boy will not run away. I know that.

I knew that he'd come.

But this is especially beautiful. I'll take it.

Gladly! 30 marks. - That's a hefty price.

It is much work to do such a thing.

So, rest now.

Now.

OK, let's go.

Watch out!

Got it?

We have one mean road.

We have a ride.

I can only say one thing: madness!

We just have a lucky streak.

Nobody thinks tracks. They'd rather control the streets.

Where the hell does this lead to?

Hey, what's the matter? - Shut up, I've got my inspiration.

What inspiration? What's the matter? - Shut up, I've got my inspiration.

Now you're crazy!

This way! We are wrong. - What?

Hey, we are now ... - We need to go that way!

All day long we run there and now you want to go back?

Hey, are you crazy? Don't shit me, man!

Hey, you lame brain! Not quite with it, or what?

Lying there on the track. You totally crazy?

Stupid dog, you stupid!

Wait!

Crap shop.

It's completely locked.

Well, we're waiting for a time.

Ah, Hello! - Good day to you!

When is a train running, or something similar?

So, when is there a train?

If I want to go to Rosenheim?

Rosenheim in one and a half hours.

Direction of Wasserburg in two hours.

No, that is a bit late.

We have no other options, we ...

Yes, a taxi or something?

We must rely on the schedule.

You have to wait. In the waiting room, if it's too cold outside.

And if I don't want to Rosenheim?

Then there is no other choice, than to go to Wasserburg.

We have no other option.

This way Rosenheim...

...and there Wasserburg. As it's specified in the timetable.

Show me!

This is a storm lighter. It never goes out.

Yes, give it to me!

And now it's doused.

By force I can too. Give it to me!

It's quite good.

Hey, now give it, come!

Now calm down.

You give it! Give me the lighter!

Give! Crucifix! - Crazy, or what?

Bugger off!

Piss off!

Piss off!

Run!

They'll kill you, man!

Run!

14 escapes in nine months, here!

He's not responsive to educational influences.

He stands outside the community, is a notorious escapee, etc.

The boy has not changed. Not in six homes!

He's irrepressible, stubborn, rebellious,...

...the whole lot he is doing;...

wandering without a goal; these senseless acts,...

...jumping from trains, unhinging doors.

The state police, Deggendorf, reports: The boys released sheep...

...from the pen, playing with the innocent animals...

...and confused the whole order of the small establishment.

That's not normal! - He will always be treated...

...as stated in the files. He's judged by the files and...

...he had no chance to change as long as the situation...

...from which he always runs away does not change.

Probably, one has to get more personal with him.

The homes are not all bad, Mr. Heine.

But the many escapes show that the boy is not ready...

...to commit himself.

Either the boy can submit to an order...

...or he's not capable of home life.

It'll be clarified by psychiatrists.

You should give him the opportunity to stay without holding him.

I'd imagine that best suited, would be a therapy...

...where his problems are addressed and someone shows they care about him.

You can't expect him to...

...suddenly practice social norms and...

...do this by himself.

It's too late for him. - With good will, something happens.

My brother only got into proper conditions at 16...

...and is now head of department at the Patent Office.

Look, the power this boy has,...

...that is pushing him forward, this desire for freedom...

...he has...

...when we could use it, properly for him...

...I am convinced, you get him out of his isolation then,...

...then you can help him.

If you don't just run away in the future, when you have problems,...

...but answer with words, if you try to defend yourself,...

...to convey what you don't want...

...then we can co-operate Martin.

Only then, you have a chance that we can help you.

Do you want to give it another try? - Yes.

Hmm, you mean that? Or what do you think?

Did you hear what the lady said? - Yes.

Did you understand it? - Yes.

Will you do all this then? - Yes.

You know, ...

I, as your guardianship judge must make a decision.

I have absolutely no other option. That is my duty.

I have found a home for you where you'll...

...now get very intensive care.

And they will also try...

...to grasp and understand why, if you're doing something wrong...

...and talk to you about it afterwards.

You must not simply run away, then.

Martin, it's very important, that you understand this now.

We cannot do all these things we intend to do alone.

We need your co-operation.

If you accept help, we can help you.

But if you're running away we cannot help you.

Do you understand that? - Mmm.

Well, look, let's do it that way then.

This is my address.

I asked you a question, mister.

He doesn't talk with everyone.

From Lindenau...

...are just people who are soft in the head.

Like a spastic.

Listen, spastic,...

...if you mean because you're new here, things change here,...

then you deluded yourself, boy.

Right? - Of course!

If you cross this, then there'll be trouble.

Stretch out legs, stretch out arms,...

...lay back easy and relaxed.

And now we all close our eyes.

Join us, close your eyes.

Let youself fall.

Just relax.

We lie down in a green...

...meadow.

The sun is shining. It is summer.

The flowers are blooming.

The bees are buzzing.

Close your eyes!

Not so wild!

Hey, people make the ...

So everyone gets what he is due.

Can you maybe come here?

Quite a pile of waste?

Well, maybe you can make something from it.

You could try.

What's that supposed to be when it's finished?

Did your therapist give you this ridiculous work, or what?

What an ass.

Your bike has no...

...wheels.

A bicycle without wheels probably needs no light, right?

Right? - Of course.

You got it a little tighter.

More, more, more, more.

He's been here now for four weeks.

Nothing has changed.

Does not participate.

Even in sports, he doesn't participate.

Just when you can be creative.

With the freedom here...

...the boy seems to have problems and I don't think he's able to cut it.

Well, at least he's still here and didn't run away, as before.

Well. - One has to be a little careful with him.

Be able to wait.

Want to say something?

Does it move then?

Is this all about me? - Everything about you, many pages!

Over a hundred!

And I had the time ...

I did read them yesterday,...

...after the ride...

...and I have taken a lot of notes...

I'll read them to you now and I want to know what you think of them. OK?

Hostile, not accessible with encouragement.

Abnormal, roving spirit.

He means that you run away so often.

I guess.

Dark and inaccessible. Disturbs the group structure.

Is a danger to others.

Lack of motivation but intelligent.

Defiant and stubborn. Knows nothing...

...to do with himself.

Undisturbed, healthy but a nervous little boy.

Is a true wannabe.

What do you think? - Over the top.

Over the top? What did you notice especially?

What was there, something ... particularly bad for you?

What was particularly exaggerated?

What do you think? - This about being dangerous.

That I'm dangerous, or what?

The question is...

...are you a danger to others?

I think not. - Are you not?

So in the group? - Thanks! Do you have disputes?

Yes, that is ... everyone has them. In such homes there are more...

...brawls and ...

There are many youngsters together, day and night.

Thank you!

And since you're locked up.

Since you're in and...

...because you can have no freedom.

No matter what, if they take me to something...

...or if I would be suppressed or...

...or so, then I try to defend myself and this is always the case.

And I stick to it, because I think it's right.

But if you want to make progress, here, in this talk, if the two of us,...

...in a way, want to do something else than before,...

...then we should know...

...under what conditions you freak out or where your defiance,...

...as is written here also, so ... so erupts. Tell us a little bit.

Martin, do you actually have fear of people?

Fear? - Yes.

Yes. - Because they might hurt you.

'Cos they can stop your leave-pass.

For example. - Fear?

Of what am I afraid? This is ...

If you think a little bit about yourself, whether behind the...

...behind the actions you do and like, you let steam off...

...and lash out, there's nothing because of fear, you reckon?

Funny somehow, but...

...actually, yes. Just in certain things, such as when ...

I'm afraid that one imprisons me. That I am...

...suppressed. That one ...

That I have, up to aged 18, no freedom at all.

I'm afraid of that I ... that I ...

Well, they make me ...

I don't know how to say it. Jam me, bottle me up.

Because they just believe that I ... am a public danger, or something.

And I'm afraid of that. And ...

I repeat once very briefly. You fear that you'll be locked up.

That creates a lot of anger in you.

What do you do then? - I defend myself.

I can remember,...

which is also here in our contract that we've signed.

That we settled at your engagement that we do indeed want therapy,...

...but we want it when we see fit. Namely,...

...when the boys have no lessons.

Mr. Römer, when this would be the first time, I'd say nothing at all.

I believe, Mr. Römer,...

...that it's just as important,...

...despite treatment, that a certain educational distance is preserved.

I can only choose that manner of approach,...

...that fits me subjectively. Do you understand? With which I can relate to.

When I work with someone, it necessarily creates a relationship...

...which isn't limited just to the mind.

It is an emotional relationship.

If you tell me, I go too far in some aspects,...

...I gladly take the criticism. But as a reason for this,...

...it must serve more than the educational distance.

Mr. Römer, you naturally have it relatively easy here, right?

Your work with emotions make no great demands.

You go to the movies. Take off on the bike.

That with which we have difficulties, and which I have difficulty with,...

...is the fact that we have to make demands.

You do not! You show up, then,...

...and say: "Come here, let's do it."

"You come with me. I am your friend" And there it starts. There it starts.

You arouse, especially in Martin, a hope that you...

...cannot meet.

Namely, the hope that you are...

...always there for him.

You know, if you, with a boy having a story...

...like Martin, want to work together,...

...there are a few essentials needed to start.

Namely, first, that you try to create an anxiety-free situation.

It is exceedingly difficult to create something like that.

And it requires an increased use of time,...

...effort and emotions...

...to form this relationship.

And I really am of the opinion that a system, like this home here,...

...must be able to embrace it, that in an important individual case,...

...an exception is made, so to speak.

Yes, but don't you see,...

...that you mess up the whole system!

And this system has proved itself! - Mr Gerlach,...

...in the case of Martin,...

...which me ... to which this mainly applies,...

...that's the outward cause for our discussion,...

...I am of the opinion, even,...

...especially if you follow the history of this boy.

The issue here is, that it can be shown this once,...

...that the individual is more important than a system.

And I want to point out to you with all seriousness, er,...

...if this system is not able to allow this exception,...

...then it is a ... a wrong system,...

...an inhuman system.

And I think you should think about it this once.

Mr. Römer, look, I'm in a very difficult situation, no?

As you know, I've also got superiors.

And what do you think they would say, if they learnt,...

...through youth services, that we have a therapist...

...developing his own methods,...

...with which the sponsor certainly doesn't agree.

I'd really like to work together with you, but as...

...I know my sponsor, Mr. Römer, I cannot extend...

...your contract. As much as I want to.

That means we have to part, at the latest, at the end of the year.

Mr. Gerlach, I accept this, but...

...I wonder what will become of my ... my work?

Yes you have ... Your contract expires in two months.

Yes, for two months. You still have two months.

This is a point about ... with the ... we have to talk about.

I think it is very important...

...that the relationship you have built up is...

...not ended all at once, but little by little, especially with Martin.

Phase out the relationship gradually: make him more independent.

I think that's the best solution.

Because you must also think of Martin. - And just run away like that.

I think it is the best solution.

No. Well, I ... Well, I ... I personally, I don't sneak away.

Not even to humour you.

But rather, I will tell Martin and all the other boys, with whom I have...

...have worked, together, I'll just...

...explain the situation and describe it as it is.

Exactly like that.

Yes, Sense is looking for a sparring partner.

Let's take him there? - No, how about him back there?

Will you come please?

Well, come out!

No need to be afraid, it's just sparring. Come on!

So come on now!

Now come on. - Please come along.

Now come on. Leave him alone. - Drag him then.

Go, bring me the gloves. - Come! Come!

Well, come on now, bring them.

Put them on. - Are you afraid?

What is it? - Let me not beg you.

Give them to me. Well, just let go of the hand!

So, Sense, it will be fought fairly. A fair fight.

No punches below the belt and ...

...and no dirty tricks. No tricks!

Well then go, come on! - Now, spastic, it's your turn.

Come on, strike back! You coward, you!

Are you scared or what?

Fight back, come!

Show what you can!

Come! Hopp!

Do you have the jitters, or what? Sneaker!

Come on! Hit me!

Come! Fight back!

Well, you're a coward!

It's infanticide, isn't it?

Go! Defend!

Fight back!

Go! Defend yourself! Come on!

What? Come!

Or do you have the jitters?

Apart! Come, come, come, come! Apart!

Now come on! Back on!

Here, come, come, come.

No, people come! Come apart, men! Come!

Sense! Sense! Sense!

Look! Here comes your daddy.

It's your Daddy, spastic, right?

Show your daddy what you can do!

"Help, Daddy! Help, Daddy!"

Slap him, go! Come! - He does...

...not help you anyway.

He buggers off and dumps you. Your daddy.

He's glad when he's got rid of you.

Go! Take him down!

Cut him down! Go!

There! There's a boy waiting for you. - What? A boy?

Have you already told him I'm here? - Yes!

Martin!

You are visiting me?

Did you get a break from the home?

No, I'm ... I ran away.

Oh, boy!

Have you been to your mother?

I wanted to ask if I can stay with you, perhaps?

Oh!

Yes. Yes, we'll talk about it, right?

I'm almost ready, I'm almost done.

There's nothing we can't fix.

Look! You know this one? Yes, this is you!

We lived in our old apartment then.

You were still very small. Oh, look!

Those were good times.

I still have the large, beautiful, cinema posters painted then.

My God, that was a time! Rudolf Prack and Sonja Ziemann...

...and Dieter Borsche and Ruth Leuwerik,...

...those were the lovers at that time. I liked to paint Dieter Borsche.

This stuff we put away too.

Yes, and where should he sleep now?

There on the couch.

But I want to have it arranged for tomorrow!

I cannot let him down. He is only hanging around otherwise.

Since he, himself is to blame.

I want no trouble. It doesn't work that way.

Do you promise?

This is not my boy.

What're you doing here? Come! Go!

I can only say one thing: madness! Already it's Autumn.

Who is the guy, anyway?

The guy is all right, he's OK.

Good day, madam!

Women's stuff, only women's shit.

Now he comes.

Eh boy, you are one nasty Purse. Yes, you understand now?

Check out the rubbish!

This is not a belt. This is a state.

There is someone around. - I see it too.

You, what are you doing? - Only looking at belts.

You wanted to take it! - No!

Now hang up the belt!

Let go!

You Shall let him go!

Let go!

Let go, I said!

Man, this is indeed fantastic.

Here you have the result!

There! "Gang of youth criminals picked up."

"Childlike star breakaway keeps youth office in suspense."

"Are the authorities sleeping?"

I warned you!

Now the city council is asking - and the ministry. And I have...

...the reporters at my neck. But that's tabloids, Mr....

Hierling. - But the criticism by the public!

Armed...

...robbery! - That was a gas pistol...

...from his father. - But a gun!

I would be interested in what is really going on with him.

This has to end now.

The boy has to go to a place where he cannot run away.

He has to be...

...saved from himself.

As a police chief says: "He should be locked in a cage..."

"...where the bars are so thick that he cannot bite out."

You know, I was also idealistic like you.

I thought I could move mountains.

Now look! Below I started in this office.

Here we are now.

Do you think anything has changed? Nothing!

Stay here!

A dialog is not longer possible. He does not...

...relate. Like he is not around.

Moves like behind a glass wall.

He has put himself in a kind of vicious cycle, going in which he...

...rejects attention with refusal.

Such cases are often without opportunities.

Wanderer between holding cell and highway...

...at age 14, it passes to the prosecutor.

Among them are often those unfeeling psychopaths,...

...from which most later...

...grow into society's enemies and "locked-up-for-life's".

They lack any possibility of comfortably relating.

They are strange and humorless, devoid of a sense of good and evil,...

...honor and shame, punishment and reward.

It remains to be seen whether quieting by drugs,...

...awake in him, the necessary insight to make him...

...accesible to treatment.

Look, how you lie in this now, so miserable.

I don't understand it. If you had just obeyed me.

Just look what they have done to you.

Speak to me now!

Say something!

He really cannot talk now.

He has, after all, swallowed broken glass...

...and it will hurt him very much.

But he's already essentially out of the woods...

...and he's better already.

Does he have to be attached like this?

We need to protect him from himself, he has, after all...

...acted with self-destructive intention...

...and we don't want him to repeat it.

When can he get out?

It'll be a while.

Because he just had a birthday.

How old is he now? - 14 years.

So!

Get up. Here are your things...

...and then you wait here until you're picked up.

... to the trains: the express train Paracelsus from Klagenfurt...

Attention, trains: The Inter-City...

Want some tea?

What is that?

You know, that is coconut tea.

Don't you know that? - No.

Where did you get him?

From the supermarket.

Oh, yes, for practical things, I'm the one responsible here.

It works out quite well with four girls.

I work, as you know...

...and, well, we put up a sticker production.

Look!

This is Marilyn.

This is the white shark.

This is the rainbow sign.

This is a cockchafer. - That's not a cockchafer!

This is stark. - That's good, right?

I run only on the side.

The others,...

...lurking for you...

...wait till you...

...make a wrong move.

You only need some confidence and courage now, perhaps.

All I know is that ... I just know that right now I am...

...not like they want me to be.

I don't know why that is.

They always say I must be honest.

But when I think about it,...

...I am really honest.

What that means to me.

But if they think about it ...

It's not like we couldn't sleep there...

...or don't get anything to eat. It is somehow...

...as if there's always one with a hammer.

I ... I run away again and again.

Again and again.

But in prison, for example, there are walls everywhere.

You cannot run away there.

You can always run away.

Don't touch the clothes! What are you doing?

Don't touch the shoes.

The tiger is one of my sister!

Yes, that's fine. Stand back!

Martin!

Let him go!

Let go!

Stay calm! Stay calm!

Martin! - OK?

Martin! - Go away! - Stop with the nonsense!

Stop the nonsense!

Martin, listen! Give it a rest!

Let him go!

You stupid sacks of...!

Let him go!

He is a public danger, this young fellow.

Get up!

Out with him!

Martin!

That's not possible!

I can only say one thing: madness! - Django.

Why are you looking like this?

It is just a question of time before you get out.

You should not see everything so narrowly.

The food also used to be better.

This is the bottom line.

Who put this nonsense into your brain?

Think of it as I do, as a vacation.

Everything is there.

You have your food for free.

Cold running water. With the push of a button the staff jumps you.

And? What more do you want?

Are you staying in this unit?

Yes, I'm just on the move from suite 25 to suite 102.

Yes, we are determined to see us again out there.

Through the police, I am reachable now.

Then we freak around a bit, you know?

Would be great.

Then we have our upward trend, the two of us.

Show me!

Want to have it?

You can keep it.

Come! Let's go! We're through!

So, come on! Let's go back!

Gaol Müxxhenx Stadxxheix.

Madam... To our great regret

we must tell you also, that your son has taken

his life here in a cell. For the guilt for his delinquency,

he had searched less in himself, than as in others.

His confidence in life was very weak.

His body was released by the prosecutor.

About the funeral, you can decide,

if you assume the costs. We are sorry,

that we have to report such sorrowful news.

We hope you find comfort in the belief in supreme workings,

given the gravity of fate. The prison authorities.

How do you want to explain this to the public,

Dr. Brenner?

According to the...

...prison management, there was nothing that was missed.

There was surveillance and inspection rounds as usual, around the clock...

...and of inhumanity, which certain newspapers...

...want to attach to it now, there can be no question.

After...

...the Juvenile Court Act, it's just that...

...the grounds for detention are not met.

I'd be interested, if you have actually thought about...

...imposing less than detention...

...facilities. - All requirements were met.

The boy was criminally responsible.

Prime suspect, assumed risk of flight, no social ties,...

...serious crimes, dangerous disposition.

Yes, but what has he done, exactly?

We had no choice after so many arrest warrants were issued.

We had to proceed that way.

Martin Sonntag was an emergent criminal and known to the police.

But a child!

What's that, he being a child: he was a teenager.

You will agree with me,...

...that a life of crime...

...can be created in childhood. - The...

...result is the death of a 14-year-old boy who was under your care.

Are you saying: "Operation successful, patient dead"

Or was the prison used as...

...a safety net for a failed welfare case.

It is well known that during initial imprisonments...

...young people are enormously lonely, suffer depresssion.

In what way have you dealt with them?

In this case?

The prison was a procedurally, necessary end-of-the-line.

Do you see the pre-trial detention as an educational intervention?

Given the current situation also, of adolescent psychiatry,...

...I have to affirm this.

Don't you take this too complacently?

You can believe us,...

...Martin Sonntag's death has deeply shaken all of us...

...and I personally...

...I knew him well. I have followed him...

...throughout his entire criminal career.

This life was following an inescapable logic.

Anti-social environment, predisposition, no contact with people, the end was...

...on the cards.

Someone aware of the criminal scene, knows that this boy could not...

...be ultimately aided, that no one could...

...bring him in line. He was a criminal psychopath.

That sounds harsh, but that is not just my personal opinion, you...

...can check it with every criminologist.

I'd like to know...

...what the Youth Welfare Office, as social security office, has to say.

We have exhausted all options, that...

...are possible in such a special case.

Ten homes have been tried,...

...psychologists and therapists talked to him;

a last-ditch effort was the mental hospital.

Was there really no way,...

...precisely because he was so difficult,...

...to give him special treatment.

I mean the charges are 80 to 120 marks...

a day! - Look,...

...for years it has been thought one can run the home, educationally...

...analogous to the family,...

...but that is not so readily achieved.

The Youth Office is unable to come...

...and say: "I'm your mother."

One could not see into the boy.

He withdrew from an...

...arrangement. How and Why is beyond our knowledge.

There are just things we will never penetrate.

The truth is often just a puzzle.

I want to comment on that too.

The reasons? - Yes, I think...

...we must learn from some things.

Martin was a boy ... He couldn't stand the lack of freedom.

I think it was a lack of opportunities.

But, Mr. Heine, we have long enough discussed this.

He died of a lack of future.

I think he never had a real chance.

Besides the courage to live, he had also the fear and helplessness,...

...that we all have.

I think there are the reasons.

This was already sufficiently discussed. The question...

...which really has to be resolved, and which will...

...keep us busy, is this:

"How did the boy get a belt?"

I see no other request to speak, ... - What?

...thus all questions are answered. Thank you.

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