Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 01/11/2005
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Ger
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 83 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Strand Home Video
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent
drama from Germany, based on a true story. Young
Jurgen Bartsch (
Sebastian Urzendowsky) was raised in a family where his father (
Walter Gontermann) barely acknowledged his existence and his mother (
Ulrike Bliefert) displayed an inappropriate degree of affection toward him. When he reached puberty,
Bartsch (played as a teenager by
Tobias Schenke) was a young man confused and bitter about his growing sexual maturity, and possessing a deep hatred of those around him.
Bartsch was a 15-year-old apprentice butcher when he kidnapped and murdered a young boy; he would kill three more boys in a similar fashion before he was captured by police in 1966. After he was found guilty,
Bartsch carefully documented his childhood and his crimes in a series of letters and essays, and
Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen is drawn from his own words as it dramatizes his life and his crimes.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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