The great Bagarozy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title The great Bagarozy
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Bernd Eichinger
script Bernd Eichinger
Helmut Krausser
production Bernd Eichinger
Martin Moszkowicz
music Henning Lohner
Stephan Zacharias
camera Gernot Roll
cut Alexander Berner
occupation

The Big Bagarozy is a German feature film from 1999 with Corinna Harfouch and Til Schweiger in the leading roles. Directed by Bernd Eichinger . The film was based on the 1997 novel of the same name by Helmut Krausser and is a mixture of comedy , crime and fantasy film.

action

Cora Dulz (Corinna Harfouch) is a frustrated and bored psychologist. Her husband (Thomas Heinze) has been overly cautious since a heart attack - this is expressed, among other things, in sexual abstinence, which intensifies the latent life crisis of his wife. To compensate for his hypochondriac fears, he collects obituary notices from people who have died in particularly abstruse ways.

Cora meets Stanislaus Nagy (Til Schweiger), an unusual new patient who attracts her and who initially pretends that Maria Callas has appeared to him, only to gradually reveal that he is really the devil . Only when Cora experiences him as a magician in a variety show , where he calls himself "the great Bagarozy" and employs the fired office assistant as an assistant, do legitimate doubts about Nagy's mythical identity arise .

Cora tries to expose the alleged charlatan . This endeavor culminates in an obsession that culminates in Cora Nagy stealing a gun and shooting her husband with it. Nagy, suspected of the murder, evades arrest by turning into a black poodle . In view of the disappearance without a trace, Cora is suspected. After trying to escape from the hospital, she tries to throw herself from the roof, but is stopped by Nagy, who tells her that he wants to become an ordinary person in order to age and eventually die.

After a kiss, Nagy throws himself from the roof and lands on the roof of a car, where he lies dead as a black poodle. Following Nagy's saying “Anything is possible on the middle of a bridge”, after her release on a bridge, Cora meets a man who is astonishingly like Nagy, but who seems to have lost all memory of his previous existence. Listening to the suddenly audible song of the Callas, the two go away together.

criticism

Helmut Krausser, the author of the novel himself, considered Eichinger's film adaptation " to be completely unsuccessful. "

Sandra Vogell wrote on BR-Online on October 7, 1999:

... In terms of content, his film is a plea for the extraordinary and, formally, the fulfillment of this demand. The story of the devil who doesn't want to be any more and the psychologist who smells the adventure is neither stringently told, nor continuously captivating and certainly not easy to understand. But original. And that must be praised! Eichinger's ideas alone are so gaga (the idea of ​​linking a Callas biography with a devil's redemption in general, the bared poodle in particular) that one would like to be grateful for it; you can gladly accept sitting in the cinema a bit at a loss for long stretches. ...

Rüdiger Suchsland wrote on artechock.de:

[Eichinger] has the subject under control cinematically and avoids all the embarrassments that are currently found in German film. ... This psychoanalytic story of sexual frustration and metaphysical abysses could have turned out really big and good. But the weak script remains unmistakable, whose sometimes screwed, sometimes pseudo-contemporary sentences rarely hit the right note and often give away the seriousness of the topic. Both main actors are disappointing as well: Harfouch plays weakly, but still passable. Til Schweiger, however, does not play the role for a moment - a terrific cast, a catastrophe for this film.

On August 31, 2002, Frank Ehrlacher and Sylvia Rosarius wrote on moviemaster.de:

“The big Bagarozy” plays with the common sense of his audience, who is the crazy one in the end? Is it Stanislaus or Cora, is the patient a clever weirdo or is he really the devil and if so, why does a devil with lovesickness come to a psychoanalyst? When you finally know, the question remains, how do I behave in the future towards a black poodle ???

Katja Eichinger , author of the Eichinger biography BE , dedicates the chapter When one speaks of the devil to the film :

“The great Bagarozy” has many beautiful, many moving moments. And yet: seen as a whole, the film doesn't work. The individual pieces of the puzzle do not fit together, but hang unhappily in the air. […] There is no chemistry between Corinna Harfouch and Til Schweiger. That could be a casting mistake, but the script is also to blame [sic!]. ...

Film music (track list)

The following titles can be found on the audio CD for the film:

  1. Somewhere Over The Rainbow (music box) ( Stephan Zacharias , Norbert J. Schneider )
  2. Ambiguous Encounter ( Henning Lohner )
  3. Don Carlos : Tu che le vanità (Maria Callas)
  4. La Wally : Ebb? ne andrò lontana (Maria Callas)
  5. Tosca : Ah! Final dues! (Maria Callas)
  6. Tosca : E qual via Scegliete? (Maria Callas)
  7. Norma : Casta Diva! (Maria Callas)
  8. Gianni Schicchi : O mio babbino caro (Maria Callas)
  9. La sonnambula : Oh! se una volta sola ... (Maria Callas)
  10. Andrea Chénier : La mamma morta (Maria Callas)
  11. I vespri siciliani : Mercé, dilette amiche (Maria Callas)
  12. Enlightenment ( Stephan Zacharias )
  13. Chase and Resurrection ( Stephan Zacharias )

Another title appears in the film: It's a Man's Man's Man's World , sung by James Brown . Music producer Klaus Badelt and music assistant Rob Williams were involved in creating the music . Additional film music: Norbert J. Schneider , Michael Witzel, Ludwig Eckmann , soprano: Renate Düerkop, tenor: Jürgen Fersch, piano: Celine Dutilly, music coordination: AXXIS Musikverlag, Georg Naschke.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Critical Edition - Portrait of Helmut Krausser ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 144 kB) accessed on September 30, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kritische-ausgabe.de
  2. ↑ Katja Eichinger: BE p. 416-420
  3. ↑ Original soundtrack: The big Bagarozy audio CD EMI Classics (7243 5 56938 2 2) and DVD production notes
  4. ↑ credits

literature

Web links