Every year again (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Every year again |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Schamoni |
| script |
Michael Lentz Ulrich Schamoni |
| production | Peter Schamoni |
| music | Hans Posegga |
| camera | Wolfgang Treu |
| cut | Heidi Genée |
| occupation | |
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Every year is a German feature film from 1967.
action
Hannes Lücke is a professional copywriter in Frankfurt am Main . At Christmas , like every year, he visits his family in Münster in Westphalia . Here in his hometown his acquaintances, relatives and friends live in middle-class conditions. Also this time he brought a new friend Inge from Frankfurt. He sings Christmas carols with Mrs. Lore and the children and plays an ideal world, although the marriage has long been destroyed; Inge waits impatiently for him in the hotel. She now wants a decision from him and urges him to talk to his wife. His wife, however, wants him back, if only because of the children. Hannes, however, shows himself weak in making decisions; He gives both sides hopes that he ultimately cannot fulfill. He tries himself in the role of the lover, the husband, the worried father; but in none he convinces and every time it gets difficult he runs away. With his clique, he only remembers the past and drowns Christmas in alcohol. One of them reads a poem in the intoxication, which is to be understood like the swan song of the post-war generation: "We have only turned forty, our only medals, has some carnival lover given us, you are right if you think the rest of our dreams, decorate the Christmas trees ... "Then they drive together to the old flak position, where they were used as Hitler Youth for air defense. Münster is only Hannes' past, which he visits in order to forget it. The next morning they both leave Münster again without a decision being made. On the drive to Frankfurt he tells Inge the same lies that he told his wife 13 years ago. It becomes clear that this Christmas was no exception, but comes back every year.
Muenster
For the local color, the memory of the music teacher Dr. Bierbaum recorded the following statements in just three scenes:
- “Either it's raining here, or the bells are ringing, or a pub will be opened again.” (With reference to Münster)
- "Gentlemen, may I give you this on the way: The main reason for divorce is marriage." (In relation to divorce)
- "Gentlemen, that is a fact: Germans sing most of the time when it comes to Christmas or when they go to war." (In relation to singing)
The action takes place in or near distinctive buildings in Münster. Are shown u. a. the Cafe Schucan, the Stuhlmacher bar, the Alte Gasthaus Leve, the Promenade (Münster) , the Überwasserkirche , the historic town hall , St. Lamberti and the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History .
background
The brothers Ulrich and Peter Schamoni and the main actor Hans Dieter Schwarze spent their youth in Münster and returned there to film. In the former Westphalian provincial capital, the film has cult status and is regularly shown in cinemas at Christmas time.
Reviews
"The caricature of a narrow-minded generation, staged with a sense of entertainment in the real world."
“The film has weaknesses, but also indisputable qualities… The screenplay gains a few satirical effects from a basically banal story that compensate for the irrelevance of the subject. The film reflects on the generation of 40-year-old men. They have achieved something, are more or less well married, in the memory of the exciting Nazi and war years they like to pretend to be less civil than they are. But their protests against philistinism, stink and boredom always dissolve into alcohol haze. What the film lacks is a touch of bitterness. Schamoni ... sees the comedy in the false inwardness, registers the pathos and sentimentality of the petty bourgeoisie; but he doesn't pack energetically enough ... Anyone who feared that Schamoni would not be allowed to be seen after the premiere of his film in Münster can rest assured: Schamoni is allowed. - The review ... is so pleasing and perfectly packaged that it can be consumed. "
“Westphalia's unsuspecting humanity, which has long been familiar to the world through Germany's Federal President, was used by the director Ulrich Schamoni, 27, for cinema art. In Münster he shot a play of light about provincial smug, philistine pleasures and Westphalian peace of mind ... "
“The film allegedly exposes two group phenomena: the petty bourgeoisie and the Catholics. The united German petty bourgeoisie is shown in that the film picks out a species that also exists (and undoubtedly not too scarce), but which stands as a possible group alongside other groups ... Second, the film exposes, as the scriptwriters believe, bigots Piety of Catholic provenance, provincial narrowed catholicity, in that he shows excerpts from the Christmas High Mass in Münster Cathedral including the celebratory sermon (in original recording and original sound); In the reverse shot, however, he also makes the facial reactions of "believers" available to the viewer, to prove that their thoughts are completely elsewhere. "
"... reports of banal, drunken, curious Christmas days in the staid Westphalian town of Münster ... Schamoni transformed this into a series of satirical solos without any optical ambition, but with disrespectful wit."
“A brisk and fresh film with comedic features, but which portrays the image of the forty-year-old cliché. Discussable entertainment from 16. "
Awards
The film ran in the competition at the Berlinale 1967 . Michael Lentz received a Silver Bear for his screenplay, the main actors Hans-Dieter Schwarze and Ulla Jacobsson were each awarded the Federal Film Prize in gold. Ulrich Schamoni received the FIPRESCI Prize , his brother Peter Schamoni won the Federal Film Prize in silver endowed with 300,000 DM . The prize money formed the basis for the production of the film To the point, honey .
literature
- Every year again. A film by Ulrich Schamoni . Booklet accompanying the DVD, series: Westphalia in historical films , ed. from the LWL media center for Westphalia , Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-923432-61-5 ; on-line
Web links
- Every year in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Every year at Filmportal.de