When women still had tails
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | When women still had tails |
| Original title | Quando le donne avevano la coda |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pasquale Festa Campanile |
| script |
Marcello Coscia Pasquale Festa Campanile Ottavio Jemma Lina Wertmüller |
| production | Silvio Clementelli |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Franco Di Giacomo |
| cut | Sergio Montanari |
| occupation | |
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When Women Had Tails (original title: Quando le donne avevano la coda ) is a feature film from 1970 by Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile . The first screening took place in Germany on December 17, 1970 (film release in Italy on October 16, 1970).
The female lead role of Filli was played by Senta Berger , the male lead role of Ulli was played by Giuliano Gemma , who had previously become known in spaghetti westerns . Senta Berger refused to dub her role in the German version herself, according to her own statement in protest against the clumsy translation of the film title and the dingy German dialogue texts, which differ from the Italian original.
The film was continued in Toll it drove the old Teutons (1972), also with Senta Berger in the leading role.
action
After a group of seven Stone Age men, including Ulli's companions Put (Lino Toffolo), Uto (Francesco Mulè), Zog (Aldo Giuffrè), Kao (Lando Buzzanca), Grr (Frank Wolf) and Maluc (Renzo Montagnani), their Has lost her home, she starts looking for a new place to stay. One day she comes across a strange "animal" that looks similar to men, only with softer facial features, longer hair and a tail.
The men have never seen a “female” and instead of “tasting” Filli as originally planned, the leader Ulli prefers to enjoy a new “game” that she teaches him; this game is called "Weibchenschmus". When the other clan members also want to take part in this game, Filli and Ulli flee to Filli's tribe, 150 unsatisfied women.
Kao is the only man who stands out from his dumb group and constantly invents new things, like a slingshot, but also dreams of swimming "like fish" and "flying like birds".
background
The idea for the film came from the famous Italian feminist and director Lina Wertmüller , who was involved in the script. Her husband Enrico Job was to be the outfitter. The writer Umberto Eco said he had nothing to do with the history of its creation, even if he is often referred to in the Italian media and film lexicons as an "idea generator" (Italian soggetto ) or even the author of a literary model. "Certain reports," said Eco about this misinformation, "arise simply from the fact that a prankster in a weekly paper slips various people into parodied explanations, which are then taken over by other gazettes as if they were true." In his picaresque novel Baudolino , published in 2000, Eco lets his title hero meet "women with wild boar teeth, hair to the feet and cow tails" in the fantasy city "Karjamaja".
According to Senta Berger's memories, Wertmüller justified her involvement in the production with the words: “Yes, of course it is a comedy, but also a parody of all these terrible films that take place in the Stone Age and a satire of our society in the roles are reversed and the women tell the men where to go. ”Out of affection for Wertmüller and the director Pasquale Festa Campanile , who wrote the script for Luchino Visconti for Rocco and his brothers , Berger said he took the lead role. She expected a mixture between a "lovable comedy and an absolute stupid film". When she was expected by "a hundred photographers" at the location of the outdoor shots, a quarry in Torvaianica on the coast south-west of Rome, she supposedly knew that they would "follow the pictures taken there for a lifetime". The location also served as a backdrop for sandal films and spaghetti westerns .
In retrospect, Senta Berger refused to do the German dubbing , referring to the shallow sex films that set the tone at the time: “I should dub my role in German. A German dubbing company, I think its name was Brunnemann, sent me the translations. I could not believe my eyes. The, admittedly, quite simple stupidities had become stupid, vulgar, stuffy- pornographic texts. The word 'coda' had been translated 'tail'. A found food. That fit right into the time of the ' schoolgirl reports ' in Germany. "
criticism
After the premiere, Italian media praised the film as a "grotesque parable" and a successful satire, according to which the "happy and wild goings-on" of society in the jealous institution of marriage is perishing. That is as "unusual" as "entertaining", quite apart from the brilliant color photography by cameraman Franco Di Giacomo and Enrico Job's "imaginative" production design ( La Stampa , October 16, 1970). The plot was even compared to Voltaire's Satire Candide or Optimism and the "grotesque and anti-realistic" look was emphasized (GI Rondi in Il Tempo ). German media were much more critical due to the low level synchronization and spoke of "sex stuff". From a temporal distance, however, there are also voices who find the film "so bad" that it is "somehow good again".
" Childish Stone Age sex joke, in places tasteless and vulgar "
"The country is returning to the bourgeoisie and so 'When women still had tails' is a relic from a bygone era, when sex was revolutionary spread with a wink."
"Clothes-like, childish-childish joke without a satirical or parodic note."
Language used
The term "pompfe", used in the film for a club, now also refers to a padded weapon in the team sport jugger .
Web links
- When Women Had Tails in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
Individual evidence
- ↑ Senta Berger: When I was Animala. In: One Day (Spiegel Online, September 13, 2008)
- ↑ Umberto Eco: Match letters. Mistrust is good for you , in: Die Zeit from September 5, 1986 [1] , accessed on March 25, 2020
- ↑ Umberto Eco: The historical novels , Munich 2011 (Carl Hanser Verlag), unpag. E-Book [2] accessed on March 25, 2020
- ↑ Senta Berger: When I was 'Animala' , Spiegel dated September 12, 2008 [3] Spiegel online , accessed on June 4, 2019.
- ↑ Senta Berger: When I was 'Animala'. Der Spiegel from September 12, 2008, accessed on June 4, 2019.
- ↑ [4] accessed on March 25, 2020
- ↑ Film review: When women still had tails - Schmackofatz [5] accessed on March 25, 2020
- ↑ When women still had tails. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ www.videoraiders.net ( Memento from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 547/1970.