From the life of the puppets
| Movie | |
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| Original title | From the life of the puppets |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| script | Ingmar Bergman |
| production | Ingrid Bergman Horst Wendlandt |
| music | Rolf A. Wilhelm |
| camera | Sven Nykvist |
| cut | Petra von Oelffen |
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From the Life of the Marionettes is a German - Austrian film drama by Ingmar Bergman from 1980 . The film, which alternates between black and white and color format, was produced for German television .
action
Peter Egermann murders the young prostitute Katharina Krafft, known as Ka, and violates her corpse. The previous history is rolled out in flashbacks and interrogation protocols with relatives and friends: Peter is professionally successful, established and married to an equally successful woman who, like the murder victim, bears the name Katarina. Marriage in solidarity with the world is marked by a deep love-hate relationship. Peter closes himself more and more and confesses to his psychiatrist murder fantasies that revolve around his wife. A mutual friend of the couple puts Peter in contact with the prostitute Ka, whom he kills the first time they meet. The psychiatrist interprets the act as a violent outbreak of suppressed instincts. The last picture shows Peter who has completely withdrawn into himself, in psychiatry.
background
The life of the marionettes was created between October and December 1979 in the Bavaria Film Studios in Munich . The film begins and ends in color and changes to black and white in the middle section. According to an interview with Bergman in the Cahiers du cinéma , the ZDF had insisted that the opening sequence had to be in color, otherwise the television viewers would assume that their devices were defective. The roles were cast exclusively with theater actors from the Munich Residenztheater who had little film experience. This was his first film work for the later popular German television actor Robert Atzorn .
The film produced for television was first broadcast on November 3, 1980 on ZDF. The world premiere had already taken place on July 13, 1980 at a film festival in Oxford , England . After it was broadcast on television, the film was released in German cinemas. The German cinema premiere took place on November 7, 1980 at the Zoo Palast in Berlin .
A stage version had its Austrian premiere on March 5, 2009 in the Theater in der Josefstadt , directed by Philip Tiedemann .
Reviews
“With this actor and dialogue film, Bergman creates a pathetically thundering worldview of complete desolation and abandonment of God, on which any enlightenment must fail. The director's eternal leitmotifs are conjured up verbally rather than visually; also not outstanding in terms of acting. "
Web links
- From the Life of the Marionettes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- From the life of the puppets in the online film database
- From the life of the puppets on the Ingmar Bergman Foundation website
- From the Life of the Marionettes at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Hauke Lange-Fuchs: Ingmar Bergman His films - his life, Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02622-5 , pp. 306–307.
- ↑ a b Birgitta Steene: Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide, Amsterdam University Press 2006, p. 323 ff.
- ↑ a b From the life of the puppets in the lexicon of international films .