Disabled future
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Disabled future |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 43 minutes |
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| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script | Werner Herzog |
| production | Werner Herzog |
| camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| occupation | |
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Handicapped Future is a documentary by Werner Herzog from the year 1971 . The film deals with the living situation of physically disabled children in Munich.
A disabled friend of Herzog suggested the director to produce the film in order to bring disabled people in Germany more into the spotlight.
Herzog himself compared Disabled Future , which by the way had a great impact and in the wake of it even led to new laws in Germany, with his film The Flying Doctors of East Africa , made in 1969 , as this also renounced any form of dramatization. In retrospect, however, Herzog is not sure whether he still particularly likes the disabled future , as it is "dangerously conventional". Today, in such a film, he would approach the audience much more harshly with the subject matter presented in order to depict the need for change more clearly.
During the filming, Herzog met the deaf-blind Fini Straubinger. This encounter eventually led to another film on the subject of disability called the Land of Silence and Darkness , in which Straubinger played an important role. The film gained higher notoriety as Disabled Future .
criticism
The lexicon of international films ruled that it was an "unobtrusive film about borderline situations in human life" . The film calls for "the joint responsibility of the healthy" .
Web links
- Handicapped Future in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Disabled future at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herzog on Herzog, p. 73. Faber & Faber, Cronin.
- ↑ Disabled future. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 24, 2013 .