Particularly valuable
Movie | |
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Original title | Particularly valuable |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 11 minutes |
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Director | Hellmuth Costard |
script | Hellmuth Costard |
production | Hellmuth Costard, Petra Nettelbeck |
music | Hellmuth Costard |
camera | Hellmuth Costard |
cut | Hellmuth Costard |
occupation | |
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The title of a short film by the German director Hellmuth Costard from 1968 is particularly valuable . The title is an allusion to the highest film rating “particularly valuable” by the Wiesbaden film evaluation office . At the beginning of 1968, a new film funding law was passed in Germany , which also contained a clause on "immorality". The film deals with this topic in an ironic way.
action
In the short film, a speech by the CDU member of the Bundestag Hans Toussaint , who helped initiate the new film funding law, is delivered through a speaking penis . After the speech, the genitals are masturbated by a woman's hand, while trumpet music can be heard in the background. After an ejaculation on the camera lens, the film ends with a picture of bare buttocks farting to extinguish a candle.
performance
The film is directed as a protest film against the working methods of the film evaluation office and caused a scandal when it was planned to be shown at the short film days in Oberhausen . The festival management refused to show the film, although the selection committee - the u. a. the journalists Wolfram Schütte , Enno Patalas and Uwe Nettelbeck belonged to - had accepted. Nettelbeck had also published an article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , in which he took Costard's side. Almost all German directors withdrew their contributions, the writer Peter Handke left the jury in protest, only the filmmaker Werner Herzog wanted to continue participating in the festival. The festival director Hilmar Hoffmann has meanwhile offered to resign.
It was particularly valuable afterwards, together with the other German short films, shown outside the festival at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
Web links
- Of particular value in the Internet Movie Database (English)