Particularly valuable

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Movie
Original title Particularly valuable
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Hellmuth Costard
script Hellmuth Costard
production Hellmuth Costard,
Petra Nettelbeck
music Hellmuth Costard
camera Hellmuth Costard
cut Hellmuth Costard
occupation

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.

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