Chamsin (film)
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Original title | Khamsin |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1972 |
length | 86 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 18 |
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Director | Vitus Relin |
script | Vitus Relin |
production |
Felix Hock , Veit Relin |
music | Amon Düül II |
camera | Georges Barsky |
cut |
Bettina Lewertoff , Liselotte Schneider |
occupation | |
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Chamsin is a German feature film made in 1970 by the couple Veit Relin (direction and production) and Maria Schell (leading role). It is a modernization of the drama The Bride of Messina by Friedrich Schiller .
action
At the center of the dramatic events is a family in Israel. The head of the family, David, owns a plantation and is married to Miriam. She gave birth to two sons, Jack and Emanuel. The third child, a nameless daughter, is not recognized by Miriam's husband. She was deported to a Swiss boarding school. When David dies, she returns to the family's lap and causes erotic unrest between Jack and Emanuel, one of whom is a cute pilot lieutenant, the other a little bit of self-indulgent life artist.
Both young men do not know who the young woman who is supposed to be their sister is. As once with Cain and Abel, there is a fratricidal dispute, because everyone wants the beautiful stranger to himself, and as once with the Old Testament siblings, this story also ends in fratricide after mother Miriam has not intervened and the young widow instead pursues her own lust and she had a tête-à-tête with her brother-in-law in a hotel.
Production notes
Chamsin was filmed in Jerusalem from February 22 to April 2, 1970 in collaboration with the Israeli film company Israfilm Motion Pictures Services and premiered in Germany on June 16, 1972, with a long delay.
Reviews
The lexicon of the international film tore the strip and found it was a "stylistically and dramatically completely unsuccessful directorial debut" Relin.
Web links
- Chamsin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chamsin at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Khamsin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 11, 2018 .