Change (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Change |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernd Fischerauer |
| script |
Wolfgang Bauer Bernd Fischerauer |
| production | KG Divina, Karl Spiehs , Sascha-Film |
| music | Michael Rüggeberg |
| camera | Anthony B. Richmond |
| cut | Eva Zeyn |
| occupation | |
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Change is an Austrian-German feature film satire by Bernd Fischerauer from 1974 with Reiner Schöne , Sylvia Manas and Maria Schell in the leading roles. The film is based on the drama of the same name by Wolfgang Bauer , who also contributed to the script.
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The painter Ferry Kaltenböck, a representative of the Viennese avant-garde, never really caught on in the Viennese art scene and cultural chiceria. His work is selling extremely badly, and the persistent unsuccessfulness has gradually driven him into depression. In his deep frustration he came up with the daring idea of pushing a hobby painter from St. Pölten , the full-time locksmith Blasius Okopenko, a "whole guy" bursting with testosterone, to become a star of the Viennese painting scene. Ferry uses the help of a few journalists and art dealers for a perfidious plan to first make Okopenko known and then to make the society darling. Once Blasius is established, so Ferry's idea, he will let him fall that much deeper, denounce him as a blender and take revenge with this deceitful action on the art scene, which had so viciously ignored him, Ferry Kaltenböck, by he exposes them as fools and idiots. Ferry hopes to become suddenly famous, if not through his own work, at least through the scandal he hoped for.
But Blasius is anything but a dumb fool from the Lower Austrian province. Rather, he is a rabid, omnipotent womanizer who will use this opportunity in his very own way. He makes a big dash through Ferry's account by destroying his life piece by piece: First he attacks Ferry's girlfriend Guggi and impregnates her, then he also pulls Kaltenböck's mother on the floor in order to take her by force. After all, Okopenko sees himself as a savvy bastard when it comes to business and uses every trick in the book to rule out the art dealers who have promised a big profit from the Okopenko hype. Once again Ferry Kaltenböck is the loser, the great manipulator became a manipulated one. While Blasius Okopenko is sweeping out the wild macho and mackerel, rushing up and down the stairs of venerable tenement houses with a heavy motorcycle, smashing hospital rooms and using brute force to penetrate shops, entertainment venues and various ladies, Kaltenböck's crash can no longer be stopped. Overrun by the events and humiliated by Blasius like a complete beginner, he takes a rope in a severe attack of depression and hangs himself.
Production notes
Change was made in Austria in 1974 and premiered on June 6, 1975. Director Fischerauer and template and screenwriter Bauer had previously worked together at the theater several times.
Günther Eulau took over the production management. The buildings were designed by Christian Schieckel, the costumes by Birgit Hutter.
Reviews
In its issue of June 9, 1975, Der Spiegel found that Fischerauer's film debut had become “a brightly photographed, bright spectacle of German sex film usages, comic strip effects and milieu painting”.
The Lexicon of International Films found that this strip was "already in the system [a] unsuccessful film adaptation of a play" and also criticized the fact that it was "especially amateurish in terms of acting and extremely tasteless".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Change in: Der Spiegel, 24/1975, p. 116
- ↑ Change. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .
Web links
- Change in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Change at filmportal.de