Chapeau Claque (film)

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Movie
Original title Chapeau Claque
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1974
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ulrich Schamoni
script Ulrich Schamoni
production Bärenfilm / Ziegler Filmproduktion
camera Igor Luther
cut Regine Heuser
occupation

Chapeau Claque - The happy confession of a lazy man is a German auteur film by Ulrich Schamoni from 1974 .

action

The film begins with Hanno Giessen stepping in front of the house and quoting the poem " Herbsttag" by Rainer Maria Rilke . Hanno Giessen is 33 years old, single and describes himself as a privateer . His ancestors had made an immense fortune from the industrial production of the chapeau claque (folding top hat), but the company went bankrupt . Hanno lives secluded in the English-style country house that he was able to save from the bankruptcy estate. He pursues idleness and his passion for collecting. His extensive collection of old objects of all kinds includes both enamel billboards and - according to Hannos - the largest collection of rabbits in Europe. Hanno Giessen does not leave home and garden, instead his suppliers of food, wine, heating oil, etc., come and go. Occasionally friends from the employers' association come to visit. Life as a privateer allows him to ponder life exclusively in changing dressing gowns. While Hanno Giessen explains the course of his everyday life to the viewer, the almost 18-year-old Anna moves in with him and strolls through the house and garden, mostly naked or scantily clad. Hanno enjoys his idleness, and Anna starts counting mosquito larvae. Later on, with Hanno's consent, she was allowed to sort collectible pictures , but this too soon made her bored. After Anna became Hanno's bed companion, disputes broke out and she moved out. Hanno presents the collected shards of broken porcelain from this phase and ponders unchanged about life itself and ends with the poem "My Life" by Theodor Fontane .

backgrounds

Hanno prefers to listen to Beethoven's The Anger About the Lost Groschen . In addition to the family history, Hanno Giessen u. a. with the following (mostly entrepreneurial) wisdom:

  • If you want to take a big jump, you have to go backwards first.
  • Nothing is more successful than success.
  • Half the day is a good shit.
  • The strong game is the weak death.
  • Some on stilts are too short for the cause.
  • Just before the finish line died.
  • Butter and cheese are born in a day.
  • God gives us the nuts, but he doesn't crack them.
  • Rich people have fat cats.
  • The right Mercedes belongs to the right entrepreneur.
  • What does the moon care if the pug barks at it!

In its ironic way, the film is directed against the mania for work that worries many people. According to the official opinion, doing nothing is embellished, so that Chapeau Claque was originally even rated as FSK 18 .

Production history

The house at Furtwänglerstraße 19 is in Berlin-Grunewald . Ulrich Schamoni bought it with the proceeds of his film Es and lived in it himself. For cost reasons, the choice of the location fell on his house, and he welcomed this choice with the words: "Well, great, then I don't even have to go outside to shoot."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/fahrten/article440940/Hommage_an_Ulrich_Schamoni_Seine_Witwe_steller_ihren_ersten_Film_vor.html

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