Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
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| Original title | Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Jean-Marie Straub |
| script | Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet |
| production | Franz Seitz junior |
| music | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| camera |
Ugo Piccone Saverio Diamanti Giovanni Canfarelli |
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach is a German-Italian fictional film by the French director Jean-Marie Straub from 1968. The director wrote the script together with his partner Danièle Huillet . It deals with the most important stages in the life story of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach , as told by the English writer Esther Meynell in the form of fictional diary sketches by Bach's second wife.
Table of contents
The film consists almost exclusively of recordings of soloists (vocals, piano, organ), orchestras and choirs, which were recorded in historical locations and show people in historical costumes. In between are recordings of original manuscripts and scores, letters and other documents. Bach himself and his second wife appear in the picture, but they hardly act or not at all. An actual action is consequently not recognizable. Developments and the flow of time can only be taken from the chronological sequence of the pieces of music, from the detailed written or acoustic quotations from documents. The quotations, mostly spoken off- screen, are written in the language that Bach and his contemporaries used.
Production notes
The film, which was made within eight weeks between August and October 1967, premiered on February 3, 1968 in Utrecht as part of the Cinemanifestale. The German premiere took place on June 30, 1968 in Berlin (West). The film has been running in Germany since March 14, 1969.
The music comes from the protagonist himself and is interpreted by the instrumental ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt , the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the direction of August Wenzinger and the Hanover boys' choir . The outdoor shots were taken in Eutin ( Schleswig-Holstein ), Hamburg , Leipzig , Lübeck , Lüneburg , Nuremberg and Stade , among others .
Reviews
“The life of Johann Sebastian Bach in an unorthodox representation by Jean-Marie Straub. The film is neither a traditional musical biography nor a cultural film about Bach. Rather, he discovers the moving elements of a busy life in the historical and refers, not least through structure and style, to its present significance. A film that is unusual in its intellectual and formal concept. "
“Film about the work and the most important stages in the life of Johann Sebastian Bach. Straub's second film consists primarily of static and completely expressionless recordings, which more than insufficiently illustrate a tape that is certainly interesting for Bach fans. "
Awards
- Predicate 'Particularly Valuable' for the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency
- Best film of the month by the Evangelical Film Guild (April 1968)
- IFF London 1968: Best Film of the Year
- IFF Prades: Prades Grand Prix
- Bambi for the best German film in 1968
literature
- Jean-Marie Straub: The Bach Film . First published in: Filmkritik , issue 11/1966; Republished in: The Fruits of Anger and Tenderness - work show Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub and selected films by John Ford , a Viennale publication, director: Hans Hurch , concept and text selection: Astrid Johanna Ofner, Viennale, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-901770-15-1 . - The text was created after a conversation with Enno Patalas , which took place almost a year before filming began. At that time it was a matter of “collecting the money for the production of the film” (Danièle Huillet).
- Jean-Marie Straub: Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach . Verlag Filmkritik, Frankfurt am Main, 1969. - The text is the script revised by Danièle Huillet after the film, provided with length information about the shots and numerous illustrations. Editor: Helmut Färber.
- Herbert Linder: This cantor doesn't just do nothing ... and children, watch out! , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 18, 1969 or film review, issue 10/1968; Both texts republished in: Rolf Aurich, Wolfgang Jacobsen (Ed.): Herbert Linder - Filmkritiker , Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-268-3 .
DVD
Le Bach film . Éditions Montparnasse, 2013. DVD 1: Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach in five different language versions, including the original German version. DVD 2: 1) multilingual documentary Signalement de Jean-Marie Straub by Henk de By (1968), 2) conversation with Christiane Lang-Drewanz (2012), 3) conversation with Nikolaus Harnoncourt (2012); as well as previously unpublished documents and photos from the shooting.
See also
Web links
- The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comments on the film at film.at
- A short film excerpt on youtube
- A few pictures of the film at cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Long review in the Evangelisches Film-Beobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, 20th year 1968, review No. 52/1968, p. 52
- ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 3174 (1988), p. 546
- ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter, 1968, p. 205