The Raven District

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Movie
German title The Raven District
Original title Kvarteret corps
Country of production Sweden
original language Swedish
Publishing year 1963
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Bo Widerberg
script Bo Widerberg
production Waldemar Bergendahl
music Torelli Giuseppe
camera Jan Lindeström
cut Wic Kjellin
occupation

The Rabenviertel ( Kvarteret Korpen ) is a Swedish film drama from 1963. Bo Widerberg , who also wrote the script, tells in his second directorial work with a “poetic naturalism”. 1965 the film for an Oscar in the category was Best Foreign Language Film nomination and Keve Hjelm in 1964 with the Swedish Film Award Guldbagge as Best Actor award.

In Germany the film had its world premiere on September 5, 1967 on ARD .

action

1936 in the "Rabenviertel" of Malmö , a slum area inhabited by simple workers and large families. One of them is the focus of the film. The father drinks, leaves his work and prefers to attend a football game; at home he lets himself sink into the sofa. The mother has to work all the harder to support the family. The eldest son, Anders, hopes to become a great writer one day.

His novel tells about the people of the neighborhood. When he received an invitation from a publisher to Stockholm, he believed it would be published and he and his parents were overjoyed. However, your expectations are disappointed, the publisher merely expresses encouragement. After a while, he recognizes and recognizes a message from the publisher's words: whoever shouts is noticed but not understood. The longer it becomes, the clearer it becomes that the father has given up all hope of being able to change anything in his situation. He attributes the cause of his alcoholic illness to an affair his mother had with a neighbor in 1923. The mother explains to Anders that she started the affair after the father came home blue again. Another way is to get involved with a young woman from the neighborhood who becomes pregnant by him. Later he takes hope and sets off for the capital without taking the pregnant woman with him.

reception

"A somewhat lengthy, but closely observed, haunting study."

- Lexicon of international film

“The young director Bo Widerberg succeeds in sensitively and yet without any sentimentality to draw the picture of a boy who finds himself in the midst of a world of filth and resignation and who has the strength to escape his depressing surroundings. Also recommended for young film fans from the age of 16. "

- Protestant film observer

In 2012, the film magazine FLM organized a vote for the “best Swedish film of all time” among 50 critics and film scholars, in which The Raven Quarter took second place behind The Carter of Death .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Aghed: Bo Widerberg. 1930-1997 . In: Positif , October 1997, p. 69
  2. ↑ Critique No. 399/1967, p. 506
  3. ↑ ”Körkarlen” utsedd till bästa film at svd.se, August 30, 2012 (accessed on September 9, 2014).