The valley of the dancing widows
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The valley of the dancing widows |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 93 (German version 84) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Volker Vogeler |
| script | Volker Vogeler |
| production |
Michael Fengler Luis Megino |
| music | Carmelo A. Bernaola |
| camera | Fernando Arribas |
| cut | Eduardo Biurrun |
| occupation | |
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The Valley of the Dancing Widows is a erstaufgeführter on May 23, 1975 Western in German-Spanish co-production, which can also be understood as a home comedy. Volker Vogeler staged according to his own script.
action
When their husbands return home after four years in the civil war, the women in a small Texan town no longer want to hear from them; they have found that they can cope better and happier on their own and without instructions from the masters. For this they are ready to kill the returnees even against their internal resistance, if they do not agree with the situation. A series of poisonings and escapes from the village are the result; only one girl leaves the town out of love for her hero. This is the only male survivor of the consistent action of women.
criticism
The lexicon of international films says, “The comedy disguised as an idyll refers in many ways to classic models in the genre of westerns and homeland films. With all the unevenness in the staging, a thoroughly entertaining film with a satirical bite, which derives its comedy from a reversal of the rules of the Western genre. ”The work is the result of an intense flirtation between Volker Vogeler and Alice Schwarzer and a flirtatious and smug little film with the Subtitle “A German film idyll with arsenic”, says Joe Hembus . The Süddeutsche Zeitung , however, saw "a poor, naive Western ingratiation, in which everything problematic is dragged by the bristling hair."
Remarks
Scenes filmed with Anita Ekberg were removed from the final cut.
The historical background is poisoning in a Hungarian village after the end of the First World War .
Web links
- The Valley of the Dancing Widows in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The valley of the dancing widows. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Joe Hembus: The Western Lexicon , expanded new edition by Benjamin Hembus - 1567 films from 1894 to today. Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08121-8 . Pp. 627/628
- ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1977 ( online ).