The wrong weight (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The wrong weight |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 146 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernhard Wicki |
| script | Bernhard Wicki, Fritz Hochwälder |
| production | Intertel Television, Munich for ZDF, Mainz ( Gerhard Freund ) |
| music | George Gruntz |
| camera | Jerzy Lipman |
| cut |
Clara Fabry , Eva Maria Tittes |
| occupation | |
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The Wrong Weight is the film adaptation of the novel The Wrong Weight. The story of a calibration master by Joseph Roth from 1971. It is about the calibration master Anselm Eibenschütz, whose job it is to check the weights on the markets in a small, dirty border village in Galicia. He is hated by many for the pedantic manner with which he performs this task.
action
At the request of his wife, Anselm Eibenschütz quits his service as a kuk NCO and goes to the abandoned Galician border village of Zlotograd to take up a job as a foreman. In the midst of little crooks, dubious traders and cowardly schemers, Eibenschütz tries to enforce the legal order. He punishes the use of wrong weights with harsh punishments and is hated by everyone in the village.
His wife Regina begins a relationship with Josef Nowak, the scribe for the verification master, and becomes pregnant. She tries to seduce her husband, who has long since turned away from her, to cover up the affair. However, Eibenschütz, who became aware of this, discovered the affair with the help of an anonymous letter and had the clerk transferred.
From then on he punishes his wife and child with silence and contempt. But for him, too, an unstoppable decline begins. He abuses his authority to bring his rival Jadlowker to prison. He was the host of a notorious tavern, which he ran with the gypsy Euphemia Nikitsch. Eibenschütz fell in love with Euphemia the first time he met. Ironically, Eibenschütz is appointed by the court as the new administrator of the inn. He now moves in with Euphemia completely and experiences the first love of his life in bed with her.
However, when Konstantin Sameschkin, a third lover of Euphemias, appears and asserts his rights to her, she separates from Eibenschütz. A devastating cholera epidemic breaks out and claims the life of Regina and that of her child. The convict and former landlord Jadlowker is used to remove the many corpses and flees in the chaos. He ambushes Eibenschütz and kills him.
Production notes
The film is an unusually detailed adaptation of the novel, which was shot from February 16 to April 22, 1970 in the Atelier Pasarét Budapest. The outdoor shots were taken in Vác , Sződliget and in the vicinity of Budapest. Otto Pischinger designed the film structures . The film was originally a TV film for ZDF , which was also released in cinemas in early 1973.
criticism
J. Kaiser judged that the false weight is a “film, not a television product”, a “dramatic-visual event of so great abundance, of so colorful energy that we can hardly afford not to use this film in Germany as well To see the film. ”The lexicon of international film described the film as“ an extraordinary cinematic work of art, in which direction, representation and composition play an equal role ”.
Awards
- Golden Camera 1971 for Bernhard Wicki (director) and Helmut Qualtinger (actor)
- Film tape in gold 1972 for Bernhard Wicki
- Festival of World Television Cannes 1972: Prize to Bernhard Wicki (director)
literature
- Dieter Krusche with the assistance of Jürgen Labenski and Josef Nagel: Reclams Filmführer . Reclam , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-010676-1 .
- Thomas Koebner with the assistance of Kerstin-Luise Neumann (Ed.): Classic films: descriptions and comments . tape 3 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-030011-8 , pp. 243-246 .
Web links
- The wrong weight in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article about the film on Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The wrong weight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 7, 2015 .
- ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film : Bernhard Wicki
- ↑ Quoted from: Uli Jung: [Article] Bernhard Wicki. In: film directors. Biographies, descriptions of works, filmographies . Edited by Thomas Koebner . With 109 illustrations. Stuttgart: Reclam 2008 [3. updated and expanded edition, 1999], pp. 822–826, here 824. ISBN 978-3-15-010662-4 .