The little mess

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Movie
Original title The little mess
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1967
length 9 minutes
Rod
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (alias Franz Walsch)
script Rainer Werner Fassbinder (alias Franz Walsch)
production Christoph Roser
music Ludwig van Beethoven ,
The Troggs
camera Michael Fengler
occupation

Das kleine Chaos is a short film in black and white by the German director, author and actor Rainer Werner Fassbinder . It was shot in Munich in January 1967 and shown for the first time in the same year. Together with the short films This Night and Der Stadtstreicher , Das kleine Chaos is one of the first films by the then 21-year-old. Fassbinder's mother ( Lilo Pempeit ) plays the first of many other roles in his films.

action

Franz, Theo and Marite are three young people who advertise magazine subscriptions in Munich . But you have little success in this doorstep business . One day, frustrated and in need of money, they attacked a woman in her apartment and stole her cash, with Franz threatening the woman with a gun. When, after a small celebration in the victim's apartment accompanied by Beethoven's 5th piano concerto, they were thinking about what to do with the looted money, Franz, played by the then 21-year-old Fassbinder, said, looking towards the camera: “Me? I'm going to the cinema ! ”In addition, the song I Can't Control Myself by The Troggs starts with the sigh:“ Oh no! ”

Reviews

“In the Little Chaos , Fassbinder's fascination with American cinema becomes noticeable for the first time. The gestures and actions of the three mini gangsters are based on Hollywood models. Fassbinder, however, varies the scheme in terms of content. He fulfills the wish that is once expressed in the film: 'I finally want to see a crime thriller that ends well.' "

- Wilhelm Roth, 1992

“While the first short film Der Stadtstreicher was a cinematic greeting to Rohmer , Das kleine Chaos is a tribute to Godard's Vivre sa vie (The Story of Nana S.) , with a central visual quote from Godard's film: Fassbinder reads from a book in one long shot in which the book covers his mouth. Incidentally, it is about Henry de Montherlant's novel The Young Girls , which Fassbinder later served as a source of inspiration for Roast Satan .

The last sentence that Fassbinder reads is: “Everything that hurts me is good for me”, a very relevant introduction to a life's work that is an exploration of masochism in an unprecedented way . Then Fassbinder strokes his revolver with a masturbation movement : a prelude to the strong connection between love, sexual frustrations and violence, which will also be a main theme of his future productions. The little chaos also contains brief reverences to Raoul Walsh and François Truffaut . "

- Christian Braad Thomsen, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ernst-Christian Nisel (Editor), Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation (ed.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder Retrospective - program. Argon Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87024-212-4 .
  2. Peter W. Jansen , Wolfram Schütte (Ed.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-596-11318-0 .
  3. ^ Christian Braad Thomsen: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Life and work of an immoderate genius. Rogner & Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8077-0275-X , p. 68.