The attack of the present on the rest of the time

Movie
Original title	The attack of the present on the rest of the time
original language	German
Publishing year	1985
length	113 minutes
Rod
Director	Alexander Kluge
script	Alexander Kluge
production	Alexander Kluge Willi Segler
camera	Hermann Fahr Werner Lüring Thomas Mauch
cut	Jane Sperr
occupation
Jutta Hoffmann : Gertrud Meinecke Armin Mueller-Stahl : blind director Hans-Michael Rehberg : Mr. von Gerlach Peter Roggisch : Great boss Rosel Zech : Doctor Maria Slatinaru : singer of Tosca Günther Reich : singer of the police chief Scarpia Piero Visconti : singer of Cavaradossi Edgar M. Böhlke : Scrap dealer Henning Burk : Home workers Alfred Edel : motivational researcher André Jung : Chauffeur Max Bernd Schmidt : Reporter Claudia Buckler : Maid Elsa Rosemarie Fendel : Mrs. von Gerlach Ursula Lillig : Otto Ferrari : soldier / monk Rüdiger Leimbach : Graecist Loni Pampel : Office hours assistant Brigitte Schauder : woman of the house Stefanie Wüst : Young Polish woman

The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (English title The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time ) is a West German film of 1985. The screenplay was written by Alexander Kluge ; he also directed. The entire film was shot in Frankfurt am Main. The working title of the film was Eeriness of Time . In France, the film is called L'attaque du présent sur le temps qui reste . An alternative English title is The Blind Director .

content

In this episode film, Kluge tells various stories about the realities of people, media and machines in the course of time. The story of a Polish caretaker family who wants to protect the holdings of a film production from invading Germans is told in episodes. Another episode tells of a blind director who filmed the opera Falstaff with imaginative visual power . Other episodes deal with a doctor who is being replaced by a machine, scenes from a theater performance by Tosca filmed, and silent film sequences copied on top of one another .

Awards

At the 1986 German Film Prize , the film won a “Filmband in Silver” in the category of other full-program films . He was also nominated for the "Filmband in Gold" in the category "Outstanding Feature Film" ( Kairos-Film ).

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film - the 28th film by Kluge - the rating of particularly valuable and described it as a "philosophically piercing but also kaleidoscopic exciting film".

reception

Helmut Schödel came in 1985 in the time, “ For Kluge, cinema stands on the brink: between the 19th and 21st centuries, above the abyss of our present, from which it is supposed to save itself. Otherwise it will soon go down the cliff and be rubbish . "

Web links

• The attack of the present on the rest of the time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• strictly film school: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
• JSTOR New German Critique: The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time
• Alexander Kluge: The attack of the present on the rest of the time
• Deutsches Filmhaus: The Attack of the Present on the Remaining Time
• The attack of the present on the rest of the time at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Schödel: In the cinema: "The attack of the present on the rest of the time": Scrap-intensive times . In: The time . November 8, 1985, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 28, 2019]).
2. ↑ The attack of the present on the rest of the time. Retrieved November 28, 2019 .