The triple plug
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The triple plug |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans Weingartner |
| script | Hans Weingartner |
| production | Hans Weingartner |
| music | Oliver Prenn |
| camera | Christine A. Maier |
| cut | Hans Weingartner |
| occupation | |
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Karl "kawei" Weidinger | |
The Dreifachstecker is an early short film - Drama of the Austrian film author, -produzenten and -regisseurs Hans Weingartner .
action
On a hot dog day, a man sits in front of the table fan in his apartment and wants to listen to the radio news, but the only socket is occupied by the fan. So he yells tyrannically for his wife to get the triple plug. When she brings a quadruple plug instead, he goes angry at her, chokes her, pushes her to the ground and brutally hits her with the quadruple plug until she remains motionless. Suddenly he hears her moaning with pleasure. "I knew it!" He replies several times while the woman, sitting bloody on the floor, caresses the quadruple plug like a vibrator, dildo or phallus and curses the man ("you will die") so that he continues to fall into his madness - depicted through flashback-like film sequences of Kafkaesque visions of fear of death and futile escape. Then the woman, smiling, holds her "cigarette after" in her right hand and the quadruple plug in her left - like a triumphant scepter or like a magic wand. In the end, the man is hanging on a rope. The woman, meanwhile, has taken the man's seat at the table fan, which is now in operation on the quadruple plug together with the radio; she listens with relish smoking a radio music broadcast.
interpretation
The man feels betrayed by the woman with a quadruple plug. This symbolically stands, among other things, for every rival with whom she is alleged to be cheating, but also for a longer penis (four-way plug instead of only three-way plug) that her current husband does not have. If the woman is initially perceived as a weak, defenseless victim with no chance, then she turns out to be a demonic, witch-like, invincible femme fatale . The main topics discussed are phenomena such as a woman's weapons, her sexual power, the dependence of men on them, a suppressed tendency to sadomasochism, violence in marriage, aspects of emancipation, infidelities, parallels to Woyzeck and the like. v. a. m.
Emergence
The net 7 minutes long film was shot in 1995 in black and white on 16 mm film with "borrowed" material by Richard Linklater , who was also making Before Sunrise (with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy ) in Vienna. The camerawoman was Christine A. Maier (later camerawoman at Nordrand ). Before completion, Weingartner, who worked as a production assistant and can also be seen in a coffee house scene in the film, went to Germany.
criticism
The writer Karl Weidinger , whom Weingartner met in 1994 during a screenwriting seminar in Salzburg, was one of the two main actors (alongside Evita Desiree Stussak ) and presented the short film in 1995 in the alternative Wiener Werkstätten- und Kulturhaus (WUK). From one part of the audience Weidinger was attacked: "You are worse in real life than in this already bad film" was also present, avant-garde filmmakers. Kurt Kren , however, and the cult icon Hermes Phettberg (in the pre-film Phettberg of Marc Adrian to see) praised the technical Quality.
Web links
- The three-pin plug in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chello.at: The triple plug , Windows Media Video , certified 2011-0529-2255 (ed. O. J.)
Footnotes
- ↑ Approved comment from the audience in the subsequent conversation with them.