The Fan (1982)

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Movie
Original title The fan
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1982
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK No youth approval
Rod
Director Eckhart Schmidt
script Eckhart Schmidt
production Barbara Moorse
Martin Moszkowicz
music Rheingold
camera Bernd Heinl
cut Patricia Rommel
occupation

The Fan is a German film from 1982. The horror film was directed by Eckhart Schmidt , who also wrote the script. The main roles were played by Désirée Nosbusch and Bodo Staiger , who as the singer of the Rheingold music group also contributed the film music.

action

The 16- or 17-year-old schoolgirl Simone raves about a star of the Neue Deutsche Welle who goes by the stage name "R". Although he has not yet answered her glowing love letters, she becomes mad that R must love her too and is just waiting for her to come to him. She skips school and daydreams to indulge in an imaginary love affair with her idol. After an argument with her parents about her school problems, Simone breaks away and hitchhikes to Munich, where R is supposed to appear in a television recording. An elderly driver with a dog takes them away. When he sexually harassed her at a rest stop, she manages to escape.

Simone stands face to face with her crush for the first time in front of the television studio in Munich and passes out. As a result, she actually attracts R's attention, who takes care of her and invites her to the rehearsal and the TV show hosted by Christian Simon. In her delusion, she does not notice how condescending and macho the star is with his management team. Simone does not hear his secretary's accusation that he has picked up a young girl again. After the recording, R drives with Simone to the apartment of friends who have been away for a long time and sleeps with her there.

After sex, R is friendly to Simone and offers her to stay in the house as long as she wants; he even gives her the house key. But when he announced that he was not going on a long vacation without her, she began to scream and hit him on the head with a sculpture from behind. R dies immediately. Simone chops up the corpse with an electric kitchen knife, licks the blood off the knife and freezes the parts in the freezer. Little by little she cooks and eats the corpse. Then she shaves her bald head and grinds the leftover bones into powder in a coffee grinder. Then she leaves the apartment and spreads the bone meal in the place where they met.

She returns to her parents without saying a word about her whereabouts. On television she sees a report about the sudden and inexplicable disappearance of R. In the last shot of the film, the viewer learns that Simone von R is pregnant. She regards the child growing in her womb as the reincarnation of R. In her diary she writes: “I will give birth to you. We will be happy. I know that you love me, and so do I: I love you! ”You can hear the doorbell ring. It remains to be seen whether the police found Simone.

criticism

In its year of release, the film received mostly negative reviews. For the mirror was Fan in June 1982, a "mannered [r] movie," agiere in the Désirée Nosbusch "with frozen facial expressions." Bodo Staiger plays "a pale New Wave musician who sings and looks like Frankenstein."

On June 7, 1982 Karsten Visarius wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “Sexual devotion, murder, dismemberment and consumption of the corpse: these are the stages of increase according to which Schmidt orders the delusional-regressive dependency relationship between the fan and his idol, one interpretation after that Patterns of oral aggression. Apart from the questionable shock effect [...], Der Fan owes any cinematic design of that sociologically and psychologically certainly in need of explanation phenomenon of youth culture. "

The lexicon of international film described the film as a "bizarre story of an obsession that credibly develops neither the girl's behavior nor the socially critical approaches and which also suffers from staging inadequacies [...]"

In its retrospective on “The New German Wave and the Cinema”, the German Historical Museum came to the conclusion in 2010: “While the scandal after the premiere mainly revolved around a few nude scenes, the really disturbing moment was that the Director Eckhart Schmidt cast the girl Simone with Désirée Nosbusch. Because Nosbusch, as a clean presenter of the Musicbox on ZDF, was a teen idol herself. "

background

The shooting took place in the summer of 1981 in Unterföhring , Munich and Ulm . The working title was Trance . The premiere was on June 4, 1982 in Stuttgart .

Joachim Fuchsberger (who presented the singer "R" in a fictional episode of his TV show Auf Los geht's los ), Thomas Fuchsberger (as the autographing pop star) and Christian Simon (as the presenter of the fictional TV show Top Pop , based on his actual one ) had cameo appearances Broadcast Rockpop ).

Before the premiere, Désirée Nosbusch took legal action against the release of the film in the final version determined by the director, without success. In an interview with Tagesspiegel in 2003, she said that the promise made to her before filming to cut the minute-long sex and nude scenes was not kept without prior consultation.

In 1982 a book about the film was published that contains 38 photos of scenes.

The film was indexed from January 22, 1983 to May 31, 2003 .

Image and sound carriers

  • The Fan. Oracle Home Entertainment 1982 (VHS tape)
  • Rheingold: R. The music for the film "Der Fan". EMI-Electrola, Cologne 1982 (LP), 1993 (CD), 2005 (CD)
  • The Fan. Starlight Film 2007 (DVD)
  • The Fan. Marketing Film 2001 (DVD)
  • The Fan. CMV 2014 (Blu-ray)
  • The Fan . Mondo Macabro 2015 (DVD and Blu-ray)

literature

  • Eckhart Schmidt: The fan. Diary of a sixteen year old. With 38 images from the film of the same name. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-426-02452-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the cover text of the VHS cassette from 1982 and the DVD from 2006 (see picture and sound carrier) the protagonist is referred to as 17 years old, in the book about the film from 1982 (see literature) as 16 years old.
  2. ↑ Film: Münchner Schnupferl , in: Der Spiegel 25/1984 of June 18, 1984, accessed January 3, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b Désirée Nosbusch as a cannibal , in: Der Spiegel 24/1982, accessed on January 3, 2010.
  4. ↑ Quoted in: Deutsches Historisches Museum, Zeughauskino: Punk, Pop, Rock. The Neue Deutsche Welle and the cinema. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
  5. ↑ The Fan in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on December 28, 2010.
  6. ^ German Historical Museum, Zeughauskino: punk, pop, rock. The Neue Deutsche Welle and the cinema. Retrieved January 3, 2010.
  7. ↑ Filming locations for The Fan in the Internet Movie Database , accessed December 28, 2010.
  8. ↑ Stefan Lebert: The final exam , in: Der Tagesspiegel from January 6, 2003, accessed on December 28, 2010.