The grill
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The grill |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Moorse |
| script | George Moorse Klaus Lea |
| production | BR / HR |
| music | David Llewellyn |
| camera | Gérard Vandenberg |
| occupation | |
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Der Griller is a German TV film from 1968 directed by George Moorse . Rolf Zacher plays the title role .
action
Munich, at the time of the looming 1968 youth and student revolt. Franz Kaffer works in a grill parlor at the main train station for a rather meager income, which stands in extremely unpleasant contrast to his extensive life wishes and dreams in general and his apartment rent (which he perceived as astronomical) in particular. Franz, a brother in the spirit of Werner Enkes Martin in On the subject, sweetheart , wants a comfortable, bond-free life without much effort, but with plenty of women and dolce far niente (Italian: sweet idleness) . He no longer wants to work stupidly and stupidly every day for a few marks, as he claims, but, unlike the APO comrades of his generation, he does not pursue any ideological goals with his rejection of regular work and his hesitant resistance to overly bourgeois life. When he is supposed to take on a well-paid courier job for a friend, he immediately hits, but has no idea that this work involves a risk that will cause him trouble with the criminal investigation department. When it comes to love, especially free, unbound love, Franz has a very pragmatic approach to thinking and living. He regularly goes to bed with Gisela in his sparsely furnished one-room apartment, but it doesn't bother him that the young woman is married to someone else. Freddy, her husband, knows about Gisela's relationship with Franz, which arose when he had to go abroad for a few years on business.
This constellation, which is completely freed from feelings of love, is almost entirely right for Franz, because for him it means freedom and informality: sex and fun without obligations and subsequent fuss. Gisela doesn't expect any more either, she has no plans to leave Freddy. Since Franz loves his independence and does not want to commit himself to anything, he is not very happy when Jutta calls him. She came from Hamburg and wants to visit him in Munich spontaneously. He got to know her after a concert in Hamburg and spent one night with her, without this having meant more than just any one-night stand for him. Her coming, so Franz fears, could mean that she now wants more from him. But Jutta is almost a little like him, non-conformist and at the same time shaped by bourgeois pragmatism. For her as for Franz, sex is something completely relaxed, freed from everything mysterious and mythically exaggerated. And so the language used by the two of them on such “delicate” topics is accordingly casual and of simple optimism. And yet, despite all the omnipresent joie de vivre of the protagonists, it finally becomes clear that Franz's dream of a comfortable, pleasant life of the laisser faire (French: let go) and laisser aller (French: let yourself go) will not hold out in the long term leaves, since this intention must fail because of the real circumstances existing in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Production notes
The Griller was created in 1967 in Munich-Schwabing and was an ARD production on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and the Hessian Broadcasting Corporation . The first broadcast took place on February 18, 1968 in the third program of the BR. On May 25, 1968, Der Griller was also presented to a cinema audience at the Hof Film Festival.
Reviews
"More like a funeral song is ... the television film" Der Griller ": Moorse shows the" poor infantry of the jet generation ". With a fixed camera, he documents the everyday life of a roast chicken ("I have 580 marks gross, I pay 230 rent excluding charges") and kleptomaniac typists. But the social drama is also trimmed with unrealistic gags: an aging doctor tries to seduce a girl with readings from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. "
“Even in his film“ The Griller ”, George Moorse tried to create scenes from the lives of young people who no longer play along. The chicken roaster Franz Kaffer reluctantly went to a dreary job, had nothing in his room but a mattress and a stereo system, and swallowed pills to get something from his nights. Two girls turned up in Franz Kaffer's room, then a guy who got Franz Kaffer the pills, and finally a quirky detective who wanted to know how Franz Kaffer got the pills. The detective got it in the end. The film promoted understanding for Franz Kaffer, the girls, the guy and the detective. That went wrong. It mostly goes wrong when filmmakers invent chicken roasts to defend the chicken roasters. False ideas cannot be got rid of by their mere reproduction. "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: “An equally pointedly witty as brashly casual picture arc with which George Moorse tries to capture the attitude towards life of the late 60s; more impressionistic than analytical, more superficially entertaining than profound. "
The evangelical film observer is largely positive : “A film that is not convincing in all respects and that could perhaps also be called immoral. Not to take notice of it, however, would mean turning a blind eye to our world today, because this youth does not only exist with us. Therefore a film worth discussing. "
Web links
- The barbecue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The grill at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The grill. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 108/1970.