The Tailor of Ulm (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The tailor from Ulm |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Edgar Reitz |
| script |
Petra Kiener Edgar Reitz |
| production | Edgar Reitz Peter Genée |
| music | Nikos Mamangakis |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut | Siegrun hunter |
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The Schneider von Ulm is a German fiction film from 1978 by Edgar Reitz , with Tilo Prückner in the title role .
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The story tells of the life of a man who was reviled as a dreamer and crazy at the time, who at the beginning of the 19th century wanted to make mankind's oldest dream come true: flying.
The Swabian Albrecht Ludwig Berblinger (1770–1829) worked as a tailor's journeyman in his homeland towards the end of the 18th century and is considered a shrewd tinkerer and inventive talent. One day during a stay in Vienna he was inspired by his encounter with the balloonist and tightrope walker Irma and the watchmaker Jakob Degen to realize this idea of humanity . The latter has also made a name for himself as a flight pioneer and is considered to be one of the inventors of the flight balloon . At a demonstration of his development, the young Berblinger is in the front row as an enthusiastic spectator. When the tailor from Ulm tries to take hold of the balloon taking off, it is carried along by it and pulled upwards. Even the subsequent plunge into the depths can no longer curb Berblinger's enthusiasm for aviation. After returning to Ulm, Albrecht Berblinger has only one thing left on his mind: He wants to be the first to construct an airworthy device.
Berblinger sinks into his plans, tries and does, repeatedly has setbacks and neglects his wife Anna over work. The extremely precarious financial situation does the rest to bring the tailor to the edge of ruin and despair. In addition, at home he only earns scorn and ridicule for his supposed spinning, especially since his attempts to fly fail miserably at the beginning. But he doesn't give up. Berblinger was successful for the first time on Michelsberg. When he met Irma again one day, Berblinger dared to go public with his flying machine. On the orders of his royal ruler, he is supposed to venture a glide from the Ulm city wall over the Danube to demonstrate his skills . But the attempt fails due to adverse wind conditions. With loud boos from the roaring mob - around 15,000 spectators had gathered - Berblinger plops his flying machine into the river. He was then chased out of the town with disgrace and disgrace, and Berblinger ended up in the arms of the advancing Napoleonic army.
Production notes
The preparations for this film took two years. The Ulm tailor was filmed within 63 days from April 3 to June 22, 1978 in various locations in Czechoslovakia : In Bohemian Krumau , Prague , Eger and on Mount Tok . German locations were Degenfeld and Ulm . The aerial photographs taken by Martin Schäfer were taken between June 27 and July 15, 1978. The film was completed on November 10, 1978. The first performance took place on December 19, 1978 in the Ulm Chamber Light Theater. The first television broadcast of Der Schneider von Ulm took place on February 15, 1981 on ZDF .
The Czech Jan Kadlec was in charge of production on site, the buildings were designed by Winfried Hennig and implemented (on site in Prague) by three Czech production designers. Barbara Gailling designed the costumes. The famous Czech filmmaker Elmar Klos was one of Reitz's three assistant directors .
Reviews
“Wide-ranging historical panorama of the Ulm master tailor Albrecht Berblinger, who constructed an aircraft in Ulm at the beginning of the 19th century, with which he actually had success, but ultimately had to fail due to incomprehension and the social conditions of his time. A beautifully illustrated fictional film by the director Edgar Reitz, who consciously remains stuck with the traditional cinematic tradition and prefers a simple, linear narrative style that does justice to the world of experience of its hero. "
“You know that flying can be a boring experience at the latest when you are thrown to a predetermined destination in a fully occupied line machine between light commands and drinks dispensing. That the obsession of those who, centuries ago, fulfilled the old dream of mankind by primitive means, can appear just as dreary, is an experience that forces an Edgar Reitz film. Left in the lurch by the tide of imagination, his story spins through the turbulence of a dramaturgy that generates as much tension and interest as the directory of postal codes. Given what is actually a fascinating subject, this is a particularly puzzling achievement. (...) When will German film finally stop making Biedermeier plush cinema with political volts with its Grete Mindes, good-for-nothing and Ulm tailors? Who is still interested in such a highly subsidized school functional mentality mixed with a professorial idea of sensuality? Edgar Reitz in particular has proven with his excellent "Zero Hour" that there is another way. At least his tailor from Ulm set a record: It is by far the most boring film of the year. "
“A very personal film by Edgar Reitz about the obsessive efforts of the Ulm tailor Berblinger (late 18th century) to learn to fly with a flying machine like a bird. Berblinger's connection with the local Jacobins also got him into political trouble. The political background of the plot gains little life, but the film as a whole, despite some formal defects, is of sympathetic seriousness. "
"A film, a director, a team that achieved its goal: the rehabilitation of a tailor from Ulm who was wrongly condemned as a fantastic and romantic dreamer."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Der Schneider von Ulm . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2009 (PDF; test number: 50 360 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Martin Schäfer created the model flight recordings
- ↑ all information according to Rüdiger Koschnitzki: German films 1978, German Institute for Film Studies (ed.), P. 184. Wiesbaden 1980.
- ↑ The tailor of Ulm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- The Tailor of Ulm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The tailor from Ulm at filmportal.de