The Just War 1525
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Just War 1525 |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hartmut Kaminski , Lutz Mommartz |
| script | Film group Düsseldorf |
| production | Film group Düsseldorf |
| camera | Hartmut Kaminski, Lutz Mommartz |
| occupation | |
| |
The Just War 1525 is an early film by Hartmut Kaminski , which he made in 1974 with the Düsseldorf film group . Two 16mm films about the Peasants' War of 1525 in southern Germany running synchronously were shown by means of double projection . The oppressed peasants act on the left, the nobility and the church on the right.
action
The short film is about the German Peasant War, in which the peasants rebel against their authorities. The captured prince-bishop swears to restore their old rights, which they had demanded. Before that, however, he ordered the troops of the Swabian Federation . In a people's court vote, the revolutionary peasants who want to establish a peasant republic are defeated . They demand the execution of the prince-bishop, but are attacked by the troops and brutally murdered.
History of origin
The Düsseldorf film group was founded in 1973 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under the direction of Ole John Povlsen. In the spring of 1974, the city's cultural committee approved a grant of 15,000 marks for the group's first joint project, and the federal subsidy for German film granted another 25,000 marks in 1976 as a subsidy. It was supposed to be a feature film that would later be called The Just War 1525 .
In intensive discussions about the form of the film, the group agreed on Hartmut Kaminski's suggestion that the story of the Peasant War should be shot in two separate, related films. For the screening in the cinema, the projectionist at the Filmforum Düsseldorf developed a mechanical coupling, with the help of which the two synchronized films could be seen as a uniform image on the screen: Left: The rulers - Right: The oppressed.
Hartmut Kaminski and Lutz Mommartz began filming in the autumn of 1974 , supported by 70 volunteers. The film was shot in the Knechtsteden monastery , in Linn Castle and in the LVR open-air museum in Kommern .
The film was made without further subsidies with amateur actors who were found by the members of the film group among friends and acquaintances. Most of the farmers were played by students from the advanced high school in Düsseldorf , where Elke Jonigkeit worked as an art teacher at the time.
Originally, the two fully synchronized current 16 mm films should be copied to a 35mm - Cinemascope -copy what has not been realized to date. Because of this, the film has rarely been shown so far; TV broadcasting also failed due to this technical effort.
Hartmut Kaminski and Elke Jonigkeit showed the film at a party on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of their company "Circe-Film-GmbH" in September 2004.
The film premiered on November 7, 1975 at the Filmforum Düsseldorf, Prinz Georg Str. 80, and was shown at the 27th Berlinale as part of the International Forum for Young Films in 1976.
criticism
“So there are plenty of impressive approaches worth considering. ... More than a torso could not be created, the realization of such a complex project is unthinkable in North Rhine-Westphalia. Klaus Jaeger, the director of the Düsseldorf Film Forum, noted it in his introductory speech on the situation of filmmakers in North Rhine-Westphalia with carefully intoned bitterness: The little money that is made available every year by the state government goes to Munich, to the “Kuratorium Young German Film ”. Young directors live there, who often put higher sums in their cost estimates for their directorial fees than a filmmaker from North Rhine-Westphalia dares to charge for his entire project. A film scene that lives on the pocket money of a few idealists (and the necessarily tiny subsidies of a city art subsidy) is all too easily lost in friction. "
Awards
- 1976: FBW rating : Particularly valuable
Web links
- The Just War 1525 on IMDB.com
- Information on German Film and Media Rating (FBW)
- Excerpt from YouTube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1973: Filmgruppe Düsseldorf, press kit of the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Members: Jörg Boström; Bert Günther; Ole John; Hartmut Kaminski; Chris Kohlhöfer; Jürgen Kuhfuß; Lutz Mommartz; Tony Morgan; Rolf Nedddermann; Reinald Schnell.
- ↑ The Just War 1525 with Hartmut Kaminski, a film by Lutz Mommartz. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ The condensed dialogues are based on historical material. In their scarcity they try to clarify the main reasons for the uprising of the peasants and their failure. The world of images and music are based on the feeling of time and mood of the Renaissance.
- ↑ The German Bundestag printed 8/265. April 5, 1977, p. 9 , accessed October 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Your son, Cornelius Kaminski, had set up a large screen in the garden and was able to show both films synchronously with the help of the coupling described above. At the same time he filmed the demonstration with his mini DV camera. Lutz Mommartz asked for the cassette and put the recording - although it had only been made for private use - on the Internet. ( The Just War , mommartzfilm.de)
- ^ Press release New German Films 76/77 (7th International Forum of Young Flms) Contents
- ↑ Peter Steinhart: A brilliant film torso. Rheinische Post from November 10, 1975.
- ↑ FBW review page for the film