The goalie's fear at the penalty kick (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The goalie's fear at the penalty kick |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Wim Wenders |
| script | Wim Wenders, Peter Handke |
| production | Wim Wenders, Thomas Schamoni , Peter Genée |
| music | Jürgen Knieper |
| camera | Robby Muller |
| cut | Peter Przygodda |
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The fear of the goalie at the penalty kick is a film by the German director Wim Wenders from 1972 . The film is based on the eponymous story by Peter Handke . Wenders describes the film as his first work. He had previously made several short films and the feature film Summer in the City , but he only became known to a larger audience with The Fear of the Goalie at the Penalty .
action
The football goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off because of a violent argument with the referee. He then wanders aimlessly through Vienna and spends the night with the box office, Gloria. When she tries to seduce him the next morning with a rope, he chokes her to death for no apparent reason, removes his fingerprints from the apartment as best he can and goes on another odyssey.
He found out about the progress of the investigation from newspaper reports and learned that he had laid a trail with American coins that fell out of a damaged pocket in his jacket. He takes the intercity bus to visit a friend in Burgenland , but there are already a lot of police on the streets because of a missing child.
While he is having conversations with his girlfriend and himself, he no longer tries to cover up his trail, but rather behaves conspicuously and deliberately lays down clues that could draw the attention of witnesses - for example, he starts a fight and instructs his landlady to clear the hole to mend in his pocket. At the end of the film he watches a soccer game and uses a given penalty to explain to his neighbor how much the goalie and the shooter have to concentrate on each other. The film ends with the saved penalty - whether Bloch will be convicted remains open.
background
Wim Wenders read his friend Handke's manuscript before the book was published and decided to make a film out of it. He adhered exactly to the book. The budget of the film was about 600,000 DM, the most important donors were the Westdeutsche Rundfunk and the Austrian Telefilm AG . This enabled Wenders to work with professional actors for the first time. His last film, Summer in the City , had a budget of only DM 12,000. It was the first time that Wenders shot from a script and in color .
The goalie's fear of the penalty kick was the first film to be released by the authors' publishing house , founded in 1971 .
Considerations of engaging the German national goalkeeper Wolfgang Fahrian for the role of Josef Bloch were refrained from, and instead an experienced actor was chosen, namely Arthur Brauss . This was later praised by critics.
The film was shown for the first time on television on February 29, 1972 and was released in German cinemas on October 13 of the same year. Wenders and Handke had assumed that the film would be successful. However, this expectation was not fulfilled. One reason was that a typical basis of Title Sports Film was expected during The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick a psychological thriller - drama is. However, the film was well received by the critics.
A digitally restored version was shown at the Berlinale 2015 after the film had not been shown in cinemas or available on video media for 40 years due to a lack of music rights. When producing the film, Wenders "did not dare to think of other uses than the cinema in Germany and television" and made the choice of music regardless of long-term or international rights to the numerous pieces of pop music. For the new release, many pop classics, for which the acquisition of rights would have been too expensive, were replaced by newly written songs in the style of the time of origin.
Criticism and Awards
The film was shown at the Venice International Film Festival in 1972 and was awarded the Film Critics' Prize.
literature
- Veronika Vieler: Film directing as a process of understanding portrayed in Wim Wenders' “Der Stand der Dinge” . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, ISBN 3-8260-4025-2 .
- Reinhold Rauh: Wim Wenders and his films . Heyne, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-453-04125-9 .
Web links
- The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The fear of the goalie at the penalty kick at the Wim Wenders Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the fear of the goalie at the penalty kick . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 44 277 V).
- ↑ Veronika Vieler: Film directing as a process of understanding portrayed in Wim Wenders' "Der Stand der Dinge" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 29
- ↑ Reinhold Rauh: Wim Wenders and his films . Heyne, Munich 1990, p. 30
- ↑ Veronika Vieler: Film directing as a process of understanding portrayed in Wim Wenders' "Der Stand der Dinge" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 86
- ↑ Reinhold Rauh: Wim Wenders and his films . Heyne, Munich 1990, p. 23
- ↑ Veronika Vieler: Film directing as a process of understanding portrayed in Wim Wenders' "Der Stand der Dinge" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 85
- ↑ a b Reinhold Rauh: Wim Wenders and his films . Heyne, Munich 1990, p. 32
- ↑ http://wimwendersstiftung.de/digitalisierung/
- ↑ Veronika Vieler: Film directing as a process of understanding portrayed in Wim Wenders' "Der Stand der Dinge" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, p. 88