The workers saga
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Director | Dieter Berner |
| script |
Peter Turrini R. Palla (not M. Darac ) D. Berner ( Temptation , M. Darac ) |
| production | ORF , Dr. Heinz Schneiderbauer film and television production |
| music | Mathias Rüegg |
| camera |
Frank Brühne ( The Lure ) Tom Fährmann ( Müllomania ) Frank Brühne ( The Poster ) Pascal Hoffmann ( M. Darac ) |
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The Arbeitersaga or shortly Arbeitersaga is an Austrian four-part film series . It was shot for television, and a DVD edition is now also available. The director Dieter Berner and screenwriter Peter Turrini already worked together on the multi-part series Die Alpensaga .
The multi-part film is a socially critical view of four periods after 1945. The film episodes take place at different times in recent Austrian history: in the end of the war, the 1960s, 1980s and 1990s. The protagonist Rudi or Karl Blaha, working in several professions, is the connecting element of all four parts.
The lure
The basic conflict in The Temptation is the incipient individualization and the emerging consumer society in the course of the upheaval in Austrian society during the 1960s, as well as the changes in the labor movement when the so-called social partnership came about instead of the previous class struggle , as well as the emergence of internal trade union wing conflicts as a result of 1945 formed unity union.
Growing up and boyfriends between the protagonist Rudi Blaha and Manfred (Manni) Markovic serve as the framework story. In this part of the film Blaha has the role of a metalworker and functionary of the Austrian youth union at the lowest level. Both dream of a vacation trip together to the French St. Tropez . The purpose of the trip is to visit Brigitte Bardot and to protect her "knightly". According to the two of them, the film star is in danger from lovers who only want to take advantage of and harm the actress. Since Blaha is to be elected cultural functionary and wants to show volunteer work in the union youth, he comes into contradiction with his friend Karl, who has no interest in politics and accuses Blaha of being no longer interested in her travel project because of his union work.
The Temptation - June 1961 was produced between 1985 and 1988 and premiered on ORF .
Garbage mania
The socially critical film fantasy portrays the Austrian capital as a city in which the city administration is no longer able to fulfill its tasks of organizing waste disposal. Accordingly, the garbage disposal is waging a hopeless battle. Rubbish flies around, blown by the wind, piling up in the streets, swarming with mice and rats.
A so-called " rope team " is formed between a garbage disposal company and the city administration. Rudi Blaha is in Müllomania the press officer of the City Council for waste management, Fred reproducer. A completely new type of plant is to be built with the support of public funds, which will convert the waste into pressed chipboard. Of course, that's a big bluff. Rudi Blaha gets specific information about it from the research of his friend Fritz Anders. Despite internal conflict, Rudi Blaha does not manage to get out and covers the dizziness with his public relations work up to the media-effective opening of the dummy of the so-called "garbage factory".
The plot follows on from some roles in The Temptation . Rudi goes from being an active functionary of the youth union to an opportunistic press officer. The unionist Fritz Anders remains true to his critical sentiments and is now a revelatory journalist. And Manfred, the unpolitical man in The Lure, now a wheelchair user because of a swimming accident, is now volunteering and trying to organize help for a workshop for the disabled.
Müllomania - Winter 1986 was filmed in 1988 and premiered on ORF that same year.
The poster
The first Soviet troops arrived in Vienna in April 1945. The war, the Second World War , is drawing to a close and the protagonist Karl Blaha, a typesetter , is a Wehrmacht soldier , but has left his troops and is trying to find his way home on his own. He is lucky and finds Olga, his pregnant wife, in an air raid shelter . Your child is given the first name Rudi. The young father Karl Blaha wants to get involved politically and supports the new beginning of a left party. He comes into conflict with the Red Army , which does not allow any political activities until the end of the fighting in Austria. After a brief arrest in prison, Karl was released and was able to carry out his party mandate to create a poster for the first free demonstration on May 1st .
This film is the prehistory of the part The Temptation , which then follows with the later roles of the young adult Rudi and his parents Olga and Karl Blaha.
The poster - April 1945 was shot in 1989 and premiered on ORF in 1990.
The laughter of the Maca Darac
Similar to the other films in the workers' saga, there are again socio-critical aspects and a framework plot. The range of topics of social criticism here are the immigration problem, the exploitation of the labor force of immigrants, European foreign policy in the form of the illegal sale of weapons in third world countries, to dealing with criminally prosecuted persons including cases in which judgments are made for admission to psychiatric hospitals or . hospitals lead.
An immigrant Maca Darac, who is forced to earn her living with what is known as illegal employment, is involved in the framework . During a gendarmerie or police check it is also discovered that she does not have a valid residence permit . Maca's boss is also coming under pressure. A conflict develops between the two, which also shows attacks that arise from their existing dependency on the hotel owner.
In this situation Maca meets a local who asks for help. This man is Kurt Höllermoser, who was sent abroad some time ago to provide technical support for a weapon sales. Kurt was just a simple skilled worker , but had to perform the demonstration of the weapon that was sold because the qualified engineer who was actually in charge of it refused to work. As a result, the presentation failed and the worker was arrested by the rulers there as a punishment in the desert state (which is not further named) where the demonstration took place. Kurt is released again and now lives in his home country again, feeling constantly persecuted. He and Maca meet at a winter sports resort where she works. They both fall in love and become engaged after a short time. But Kurt also meets with Rudi Blaha, who in his office as a politician or party official at a higher level, traveled to the desert state to get Kurt out of prison. Since Rudi Blaha fears that Kurt Höllermoser could report the secret events surrounding the sale of weapons to the public, he reports Höllermoser and claims that he had physically injured him, which is not true. Ultimately, Rudi Blaha even managed to get Höllermoser not only imprisoned in a spectacular action, but also admitted to a psychiatric hospital for “prevention” .
Maca ultimately loses her job and is also arrested for not having a valid visa . She is released, but asked to fix her residence status or to leave the country. She contacts Rudi Blaha's daughter, who has since grown into a teenager. This helps Maca to get Kurt Höllermoser out of the hospital so that Maca and Kurt can finally get married.
The Laughing of Maca Darac - Winter 1991 was filmed in 1991 and premiered on ORF.
Web links
- The Arbeitersaga in the Internet Movie Database (English)