The Brothers (1976)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The brothers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Wolf Gremm |
| script | Wolf Gremm, based on a short story by Septimus Dale |
| production | Regina Ziegler |
| music | Guido & Maurizio De Angelis |
| camera | Jost Vacano |
| cut | Siegrun hunter |
| occupation | |
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Die Brüder is a 1976 German family drama by Wolf Gremm with Klaus Löwitsch , Erika Pluhar and Doris Kunstmann in the leading roles.
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Somewhere in the country near Wilhelmshaven . The country doctor Dr. Fachmin is married to the much younger Rachel in her second marriage. From his first marriage he brought his grown-up son Frank, who is about her age. The two promptly betray the old man and begin a liaison. For Frank this happens not only out of sexual desire, but it is also an act of late revenge on the father, after all, he accuses his father of having replaced his first wife too quickly with a new one, Rachel. Rachel also has a child, Roman, who is still underage. The nine-year-old is anything but enthusiastic about the general situation in the Fachmin house and, driven by Oedipal mother's love, tries to murder the supposed competitor Frank, in which the electronically savvy young inventor leads electricity into the full bathtub. But instead of the stepbrother, who intended to have fun with Rachel in the bath water in an adulterous manner, it hits Rachel, Roman's mother who arrives first, who has since been paralyzed and has to live her life in a wheelchair. Country doctor Rudolf Fachmin is by no means as simple-minded as it initially appears: he has already put his medical profession on the back burner and jealously looks at the goings-on of the firstborn and second wife. When he is sure of his cause, he casts his son Frank out.
Thirteen years have passed since then. Rachel is dying and, as she wants to clear the table, clarifies in a farewell letter to son Roman that he is in truth Frank's son and that he has made an attempt to murder his own father. Frank Fachmin, who has since become a drug wreck, now lives with a new woman, his wife Sandra. Roman, in turn, falls in love with them and has meanwhile matured into a handsome young man. The story of misdirected amours at Fachmin threatens to repeat itself. It comes to the final drama when Frank, drunk and drunk and without a driver's license, drives off in his car, knocking a policeman over, knowing the new family circumstances. Frank is now on the run and, to make matters worse, has the doctor on his neck who gets him the drugs and tries to blackmail Frank. Frank Fachmin comes to a dramatic end in Heidelberg ...
Production note
The brothers came into being in August 1976 around Hanover, on the manor in Exten and on the North Sea coast . The film premiered on January 11, 1977. The TV first broadcast took place on December 16, 1983 on ZDF .
Barbara Baum designed the costumes and Willi Kley designed the outfits.
The film cost around 1.5 million DM and was financed without any state subsidies.
Reviews
“Can you save German cinema that has been abandoned by the public with such colportage stories? The Berlin producer Regina Ziegler ... and her in-house director Wolf Gremm ... show considerable courage. Your model of a 'folk' entertainment film, however, suffers from some breaks in the staging. (...) The technical standard and acting achievements are impressive. "
“The story of a family in which the two sons each have a relationship with the wives of their fathers, which leads to poisoning suspicion, attempted murder, personality disintegration and suicide. Melodrama, at times too caricatured, whose critical references seem superimposed. "
“The German reality does not take place, the film remains empty like its advertising attitudes and confused, as if the story had been thrown out at the beer table. This is noted with regret because producer Regina Ziegler ... produced this film with brilliant courage and effort. "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- The brothers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The brothers at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel of January 17, 1977, Die Zeit of January 21, 1977
- ^ The Brothers in the Lexicon of International Films