The Fake (1981)
Movie | |
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Original title | The fake |
Country of production | Germany , France |
original language | German , French |
Publishing year | 1981 |
length | 108 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Volker Schlöndorff |
script |
Jean-Claude Carrière , Kai Hermann , Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta |
production | Eberhard Junkersdorf |
music | Maurice Jarre |
camera |
Igor Luther , Michael Zens |
cut | Suzanne Baron |
occupation | |
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The Fake is a film from 1981 is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nicolas Born . Directed by Volker Schlöndorff .
content
The journalist Georg tabs, staff illustrated a Hamburg magazine, comes to Lebanon to discuss the civil war to report. Doubts about his job grow. He knows how well the horror of war sells, especially when it is illustrated with appropriate pictures, which a photographer who is also sent out is supposed to provide. He doesn't know who is fighting whom and why. He had increasing problems with his wife, whom he left behind in northern Germany. His private life seems as problematic to him as the war in Lebanon.
Georg Laschen meets a woman in Beirut , a German who has lived in Lebanon for years. He falls in love with her, but there is no permanent bond because she has another lover besides him .
background
Volker Schlöndorff said about his film:
“It's not about the war, but about the man who is supposed to report on it. He expects death and horror, but finds life. Because reality is always different when you experience it than when you are only informed about it. "
criticism
“Schlöndorff's media-critical film has great moments, but remains stuck in a purely protocol-based realism. His perfect reconstruction of war scenes in the original locations seems strangely uninvolved. Excellent, as always, Luther's camera skills. "
Michael Fischer criticizes that the personal sensitivities of the privileged German protagonists of the film remain in the foreground:
"He does not understand the nature of the terrible, confused events in Lebanon, which are reflected in page-high magazine photos"
Norbert Jochum criticizes the press releases on the film:
"The smell of corpses: ... I don't want to write about the film, but about the fact that and how death and war and violence and dying are dealt with without hesitation in the vicinity of the film."
Awards
- The forgery was nominated for the César for Best Foreign Film in 1982 .
- Jerzy Skolimowski won a prize at the German Film Prize in 1982 .
literature
- Nicolas Born : The fake. Novel . 41-43 Thousand. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-499-15291-6
- Article by Michael Töteberg on the filming in the special issue of Nicolas Born of the magazine Text + Criticism
Web links
- http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/filme_einzeln/sch_einzeln/schloendorff/faelschung_die.htm
- The falsification in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The fake at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from: ARD-Fernsehspiel , publisher: Working group of public broadcasters in the Federal Republic of Germany, issue January to March 1984
- ^ The forgery in the lexicon of international films
- ↑ Dance on the volcano . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1981, pp. 277 f . ( Online - Oct. 12, 1981 ).
- ↑ Norbert Jochum: The smell of corpses. In: The time . October 16, 1981, accessed February 23, 2020 .