The March Act
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| Original title | The March Act |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Gehrig |
| production | Balance film , Jürgen Dohme |
| camera | Kurt Lorenz |
| cut | Gabriela Cruel |
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The March Act is a documentary film from 1985. It tells the story of the March publishing house and its publisher Jörg Schröder . The film was made on behalf of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . Directed by Peter Gehrig . In 1986 he and editor Axel von Hahn received the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize for this.
content
The (fictitious) audit of the March publishing house by the civil servant Tomayer (played by Horst Tomayer ), who looks through the business files in the publisher's house in Schlechtenwegen , serves as the framework for the documentary .
Based on the resulting questions, scenes and interviews with various comrades of Schröder are recorded, including a. with taz editor Mathias Bröckers , the authors Henryk M. Broder , Christian Klippel and Uve Schmidt , the publishers Gerd Haffmans , Abraham Melzer , Reinhold Neven DuMont , Klaus G. Saur and Karl Dietrich Wolff , the politician and journalist Daniel Cohn-Bendit , the Spiegel culture editor Christian Schultz-Gerstein , the Rowohlt publishing director Matthias Wegner and with Winfried Kumetat , the last authorized signatory of the first March publishing house. The interviews were conducted at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 1984.
Publication on DVD
The DVD, which was released by absolut MEDIEN in 2007 , contains as bonus material a 40-minute interview with Jörg Schröder and Barbara Kalender conducted by Mathias Bröckers about the time after the film, the years 1986 to 2007, especially the series "Schröder tells", which is only sent to subscribers. and the tazblog “Schröder & Calendar”.
reception
“A“ commercial ”(Schröder) for the März Verlag“ that doesn't look like it. We needed something ingenious, something simple. ”And this calculation worked: The March Act is a staging initiated by director Peter Gehrig of a self-staged per se, a provocateur and propagandist in his own right and for the cause of the many contradicting universally connectable words, one polite and chattering chain smoker and cognac drinker, sometimes reminiscent of Fassbinder in his emotional engagement, who suffered two heart attacks soon after the film was finished (and his publisher suffered a second collapse). "
Web links
- The March Act in the online film database
- The March file on the Absolut MEDIA website
- Review of the film (Andreas Thomas, filmzentrale.com)
Individual evidence
- ^ The March Act - Insights into the literary scene. DVD 5 PAL. absolut Medien, 2007. ISBN 978-3-89848-094-9
- ^ Andreas Thomas: The March Act. Filmzentrale.com, 2007, accessed August 27, 2013 .