The trip to Vienna
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The trip to Vienna |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Edgar Reitz |
| script |
Alexander Kluge Edgar Reitz |
| production | Edgar Reitz |
| music | Hans Hammerschmid |
| camera |
Robby Müller Martin Schäfer |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| occupation | |
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Die Reise nach Wien is a 1973 film by the German director Edgar Reitz .
action
In a village in the Hunsrück in 1943: the blonde Toni and the brunette Marga, whose men are at the front, fight their way through everyday war life and dream of small and large escapes. Her little town in the Hunsrück is suffocating her and she is plagued by the vague feeling that her savings account will not be worth much after the " final victory ". They secretly slaughter a pig and ensnare a fighter pilot , in whose honor a festival is held. At the honor festival for the fighter pilot, the friends find a cigar box full of money. They spontaneously decide to quench their thirst for adventure and take a trip to Vienna. On their foray into the foreign big city, they experience nothing but disappointments. Disillusioned, the two women return home. An investigation into black slaughter awaits them, but the two women know how to compromise the local group leader responsible in such a way that he himself gets into far greater difficulties.
background
The genesis of Die Reise nach Wien is based on a personal story from the director's family: “At the funeral of his father, he leafed through old photo albums with his mother. While doing so, he stumbled upon pictures showing his mother with a friend in 1943, dressed in a chic dress in front of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna . Then he asked himself the question that he had never asked himself before: who actually took the picture? That set his imagination in motion: What did these women from the small town in the Hunsrück actually do in Vienna? And how did you get there? "
In 1973, when it aired Die Reise nach Wien, WDR “got a little afraid of its own courage and added its own final title to the film to apologize for the humor, after all, people seriously died back then”.
Those in charge of the rental company at the time insisted that individual scenes be cut out. The snow and dream sequences fell victim to censorship at the time.
New edition 2008
When Edgar Reitz received an inquiry from an Italian film distributor in autumn 2006 who wanted to re-release his earlier films, he found that the films were in a poor condition after almost 40 years in the archive. In 2008 Edgar Reitz published a restored version of the film, without the final title, with all scenes and in fresh colors.
Reviews
Hanns-Georg Rodek wrote in Die Welt :
- “The Reitz film, from which the clearest paths lead into our present, is“ The Journey to Vienna ”. (...) It is a comedy from the Nazi era, made in 1973, when the Third Reich hardly appeared in German cinema and if it did, it was deadly serious. The wonderful thing about the trip is that it does not want to be a coping film , but only wants to tell about two cheerful young women - and at the same time gives us a much better feeling for everyday life in the Third Reich than ten Guido Knopps ”.
For the film festival director Michael Kötz is
- “ The trip to Vienna is a German auteur film from a bygone era. Insolence, impudence and subversive peculiarities are hidden in the story, so that they can easily be overlooked. He calls this director's tactic 'partisan-like'. The film is a strange mixture of genres. It seemed to him as if Edgar Reitz had reinvented film language ”.
".A film (...) that, with varying degrees of success, strives for a deciphering view of time and people"
Web links
- The trip to Vienna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Film portrait at schnittmeisterin.com ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Review of the film by Hanns-Georg Rodek
- ^ Lexicon of International Films. Rowohlt, 1988.
