The mission of the Lysistrata
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The mission of the Lysistrata |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Kortner |
| script | Fritz Kortner, freely based on Aristophanes |
| production | Gyula Trebitsch for NDR |
| music | Herbert Brün |
| camera | Wolfgang Zeh , Frank A. Banuscher |
| occupation | |
and as Athenians: Urte Clasing , Ada Krauss , Dorothea Moritz , Elisabeth Zimmer | |
The television play The broadcast of the Lysistrata by Fritz Kortner is based on Aristophanes ' ancient comedy " Lysistrata ". Theater director Kortner made his debut as a TV director. The film was produced by the Norddeutsche Rundfunk for 530,000 German marks . Several stations of the ARD in CDU- governed federal states wanted to forego the performance and gave moral reasons as well as political considerations, including the director of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk: “I consider the recording to be aesthetically below the limit, morally offensive and politically one-sided. " The coordinator of Bayerischer Rundfunk, Claus Münster , found: " The advocates of nuclear armament are caricatured in a way that is simply unfair. " The debate took place against the background of the plans of the Adenauer government to shut down the Bundeswehr atomically arm .
Shortly before the planned broadcast, a distributor brought the film to cinemas in these federal states, for example in Munich. This was possible because the film producer Gyula Trebitsch , who had made his Hamburg studio available for the shoot, had in return, actually only for the purpose of exploitation abroad, secured the theatrical performance rights for the Federal Republic. The voluntary self-regulation released the film from the age of 18. The opponents of a broadcast then referred to the different reception conditions, the cinemas are visited voluntarily by the visitors, while the broadcasters “go into the apartments without being asked” . Kortner defused Aristophanes' dialogues for his version and left out Romy Schneider's dialogue passage in which she complains that she has not had an "eight-inch comforter" for a long time. The resistance to the television game finally collapsed, almost all the institutions that had previously rejected it broadcast it on January 17, 1961. Only in Bavaria did the screens stay blank after ten in the evening. It was broadcast on Bavarian Radio on April 20, 1975.
In the contemporary framework story, actress Agnes invited two married couples to watch a television drama with her husband in which she played the leading role. The first couple are the boss of her husband and his wife, the second Uschi, who also appears in the television film, and her husband. Agnes' husband is a chemist who invented a new fuel and received a financially promising offer from the United States. However, his wife fears that the results of his work will ultimately benefit the military. The television game is set in ancient times. Athens and Sparta have long been in a destructive war and Lysistrata is calling together women from both cities to end the unacceptable situation. She suggests that women all refuse sexually to men until they end the war.
Der Spiegel commented on Romy Schneider's appearance: “The suggestive subject matter of the work means that the actress Romy Schneider, for example, in the role of Lysistrata companion Myrrhine, has to declaim verses that were strange to the former 'Sissy' interpreter. "Lie down and close your eyes," says Romy-Myrrhine in the Kortner version. " The magazine judged the entire television game that the audience had run away from boredom. The scandal "aroused hopes among the truly not spoiled viewers, one of which was never fulfilled."
Web links
- The mission of Lysistrata at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Der Spiegel No. 51 of December 14, 1960: Marriage strike against atomic death ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cinegraph, ed. by edition text + kritik. Delivery 11, p. D3
- ↑ a b c Der Spiegel No. 4 from January 18, 1961: Lysistrata: South of the belt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Egon Netenjakob: TV film lexicon . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11947-2 , p. 222
- ↑ a b Der Spiegel No. 5 from January 25, 1961: Well something ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German Broadcasting Archive (ed.): TV games in the ARD 1952–1972. Volume 1: Titles A – Z , Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-926-072-14-8 , p. 243
