The words of the chairman
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The words of the chairman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 3 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Harun Farocki |
| script | Harun Farocki |
| camera | Holger Meins |
| occupation | |
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The Chairman's Words is Harun Farocki's first film with political content and was made in his second year at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin .
action
A man reads Lin Biao's Mao Bible . He tears out a page and uses it to build a paper airplane. The plane suddenly has a metal tip and is thrown at two people who are carrying paper bags with the faces of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Persia and his wife Farah. But the plane lands in a plate of tomato soup and only sprinkles the Shah with red soup. Helke Sander speaks about this in excerpts from the Lin Biao book.
backgrounds
The film is a reaction to the Shah's visit in June 1967 in which Benno Ohnesorg was killed. According to Farocki, the film is a simple metaphor according to which words can become weapons. The film was recorded on October 11, 1967 in a private apartment on Richard-Strauss-Straße in Berlin, Grunewald.
Web links
- The words of the chairman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The words of the chairman at filmportal.de
- DFFB archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE WORDS OF THE CHAIRMAN | DFFB. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .