A large gray-blue bird
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | A large gray-blue bird |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Schamoni |
| script | Thomas Schamoni Uwe Brandner Hans Noever Max Zihlmann |
| production | Thomas Schamoni |
| music | Can |
| camera |
Dietrich Lohmann Bernd Fiedler |
| cut |
Elisabeth Orlov Peter Przygodda |
| occupation | |
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A large gray-blue bird is a German-Italian film by Thomas Schamoni . The film was shot from May to July 1969. The first screening took place in June 1970 in the ABC cinema in Munich.
action
The poet Tom-X learned from Belotti, a former scientist, that he and four other scientists once developed the formula for ruling the world. It was a machine that could manipulate the space-time continuum. These five scientists went into hiding and encoded their invention in a poem. However, each of the five knows only one verse. Tom-X knows Belotti's.
When Belotti is murdered, GOGIO, the head of a group of journalists, learns of this story. He and his helpers set out on the trail of these scientists. But others are after this story too. There is Cinque, the wheelchair-bound mastermind behind a string of mysterious agents. Or Morelli, who is working on a similar invention. Diana, a supposed niece of Belotti, and Luba, another enigmatic woman.
The meeting in an Italian villa on the lake brings about an agreement between GOGIO and Lunette, an ally of Cinque: All the old men at the lake are to be filmed and, by comparing them with old photos, one could track down the missing scientists. In this way you actually expose the old scientists, Cinque is one of them, but before you can resume research with Tom-X as the successor to Belotti, there is a wild shootout ...
backgrounds
The film is inspired by the poem Bottom from the book Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud .
The composer Irmin Schmidt von Can reports in an interview about the work on film music: "In the film there are these people who spy on each other, and they have these electronic instruments and screens with which they work. For the sound in the film I recorded a lot of shortwave sounds and then converted them into a sound design. I then brought these edited sounds into the studio and Can played them. Then I put them back into the film ... "
Rainer Werner Fassbinder on the production costs of the film: "Thomas Schamoni spent at least as much on the preparation of the GROSSEN GRAUBLAUEN VOGEL as our film (LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH) cost, just for the preparation, for the phone and for Fly around and hire an actor. "
Awards
Thomas Schamoni received the Gold Film Ribbon for Best Young Director for the 1970 film . Dietrich Lohmann, the cameraman, was also honored with a gold film ribbon in the same year.
criticism
“Ambitious noble crime thriller with a poetic touch and debut feature film by Thomas Schamoni. The overcomplicated plot, the intrusive pop accessories and the overload with crime clichés are unlikely to make the actual topic understandable, namely the disturbed trust in reality and the reign of the imagination over reality. An abundance of sound, image and montage effects add to the complication of the story. "
“Schamoni asks about the position of the film director, about the truth content of the reality filmed and about its always fictional character“ imagined ”through a certain perspective; he plays dream and reality, imagination and reality, past and present, projection and real action against each other. He does this in images of irresistible charm, in an artificial, intelligent and ironic puzzle that carelessly mixes up all the topoi of a good thriller. "
“The first feature film (1970) by the Munich documentary director Thomas Schamoni, which was awarded the Federal Film Prize, is more poetic than almost any other young German film. More talented than his brothers Ulrich ("Es") and Peter ("Schonzeit für Füchse"), who are meanwhile in the film business, Thomas Schamoni mixes science fiction, parody and casual dialogues ("The trees are full of gangsters again") into a puzzling crime tale the hunt of two gangs on an ominous secret formula that is encoded in a Rimbaud poem. "
Web links
- A large gray-blue bird in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A big gray-blue bird at filmportal.de
- Trailer at Vimeo
- Original text of the poem Bottom by Arthur Rimbaud on wikisource
Individual evidence
- ↑ Blurb of the DVD (two thousand and one edition)
- ↑ Interview on Screen Slate ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2011 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.
- ↑ quoted from the 2nd Berlin Music-Film-Marathon
- ↑ Deutsche Filmakademie List of the 1970 award winners ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A large gray-blue bird. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Wolf Donner in DIE ZEIT of June 18, 1971
- ↑ Der Spiegel from June 21, 1971
