The wheelchair

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Movie
German title The wheelchair
Original title El cochecito
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1960
length 85 minutes
Rod
Director Marco Ferreri
script Rafael Azcona
Marco Ferreri
production Pere Portabella
music Miguel Asins Arbo
camera Juan Julio Baena
cut Pedro del Rey
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The Vengeance

Successor  →
Plácido

The wheelchair (original title: El cochecito ) is a black and white Spanish film from 1960 by the Italian director Marco Ferreri . The work has a tragic comedy as its content, enriched with a lot of black humor. The director - together with Rafael Azcona , who also provided the literary source - wrote the script. The film premiered on November 3, 1960 in Spain. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on August 7, 1967 on the second German television ( ZDF ).

action

Don Anselmo may be the head of the family, but he has little to say in the house. There is Carlos, his son, the lawyer who always keeps his father tight; there is Carlos' wife who nags behind the old man because he always leaves the doors open. Before the noise his granddaughter makes with her gramophone and her foreign language course, the old man in need of rest voluntarily flees the room - and even Assunta, the maid, doesn't think too much of the old man's authority. Hardly any of his housemates takes the time to respond to Don Anselmo's wishes and to shorten the hours that have become vacant.

Don Anselmo seeks refuge with his friend Lucca. Lucca is paralyzed, and his latest acquisition is a motorized wheelchair that Lucca proudly drives to the cemetery in the company of a taxi in which Don Anselmo is sitting. The wheelchair quickly expanded Lucca's circle of friends. His new friends include other wheelchair users, including Julita, a pretty girl, a polio victim , and her crippled groom, Patino. Don Anselmo also finds access to this circle, but he cannot quite keep up with his new friends - he simply lacks a wheelchair for faster movement. This missing wheelchair soon becomes a trauma for the old man: for him he plays a comedy for his relatives, for him he lies and steals and sells the jewelry of his deceased wife, which actually belongs to his granddaughter. For the wheelchair, he ultimately becomes the murderer of his family.

criticism

The Protestant film observer summarizes his opinion as follows: “A slightly macabre story set in Spain [...]. Biting ridicule and excellent presentation combine to attack human indifference and social clichés that have long since overtaken themselves. Only recommended for adults because of the all too black humor. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 345/1967, pp. 444–445