It roof over your head
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A roof over your head |
| Original title | It roof over your head |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 2920 m, 107 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kurt Früh |
| script | Kurt Früh, Jean Pierre Gerwig |
| production | Max Dora , Kurt Früh, Lazar Wechsler for Gloriafilm GmbH and Praesens Film, Zurich |
| music | Walter Baumgartner |
| camera | Emil Berna |
| cut | Hans Heinrich Egger |
| occupation | |
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Es Dach überem Chopf ( German: A roof over your head ) is the title of a Swiss sound film that Kurt Früh 1961/62 based on a script that he wrote with Jean Pierre Gerwig for the Zurich film companies Gloriafilm GmbH and Praesens-Film AG realized. The popular Graubünden folk actor Zarli Carigiet played the leading role, with Valerie Steinmann playing at his side . Bruno Ganz made his film debut with a small role .
action
Balz Caduff (Zarli Carigiet), married to Vreni (Valerie Steinmann), is a small farmer from Graubünden who has migrated to the city. Here he has six children, but no green branch. He lives in an emergency barracks and is unpopular with some neighbors because he likes to drown his anger in alcohol. In addition, he is a polterer who unfortunately cannot always keep happiness in the house with a raw fist. Like the fairy tale, the house owner Frehner (Willi Fueter) appears at the Caduffs' house one day and offers them a dream apartment including an attic on the Zürichberg for 100 francs. The antisocial hook on the noble deed: The noisy Caduffs are supposed to annoy Mr. Eidenbenz (Heinrich Gretler) and his wife (Walburga Gmür), a very demanding tenant couple, so much that they move away voluntarily. What was planned as a bang, however, turns into a blowout: The Caduffs immediately develop into model tenants and are soon so well taken care of in their neighbors that they even survive smaller but noisy crises unscathed.
background
Jean-Pierre Gerwig's script was based on his five-part series of half-hour radio plays, which he had written for Swiss radio based on files from the Zurich Housing Office and which he and Kurt Früh prepared for the film. Zarli Carigiet , the younger brother of the painter and graphic artist Alois Carigiet , played his first “big” leading role in Früh's social fairy tale “Es Dach überem Chopf”. In the following decades he was one of the most famous Swiss artists; In addition to his appearances on the cabaret and theater stage, he played major supporting roles in many classic Swiss feature films.
The shooting time was from December 3, 1961 to January 18, 1962. The film was shot outside in freezing cold in a shed at Oerlikon. Interior photos were taken in the “Gesellenhaus” Wolfbach, Zurich, and in the Züspa-Halle, Zurich-Oerlikon. The photography was done by Emil Berna , the film editing by Hans Heinrich Egger . Ambrosius Humm created the film structures. Walter Baumgartner wrote the film music.
The film was a co-production of the two Zurich film companies Gloriafilm GmbH and Praesens Film AG. Producers were Max Dora , Kurt Früh and Lazar Wechsler . Praesens-Film took over the distribution for Switzerland. The film premiered in Switzerland on March 16, 1962 in the Zurich cinema palace “Urban”.
"Es Dach überem Chopf" was broadcast on Swiss television SRF on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., on German television in a Kurt Früh series on 3sat on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 in the afternoon at 4:05 p.m. Clock.
Praesens Film released “Es Dach überem Chopf” digitally restored on a DVD in 2000. It also contains all five parts of the original radio play from 1961, albeit in a shortened version.
Under the title of the film, Faze Records also released a CD (Faze 002) with songs and melodies from Swiss films from the 1940s to the early 1970s, among which the works of Kurt Früh are strongly represented.
reception
Clothes make the man, but an apartment is just as important. Whoever lives properly becomes a decent person. Kurt Früh demonstrated this connection in a charming way in the 1962 feature film "Es Dach überem Chopf" using the example of the slightly neglected Caduff family.
The milieu of the less well-heeled Swiss hits it well early on, but never too harsh. He likes the contrasts he draws to the rich, to the authorities and the powerful, while our courtship always has to fool himself. The plot itself, on the other hand, is rather thin - it reminds a little of the Dutch “Flodder”, just less geared towards capers, of course. The only true subplot shows the daughter of the family who falls in love with a thief, played by none other than Bruno Ganz in his first major film role (at just over 20 years old).
The social Swiss reality that Kurt Früh outlined in his feature films of the 1950s and 1960s does not actually correspond to historical realities. In the 1970s and 80s, these films were often perceived as oversubscribed, euphemistic or even backward. From today's point of view, however, the contemporary 'ambivalence' between the economic boom, conservatism of values and social awakening can be read out. Through his documentary style, for which he was inspired by neorealism and poetic realism, Kurt Früh also creates an atmospheric picture of this time.
literature
- Felix Aeppli: Kurt Früh. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Valerie Steinmann is dead. In: Zürcher Tagesanzeiger. November 30, 2011. (tagesanzeiger.ch)
- Josef Roos: Kurt Früh and his films: image or caricature of Swiss reality after 1945? (= European university publications: theater, film and television studies. Volume 58). Verlag Lang, 1994, ISBN 3-906752-48-8 , pp. 116, 404, 489.
- Rudolf Schwarzenbach: The position of dialect in German-speaking Switzerland: Studies on the usage of the language of the present (= contributions to Swiss-German dialect research. Volume 17). Verlag Huber, 1969, DNB 458913685 , p. 372.
- Swiss Film Center (ed.): Past and present of Swiss film (1896 to 1987): a critical evaluation. Swiss Film Center, 1987, DNB 871209381 , pp. 70, 72.
- Frithjof Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945 . Volumes 1-2. Verlag Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 .
- Paul Weber: The German-Swiss radio play: history, dramaturgy, typology (= Zurich German Studies. Volume 46). Verlag Peter Lang, 1995, ISBN 3-906755-66-5 , pp. 348, 443.
- Werner Wider: The Swiss Film 1929–1964: Switzerland as a ritual. Volume 1: Presentation. Verlag Limmat, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-85791-034-8 , pp. 31, 495.
- Felix Aeppli: The Swiss Film 1929–1964: Switzerland as a ritual. Volume 2: Materials. Verlag Limmat, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-85791-034-8 , pp. 273, 408, 441.
- Georges Wyrsch: Kurt Früh reloaded. “Es Dach überem Chopf” becomes “Destiny”, “Dr Dällebach Kari” becomes “King”. Audio. OCLC 909441938 . (srf.ch)
Web links
- There roof überem Chopf in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It roof over the chop at filmportal.de
- It roof over the Chopf at Thomas Staedteli, cyranos.ch (with many pictures)
Individual evidence
- ^ F. Trapp: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. Volume 1, 1999, p. 25.
- ↑ on this popular Zurich folk actor (1927–2000) cf. alt-zueri.ch
- ↑ popular Swiss actor, broadcaster and sports reporter, cf. cyranos.ch
- ↑ Table of contents at srf.ch
- ↑ accessible again on CD at merianverlag.ch ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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.
- ↑ DRS Studio Zurich, 1961, on "Es Dach über em Chopf" cf. No. 3 at hoerdat.in-berlin.de
- ↑ his illustrations for the children's book "Schellen-Ursli" became known
- ↑ so at srf.ch
- ↑ the cinema, which opened in 1934, was on St. Urban-Gasse, hence its name; see. stadt-zuerich.ch
- ↑ 3sat.de
- ↑ praesens.com
- ↑ «The CD 'Es Dach über em Chopf' is not a museum with slightly prettied reproductions that are true to the original. The CD brings fresh new interpretations of the templates. This is to keep a piece of local culture alive, to bring it into the present. " [sic] promises the advertising at faze.ch
- ↑ so at srf.ch
- ↑ Marco at molodezhnaja.ch
- ↑ so at uzh.ch : “Kurt Früh. A Swiss filmmaker between two worlds »
