Escalation
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German title | Escalation |
Original title | Escalation |
Country of production | Italy |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 93 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Roberto Faenza |
script | Roberto Faenza |
production | Giuseppe Zaccariello |
music | Ennio Morricone |
camera | Luigi Kuveiller |
cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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Escalation is a 1968 Italian crime comedy directed by Roberto Faenza , who also wrote the screenplay. The leading roles are cast with Lino Capolicchio , Claudine Auger and Gabriele Ferzetti . The film was first released on February 29, 1968 in Italy. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on October 18, 1968.
action
Luca, the son of an Italian industrialist, lives a dreamlike hippie existence in London until his father tries to harness him to his factory. Luca soon becomes bored with work in the fully engineered office; he prefers to watch films about India. One day he plays his own murder in protest; he is then taken to a mental hospital. There he managed to escape, and then he worked as a babysitter in Switzerland. It doesn't take long for a detective to track him down.
Luca's father finally finds a psychologist who is supposed to "turn around" his son. The woman is brainwashed with ice-cold methods and Luca falls in love with her. It doesn't take long before the two of them stand in front of the altar. As soon as the wedding speech is held, enslavement and final domestication begin . She, Carla Maria, wants to expand power and personality, he wants the family, but in the end he doesn't get a chance. When Luca wants to have too much of a say in the business, his father tells him Carla Maria's original job, whereupon Luca poisons her. He burns her brightly painted corpse by the sea and throws the ashes into the water. He identifies a water corpse as his wife and prepares the stranger for an obscure burial in a glass coffin . And so a hippie became an adapted member of society.
Reviews
The Evangelische Film-Beobachter summarizes his criticism as follows: “A satire enriched with parodic inserts on the modern, technical and cold world. For lovers of black humor from 18 despite some first-weaknesses recommended as thoughtful entertainment "The. Lexicon of international film judges ambivalent:" Effect rich, visually fascinating debut film but stylistic in the application means not something looks simplistic very consistent and in his social criticism ". The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden gave the work the rating "valuable".
Web links
- Escalation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 530/1968, pp. 552–553.
- ↑ Escalation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 8, 2016 .