Escalation

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Movie
German title Escalation
Original title Escalation
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1968
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Roberto Faenza
script Roberto Faenza
production Giuseppe Zaccariello
music Ennio Morricone
camera Luigi Kuveiller
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

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".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 530/1968, pp. 552–553.
  2. Escalation. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 8, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used