Falco - Heroes of Today (TV Movie)
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| Original title | Heroes of today |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 49 minutes |
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| Director | Rudi Dolezal , Hannes Rossacher |
| script | Rudi Dolezal |
| production | Peter Hofbauer |
| music | Robert Ponger |
| camera | Hans Selikovsky |
| cut | Klaus Hundsbichler |
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Falco - Heroes of Today is a music film from 1984 . It is a complete film adaptation of the album Junge Roemer by the Austrian pop star Falco . It was first broadcast on October 20, 1984 in the ORF series Heroes of Today .
action
The plot consists of a string of music videos for all the tracks on the Junge Roemer album , which are connected by an intermediate plot with only a few spoken scenes. The focus is on Falco. His odyssey is shown through various scenarios that are intended to trace his rise from a nobody to a star. The opening credits read “A PARODY. Not to be taken seriously! " .
Intro
A dream-like sequence, accompanied by oriental sounds, shows a desert landscape with shimmering air and pyramids on the horizon. The inspector's stage outfit lies in the catacombs of a pyramid and seems to be waiting for Falco.
Heroes of Today (opening credits)
In a white Cadillac Coupe DeVille Cabriolet, Falco drives along a city freeway in the light of the evening sun, singing heroes of today . He picks up three hitchhikers and continues on his way, being followed by a motorcycle policeman who tries in vain to stop him. The scene turns into a live concert, where Falco finishes the song in front of a cheering audience.
Zebadaka
Falco awakens his dreams in a prison cell in Chicago , Illinois . Under the watch of the guard (played by Robert Ponger ) he rappels down with a bed sheet from prison and escapes. In the streets of the city he witnessed a turf of two rival street gangs who were played as a dance to the music of the hip-hop number Zebadaka (not on the album).
No Answer (Hello Germany)
Falco roams the streets of New York and watches a group of passers- by do a three card monte . He enters the legendary Chelsea Hotel , where a scantily clad lady ( Brigitta Cimarolli ) is waiting for him in a room . She tries to seduce him while he tries again and again in vain to establish a telephone connection to the music of No Answer (Hello Germany) . The two then leave the hotel and go to the cinema.
Brilliantin 'Brutal
The cinema is showing Brillantin 'Brutal , a black and white video clip staged in the style of film noir , which shows Falco picking up a lady ( Cordula Reyer ) in a limousine and entering a nightclub with her. There he sings the song Brillantin 'Brutal . The entire scene of the nightclub with its audience dressed in elegant evening attire and an orchestra with a black piano player is reminiscent of the film Casablanca .
When Falco and his company leave the nightclub, it is pouring rain. Because the limousine has a parking ticket and a flat tire and the door lock is jammed, she gets into a Fiat Topolino with a stranger , drives away and leaves Falco alone in the rain.
At the end the lights in the cinema come on again. The audience laughs at the film and throws popcorn at Falco. Annoyed, he leaves the cinema and wanders aimlessly through the city.
Her daughter
During his foray through the city, he discovers a sign that advertises an "Institute for Higher Daughters". It is a sauna or a brothel, where Falco performs the song of your daughter in the midst of lightly clad women . He then breaks through a wall and ends up in the recording studio of his producer Robert Ponger. The rise to star begins. You can now see a group of roadies loading stage equipment into several trucks with the "FALCO" logo on them. The scene is accompanied by the music of the saber dance from the ballet Gayaneh by Aram Khachaturian (1946).
Higher than ever
An aircraft graveyard near Tucson , Arizona : Falco sings his song High as Never , watched by a mechanic (also Falco) who is taking a break in the background and serving a one-armed bandit in his workshop. In the end he lands a hit: three sailing ships.
Helmsman
In the studio setting of a pirate ship in front of a switched-off Blue Box , Falco plays the song helmsman together with a large number of musicians, background singers and dancers .
At a press conference, Falco is besieged by photographers and journalists and bombarded by a reporter ( Marcus Thill ) with a torrent of questions, including his attitude as a "post-feminist man", which he lets unmoved and silent bounce off without answering.
Only with you
Falco sings in a studio setting with drums and lighted mannequins Just With You . Change of scene: Falco sits to the sounds of Vivaldi as a guest at the table of an elegant family with two children and tries, much to the amusement of the daughter, to loosen up the stiff atmosphere with grimaces. When a "Senator-style rabbit" is served and the family man acknowledges this with a bad joke, he leaves the table and wanders around the house.
Young Romans
Falco discovers a tape recorder and switches it on. You can now see the scenery of a ballroom in which the Jeunesse dorée dances to the music of Junge Roemer . In between is Falco, who is now wearing a tuxedo and singing. Incised are close-ups of the singing Falco, whose face is made up with a pattern of luminous paint and shines under black light .
Falco, still singing, leaves the ballroom via a grand staircase and enters a palace garden. A blonde in evening dress is dancing in the water basin of a fountain, similar to the iconic scene in the film The Sweet Life by Frederico Fellini.
Can it be love
Falco gets into the back of a luxury limousine in the castle garden and, with a Sphynx cat in his arms, drives off to the music of Can It Be Love at dawn . He gets out in a green landscape and looks into the distance. There he sees the desert landscape with the pyramids that were seen in the opening sequence of the film.
Tut-Ench-Amon (credits)
While the credits are running, the catacombs of the pyramid with the commissioner costume from the opening scene can be seen again. Falco interprets Tut-Ench-Amon there , wrapped in a black cape and with lips painted black.
background
After Falco had enjoyed worldwide success with his debut LP and the hit Der Kommissar since 1982, the follow-up LP Junge Roemer , produced by Robert Ponger, was released in 1984 , which served as the musical template for this film. For the first time a complete album was processed into a music video. The film was produced by Cinecoop Film Wien on behalf of ORF and Bavarian TV . It was broadcast on both channels in 1984 and repeated several times in the following years, but was never released as a commercial video. Numerous excerpts from the film, including fragments of almost all musical interludes, can be seen in the documentary High As Never by DoRo Production , which was released after Falco's death in 1998.
Web links
- Falco - heroes of today in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Falco biography. musik-base.de, accessed on January 22, 2016 . Falco biography on musik-base.de