Faust Canticle of the Sun
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| Original title | Faust Canticle of the Sun |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010-2020 |
| length | 1440 minutes |
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| Director | Werner Fritsch |
| script | Werner Fritsch |
| production | Werner Fritsch |
| camera | Werner Fritsch, Helmut Fritsch, Marie Fontanel, Franz Wechsler, Judith Fritsch, Gerd Steinbeck |
| cut | Werner Fritsch |
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Faust Sonnengesang is a film series by the German author Werner Fritsch , in which he recorded sensory and mood images from a wide variety of regions and people.
action
The film poem turns Goethe's formula on its head and opens up Faust's material, the German myth par excellence, under the sign of the Enlightenment , whose symbol is the sun. The 24-hour run of the sun corresponds to the total duration of the film. Faust Sonnengesang is the attempt to open the German Faust material to the world. Figuratively speaking and literally, each finger of this open fist resembles a continent - and a medium: film poem / long poem / audio poem / theater / installation. Each finger corresponds to a continent and touches each continent. Faust Sonnengesang is the attempt - against all prevailing common sense - to maintain a certain human vision or at least fulfilled moments. This vision stems from observing the world with open eyes - a predominant aspect in every Faust myth.
Faust Canticle of the Sun I.
Faust Sonnengesang I is the overture. It is an attempt to consciously create the latest film. The newest movie is the movie that runs out when we close our eyes forever. The ego of this film, which is representative of everyone who sees it, naturally sees images of his own life, images of his own dreams and nightmares.
Faust Canticle of the Sun II
Faust Sonnengesang II identifies Europe as the center. Europe strengthened by its permanent links with the other continents. The film brings its two main movements into a dialogue - the discovery of past signs and the rediscovery of contemporary signs. It draws on the rich materials found in European cities with multiple layers of history - such as Cologne, Rome or Paris.
Faust Song of the Sun III
Faust Sonnengesang III is a road movie: a crossing of the American continents full of memories of American images, songs and literature that have shaped our lives since we were young. Like the westerns with Wenzel, the old servant who believed they could watch or even shoot from television (Peter Simonischek) or the Hollywood Bible films in boarding school to the television series (Lassie, Fury), Bonanza and the impressions of Walt Whitman or William Faulkner ( Gerd Lohmeyer ), the songs of Bob Dylan or Nico ( Corinna Harfouch ), the German singer of the legendary Velvet Underground ...
criticism
“Werner Fritsch, Germany's most daring poet, is looking for the world spirit from Weimar classical music and ghost dance in his three-hour trip to hell, Faust Sonnengesang. A major TV event for adventurous cultural citizens on the BR-alpha specialty channel. "
“With this 'film poem', as Werner Fritsch calls his approach to the 'Faust' myth, the writer and filmmaker breaks away from all known forms. For three hours, images of beguiling beauty flow past the viewer's eyes and keep giving him new ideas. Fritsch is a Faustian seeker who travels the world with his camera. He collected impressions in Egypt and New York, in Norway and China, in Mexico and on a Greek island. In every setting he penetrates the mythical ground of the real. The images become a script that transcends both the limits of reality and time. "
“Beyond the conventional 'suspense-dramaturgy of Hollywood'. The result is a psychedelic trip, a stream of fire and maelstrom of intertwining, blurring, reuniting images. Fields and forests, thresholds and waves, bodies, skyscrapers, abysses, volcanic impressions, everything highly associative and surrounded by contemporary music, computer sounds, Bach chorales ... actors like Angela Winkler, Corinna Harfouch, Irm Hermann, Herbert Fritsch, Peter Simonischek and Ulrich Matthes speak fictional voices from Aphrodite to Emmy Göring (about whom Werner Fritsch once wrote a play), from King Midas to Mephisto, Dante, Goethe and many ancestors. Even Ezra Pound can be heard reading his 'Cantos'. "
Awards
- 2013 Prix Marulić for Faust Sonnengesang
- 2013 Grand Prix Nova for Faust Sonnengesang
Web links
- Faust Sonnengesang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Faust Sonnengesang - These are the thunderstorms in nature by Werner Fritsch - Suhrkamp Insel Bücher Book detail
- Movie | Faust Sonnengesang II + III - absolutely media
Individual evidence
- ↑ Faust Sonnengesang III - A Faust road movie between image and language, Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel ,: Furious television experiment: Faust takes off. In: Der Spiegel. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
- ^ Faust Sonnengesang (2011). With extra: These are the thunderstorms in nature (1988). In: Absolutely media . Accessed April 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter von Becker: Myth and Mysticism. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
- ^ Laureati XVII. Prix Marulića.
- ↑ Award for commissioned production by Deutschlandfunk - “Faust Sonnengesang” by Werner Fritsch receives Grand Prix Nova 2013. Accessed on October 10, 2019 (German).