Freak Orlando
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Freak Orlando |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrike Ottinger |
| script | Ulrike Ottinger |
| production | Ulrike Ottinger |
| music | Wilhelm Dieter Siebert |
| camera | Ulrike Ottinger |
| cut | Dörte Völz-Mammarella |
| occupation | |
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Freak Orlando is a feature film by Ulrike Ottinger from 1981.
action
The 1928 novel Orlando. The story of a film based on Virginia Woolf's life is divided into five acts in which the main character Orlando, with different genders and without hardly aging himself, goes through different epochs from the Baroque period to the present.
In the first act, Orlando is a noble man of around twenty at the court of the English King James I (England) (1566–1625), in the second an envoy to Constantinople on behalf of King James II (England) (1633–1701), in the third, Orlando returns as a woman to England in the 18th century and marries a naval officer there in the 19th century. In the 20th century, Orlando, now around forty, led a life like Woolf as an emancipated intellectual and poet.
The film ends with a "Festival of the Ugly", at which in front of a jury and accompanied by four dancing playboys - "Bunnies", the lame dance and the stunted make faces. On the other hand, a middle-class pharmaceutical representative is ultimately chosen as the winner .
Performances
The film premiered on November 1, 1981 at the 15th Hof Film Festival. An exhibition entitled “Freak Orlando. An overall artistic concept ”takes place in the Berlin DAAD gallery . In the following years it was shown at a number of other international film festivals.
reception
The encyclopedia of fantasy films criticized the film as a "foam brawl".
For the film, Ottinger received the 2nd audience prize at the Sceaux Film Festival in 1983 .
According to Alice Kuzniar, the film is an important example of the representation of otherwise “illegible bodies” in queer German film. Ottinger bestows "symbolic legitimacy on those who live outside of society [...]".
literature
Movie books
- Ulrike Ottinger: Freak Orlando. Small world theater in five episodes. Medusa, 1981, ISBN 3-886023-01-X .
- German Academic Exchange Service (Ed.): Freak Orlando. An error, incompetence, thirst for power, fear, madness, cruelty and everyday life comprehensive 'Histoire du monde' using the example of freaks from the beginning until today as a small world theater in five episodes. Exhibition catalog with a contribution by Hanne Bergius , Berliner Künstlerprogramm (DAAD), 1981.
Secondary literature
- Laurence A. Rickels : Ulrike Ottinger. The autobiography of art cinema. Chapter 4: Hit and Miss. University of Minnesota Press, 2008, ISBN 0-816653-31-3 , pages 65-89.
Web links
- Freak Orlando in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Freak Orlando in the dictionary of international films
- Freak Orlando at Filmportal.de
- Freak Orlando on ulrikeottinger.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Fischer: Delictate meal , review in: Der Spiegel , No. 46, November 9, 1981, pp. 269-271.
- ↑ Ronald M. Hahn , Volker Jansen and Norbert Stresau : Lexicon of Fantasy Films. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02273-4 , pp. 158-159.
- ↑ Alice Kuzniar : Visual excess and erotic ambiguity in queer German cinema. ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2010 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. Translated by Ludger Wedding. From: Dorothée von Diepenbroick & Skadi Loist (eds.): Image: beautiful. 20 years of the Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Hamburg. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939542-74-2 .
