Found eating

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Movie
Original title Found eating
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1977
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Michael Verhoeven
script Elke Heidenreich
Bernd Schroeder
Michael Verhoeven
production Michael Verhoeven
music Stefan Melbinger
camera Heinz Hölscher
cut Helga Borsche
occupation

Found Fressen is a German feature film from 1977. The premiere took place on March 3, 1977.

action

Alfred Eisenhardt is a homeless person in Munich . After the end of the Second World War he never got under his feet again. His only job was doing odd jobs. Now he is an old man who still has a dream: he would like to travel to Mallorca one day to spend the winter there. When he meets the police officer Erwin Kolozeczik, he finds a new friend in him who has dreams similar to his. They discover that they are originally from the same village in Silesia. Erwin is also dissatisfied with his life. His wife annoys him as much as his work colleagues, and his childhood friend Gisela is not willing to serve as concubine.

He now finds fulfillment in helping the homeless, who, unlike himself, seems to be free. For example, Erwin pays a fine that was imposed on Alfred for shoplifting. When Alfred met the Yugoslav guest worker Milena, his monotonous life seemed to change for the better; but then she unexpectedly travels back to her home country. Regardless of his existence as a homeless person, Alfred has a savings account on which he has accumulated a sum of money that would enable him to easily realize his dream of wintering in Mallorca. When Erwin finds out, he can finally encourage Alfred to withdraw his savings and book the flight to Mallorca. Erwin believes that he will be able to follow suit in a few years, when his own financial situation has improved. In the end, however, Alfred cannot make up his mind to leave his world: shortly before boarding the plane, he turns around and re-enters the airport building. He returns to the record .

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : A film determined by sentimentality and sham poetry with the hapless attempt to present human needs in relationships and self-fulfillment in a cryptic tragicomedy.
  • Günther Bastin in film-dienst, March 29, 1977: ... the problems of personalities who are prevented from realizing themselves by environmental guilt and self-weakness, as well as the processes of discovering the truly human, are only forged into a fairytale opera of the heart with a tissue roll call by Verhoeven. He does it with a lot of Munich local color, with all kinds of pseudo-poetry, with smoothness and a tenacious development of sentimentalities ...
  • Helmuth Schmitz in the Frankfurter Rundschau , April 29, 1977: Michael Verhoeven has succeeded in doing a comedy after quarterly or halfway unsuccessful attempts in this direction, a German film comedy with Heinz Rühmann, in which we don't blindly laugh at ourselves and our peers, but rather ours Laughter mixed in with recognition, assertion and defiance. A laugh that does not lull the weakness, but can give courage. As we last heard (and actually for the first time) in contemporary German cinema in " Lina Braake ". It's at least as good a laugh in "Found Food".

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Individual evidence

  1. Found food. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 20, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used