Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (1960)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6, originally 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| script |
Alberto Cavalcanti , Vladimir Pozner , Ruth Wieden , Hanns Eisler |
| production | Wien-Film GmbH |
| music |
Hanns Eisler interprets by the Wiener Symphoniker |
| camera | André Bac |
| cut | Josef Juvancic |
| occupation | |
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Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti is an Austrian film based on the play of the same name by Bertolt Brecht .
action
The Finnish landowner Puntila has become a good friend after a drinking spree and tells his chauffeur Matti all his worries. He wants to marry his daughter Eva, befittingly, with an attaché, but it pains him that he has to give his son-in-law a piece of his forest as a dowry.
Puntila becomes engaged to various girls while drunk and hires several servants, although he has no work for them. When the attaché arrives and asks for Eva's hand, Puntila finds him unsympathetic, gets drunk and chases him away.
Since Eva has had an eye on the handsome Matti for a long time, Puntila now also wants Eva to marry Matti, but he relentlessly shows her the problems of such an improper marriage. In the end, instead of the marriage, Mattis is only given notice.
background
The film was shot in 1955 in the Soviet-controlled Rosenhügel studios in Vienna on Agfacolormaterial and did not premiere until October 21, 1960 in Munich. For a long time, the event resembles a typical film comedy or a home film from the 1950s, so that the audience and film critics took relatively little notice of it. Brecht himself described the film as a "refined salon comedy" because the text had largely been politically defused.
Reviews
“The film was only partially successful: the result is a burlesque in which slapstick and comedy predominate without friction, while the goal of Brecht's art and its socially critical morality is not achieved. Even the way the actors play (excellent: Curt Bois as Puntila) cannot hide the fact that the all-too naturalistic-romantic colorfulness of the décor hardly corresponds to an alienating representation of what Brecht demands. "
"Brecht's play about a gentleman who always fraternizes with his chauffeur when he's drunk, in a rather clumsy film version."
Web links
- Mr Puntila and his Man Matti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Bertolt Brecht: Large commented on Berlin and Frankfurt edition . Suhrkamp 1988-1999, Vol. 30, p. 308.
- ↑ Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 3, 2017 .