King, Queen, Jack (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | King, Queen, Jack / King, Queen, Knave |
| Country of production |
Germany USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| script |
David Seltzer David Shaw |
| production |
David L. Wolper Lutz stallion |
| music | Stanley Myers |
| camera | Charly Steinberger |
| cut | Melvin Shapiro |
| occupation | |
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König, Dame, Bube is a German-American literary film adaptation by Jerzy Skolimowski from 1972. The US title is King, Queen, Knave , and the film was also shown in German cinemas under the title Herzbube .
action
After the death of his father, the inexperienced teenager Frank from Manchester moves to Munich to live with his uncle Charles Dreyer and his aunt Martha . Charles is the owner of the large Dreyer department store and hires Frank as an employee after a trial. Frank moves into his own small apartment and lives here wall to wall with the inventor Ritter, known as Professor. Ritter has developed a fabric that looks like fake skin. He wants Frank to introduce the brand Charles, as Ritter hopes to use it to cover movable mannequins. In fact, Charles is impressed by the idea and orders two movable dolls from Ritter.
When Frank had tried to introduce Charles to the wrong skin, at first only Martha found himself in the house, to whom he was confusedly drawn. The conversation about “his skin”, which he had brought with him and which he would like to show her, once again sparked her desire for him. So it happens that she finally visits him in his small apartment when he is planning to leave the city, he loves his aunt. Both sleep together and Martha announces that she will repeat this until he is good at it. Ritter hears the love hours in the next room, but reacts calmly to the vibrations that make the apples fall from the cupboard in his room.
One day Charles comes home shaken after his chauffeur was killed in an accident. His advice that anyone could die at any time makes Martha think about having her husband killed. With Frank she forges plans on how this can best be implemented, but the young man has scruples about not wanting to see Charles suffer. A first attempt to shoot Charles at a party during a power failure fails, as the supposed pistol turns out to be a lighter.
Ritter has completed two false-skinned dolls and shows off the robot-like creatures Charles and two major investors. Although the performance goes awry because the figures' electronics fail, Charles instructs him to make a female robot doll. Shortly afterwards, he and Martha are planning a vacation on the Côte d'Azur , to which they both want to take Frank with them. Martha wants to announce the good news to him, but Frank has just gone out to eat. To surprise him, Martha dresses in his apartment and goes to bed. Meanwhile, Frank meets Charles who spontaneously wants to take a look at his new apartment. Both men try in vain to open the door to Frank's apartment, Martha holds it, barely dressed, but desperately. Only a neighbor points out to Frank that his girlfriend is in the apartment. Charles is embarrassed about the situation and he leaves. However, while walking he meets knights and lets him describe Frank's girlfriend. He is taken with the description and decides that Ritter should create the new doll in the image of Frank's girlfriend. When Frank went on vacation, Ritter discovers a photo of Martha in his apartment, which he takes.
While on vacation, Martha and Frank plan to kill Charles. Charles is supposed to reach a distant point of the coast on foot in a competition, while Martha and Frank prefer to reach the point by rowboat. The way back should be started together, with Frank Charles pushing out of the boat on a code word. Since Charles cannot swim, his death is sealed. The plan initially works. Martha speaks the code word, but immediately afterwards Charles tells her that he would have to travel back to Munich the next day to sign a multi-million dollar contract, since one of the investors had decided to buy a doll. Martha now wants to prevent the murder. Frank loses his glasses in the turmoil and then sees almost nothing. Due to its erratic movements, the boat capsizes and all three occupants land in the water. It's Martha who is drowning. Back in Munich, Frank and Charles are in mourning. Charles sees Frank as his only true friend and lets him move into his villa. He also offers him the prospect of taking over the company. Frank can take love letters forwarded from Martha to Frank in good time and destroy them. In the end, however, Ritter stands in front of the door and rings the bell. In his arms he holds the new doll - which is exactly like Martha.
production
King, Queen, Jack is based on Vladimir Nabokov 's novel of the same name. The film was shot in 1971 in the Bavaria Filmstudios Geiselgasteig, among others. The film structures come from Rolf Zehetbauer . The film premiered on May 18, 1972 under the title King, Lady, Jack at the Cannes International Film Festival and was screened in the competition for the Palme d'Or . It was released in German cinemas on June 8, 1972 under the title Herzbube and was later - again under the title König, Dame, Bube - on German television.
criticism
The film dienst called König, Dame, Bube a “clothing-like social comedy that has unpleasant similarities with the German bed-loving games of those years”. Der Spiegel also criticized the film as a “clumsy ... sexual posse” that “got garish and uptight” to the director.
"A cinematic dud despite the dazzling actors," said Cinema .
Web links
- King, Queen, Jack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- King, Queen, Jack at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ See festival-cannes.com
- ↑ King, Queen, Jack. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Potent nephew . In: Der Spiegel , No. 25, 1972, pp. 135-136.
- ↑ See cinema.de