Cat and mouse (film)
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Original title | cat and mouse |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 1967 |
length | 89 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Hans-Jürgen Pohland |
script | Hans-Jürgen Pohland |
production | Hans-Jürgen Pohland |
music | Attila Zoller |
camera | Wolf Wirth |
cut | Christa Pohland |
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Katz und Maus is a German feature film from 1967 . The film was based on the novel of the same name by Günter Grass .
action
The film is set in Gdansk during the Second World War. Joachim Mahlke is a high school student and an outsider among his school colleagues. He looks disfigured by an oversized Adam's apple . The young people spend their time on the Baltic Sea . The wreck of a Polish minesweeper is a popular playground. There Joachim excels as an excellent swimmer and diver. Joachim tries to hide his Adam's apple with all kinds of utensils. He had stolen a soldier 's knight's cross , and now it adorns his bare upper body during the summer games. Because of the theft, the difficult youth is finally thrown from school and goes to war as a volunteer. There he was awarded a Knight's Cross himself and returned to his old school on home leave in the hope of finally gaining recognition as a military hero. But his heroism is rejected. Mahlke deserted and flees on the old mine boat. He disappears without a trace.
Reviews
“Cabaret-like satire that is less complex than the literary model, but all the more aggressive in the attempt to expose old and new variants of German militarism as an obsessional neurosis. In places not without a joke, formally far less consistent. "
“Noteworthy German film that, looking back, connects the past and present and tells of the youth and early death of high school student Joachim Mahlke. The film interprets the knight's cross stolen by the student during his childish games on a shipwreck in the Bay of Danzig as a symbol of the perversion of man in war. A literary film adaptation that will occupy viewers from the age of 16 intensively and challenge them to discussion. "
Trivia
The main roles are played by two sons of Willy Brandt , Lars Brandt took on the role of the young Mahlke and Peter Brandt played the older Mahlke.
literature
- Enno Stahl: For the cat and against the mouse. Pohland's film based on Grass . Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940426-99-4 .
Web links
- Cat and mouse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cat and Mouse at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cat and Mouse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 14, 2016 .