Class relationships

Movie
Original title	Class relationships
Country of production	Germany , France
original language	German
Publishing year	1984
length	126 minutes
Rod
Director	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
script	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
production	Janus Films Hessischer Rundfunk
camera	William Lubtchansky Caroline Champetier Christophe Pollock
occupation
Christian Heinisch : Karl Rossmann Nazzareno Bianconi : Giacomo Mario Adorf : Uncle Laura Betti : Brunelda Harun Farocki : Delamarche Manfred Blank : Robinson Reinald Schnell : Stoker Anna Schnell : Line Klaus Traube : Captain Georg Brintrup : Student Hermann Hartmann : Chief Cashier Gérard Semaan : Schubal Jean-François Quinque : Stewart Villi Vöbel : Pollunder Libgart Schwarz : Therese Alfred Edel : head waiter

Class Relations is a German feature film by the French director Jean-Marie Straub and his partner Danièle Huillet from 1984. It is a film adaptation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel The Lost .

action

Outcast by his parents, the young Karl Roßmann emigrated to the USA in the early 20th century. No sooner had he arrived in America than he happened to meet his rich American uncle on board the ship. This takes Karl and patronizes him. However, when he does a friend of his uncle's a favor, he is shown by his uncle at the door. Karl now moves around with Delamarche and Robinson, whom he has met in an inn, to find work. He finds a job as a lift boy in a hotel. But he loses it again after taking the drunk Robinson with him to the dormitory. He is even accused of theft and alcoholism. Over time, more mishaps happened to Karl and he suffered many humiliations. In the end, Karl ends up in the Oklahoma theater , where he first carries out simple technical work.

Production notes

The documentary Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet working on a film based on Franz Kafka's novel fragment "America" was shot by Harun Farocki about the shooting of the feature film.

Reviews

"Overwhelming, and overwhelmingly beautiful: the long last shot of the unusual, remarkable and - just as importantly - worth listening to film" Class Relations ", which Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub made based on Franz Kafka's American novel 'The Lost One'."

- Rolf Michaelis in Die Zeit from September 21, 1984.

Awards

The film took part in the competition at the Berlinale in 1984 and received an honorable mention.

DVD

• Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub, class relationships . (Double DVD with extensive bonus material. Edition Filmmuseum 11, published by Film & Kunst GmbH in cooperation with the Austrian Filmmuseum and the Filmmuseum Munich , 2007.)

literature

• Wolfram Schütte (Ed.): Class relationships . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1984. ISBN 3-596-24455-2 . (Contains among other things: the script of the film, report on the shooting by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt , conversation with Straub / Huillet by Wolfram Schütte.)
• Frieda Grafe : The fat and the thin . First published in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 18, 1984, republished in: Film für Film , Schriften, Volume 9, Brinkmann & Bose, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-922660-95-9 , pp. 226–229.
• In: Filmkritik , Issue 9-10 / 1984:
  • Andreas Eisenhart: V effect for the last time ,
  • Conversation with Straub / Huillet under the title How do I want to laugh funny when everything gets mixed up ,
  • Peter Nau : Seduction and Violence .

Web links

• Class relationships in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Class relationships at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harun Farocki: Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet working on a film based on Franz Kafka's novel fragment "America". Filmportal.de , accessed on March 9, 2020.
2. ^ Harun Farocki: Jean-Marie Straub and Daniéle Huillet at Work on a film based on Franz Kafka's "Amerika". at www.harunfarocki.de, accessed on March 9, 2020.
3. ↑ Rolf Michaelis : Bild-Sprach-Musik Kafka's America novel as a film In: Die Zeit . September 21, 1984.
4. ^ Berlinale: 1984 Winners . In: berlinale.de . Retrieved June 7, 1984.