Short Trial (1967)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Short process |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Kehlmann |
| script | Michael Kehlmann, Carl Merz based on a novel by Jeffrey Ashford |
| production |
Claus Hardt for UFP (independent film production) |
| music | Rolf Alexander Wilhelm |
| camera | Karl Schröder |
| cut | Ursula Henrici |
| occupation | |
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Kurzer Trial is a German crime film from 1967, which was directed by Michael Kehlmann . The world premiere took place on November 24, 1967 in Munich . The film is based on motifs from the novel Kurzer Proceeding (original title Investigations are Proceeding ) by Jeffrey Ashford from 1961 (German edition from 1964).
action
District inspector Pokorny was transferred from Vienna to the - fictional - Upper Austrian Mühlstadt some time ago after assaulting a suspect while on duty. There he has, as he says, “to deal with idiotic people who steal each other's chickens.” The police officer Janisch, who has to be jailed for seven years for a robbery on the post office in Litzelsdorf, has now been brought to a short trial . His colleagues do not trust him to do this and try to catch the real perpetrators. At the same time, they have to deal with a large number of other cases.
They are investigating the murder of 13-year-old Walter Nagler and the missing person's case Eduard von Hartenbach, who is wanted by his step-daughter, the actress Karin Nieburg. After a few setbacks, the murder of Walter Nagler can be proven to the boy's alcoholic father, who was suspected from the start. After an initial silence, his wife vividly describes the crime. In the case of Hartenbach, too, after the missing person's body is found on the property of his villa, the first investigation into murder is made. However, the forensic medicine findings clearly state a natural cause of death. Pokorny continues to investigate in this case, however, because in the course of the investigation it was established that Oberwachmann Janisch, without knowing it, observed the two domestic workers, the Sandner brothers, burying the body. They had previously attacked a cashier in Zurich and deposited the loot under the name Eduard von Hartenbachs at the Mühlstädter Raiffeisenbank.
In order to have the suitcase with the loot returned after Hartenbach's sudden, natural death, his death had to go unnoticed at first. For this reason, Janisch was taken out of circulation by the attack on the post office, which he was accused of and which the Sandner brothers actually carried out. Janisch is released and Pokorny is able to capture and transfer the Sandner brothers with the help of his underworld friend Wokupetz, who followed him from Vienna to Mühlstadt out of attachment and accompanies him there.
background
The film was produced by Michael Kehlmann under a contract with Bayerischer Rundfunk . Because of his preference for Helmut Qualtinger and the knowledge of his talent, he gave him a continuous role in Kurzer Prozess . The film premiered on June 1, 1969 on Bavarian television . Previously it was evaluated in the cinema.
Most of the film was produced with Austrian actors. For this reason and in view of the rest of the film staff and the location of the action, the production is also included in Austrian film.
criticism
The contemporary criticism is sometimes not very enthusiastic. On the occasion of the television broadcast, Der Spiegel said:
“The socially critical role of Raunz was tailor-made for the cabaret artist Qualtinger ('Der Herr Karl') by long-term partner Carl Merz (...) based on a British detective novel. Together with the director Kehlmann, Merz moved the plot from the British proletariat to the Austrian village milieu. Kehlmann couldn't spoil as much as with his recently messed up 'Julius Caesar' - thanks to Qualtinger's massive presence. But if he provokes a crime secretary (Bruni Löbel) to sneeze five times while serving coffee, Pokorny always gives the right comment on the staging: 'I am', he snaps, 'served at all.' "
Shortly after the premiere, the Protestant film observer came to a more positive assessment :
“Austrian-German crime film that does not work with tension and effects, but rather follows the path of a detailed description of the milieu. Useful entertainment, especially interesting from the lead actor Helmut Qualtinger. "
On the other hand, later critics say:
“Kurzer Prozess is a classic of the German-language crime film, was originally produced for television, but initially evaluated in the cinema. Following the traditions of the upscale detective novel, for the screenwriters Kehlmann and Merz the priority is not so much the crime or the apprehension of the perpetrator, rather they draw a social study of how people react to crimes, which opens up in them in terms of what is pent up. "
“Michael Kehlmann's Kurzer Prozess is one of the few really worth seeing Austrian films of the 1960s. 'The appeal of the film is u. a. in the evil observation of small-town conditions. Mühlstadt, the location of the film, presents the observer with a panopticon of Austrian mental states and character types. ' ( Alexander Horwath ) "
Web links
- Short shrift in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short process at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Short process. On: film.at. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ↑ a b Short process. On: DerStandard.at. September 28, 2006, accessed June 24, 2011.
- ↑ This week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1969, p. 188, 190 ( online ).
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 528/1967