Machorka muff
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| Original title | Machorka muff |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 18 minutes |
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| Director | Jean-Marie Straub |
| script | Jean-Marie Straub |
| production | Walter Krüttner |
| camera | Wendelin Sachtler |
| cut |
Danièle Huillet Jean-Marie Straub |
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Machorka-Muff is a German feature film ( short film ) by the French filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub from 1962 in black and white. He also wrote the script. He used the satirical story “Hauptstädtisches Journal” by Heinrich Böll as a template . The film premiered in February 1963 at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival .
content
Colonel Erich von Machorka-Muff found a sphere of activity and a livelihood in the re-established army. In his girlfriend's apartment, the minister hands him the certificate of appointment as general. The first official act of the general is the laying of the foundation stone for the "Academy for Military Memories". It should become a nursery for the spirit of the soldiery, the memory of bloody war experiences should promote the development of heroic virtues and true manhood. In the celebration service that followed, the general (who was wounded seven times) decides to become husband number eight with his girlfriend Inniga von Zaster-Pehnunz. The priest assures the church wedding. A new future is opening up for the people and the state, because Inniga promises at the triumphant conclusion: "Our family has not yet resisted."
criticism
The Protestant film observer judges: “Straub [...] turns Böll's warning about the demon, which can arise anywhere and at any time, into a filmic manifesto against the Bundeswehr. The witty ambiguities in Böll's satire and the multitude of references have disappeared. [...] Böll lays satirical mines, Straub throws polemical crackers. This is how brilliant social criticism and intellectual Donquixotry differ. "
literature
- Peter Nau : "analyzing description". In: Filmkritik , No. 270 from June 1979.
Web links
- Machorka muff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Machorka-Muff at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 11/1966, p. 26