Malina (film)

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Movie
Original title Malina
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 1991
length 125 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Werner Schroeter
script Elfriede Jelinek
production Steffen Kuchenreuther
Thomas Kuchenreuther
music Giacomo Manzoni
camera Elfi Mikesch
cut Juliane Lorenz
occupation
Supporting roles

Malina is a German-Austrian fictional film from 1991 based on the novel of the same name by Ingeborg Bachmann . It ran in competition at the 1991 Cannes International Film Festival . The director was Werner Schroeter , the script was written by Elfriede Jelinek .

action

A nameless author has lived with Malina in an apartment in Vienna for years. However, this is more of a community of convenience, because Malina offers her the necessary support when she is confused, loses touch with reality or doesn't know where her head is. When she falls in love with the young Hungarian Ivan, who increasingly eludes her advances and instead begins an affair with someone else, she increasingly loses the ground under her feet, reality. Malina appears to be a savior in times of need, or rather a demon, her male alter ego, which appears to her in her visions and orders her to kill Ivan. In the end, the writer disappears into the wall without a trace and Malina removes every sign of their existence from the shared apartment, as if they had never existed. But at the very end the verdict of the disappeared booms: "It was murder."

criticism

“A film adaptation of Ingeborg Bachmann's novel, broken down into images and scenes, words and sentences, which, detached from everyday experience, describe the decay of every meaning. Schroeter stylizes the images with a radicalism seldom experienced in the cinema, whereby, given the heaviness of words, there is seldom a dynamic in film language; Sometimes captivating in the main role, then played unbearably again. "

- Lexicon of international film

“So this encounter results in a thoroughly successful symbiosis between presence and exaltation, vision and intimacy, soul and art; a better piece of European cinema that tickles the senses of the educated classes and doesn't know what to do next. It's a film about love. [...] Alien in our film culture. "

- Georg Seeßlen : filmzentrale.com

Awards
Further awards

Edition

  • Malina [DVD]. Film by Werner Schroeter. Based on the novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, screenplay by Elfriede Jelinek. Digital restoration of the original from 1990. Grünwald: Concorde Home Entertainment, 2011 (aspect ratio: 16: 9)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cannes International Film Festival: Malina , accessed January 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Malina on Cinema.de, accessed on May 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Malina on moviepilot.de, accessed on May 18, 2013 (detailed description of the action)
  4. ↑ Schröter goes with this voice out of nowhere beyond Jelinek's script, according to which the female side of the writer only left a note with the supervision "It was murder", which her male side disposed of.
  5. ↑ Malina. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Georg Seeßlen: Malina on filmzentrale.com, accessed on May 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ Malina Awards on concorde-home.de, accessed on May 18, 2013.