Mau Mau (film)
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| Original title | Mau Mau |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Uwe Schrader |
| script | Uwe Schrader, Daniel Dubbe |
| production | Uwe Schrader |
| camera | Peter Gauhe |
| cut | Klaus Müller Laue |
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Mau Mau is a German feature film directed by Uwe Schrader in 1992.
action
Inge Garske's "Mau Mau" strip bar in Hamburg-St. Pauli is doing badly, customers stay away. The landlord has an eye on Inge and would like to open a modern club on the premises with her. The film shows the last days before the closing of the Mau Mau and ends with a big farewell party with all employees and regular guests of the restaurant.
background
Mau Mau is the last part of Uwe Schrader's feature film trilogy, which also includes Kanakerbraut and Sierra Leone .
Reviews
“The film, which oscillates between descriptions of the milieu and fictional fates, is, despite all efforts to achieve authenticity and atmosphere, a rather ambivalent balancing act that exposes the people in the context of alcoholic and sex-indulgent everyday poetry rather than making them understandable. Performing excellent. "
“You can also think of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died ten years almost exactly on the day that MAU MAU comes to cinemas nationwide. Since “In a year with 13 moons” there has not been a German film that tells with so much tenderness about people who only have the freedom to go under. It took Schrader four years for MAU MAU. That's how long it takes today when someone uses their own head in the cinema. "
“Nobody in German film has mastered the art of stuffing a room full of people and then letting them interact with one another in such a complex way that the impression of what is staged is blurred. Schrader creates reality, which he then penetrates with his camera. ... the merciless realist has perfected his style. "
“MAU MAU is a stroke of luck in the dreary German film landscape. Schrader's dialogues are accurate, cool, funny. Peter Gauhe's handheld camera collects images of a rugged, at times poetic realism. And all actors bring a naturalness into play, as if the director had signed them directly at the beer tap. Anyone who manages such a happy and melancholy film as MAU MAU - without mistakes, without a wrong word - must love the neighborhood with its night owls and day thieves ... "
“Schrader shows this world without any voyeurism. He is neither a social worker nor a moralist. He's just a storyteller. But what one! And he has a flair for actors like hardly any other German director ... MAU MAU also proves what power German film could have if there were more people like Schrader who knew how to use them. "
“The basic mood of the film is that of a severe hangover. A sway between euphoria and apathy, which is best dealt with with the next sip. This narrative attitude gives the film a hardness and a rough liveliness that are unique in German cinema. MAU MAU, this structure of torn and knotted back story threads, of loosely and laconically linked episodes, possesses an intensity that films with "strong" plots can only dream of. "
“Uwe Schrader, the young naturalist of German films, draws his characters lovingly and precisely. At the center of Schrader's drastic realism is a painful beauty in MAU MAU, a beauty of almost moral quality. There is a fascinating shine in the brightly made-up faces, marked by life and bitter experiences. Sometimes Schrader's characters appear like fallen favorites of the gods. "
"... the realism of MAU MAU is undoubtedly full of raw poetry and unpolished beauty."
"... the melancholy description of the milieu, seen through Schrader's eyes, becomes a captivating film."
“... Uwe Schrader has once again made a dynamic film about the hope, the anger, the little joys and sorrows of the proletariat. He is supported by a group of sensational actors ... "
Awards
- Locarno International Film Festival 1992, German competition entry.
- FBW label "valuable"
Web links
- Mau Mau in the Internet Movie Database (English)