Melancholy of Angels
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| Original title | Melancholy of Angels |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 165 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marian Dora |
| script | Marian Dora Frank Oliver |
| production | Authentic film |
| camera | Marian Dora |
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Melancholy der Engel is a 2009 exploitation film directed by Marian Dora . The film premiered on the 2009 Weekend of Fear .
action
A man who goes by the name "cat" is sick with severe depression . After many years he meets his friend Brauth again. The two men share a dark secret. At a fair they meet the two 16-year-old women Melanie and Bianca. Together they go to a bar, whereupon another woman, Anna, joins the group.
After the bar visit, the five find themselves in a remote homestead. There the group meets a mysterious old man named Heinrich, who is accompanied by a young woman named Clarissa, who is confined to a wheelchair. Clarissa can only pass through a urine bag or an artificial anus.
On the same evening, the protagonists begin to consume drugs and ponder various philosophical approaches. Clarissa is mistreated and locked in a kind of basement room and murdered the next morning by being pushed down a slope with her wheelchair.
Towards the end of the film, young Bianca is also murdered by the group. After her uterus has been removed with a knife, her skull is broken in. Heinrich is finally eviscerated by the cat and the bride. This is followed by an orgy in which the four remaining members of the group burn Heinrich's body on a pyre, while those involved carry out sexual acts and, among other things, urinate in the fire.
The film ends with the cat dying.
style
The focus of the film is the character of the cat, about whose thoughts and feelings the viewer is partly guided and explained by a voiceover .
It is mostly spoken in poetic verse. Different philosophers and poets are often quoted, e. B. Rainer Maria Rilke , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe or Rainer Werner Fassbinder .
The film contains, among other things, explicit depictions of coprophilic and urophilic acts.
publication
The film had its theatrical premiere on March 1, 2009 at the Weekend of Fear 2009 . The film has been distributed on DVD by Shock DVD Entertainment in Austria since 2010 . In 2018 there was a Blu-ray release in Austria by XT Video .
Others
Peter Martell can be seen in his last role. He passed away in 2010.
In 2017 the Swedish filmmaker Magnus Blomdahl published the documentary Revisiting Melancholie der Engel . Dora herself appears in front of the camera in the film and explains the film's chaotic production history.
The film won the "Best Arthouse Feature" award at the New York International Film and Video Festival in 2009.
Reviews
“Marian Dora has really succeeded in creating an interesting work, which is worth looking into a little more intensively. [...] The story leaves a lot of room for interpretation. You can't explain that here, and you can't really understand it either. [...] 'Melancholy of the Angels' can actually be described as artistic [...] an impressive, fascinating, strange, strange and quite unique film. "
Web links
- Melancholy of angels in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Melancholy der Engel on moviepilot.de
- Trailer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melancholy der Engel at Schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Melancholie der Engel - Special Collector's Edition (DVD) , dvd-forum.at
- ↑ BastitheEnd: Revisiting Melancholie der Engel. In: Videothekenkind - Reviews of niche films. May 23, 2017, accessed on December 12, 2019 (German).
- ^ Benjamin Falk: Melancholy der Engel. In: Zelluloid.de. October 3, 2010, archived from the original on February 22, 2017 ; accessed on September 11, 2018 .