Murder and manslaughter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Murder and manslaughter |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Volker Schlöndorff |
| script |
Volker Schlöndorff Gregor von Rezzori Niklas Frank Arne Boyer |
| production | Rob Houwer |
| music | Brian Jones |
| camera | Franz Rath |
| cut | Claus from Boro |
| occupation | |
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Mord und Mansschlag is a German feature film from 1967 that premiered on April 19, 1967 in the Filmcasino Munich. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff .
action
Marie and Hans are a couple. Hans wants to leave Marie. Nevertheless, one evening he shows up again at Marie’s home, wants to get his things from Marie's apartment and sleep with her one last time. Marie refuses to accept Hans and finally shoots him. Desperate Marie meets the young man Günther in a bar. She hires him for money to help her to make the body of Hans disappear. Günther agrees. Marie likes the young man and takes him home. There they sleep together in the same room as the corpse. Then they wrap Hans in a rug. They bring the body to a motorway construction site by car. Günther's friend Fritz helps them bury the body there. After that, the lovers Marie and Günther live as if nothing else had happened, and the two return to their everyday lives. The film ends when the corpse is discovered by accident.
background
Murder and Manslaughter is the second feature film after The Young Törless by Volker Schlöndorff and the first color film by a director of the New German Cinema . He was invited to the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1967 and did not win a prize there, but brought Schlöndorff wide recognition from critics and film producers. From then on he was considered the most important representative of the New German Cinema abroad. Brian Jones , guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for the Rolling Stones composed the score.
The film, based on the American gangster film , turns the clichés of the crime film upside down by not focusing on solving the crime, but on the perpetrator's efforts to cover up her act. Schlöndorff said: “I hope that our work, our words and gestures express something typical of the time. It is not analyzed. "
The age rating was reduced from 18 to 16 years in January 2018 due to a re-examination of the FSK.
Reviews
“Crime staged with cool clarity, self-ironic distance and professionalism, clearly based on American genre models. In his second feature film, Schlöndorff shows a feeling for dramaturgy that attracts audiences and for the rebellious attitude towards life of the youth of the late 1960s. "
“With one eye fixed on the audience, he [Schlöndorff] makes gammel-chic and flippant sex, frozen twenties go to bed like going to the cinema, and when they're not undressing, they get dressed, drive their cars or hobble through Bavarian undergrowth.
The knick-knack cinema, made in a smart way (camera: Franz Rath), hardly obscures the fact that Schloendorff has little to tell. He stretches out a sinister anecdote - to the evening filler with blood and bosom and narrow ladykiller comedy. "
"A classic of the 'New German Film'"
"Intelligent and formally brilliant, this second feature film by the young Volker Schlöndorf offers a sincere, but completely neutral study of the behavior of young people."
Awards
Cinematographer Franz Rath was awarded the German Film Prize in Gold in 1967. The film received the German Film Prize in silver and a premium of 300,000 DM.
Web links
- Murder and manslaughter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murder and manslaughter at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Welt , December 17, 1966, quoted from John Sandford in CineGraph , vol. 2 (1984)
- ↑ Murder and manslaughter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel of April 24, 1967
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 156/1967