Paule Pauländer
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| Original title | Paule Pauländer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 88 minutes |
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| Director | Reinhard Hauff |
| script | Burkhard Driest |
| production | Eberhard Junkersdorf for Bioskop-Film, commissioned by WDR |
| music | Richard Palmer-Jones |
| camera | Jürgen Juerges |
| cut | Inez Regnier |
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Paule Pauländer is a 1975 German television film by Reinhard Hauff with amateur actors in the leading roles.
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The Pauländers have lived on their own clod for around three centuries; Small farmers who perceive changes only marginally and who have archaic ways of dealing and raising children. Paule Pauländer is just 15 years old and suffers from his tyrannical father. He is in debt, frustrated and passes this frustration on to his son, drives him to work, beats and bullies Paule as much as he can. Paule has an older brother named Heinrich, neither mother is much help. Paule is afraid of the violent father and is alone with this fear. When Heinrich, with whom he at least occasionally exchanged views in his grief, leaves his parents' farm and moves into the city, Paule is finally alone with his worries and needs.
One day 17-year-old Elfi promises a glimmer of happiness and hope. The pretty girl is a child from the big city and has found a job at the local gas station, where she should prove herself for a life in the community. Paule is surprised that Elfi is turning to him, but takes her affection rather indifferently as he had previously accepted the constant beatings of his father. Paule slowly builds up trust in the young woman, because she knows how to handle him correctly and gets him out of his sadness and lethargy. Elfi means fun and the hope for a better, because different, life. One day, when she was helping Paule steal the engine of a tractor, she was caught, gave up her job at the gas station and went into hiding with Paule at the Pauländer-Hof. This is not a good idea because now the old man is starting to harass them too.
For farmer Pauländer, the financial rescue comes at the last minute in the form of a contract for 200 fattening pigs that he is supposed to deliver. 200 pigs mean an enormous slaughter festival, and Elfi is completely shocked that she should lend a hand. She now knows that she was not made for country life and runs away from the Pauländer-Hof. Paule is afraid of losing Elfi again and therefore invites her to the next fair. In order to be able to stand as a generous patron towards his girlfriend, he gets involved in a boxing match where you can win 200 DM if you knock out your opponent in the ring. But his counterpart, who grossly calls himself the “Tiger of Berlin”, is stronger and stronger, and actually Paule is almost knocked out after only a short time. The Elfi standing on the side cheers him on so much that he bundles all his strength again and can place three boxing strokes so well that they knock down his opponent. So Paule wins the sum of money, which is considerable for him. But Elfi, the unfaithful, shows himself to be a flighty being. A guy approaches her at the fair and promises her a job in a boutique in town. She gets into his swanky car and rushes away, never to be seen again.
Paule is totally desperate and drowns the 200 marks he has won with a friend named Charly. Back at home on his parents' farm, Paule finds them barricaded. Shots bark from the pigsty into the open. Paule runs over there and sees his father with a rifle in hand. Next to him the desperate mother. Around the two of them a huge number of dead pigs. An epidemic had broken out and Pauländer senior was forced to cull all the animals. The father is upset like never before and in his desperation about the now certain financial ruin he wants to rush on Paule so that he can get rid of all the pigs. Paule is beaten twice, then the boy defends himself for the first time and beats his father with a shovel until he lies motionless.
Production notes
Paule Pauländer was created between August 18 and September 21, 1975 in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district . The film ran on April 6, 1976 in the evening program of ARD and was also shown in the cinema the following year.
Barbara Grupp designed the costumes, Willi Kley provided the equipment.
Immediately afterwards, in 1977, Hauff processed his conflicting experiences with the talented amateur actor of Paule, Manfred Reiss, in the film The Main Actor .
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Screenwriter Burkhard Driest wrote about his intention :
“My first version of the screenplay showed the farmer's boy Paule as the victim of a family farm that opposes the revolution in agricultural production conditions and is therefore totally hollowed out and absorbed by large-scale industry. During the work I had confused the viewer's interest in the material with mine. To get closer to the characters again, Hauff and I moved to a farm for a while. We talked to the farmers, I secretly made tape recordings, we lived with them. According to the realization that the property of the small farmer is not the soil of his independence and his freedom, but the boot that holds him down, our hero leaves the farm at the end of the film. "
Reviews
“These many small snapshots from the rural provinces, joined together by carefully fading them out, combine to form a laconic and at the same time very sensual portrait: the people, the village, their damage and oppression. At the same time, with this fanned out portrait of a community, the story of a growing revolt, a speechless solidarity emerges, even if "the path into the open", on which the fleeing Paule Pauländer embarks after he has killed his father, will initially end in the penitentiary ( ...) That gives the film its convincing density, especially in the father-son relationship - a quality that is reminiscent of Klaus Wildenhahn's two-part documentary DIE LIEBE ZUM LAND as well as the portraits of young people in Peter Bogdanovich's THE LAST PICTURE-SHOW and Louis Malles LACOMBE LUCIEN. "
“Manfred Reiss plays Paule Pauländer, shy, inhibited. but not stupid. Correct: tear. 15, don't play him, he's Paule. For weeks, director Reinhard Hauff had scoured dance floors, schools and soccer fields in the Lüchow-Dannenberg border district in Lower Saxony in order to find a heathen - "strong, unconformed, idiosyncratic, silent". Then he finally spotted him by chance on the country road: a barefoot fellow with jeans and brush hair. Reiss wrecked old cars in his parents' junkyard, once a flourishing homestead, for ten marks a week as his stepfather's laborer. The director also engaged stepfather Manfred Gnoth - "the same hairstyle, even more in focus" (Hauff) - as a gnarled, lazy, authoritarian old Pauländer. The two delivered a terrific amateur play, often deviating from the script. (...) What would have snarled off the back of your hand among professionals and easily flattened into a licked Heimat film now creaks almost awkwardly: no perfect dialogue from the desk, but rather harsh exchange of words for clumsy tongues. Manfred Reiss understood his role and learned the lessons from the film: At the end of the shooting, like Paule Pauländer, he was looking for the liberating expanse. "
“The story of a young farmer's son who frees himself from dependency and oppression by killing his despotic father in self-defense. A homeland film that is critical in the style of petty singing, "which aims to show the consequences of false consciousness and false upbringing, but in some scenes loses credibility due to over-drawing."
Web links
- Paule Pauländer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Paule Pauländer at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brochure “ARD-Fernsehspiel”, published by the working group of the public broadcasting corporations of the Federal Republic of Germany, born 1977 - 1985
- ^ Paule Pauländer in the Lexicon of International Films