Perrak
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| Original title | Perrak |
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| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Alfred Vohrer |
| script | Serious wing |
| production | Roxy Film GmbH & Co. KG ( Luggi Waldleitner ) |
| music | Rolf Kühn |
| camera | Ernst W. Kalinke |
| cut | Jutta Hering |
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Perrak is a German crime and exploitation film directed by Alfred Vohrer . The premiere of the film produced by Luggi Waldleitner took place on April 24, 1970 in the Universum in Munich .
content
The homeless Ede finds the body of 19-year-old transvestite Toni on a Hamburg garbage dump . Commissioner Perrak from the vice squad is on the case. After the investigation in a notorious transvestite bar did not bring any concrete evidence at first, it soon turned out that Toni was extremely wealthy. Both Perrak and the unscrupulous underworld man Karl Kaminski assume that Toni must have blackmailed someone and was therefore eliminated. Kaminski wants to take the extortionist position that has become vacant and puts his gang, which includes a certain Nick, the recently released “Casanova” and the heroin smuggler “Bimbo”, on the story.
Perrak's next track leads to “Trumpet Emma”, who runs a brothel disguised as a “community of gray nuns” in a noble patrician house. Kaminski is already one step further. He has Emma's landlord shadow Bottke, who sells explosive photos from the brothel to the embassy secretary Oblomow. This in turn meets with a stranger who is obviously the Dr. Rembold acts. But a short time later, Oblomov is a dead man and the photos found with him, which show the general director of an armaments company with a minor, are confiscated as extraterritorial .
The dramatic events come thick and fast when Kaminski kidnaps Perrak's son Joschi in order to free the arrested Nick. Perrak manages to free his son. But the witness "Trumpet Emma", from whom one had hoped for more information, is murdered by Bottke. Perrak, who, contrary to the official instructions, kept photos of Oblomow, pays General Director Friedrich Imhoff and his wife Claire a visit. Imhoff admits that he was blackmailed by Toni, but denies having murdered him. At the same time, Kaminski learns that Toni is the industrialist Imhoff on behalf of Dr. Rembolds blackmailed. Nick, who really wants to know who has his brother Toni on his conscience, gives the police a tip. There is a spectacular showdown, which Kaminski pays with his life. Through the arrested Rembold, Perrak now learns the whole truth: In fact, the transvestite Toni had on behalf of Dr. Rembolds blackmailed General Director Friedrich Imhoff. After things got too hot for him, Toni blackmailed Claire Imhoff and her lover Rembold. When the demands got too high, Claire and Rembold murdered Toni.
History of origin
Pre-production
In Perrak it was already about the fourth movie director Alfred Vohrer for Luggi Leitner Forest Roxy Film staged. As with the three predecessors, Manfred Purzer wrote the script under his pseudonym Ernst Flügel. In keeping with contemporary tastes, the film was conceived as a "powder-dry moron". The film initially had the working title The Gray Nun and was renamed Perrak while filming .
production
The shooting took place in February and March 1970 in Hamburg . The studio recordings were made in Studio Bendestorf . The film architects Wolf Englert and Günther Kob designed the scene . Irms Pauli was responsible for choosing the costumes . Manufacturing and production manager was Erwin Gitt . The assistant took over Eva Ebner .
The main actor Horst Tappert had already embodied the role of the investigator in Alfred Vohrer's films The Gorilla of Soho , The Man with the Glass Eye and Seven Days of Time . Regarding Perrak , Tappert said, “Perrak is a typical member of my generation who is frustrated with many things today. In his job he does not find the fulfillment he had hoped for; he is fed up with the daily ballast. He is quite helpless towards his 18-year-old son - on the other hand, if necessary, he confidently disregards official authority. "
The film anticipated some motifs from early episodes of the Derrick television series, which began four years later . In particular, the Derrick episode Dead Birds Do Not Sing (1976), also directed by Alfred Vohrer, shows some parallels to Perrak . A corpse is found in it again in a garbage dump, and the trail leads the investigators back to the red-light district .
To cast other roles, Vohrer relied on an ensemble that consisted of well-known film and stage actors such as Hubert Suschka , Werner Peters and Carl Lange as well as young actors such as Judy Winter , Wolf Roth and Jochen Busse . The film also featured “real transvestites” and transsexuals , including Ramonita Vargas, Mikel Sugar and Angie Stardust.
reception
publication
The film industry's voluntary self-regulation released the film on April 16, 1970 from the age of 18. The premiere was initially scheduled for April 17th. The premiere of the film Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli was originally supposed to take place on the same day . In order not to compete with each other, the start dates of both films were postponed. The premiere of Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli was brought forward to April 9th, while Perrak was shown for the first time on April 24th at Universum in Munich.
In the polls carried out by the trade journal Filmecho / Filmwoche at the time , in which the cinema operators rated the commercial success of current films on a scale from 1 (excellent) to 7 (very poor), the film received a comparatively good grade of 2.8. Nevertheless, Vohrer could not credit the success of his two predecessors Herzblatt or How do I tell my daughter? and The yellow house on Pinnasberg with more than two million viewers each.
Perrak has also been marketed internationally. For example, it ran in Italy under the title Il cigno dagli artigli di fuoco and in France as Enquête sur le vice - Dossier: Perversités sexuales . However , the film was never released under the film title Inspector Perrak intervenes , which is mentioned in numerous Internet sources .
In the 1980s, Perrak was released on VHS tape . In 2011 it was released on DVD . The age rating has now been reduced to 16 years.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films judged that Perrak was "a solid average in terms of craftsmanship and acting" who tried to "ride a little on the sex film wave of those years". Largely ignored by contemporary film critics, the film has now found favor with fans of the exploitation film in particular. Badmovies.de described the work as "surprisingly complexly constructed", garnished "with really good, lively dialogues". Sebastian Kuboth praised Perrak as "an entertaining and varied film". Oliver Nöding wrote on filmgazette.de that director Alfred Vohrer had succeeded in “settling a gripping flaw in the midst of West German piety.” Hasko Baumann from the film magazine Das Manifest described Perrak as “one of the most beautiful crime novels from the heyday of German genre film”. The Protestant film observer , on the other hand, doesn't think much of the work: “Brutally bridled morons who, instead of the given closeness to reality, only knows how to use their clichés. The unpleasant story revolves around blackmail and murder in the transvestite milieu. To be rejected. "
Web links
- Perrak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Perrak at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
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↑ FSK version: 92 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 88 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2523 meters;
Original version: 94 minutes for cinema projection (24 images / second), 90 minutes for television playback (25 images / second), film length: 2566 meters - ↑ a b c Matern and texts for the press for the film Perrak , Roxy Film / Inter-Filmverleih 1970
- ↑ Derrick: Dead birds don't sing. Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Perrak. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review on badmovies.de. Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Sebastian Kuboth: Film review on tv-kult.com. September 24, 2011, accessed January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Oliver Nöding: Film review on filmgazette.de. Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Hasko Baumann: Film review on dasmanifest.com. Retrieved January 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 177/1970.