Protest (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | protest |
| Original title | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karel Reisz |
| script | David Mercer |
| production | Leon Clore |
| music | John Dankworth |
| camera | Larry Pizer |
| cut | Tom Priestley |
| occupation | |
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Protest is a 1966 British comedy film .
action
Morgan Delt is an eccentric artist based in London. His mother, a staunch Marxist, tried to get him excited about the great revolution he was aiming for. But Morgan offends her by marrying into a rich family. Morgan lives in his own fantasy world in which he identifies himself as a gorilla. Over time, the lines between fantasy and reality blur and he behaves like a gorilla in real life too.
His wife Leonie is seeking a divorce. Morgan pretends to go to Greece. On the day of the hearing, Morgan shows up and tries to get his wife to return. Leonie is still drawn to Morgan. But his eccentric behavior leads her to turn to Morgan's friend, the art dealer Charles Napier. Morgan doesn't let that put her off and devises a plan to win his wife back. He camps in her car, puts a skeleton in her bed, wired the house so that every time the couple embrace the sound of a rocket launches, paints and pounds on her furniture, seduces her in a moment of vulnerability and finally lays a bomb under her bed to scare Charles. The bomb explodes, but only makes Leonie's visiting mother wake up.
Between his pranks Morgan seeks refuge with his mother, who for deflecting the grave of Karl Marx on the Highgate Cemetery visited. With the help of wrestler Wally Carver, Morgan kidnaps Leonie and takes her to a lake in Wales. But Leonie's parents can free her. Morgan is taken to jail. He is released on the day Leonie and Charles married. Morgan slips into a gorilla costume and climbs the facade of the apartment building where the couple lives. Morgan crashes into the wedding buffet and sets his costume on fire. He escapes on a motorcycle and crashes into a garbage heap. He fantasizes that all the people he has dealt with so far want to execute him now.
Some time later, Leonie, who is now pregnant, visits Morgan in a mental institution. She finds him in the garden where he is about to plant a hammer and sickle pattern. He asks her if she will carry his child. She smiles, nods and walks away.
criticism
The lexicon of international film described the film as "an imaginative comedy that develops the disturbed relationship of a young person to society by means of farce, but intelligently and stylistically idiosyncratic".
Cinema magazine about the film: "Grotesque gags, funky images, pubescent protest against everything normal - a sixties cult film par excellence, with stunning main characters."
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times described the film as thoroughly funny. But the film is more than just funny. In his absurdities he is a satire on some sad examples of immaturity in our time.
Ken Hanke of "Mountain Xpress" wrote that the film combined comedy, charm and a sense of the deeply disturbing in equal measure.
The Protestant Film Observer drew the following conclusion: “Behind the rapid comedy of pictures and words, the director concealed a cultural criticism that could hardly be surpassed in terms of aggressiveness. Entertainment and food for thought. From 18. "
Awards
The film has been nominated for numerous awards and has won several.
At the International Film Festival of Locarno Karel Reisz was awarded a special prize. Vanessa Redgrave won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes International Film Festival . The film was also nominated for the Palme d' Or.
The British Film Academy Award has been won twice for Best British Screenplay and Best Editing . There were nominations for Best Picture , Best British Picture , Best British Actor (David Warner) and Best British Actress (Vanessa Redgrave).
Vanessa Redgrave was also nominated for the Oscar for best leading actress . Jocelyn Rickards got a nomination for the best costume design (b / w) .
The film was nominated for the Golden Globe for best foreign film in English and Vanessa Redgrave for best leading actress in a comedy .
background
The film premiered on April 4, 1966 in New York. The film was released in Germany on October 12, 1967.
Web links
- Protest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Protest. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed January 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Critique of Cinema
- ↑ Critique of the New York Times (Eng.)
- ↑ Review of the Mountain Xpress
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 474/1967