Reigen (1973)

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Movie
Original title Round dance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1973
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Otto Schenk
script Otto Schenk, based on the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler
production Karl Spiehs ,
Ilse Kubaschewski
music Francis Lai
camera Wolfgang Treu
cut Anneliese Artelt
occupation

Dance is a German film directed by Otto Schenk from the year 1973 , which on the play Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler based.

content

Vienna at the end of the 19th century. A whore grabs a soldier and loses him to a maid. The young gentleman tries out on the maid the methods with which he will soon woo a young wife. Her spouse is now having fun with a cute girl in a private room. This in turn imitates a poet who is inspired by it. For his part, the poet is fascinated by an actress who is being courted by a count. Finally, the count ends up in the prostitute's bed after a lost night.

Remarks

Otto Schenk's film version is already the third cinema version of the Schnitzler original. In 1950 Max Ophüls directed the first film adaptation , which is considered to be the most successful. In 1964, Roger Vadim made another adaptation with prominent figures .

With a budget of 14 million schillings and all the rights of Arthur Schnitzler's heirs, Karl Spiehs produced the most elaborate German / Austrian cinema film of the year. Herta Hareiter created the atmospheric backdrops for the Vienna Belle Époque .

Schenk's film premiered on October 25, 1973. For the world premiere in the Apollo Cinema in Vienna, the producer Spiehs organized an extremely lavish two-day marathon program with numerous guests of honor, including Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky and his wife. Despite these efforts, the film was torn apart by criticism and has not been seen since its premiere. He brought in only two thirds of the cost of 4.5 million marks.

criticism

Peter Hajek wrote in the Kurier : “A satire became a joke article. From a philistine parody a parody for philistines. "

The lexicon of international films complained: “Otto Schenk turned Schnitzler's play into a frivolous tabloid farce. Federal German entertainment cinema on a fluctuating level with cultural alibi. "

The film 's large lexicon of people called Schenk's production "a dignified version of Arthur Schnitzler's 'Reigen' with an extraordinary starry".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 122
  2. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 40
  3. ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, p. 122
  4. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 6, S. 3086. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.
  5. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 97.