Rheingold (film)

Movie
Original title	Rheingold
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1978
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Niklaus Schilling
script	Niklaus Schilling
production	Elke Haltaufderheide
music	Eberhard Schoener
camera	Ernst Wild
cut	Thomas Nikel , Angelika Gruber
occupation
Elke Haltaufderheide : Elisabeth Drossbach Rüdiger Kirschstein : Wolfgang Friedrichs Gunther Malzacher : Karl-Heinz Drossbach Alice Treff : Mother Reinfried Keilich : Inventor Alfred Baarovy : Astrologer Petra Maria Grühn : young woman Franz Zimmermann : Grandfather Ulrike Quien : granddaughter Claudia Butenuth : traveling mother

Rheingold is a German fiction film by Niklaus Schilling from 1977. The main roles are cast with Elke Haltaufderheide , Rüdiger Kirschstein and Gunther Malzacher as well as Alice Treff .

The premiere of the film took place on February 24, 1978 during the 28th Berlinale .

action

In the Trans-Europ-Express Rheingold , Elisabeth, the wife of a UN diplomat, meets her childhood friend Wolfgang, who now works as a train waiter, on one of her regular trips to see her mother. A passion begins that is based exclusively on the timetable - between Geneva and Düsseldorf . One day her husband surprisingly uses the “Rheingold” at the same time. He discovers his wife's infidelity. In the affect he stabs her with a letter opener and flees in panic at the next stop; the wounded woman hides her wound from her surroundings.

While her husband races after the train in a taxi as if he wanted to undo his act, Elisabeth finds herself more and more in a state of apathy, in whose retrospective dream sequences her ambivalent life story of irreconcilable bourgeois life and sexual desires is revealed. Accompanied by the rising myth of the Rhine, she moves further and further away from reality and drives inexorably towards the destination of her journey, her death.

reception

Reviews

• Lexicon of international film : “Niklaus Schilling, who was born in Switzerland, plays cryptically with the narrative forms of melodrama and at the same time conjures up the myths and mysteries of the German past that surround the historic“ Father Rhine ”. The formally brilliant film is set almost exclusively in the Trans-Europ-Express "Rheingold" and consistently uses the unity of space and time. "
• “Of course you can find all of this ridiculous, but probably only when the creeping television poison has paralyzed all your senses. 'Rheingold' is a triumph of sheer irrationality: a triumph of cinema. "

Awards

The film took part in the competition at the Berlinale and Filmex Los Angeles in 1978, but received nothing at the award ceremony. In the same year, cameraman Ernst Wild was awarded the German Film Prize in Gold, the film received the German Film Prize in Silver in the category "Other feature-length films".

literature

• Robert Fischer; Joe Hembus: The New German Film, 1960–1980 . 2nd edition Goldmann, Munich 1982 (Citadel-Filmbücher) (Goldmann Magnum; 10211), ISBN 3-442-10211-1

Web links

• Deutsches Filminstitut, archive of the websites of Nikolaus Schilling's production company VISUALFilm, here the sub-page Rheingold Special
• Rheingold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rheingold at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rheingold. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 28, 2017 .  
2. ^ Hans C. Blumenberg : Unheimliche Heimat . In: Die Zeit , No. 44/1978.
3. ^ Homepage of the German Film Prize