Rio das Mortes
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Rio das Mortes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| script | Rainer Werner Fassbinder based on an idea by Volker Schlöndorff |
| production |
Klaus Hellwig Wilhelm Rabenbauer |
| music | Peer ravens |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut |
Thea Eymèsz Franz Alsch |
| occupation | |
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Rio das Mortes is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's eighth film. It is one of the few Fassbinder comedies that are rather rare in the work of the versatile director. In this film, too, Fassbinder has gathered his regular actors such as Hanna Schygulla , Günther Kaufmann , Ulli Lommel , Ingrid Caven and Kurt Raab around him.
action
Michel, a young tiler, meets his former school friend Günther again. Günther has just been discharged from the German Armed Forces , where he served as a marine on the “ Gorch Fock ”, and is now working as a representative. Günther is a black occupation child, he and Michel share a childhood dream that they are now reviving. You have a treasure map of Peru that shows where treasure should be buried. The two buddies want to emigrate to Peru, "because of life and because of freedom," as they say. There in the area of the Rio das Mortes , they want to realize their dream and find the treasure. However, there is not enough money for the trip to Peru. A travel agency calculates a capital requirement of around DM 30,000, which they now absolutely want to raise.
When Michel's friend Hanna discovers the two men’s plan, she thinks nothing of it and tries to thwart the friends’s plan. She really wants to dissuade Michel from his plan, but he disregards her wishes and replies: "If I do something beautiful, you are always against it." Hanna's greatest wish is to marry Michel - just like Hanna's girlfriend from raves about her upcoming marriage. However, Michel noticed that he and Hanna often talked past each other and that boredom dominates the relationship. He doesn't want to get married yet and would rather go on the adventure of a treasure hunt with Günther on the Rio das Mortes. Nevertheless, Hanna already talks to her mother, her friend and her uncle about the marriage as if she had been decided.
Raising money for Peru increasingly dominates the thoughts of the two friends, and Hanna has to take more and more blows: First, Michel sells the beautiful sports car against Hanna's will, even if that only brings in DM 2,200, then the friends decide that Günther gives up his apartment and closes it Hanna and Michel move in to save rent. In addition, the friends manage to elicit the money saved for his wedding from Günther's mother for the trip, so that they have raised 4,000 DM. The stagnation in raising money depresses the friends more and more; Michel no longer seems to be interested in Hanna.
When the three of them go out, Hanna dances exuberantly and lasciviously with a strange man, which Michel doesn't seem to mind. When he returns to his girlfriend at the bar and she complains pouting that he never dances with her like that, he hits her. When Michel sees this, he confronts the man with Günther, although he had previously also shown himself to be latently violent towards Hanna.
Hanna sees Michel's affection wane more and more, so that she even begins to help him raise money: She leads the friends to her uncle, who works in foreign trade. Michel and Günther hope for an investment grant and present him with their naively compiled profitability calculation for cotton cultivation, which the uncle throws off with relish. Even a contact made by Hanna with the German Research Association remains unsuccessful, as the friends argue in front of the DFG secretary about the planned research participants.
But then Michel and Günther find a patron who is very impressed by the plan of the two friends and therefore advances the travel money to them. When Michel drives to his hometown to extend his passport and Hanna realizes that she is not planned on the trip, she sleeps with Günther and makes him promise to take her with him. However, on the day of departure, she wakes up alone and suddenly realizes what that means. Without thinking further, she drives to the airport and sees Michel and Günther walking across the tarmac to the plane. Hanna pulls a pistol out of her pocket and aims at the two men without pulling the trigger. She waits a while, a car comes into the line of fire, when Michel and Günther reappear behind it, she lets the gun drop.
Background notes
The film was shot from January 12 to February 2, 1970 in Munich. Franz Walsch, alias Rainer Werner Fassbinder, edited the film together with Thea Eymèsz . From then until the film Satansbraten (1976) she was responsible for editing Fassbinder's feature films. The production company was Antiteater -X-Film GmbH (Feldkirchen), Janus Film und Fernseh-Produktion GmbH (Frankfurt am Main). The budget was (estimated) 125,000 German marks.
It was first broadcast on February 15, 1971 on ARD .
On February 12, 2010 the film was shown at the International Film Festival in Berlin .
The film was conceived for the cinema but then produced for television and is Fassbinder's eighth film (his fifth feature-length film). Rio das Mortes is considered Fassbinder's hilarious film and is his only film with a "happy ending" (Hanna drops the gun and doesn't shoot). Fassbinder himself commented on this in “Fernsehen und Film 2/1971, p. 43” as follows: “The fact that she doesn't shoot at the end is not because of the car that suddenly comes into the line of fire. If it were a movie like the others I've made, she would shoot, because she would take it as seriously as she really takes it. "
At the beginning of the film, and while Hanna is on the phone with her mother in light clothes, the morning song by the band Pearls Before Swine can be heard in the background . In one scene of the film, Rainer Werner Fassbinder dances as a bar visitor with Hanna Schygulla to the title Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley .
The painter Hanna Axmann-Rezzori (a Bosch heiress), who had taken on the supporting role of the patron in the film, supported Rainer Werner Fassbinder financially in the realization of his 1969 film Love is Colder Than Death . In Rio das Mortes , numerous personalities from the Munich scene at the time took on a small role. Mention should be made of the writer Carl Amery , who played a librarian and was director of the Munich city library at the time, or Joachim von Mengershausen, a well-known film critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and later a dramaturge at WDR . Monika Nüchtern, film book publisher and producer, appears in the film under her then name Monika Stadler. Kerstin Dobbertin is the future film producer and screenwriter Kerstin Dobbertin von Fürstenberg. Magdalena Montezuma and Carla Aulaulu, later Carla Egerer , were already the preferred stars in Werner Schroeter's films at the time (in 1969 alone they played the leading roles in four Schroeter productions).
On July 18, 2003 ems released the film in German with English subtitles. On July 29, 2003 it appeared on DVD as part of the series "The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder". It was released on DVD on September 6, 2005 by Studiocanal / Arthaus.
Film Title Rio das Mortes
The Rio das Mortes is a left tributary of the Rio Araguaia , which in turn is a left tributary of the Rio Tocantins and not only one of the largest rivers in Brazil , but also significantly larger at the confluence than the Tocantins itself. Peru borders on Brazil, among other things.
Fassbinder on the film
“As a product, the film (...) is not very important and essential, and it was also not so important for the development of antiteater or my development. I think he's very - very pretty and I like him very much because he actually has what he was accused of, that he is not serious, that he has no problem, that he doesn't have everything that the films of antiteaters or had my films before, that's what I really like about the film, that it simply tells a very naive, simple story, also very naive and simple and happy or sad, no matter how you want to see it. "
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "The playfully light film is one of the few comedies in Fassbinder's oeuvre."
- Studiocanal.de: "One of the few comedies and at the same time one of the most beautiful films by Fassbinder!"
- Süddeutsche Zeitung : W. Ruf writes on February 17, 1971 “Fassbinder stages… cinema-vérité driven into the grotesque and thereby refers to the escape character of [a] dream, but also shows how impossible it is to defend yourself against the manipulation of dreams . Cinema as a dream factory - Fassbinder has redefined this formula with RIO DAS MORTES, without destroying the beauty of cinema dreams, but without overlooking their social function. "
- Cinema thinks that it is a "seldom shown, comedic work by Fassbinder", which also appears in a supporting role, "that dealt with the escape from reality of the 1968 youth. Conclusion: Stylistically un-fermented early work ”.
Web links
- Rio das Mortes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rio das Mortes ( Memento of July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), film and background information, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin
- Rio das Mortes at filmportal.de
- Trailer Rio das Mortes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heyne film library: Rainer Werner Fassbinder 42 films in 17 years - stations of a lifetime for German films by Bernd Eckhardt, No. 32/55, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1982, page 29
- ↑ HG Pflaum about Rio das Mortes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Filmzentrale Wilhelm Roth Rio das Mortes
- ↑ Rio Das Mortes Film Clip ( Memento from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Heyne film library: Rainer Werner Fassbinder 42 films in 17 years - stations of a lifetime for German films by Bernd Eckhardt, No. 32/55, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1982, page 84
- ↑ remove. from Citadel film books: Robert Fischer / Joe Hembus DER NEUE DEUTSCHE FILM 1960-1980, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich, 1981, page 242
- ↑ cf. Film lexicon Zweiausendeins.de
- ↑ cf. Films by Werner Schroeter from 1969
- ↑ Rio das Mortes adS dvd-palace.de
- ↑ Rio das Mortes DVD case
- ↑ Rio das Mortes adS expert-technomarkt.de
- ↑ Rio das Mortes adS filmportal.de
- ↑ Robert Fischer (Ed.): Fassbinder on Fassbinder , p. 160, Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 3-88661-268-6
- ↑ Rio das Mortes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Review (and pictures) Studiocanal
- ↑ Rio das Mortes with criticism by W. Ruf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cinema.de review on Rio das Mortes
