Red sun (film)

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Movie
Original title Red sun
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1970
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rudolf Thome
script Max Zihlmann
production Heinz Angermeyer
music Remo Giazotto
camera Bernd Fiedler
cut Jutta Brandstaedter
occupation

Rote Sonne is a German film from 1970. Directed by Rudolf Thome .

action

Thomas hitchhikes from Hamburg to Munich. There he meets his ex-girlfriend Peggy in the “Take Five” nightclub. Thomas doesn't have a bed for the night yet, and Peggy still likes Thomas. So she takes it home after work - the sun is just rising. However, the roommates of their four-woman shared apartment are not happy when they notice that Thomas is nesting with Peggy. The reason is that the four of them kill every new lover that one of them brings home after just a few days together (or even on their own) because they swore to each other out of hatred of the male world that none of them would ever meet seriously falling in love with a man. Peggy is reminded of this macabre agreement by her friends and tries to get Thomas out of the apartment and move him to another place, but Thomas reappears in the shared apartment. At the same time, the four women carry out a successful test demolition in a rural area in preparation for a planned bomb attack with which they want to draw public attention to themselves or to start a kind of "revolution". Meanwhile, one of the four friends begins to doubt their mutual agreement to murder men and pours Thomas pure wine. When he finally discovered the secret of the shared apartment and the others noticed that he suspected something of the murders, the traitor was shot by Christine - the actual "leader" of the shared apartment - in front of the house shortly after Thomas discovered the bomb and had defused. Peggy lures Thomas to Lake Starnberg, where Thomas confronts her with his knowledge. In a provocative way, he calls on them to shoot him. Peggy tearfully follows this invitation; mutual shootout then results in both of them dying.

backgrounds

Thome in an interview about misunderstandings of the audience: “The style, the way the film is told, which has remained with me today and in all my later films, this emphasis on everyday things. You can see in great detail how the people are having breakfast and doing this and that, in the next picture someone is shot. It is of course difficult to find a common denominator for the audience. It doesn't know how to behave. "

Regarding the “candy colors” in the film: “This is because we didn't use any filters, that we simply took the colors as they were. We exposed the negative the way the Kodak negative was back then, the way the colors came out when you didn't do anything. The film is as colorful as reality. The color of the film is of course particularly so because this apartment is so colorful. Every room has a color. That's unusual, it doesn't really exist anymore today. I have never seen such colorful apartments again since. "

The DVD edition contains additional material, including a commentary on the film by Thome and Rainer Langhans , a symbolic figure of the 68 movement and, together with the main actress Uschi Obermaier, a member of Kommune 1 , who talked about the shooting in 1969, but also the history of the Since then. At Obermaier's request, Langhans had to be there the whole time during the shooting in order to provide her support.

Langhans thinks the film contains the utopia of a self-determined community of women who relate to one another in their lifestyle and communication style first and only secondarily to men (which he has now realized together with five women). Langhans notes that in the film it was the women who hypothetically considered the use of explosives for political purposes a year before the formation of the RAF. For the background ideas of the film, he refers to the leaflet by SDS women "Free the socialist eminences from their bourgeois tails" (on which he was not listed as the only male SDS leader).

Reviews

prisma-online : Rudolf Thome shot this grotesquely entertaining '68 film with extraordinarily beautiful photography and mostly funny, intricate dialogues. In doing so, the director immediately accessed various genres of Hollywood cinema and created a film "that reflects the attitude towards life of a generation for whom life and cinema experience are one" (Lexicon of International Films). For his so-called “feminist” feature film, Thome brought Germany's most famous commune, Uschi Obermaier, in front of the camera as the disco queen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Rudolf Thome
  2. ↑ Red sun. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 25, 2019 .