Rotwang has to go!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Rotwang has to go! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 82 minutes |
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| Director | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| script | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| production | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg Patrick Brandt |
| music | Guest Waltzing |
| camera | Klaus Peter Weber |
| cut | Florentine Bruck |
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Rotwang has to go! is a parody-ironic, German feature film with crime and comedy elements from 1994. It was directed by the former film critic Hans-Christoph Blumenberg , and Udo Kier took over one of the leading roles in this ensemble film .
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"Rotwang has to go!" Is what his wife thinks in view of the constant cheating of her faithless husband, a business magnate and political professional close to Helmut Kohl, who brought him to the head of the trust. But a motive has to be found so that Clarissa Rotwang is not immediately suspected. What could be more natural to let him stand there as a victim of the RAF terror? Sebastian Rotwang had so many enemies. In addition to the RAF dropout and today's fashion guru Arthur Eigenrauch, the BKA man Ringeltaub and a former Stasi agent are also available, because many had a reason to want to get rid of Rotwang.
In idiosyncratic flashbacks with a happening character, the film tells the prehistory of the crime and describes the bizarre motifs that could lead to the bloody act. For example, Blumenberg quotes the legendary stroller scenes from Sergej Eisenstein's armored cruiser Potemkin and Brian De Palma's Die Unbrechlichen with a staircase and stroller snapshot in a park where Rotwang's possible murderers are lurking for their victims . The dinosaurs that appear here are also made of plastic and are merely film quotes taken from Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park blockbuster.
Production notes
Rotwang has to go! , conceived as a light-footed, lively exercise in style when it comes to film, was created in 1993/94 in just 13 days of shooting with a meager budget of 390,000 DM and was premiered on October 28, 1994 at the Hof Film Festival. The mass start was December 1, 1994.
Stefan Heine designed the film structures, Nadia Schröer and a few other people were responsible for the costumes. Patrick Brandt took over the production management.
Reviews
“'Rotwang has to go!' pounds for a spill and proves with the high spirits of desperation what is possible when nothing works for a long time. Not only that a handful of actors who speak the plot into the camera as talking heads, equipped with clothes from friends of theirs, a little children's toys, cold ham sausage, a tennis racket and a laptop, offer the finest entertainment. No, this 'somewhat different comedy' (self-promotion) finally negotiates those explosive national issues that we so sorely miss in the cinema. (...) Blumenberg's cinema takes place in the head. 'Rotwang has to go!' is an attack of the intellect on the mass-produced film, the revenge of the cineastes on all dinosaurs in the industry. Tell me lies: the truth would be an admission of powerlessness. Better an assassination then. "
“The irony with which Blumenberg, who loves the cinema and would love to love more extravagantly, approaches the matter is called gallows humor. He makes his jokes out of necessity. And they're weird too. Horribly weird at times. But above all, it's jokes that play intelligently with the essence of film and cinema. Just as this film, in funny desperation, makes fun of the cinema, so Pirandello or (perhaps one size smaller, more Blumenberg closer and funnier) Molnar have made fun of the theater - they all beat their illuminating ones out of the inadequacy and vanity of their medium Punch: The backdrops shake, the camera shakes, you enjoy the perfection of the imperfect. "
“A black comedy marked by the love of fabulous stories, which recalls German-German history as well as German film reality. A small, intelligent film with many breaks that is fun and entertaining. "
“The experiment was halfway successful. (…) The crux of the staging is Blumenberg's work with the actors, some of whom have already achieved great things (e.g. Ulrich Tukur), but others have never been good, let alone better than here (e.g. Jochen 'Palu' Senf and Udo Kier). "
Web links
- Rotwang has to go! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rotwang has to go! at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel of December 5, 1994, p. 178
- ^ The time of December 2, 1994
- ↑ Rotwang has to go! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 4, 2018 .