Ski fascination
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Ski fascination |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 44 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Willy Bogner junior |
| script | Willy Bogner junior |
| production | Willy Bogner junior |
| music | Benny Golson |
| camera | Willy Bogner junior Klaus König Luggi Foeger |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| occupation | |
Ski Fascination (sometimes the film was also spelled “Ski Fascination”) is a German sports film by ski racer and filmmaker Willy Bogner junior from 1964 to 1966 with acted and documentary scenes, recorded in Ultrascope . Bogner also came up with the idea and script for the film. He was also responsible for production and was one of the cameramen alongside Klaus König and Luggi Foeger . The film was shot mainly in the mountains of the municipality of St. Moritz in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The film was first shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1966. Participants in the film are almost all ski athletes who belonged to the elite of their craft at the time.
content
Bogner does not give an ongoing act. He strings together racing shots, short skits and, as highlights, a ski hike over the glaciers of Mont Blanc and a kind of ski ballet taken from a helicopter . The image effects are achieved through the use of long-range telephoto lenses and unusual camera perspectives. At the end of the ski ballet, there is also the color effect of the uniformly red, yellow, blue and green ski dress in which Bogner put the participants in these rhythmic movements.
Production notes
During the recordings, Barbi Henneberger , the director's partner at the time, and Buddy Werner were killed by an avalanche. Bogner then wanted to stop working on the project. It was only when the relatives of the casualty asked him to finish the film that Bogner continued. After completion, he decreed that the proceeds from the demonstrations should benefit a foundation in order to support the next generation of ski racers.
Award
At the 1966 Sports Film Festival in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the film was awarded first prize for its originality.
criticism
The lexicon of international films drew the following conclusion: “The film of an enthusiastic loner [...] who, neither a feature nor a documentary, composes a kind of 'film symphony' of skiing with the interpenetrating sentences of ski races, ski fun and ski ballet. Bogner won never-before-seen perspectives from skiing with virtuoso film-technical means. "The Protestant film observer summarized his criticism as follows:" A [...] film by the Munich racer Willy Bogner jr. about the beauty, harmony and joy of skiing. [...] Recommended for ages 12 and up. "
Web links
- Skifascination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 424/1966, pp. 765–766
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3484