Loser game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Loser game |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian Hohoff |
| script | Christian Hohoff |
| production |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Christian Hohoff, Peter Märthesheimer (editorial team WDR ) |
| music | Peer ravens |
| camera | Horst Knechtel |
| cut |
Juliane Lorenz , Franz Walsch |
| occupation | |
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Game of Losers is a German feature film produced by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1978 with Jörg von Liebenfelß , Maria Schell and Claus Holm in the leading roles.
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Matthias Kluth, a middle-aged transport company around 50 years old, but single, falls in love with Anita Friedrichs. She is the only 15-year-old daughter of the innkeeper couple Anna and Georg Friedrichs, who are friends with him. Anita's parents are vehemently against this connection and want to separate the couple at all costs, but on the other hand benefit financially from this liaison and have no qualms about ripping Kluth to their hearts' content. Soon this socially unacceptable relationship is exposed. In no time at all, Kluth's life lie collapses like a house of cards. Ultimately, Kluth sees himself in the shambles of his hitherto decent, middle-class existence: after he found out that Anita is pregnant from him and as a result not only the Friedrichs terminate his friendship, but even threaten to report him to the police for seducing minors , he sees no way out and kills himself.
Production notes
Game of Losers was shot between December 6, 1977 and January 25, 1978 on 30 days of shooting in Berlin and Djerba (Tunisia). The completion took place on May 28, 1978, the world premiere took place on October 13 of the same year. The mass start of the film was on January 5, 1979 in Hamburg and Munich.
Fassbinder, who was involved in the production of Spiel der Losierer and who also edited the game with his regular editor Juliane Lorenz under the pseudonym "Franz Walsch" , enabled his former assistant director Christian Hohoff to work as a director. A number of other Fassbinder employees also worked on this film, including composer Peer Raben , actress Margit Carstensen , camera assistant Horst Knechtel and his former boss, cameraman Michael Ballhaus , who for once was not behind the camera but in front of the camera. He played the Dr. Müller.
Reviews
“Christian Hohoff, after Ulli Lommel and Michael Fengler the third long-time Fassbinder employee who tries himself as a director, never denies the influence of his mentor. Not only Margit Carstensen in the role of a bitchy secretary, but also the music by Peer Raben and the excellent camera work by Horst Knechtel (who was Fassbinder's assistant cameraman Michael Ballhaus) are reminiscent of Fassbinder's petty bourgeois tragedies from ' Trader of the Four Seasons ' to' Angst eat the soul up '[...] In the best sequences, Hohoff succeeds in intelligently imitating Fassbinder's artificial narrative style. His dialogues and especially his acting (unspeakable: Maria Schell) often seem cumbersome and amateurish. "
“The moving piece, which is located in the petty bourgeoisie and has a socially critical concept, is the completely unsuccessful first film by a Fassbinder employee. Fassbinder himself acted as a producer and also worked on the editing (under his pseudonym Franz Walsch). "
Web links
- Game of the losers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Loser game at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ German Institute for Film Studies (ed.): German Films 1978, compiled by Rüdiger Koschnitzki. P. 203
- ↑ The Loser Game in the Lexicon of International Films