Rod fever

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Movie
Original title Rod fever
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1987
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Helge Schneider
script Helge Schneider
production Trans Atlantic Vanguard Films
music Helge Schneider
camera Christoph Schlingensief ,
Axel Dohrmann
cut Thekla von Mülheim ,
Ariane Traub
occupation

Stangenfieber is Helge Schneider's first film and was shot in 1987 .

action

The film hardly has a plot in the classical sense, but is rather a loose sequence of scenes from the life of the nameless main character (Helge Schneider). You can see him on a mini children's carousel in the pedestrian zone , in his apartment and with his girlfriend ( Eva Kurowski ). In the hallway he is almost pulled into a shoe shine machine. In his bathtub a man lies under water with a permanent grin. At the climax of the film, the protagonist and his girlfriend enter the ABC grill , a chip shop , where the owner ( Peter Thoms ) wearing a tutu sells them the sticks ( Pommes from Munich ) that give them the title. Two students with bagpipes enter the room ( Uwe Lyko and Peter Rübsam ) and begin to speak at the same time, while the french fries seller performs a wild dance. Finally, the protagonist calls out: “It's going to be over soon!” And everyone falls silent. In the final scene he is left by his girlfriend.

About the film

At the time Pole Fever developed , Schneider had just played the lead role in Werner Neke's film Johnny Flash and had met Christoph Schlingensief . This gave him the opportunity, with funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, to make his first short film, which was later shown in the cinema as a supporting film for Johnny Flash . Schneider was still largely unknown at the time and was just beginning to develop the anarchic comic style with which he was to gain great fame in the 1990s.

Others

Schneider never shot the film The Rubber Man , which was announced in the credits, for cost and organizational reasons. Schneider never released the film The Privatier , which was filmed at home
before the rod fever .

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