Summer in the City (film)
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| Original title | Summer in the City |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 125 minutes |
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| Director | Wim Wenders |
| script | Wim Wenders |
| production | Wim Wenders University for Television and Film Munich |
| camera | Robby Muller |
| cut | Peter Przygodda |
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Summer in the City is a film by Wim Wenders in the year 1970 . It is Wenders' first full-length film. Hanns Zischler plays the main role . The film is subtitled Dedicated to The Kinks .
action
The protagonist Hans is released from prison. He walks aimlessly through the run-down streets of Munich until he has to flee to a friend in Berlin because his former gang is after him. After all, he has to leave Berlin and travel to Amsterdam .
meaning
The film was produced as Wenders' thesis at the University of Television and Film Munich , where he studied from 1967 to 1970. It was shot in black and white on 16 mm . As in numerous later Wenders films, the cameraman was Robby Müller . The film already contains recurring themes from Wenders' later films: the haphazard search, running away from invisible demons and the persistent journey to an indefinite destination, in this case that of the protagonist Hans, who was released from prison and on the run from his former gang is. In Summer in the City, Wenders also uses a take for the first time in which the view from an airplane onto the wing is shown. Similar images can also be found in many of his later films.
Apart from festivals, the film was not shown in the cinema, as Wenders had no rights to the music used.
style
Summer in the City is considered to be one of Wenders' darkest films. Wenders himself described it as a film about depression, not a depressive film.
An important element of the film is the music. The soundtrack includes tracks from The Lovin 'Spoonful , The Kinks , Chuck Berry , Gene Vincent , The Troggs and Gustav Mahler . In terms of content, the pieces of music used contrast with the cold atmosphere of the film's images.
A special feature is that all the sentences spoken by Hans from the film are repeated from the off. This design element was not originally planned, but is due to the poor intelligibility of the original sound.
title
According to Wenders, the title of the film refers to the song of the same name , which was also used in the film. Another influence could have been a painting by Edward Hopper . Wenders adored both The Lovin 'Spoonful and Hopper, which he referred to in several of his films.
Web links
- Summer in the City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer in the City on the homepage of Wim Wenders
Individual evidence
- ^ Frieda Grafe et al .: Wim Wenders . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1992. Page 320.
- ↑ Peter Buchka: You can't buy eyes. Wim Wenders and his films . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1985. page 68.
- ^ Stefan Kolditz: Summer in the City in Frieda Grafe et al .: Wim Wenders . Hanser, Munich / Vienna 1992. Page 123.
- ^ Kolditz, page 123.
- ↑ Kolditz, page 119.
- ↑ Grafe et al., P. 320.
- ↑ Kolditz, page 122 f.
- ↑ Buchka, page 103
- ↑ Kolditz, page 118.
- ^ Kolditz, page 123.
- ^ Gerd Gemünden: Framed visions: popular culture, Americanization, and the contemporary German and Austrian imagination. In: University of Michigan Press, 1998. page 10.