Supermarket (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Supermarket |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland click |
| script | Roland click |
| production | Heinz Angermeyer for independent film, Roland Klick |
| music | Peter Hesslein |
| camera | Jost Vacano |
| cut | Jane Sperr |
| occupation | |
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Supermarket is a German action and crime film with social drama elements by Roland Klick from 1974.
action
The neglected adolescent Willi lives in the Hamburg Kiez, in the port area of St. Pauli . He messes his way through the day and tries somehow to survive. One day he is spotted by a police patrol, runs away and is finally arrested. After he escapes from the police station, Willi goes into hiding. He gets into an incessant downward spiral. Different types take advantage of him and abuse Willi for their own purposes. He comes into contact with a rich gay man through a prostitute-pimp, a progressive-minded journalist takes him in temporarily, but also tries to instrumentalize Willi for a chance rehabilitation measure. Only the encounter with the prostitute Monika, who is actually even worse off than him, becomes a streak of light on the hitherto gloomy horizon. They both fall in love.
But one day Willi catches up with his past. His own hopelessness and his firm conviction that he will never get out of the hole he sees himself in finally let him slide into crime for good. In the affect he kills the rich gay man and is now finally hunted. In his desperation he and his pimp buddy, who lives in a ramshackle, attack the money transport of a supermarket. Shots are fired. The robbery turns into a single fiasco, there is even a hostage situation, and the two amateur gangsters flee with the dragged male hostage in a hijacked car ...
Production notes
The shooting took place in 1973 mainly in the Hamburg harbor district. The world premiere took place on January 31, 1974. On January 12, 1985, supermarket was broadcast for the first time on television (NDR).
The brunette actress Eva Mattes appears here with a blonde wig.
Joachim von Vietinghoff was the production manager, Georg von Kieseritzky was responsible for the equipment.
The song Celebration was sung by Marius Müller-Westernhagen , who was largely unknown at the time, under the pseudonym "Marius West". This debut in 1974 was a great success. Müller-Westernhagen was also the dubbing voice for the main actor Wierzejewski.
Awards
Roland Klick received the film tape in gold for his directorial work , Walter Kohut received another one in the category Best Male Supporting Actor for his remarkable performance as “wonderfully common-helpless bum” Theo.
The film received the rating “particularly valuable”.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films writes: "A surprisingly well-crafted thriller by Roland Klick who strives for straightforward, emotional genre cinema that relies more on identification than on critical reflection - with which he deliberately differentiates himself from the German auteur film of the 1970s."
Kay Wenigers Das Großes Personenlexikon der Film found: “Klicks's most remarkable movie was the crime thriller“ Supermarket ”in 1973, like the most typical of his works, a relentless (albeit lurid elements) view of society from the loser and marginalized group without the typical for that time , index finger customary in the author's films and a socially critical approach. "
Bucher's encyclopedia of the film reads: “The story of the freaky teenager and the journalist in crisis, both of whom are shipwrecked trying to change their circumstances, is a piece of social reality”.
Wolf Donner summed up in the period of February 8, 1974: "The film is made remarkably safe, easy and carefully, as effectively as effective."
Reinhart Baumgart wrote in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on March 22, 1974 : “It is worthwhile not only to let this extraordinary film happen (a little breathlessly, very admiringly), it is worthwhile to take a second, third look at it. Strangely quickly, I thought, the strong cinema impression fades. The script, however carefully crafted, apparently lacks the most important thing: a powerful, well-built story. […] And a story is more than a feat, it is an opinion on the material. Here in the supermarket the material is still held out to the viewer as if unconscious, with an unexpectedly sentimental, sweeping shrug of the shoulders about the state of people, the world here and now. A film staggering so energetically cannot open any other perspective than that of such ash-gray grief. And with so much talent and commitment that is too general and too little. "
In 1999, Andreas Busche wrote about the supermarket in Splatting Image : "Clicks the fastest, most touching, most hopeless piece of cinema, a rough big city film without any romantic or mythical milieu, rigid with dirt and yet cordial."
In 2006, Anke Leweke reviewed the film on the occasion of the DVD release by Filmgalerie 451 in Die Zeit : "Adolescent Willi wanders lonely through demolished backyards, shabby alleys and rancid pubs. Because he has nothing himself, he steals the few groschen from the poor toilet attendant's plate We are in a desolate Germany of the seventies - and yet we are in the cinema. In the big cinema. Because at Klick, Willi does not become a social case, but a hero. The sad fellow in a torn leather jacket is surrounded by a rebel like us from James Dean and other outlaws in film history know. From the melancholy of his street boy, Klick extracts the great, universal basic feeling of a youth who feels misunderstood and unwanted. "
Under the heading “The hero's misfortune is the happiness of the film”, Claudius Seidl wrote a new look at the film in the FAZ on March 21, 2010 and wrote: “His film supermarket from 1973 is a kind of remake of“ Out of breath ”under Hamburger prostitutes, petty criminals, prostitutes "and highlighted Klick's distance and discrepancy to the most famous representatives of Junge Deutsche Film of those years:" And if at that time the supermarket was a declaration of war on Junge Deutsche Film: today it looks as if it were itself one - after all a very special one. "
In 2013, Michael Kienzl praised Klick's sure instinct in the cast on critic.de: "Click collects an arsenal of archetypes, fills them with the contradictions of life and proves how important casting is for a film. Even the smallest supporting roles are brilliant in the supermarket occupied, up to the usual breathless Alfred Edel as editor-in-chief and the later TV mom Witta Pohl as hostage. And of course there is Eva Mattes as the whore Monika, who, with a blonde wig and blue leather coat, shows once again that you can also be a trampoline Can have grace. " Click doesn't approach his characters psychologically, but spatially through editing and image design: "Instead of a melodrama, he literally shot an action film. When the events in it alternate at a rapid pace, there is simply no time to complain. Is constant restless Willi on the run, set a high pace when he lets Jost Vacano's unleashed camera chase him through factory halls and alleys of a gray and dreary harbor district. [...] Click does not exaggerate his main character, but works with her impulsive one Naturally with. He cuts hard from scene to scene and whips the pace up with dense genre moments that are rarely seen in German cinema with this intensity. "
Ekkehard Knörer analyzed the supermarket in the taz . There it says: “What you look at the film, from the first shot, is the very precise knowledge of the milieu, of scene-specific levels of consciousness and behavior. From the start, Willi (Charly Wierzejewski) has been on the run from his origins, from the police, looking for another life, from which he runs away again as soon as a possibility arises. Jost Vacano's moving camera rushes after Charly in scenes precisely choreographed by Klick, through the backyards of a dirty Hamburg, through barracks and wasteland with burning cars, to the attack on a supermarket, which will be his triumph and his end. The film does not comment on anything, does not denounce or heroize its hero. Both description and analysis are contained in the observation of gestures, escape movements and image backgrounds. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Althammer and Jane Sperr worked on the script
- ↑ Udo Lindenberg provided the background music
- ↑ Wolf Donner in Die Zeit, February 8, 1974
- ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 7, S. 3670. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 407.
- ↑ Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films, Verlag CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M. 1977, p. 415.
- ^ Supermarket in Die Zeit
- ^ Supermarket in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Supermarket in Splatting Image
- ↑ By Anke Leweke: The Willis of this world. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ supermarket -Wiederbetrachtung in moments of German film (VI) in the FAZ
- ↑ www.critic.de: Supermarket | Criticism. Retrieved December 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Supermarket in the taz
Web links
- Supermarket in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Supermarket at filmportal.de