Open House (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Open-door day |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 35 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Pim de la Parra Wim Verstappen |
| script |
Günter Herburger Peter Märthesheimer |
| production | West German Broadcasting Cologne |
| camera | Horst Bever |
| occupation | |
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Open House is a German television play by the two Dutch directors Pim de la Parra and Wim Verstappen in black and white from 1967. The strip is an experimental short film of 35 minutes. Günter Herburger wrote the script together with Peter Märthesheimer . The film was broadcast for the first time on October 27, 1967 on German television ( ARD ).
action
The work is a mixture of TV game and documentary report. An " open day " - here at the US Army in Frankfurt am Main - is the documentary background. To fill up their Sunday to keep themselves busy, a young couple and their young daughter attend performances by the American troops. The married couple's very different areas of interest, the woman's lack of technical interest and the man's boastful bustle create an irritable atmosphere. You argue about trivialities, pull on the child and split up. In the evening at home, the man's pent-up tension and frustration dissipate.
criticism
The Protestant film observer considers the attempt made here to combine fiction and reality to be unsuccessful, but emphasizes that this is not due to the method, but to the “more than weak script. In addition, the two young Dutch directors […] and provo specialists had no connection whatsoever to their material, as the popular end of the film proves. The camera and direction are more interested in the highly polished military equipment than in the couple's marital problems, which one can hardly do justice to with a few more or less clear references to sexual symbols. "
Web links
- Open House in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Review No. 444, Evangelischer Presseverband München 1968, p. 452
- ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter, Review No. 444, Evangelischer Presseverband München 1968, p. 452