Good-for-nothing (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Good-for-nothing |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 97, 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernhard Sinkel |
| script |
Alf Brustellin Bernhard Sinkel |
| production | Bernd Eichinger |
| music | Hans Werner Henze |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut | Dagmar Hirtz |
| occupation | |
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Good-for-nothing is a 1977 German feature film by Bernhard Sinkel based on the 1826 novel From the life of a good-for-nothing by Eichendorff . Jacques Breuer played the title role .
action
Germany, early 19th century. The title hero is a laid-back idiot. Since he just lies around in the grass and lets the sun shine on his fur instead of helping the miller with his work, one day the miller chases him from the farm. But that is very dear to the good-for-nothing, because he believes he was not made for work. So he takes his bundle and his violin and goes out into the wide world. He wanders south, towards the sun and warmth. He has all sorts of encounters on the way. So one day the carriage of a middle-aged countess and her companion passed him. The good-for-nothing plays them a little piece on his violin and receives an invitation to the Count's palace near Vienna as a thank you. There he can find board and lodging, but he should at least do a little gardening.
But since the good-for-nothing is an avowed slacker, he is soon drawn away again, although he has an eye on Aurelie, the countess's young companion, whom he also considers a noblewoman. In reality, however, Aurelie is just the castle porter's niece. The countess tries to help the good-for-nothing and gets him a job as a customs collector. But this job also means work, and so the young man simply moves on after a short time. In a village where he tries to top up his travel budget a little by playing the violin, he finds no shelter, and so the good-for-nothing has nothing more than to spend the night in the dark forest. Here he has a particularly strange encounter with a pair of riders. In Italy he ends up among the robbers and is supposed to become one of them. But then he goes home to Aurelie in Austria: the love for the young, pretty woman is stronger than any wanderlust and wanderlust.
Production notes
Nothing was done on 42 days of shooting between June 27 and September 6, 1977 in Prague and Rome and their surroundings. The premiere took place on January 27, 1978 in two Munich and one Stuttgart cinemas. Since the ARD was involved in the production of the film as a co-producing company with the WDR (editor: Volker Canaris ), the TV first broadcast on the ARD took place on May 18, 1980.
The film structures were designed by Nikos Perakis , who was also involved in the costume production.
Good-for-nothing was awarded the film ribbon in silver in 1978 (premium: 300,000 DM).
Reviews
“Eichendorff's novella as an excursus about the urge for freedom and adaptation. Bernhard Sinkel's very intellectually constructed comedy film (1978), conceived as a reflex on the 1968 movement, met with incomprehension among the critics. "
“Free film adaptation of the late romantic Eichendorff story about the 'good-for-nothing' who wants to escape the constraints of everyday life in Italy. Conceived as a current parable of today's conditions, the formally ambitious but largely temperamental film is not able to make the power of dream and utopia so fascinatingly described in the novella tangible. "
Web links
- Scamp in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- No good at filmportal.de