A Thousand Eyes (1984)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | A thousand eyes |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| script | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| production | Michael Bittins |
| music | Hubert Bartholomae |
| camera | Martin Schäfer |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
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Thousand Eyes is a German fiction film from 1984 by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg with Barbara Rudnik and Armin Mueller-Stahl in the leading roles.
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Gabriele is fed up with Germany, she wants to get out. The blonde marine biology student wants to emigrate to Australia to live with her boyfriend, a vacation lover. But she lacks the necessary change. It's easy to earn, suggests the silver-white-haired peepshow owner Arnold. The Hamburg entrepreneur with the silent, icy presence of a lost soul makes Gaby lasciviously defoliate himself in the back room of his small establishment in front of greedy men of various origins. A thousand eyes, these are the observers in their hiding places, who ultimately want to see nothing other than Gaby's covers falling piece by piece. More and more, everyone involved turns out to be stranded, more or less lost figures. Arnold, once a sailor who lost his ship in a storm, actually hates what he does, including the video piracy he's involved in. Like all the other men, he is keen on Gabriele.
Gaby herself quickly notices how the men tick here, and their lasciviousness and lust changes her view of the male world to an increasing degree. Abysses are opening up everywhere, and people in the most varied of aggregate states of these abysses are buzzing around Gabriele: there is the taxi driver who drives her from her little room to work every night, perhaps Gaby's only confidant, there is the Turkish boy Mehmet, who, in his secret admiration, downright her stalks, there is Arnold's wife, loathed by her husband, who has noticed changes in him since Gabriele entered his life, there is finally a certain Lohmann, an androgynous woman in a business suit, who pulls the strings in the video piracy business and Last but not least, there are the other peepshow girls who watch Gaby with hawk eyes and show their solidarity towards her in a strange way.
Soon there is a mortal danger in this wintry world of small escapes, great wishes and desires, because the mournful looking Kargus walks around, a killer in Lohmann's service, the Lohmann's secret about the piracy that goes on in the dim back room of Arnold's peepshow shed and which brings the real money, absolutely wants to be preserved. And Kargus has no mercy. Before she can finally board the plane to Sydney, Gaby has to face these dangers.
Production notes
Thousand Eyes was filmed between January 16 and March 6, 1984 in Hamburg and premiered on September 7, 1984. The first television broadcast of the film-television coproduction took place on May 14, 1987 on ZDF .
The film structures were designed by Christian Bussmann , producer Michael Bittins also took over the production management.
Reviews
“With exuberance, the director Hans-Christoph Blumenberg pays homage to the old cinema shadow plays of the mystery, the mystification, the bizarre masquerade. (...) It is strange how the great feeling that wants to emerge in this film is diluted and evaporated in artistry, mystification and subtle thrust - in the end it has the most painful thing in common with reality: that there is nothing behind it. "
"H.-C. Blumenberg's film thrives on good performance, picturesque locations (all in Hamburg and the surrounding area, by the way), an oppressive atmosphere and interiors that are reminiscent of the new wave thriller "Diva". "
"Blumenberg, who wanted to and was able to reveal himself so clearly in his writing about films and filmmakers, even defiantly defiantly, opened his own in the" Thousand Eyes "only vaguely, only vaguely. From this film you can hardly guess what its readers have long known: what captivates this author in people, in stories, in the cinema. "
“A parable about the unattainability of human longings, brittle and distant, staged as a restrained thriller in a carefully observed living environment. A remarkable first film, which lacks direct sensuality in the leadership. "
Web links
- A thousand eyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A thousand eyes at filmportal.de
- detailed film review in Die Zeit
Individual evidence
- ↑ A thousand eyes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 3, 2018 .