Taxi Lisboa

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Movie
German title Taxi Lisboa
Original title Taxi Lisboa
Country of production Germany
original language Portuguese , [[German, English, French language | with subtitles]] u. a.
Publishing year 1996
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Wolf Gaudlitz
script Wolf Gaudlitz
production Solo film Wolf Gaudlitz
music Gert Wilden Jr.
camera Claus Langer
Rodger Hinrichs
cut André Bendocchi-Alves
occupation

Taxi Lisboa (Port. Táxi Lisboa ) is a fictional documentary game by the German director Wolf Gaudlitz from 1996. The shooting stretched from 1994 to 1996. The German film with a Portuguese story was shown in around 20 countries around the world.

Taxi Lisboa received a grant from the Filmförderungsanstalt to digitize the film. The film started again with a digitized copy in March 2017.

action

The film accompanies the world's oldest taxi driver at the time, Augusto Macedo (1902–1997), with his taxi, an Oldsmobile F-Series from the 1920s, when he was still working as a taxi driver in his city of Lisbon in 1996 at the age of 94 . Different characters appear as passengers and tell their life stories. Based on their stories and the pictures from Lisbon, a portrait of the city is created at the same time. The characters are by no means chosen randomly, but were specifically chosen and cast by the director based on the stories of the experienced taxi driver Augusto Macedo. This creates a mosaic of life stories, all of which are interwoven about Macedo and his spectacular taxi.

reception

The film paints a nostalgic picture of Lisbon, with the oldest taxi driver in the world and his 70-year-old taxi in the old streets of Lisbon. The calm music, the poetic, semi-fictional guest appearances and the long shots support the effect. The real figure of the serene Macedo with his quiet humor and his many experienced stories is an unusual leading actor and aroused the interest of the critics.

Taxi Lisboa was created in cooperation with the Bavarian and Saarland broadcasts and was supported by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern .

The film opened in German cinemas at the end of 1996, first in Munich (Theatiner Filmkunst and Rio Filmpalast), then the art house cinemas in Germany followed. In Munich alone, the film was shown in a total of 9 cinemas for two years. He was seen in Hamburg (Abaton, 3001), Bremen (Cinema Ostertor), Berlin (many), Düsseldorf (basement), Regensburg (Ostentor) and Zurich. MoMA New York acquired the film as a special film artwork, where it is repeatedly shown in the cinematheque. In the FRG the film has so far been broadcast eight times on public television. By the end of 1996, the film as released VHS -Kaufkassette exclusively at the taxi office in Munich (Taxi München eG) that the net proceeds ceded the taxi Foundation Germany, the taxi drivers will help the victims of violence were. The cassette sold over 20,000 times.

The film was represented at several international film festivals and was a. a. in Pescara, Italy, awarded the Golden Dolphin for best film of 1996. In Germany, the film was not invited to any festival or nominated for a prize. Most frequent reason: "The film is neither a" real "documentary nor a" real "feature film!" Gaudlitz: "I only tell film stories, without dogma, but with 24 frames per second!" .

“A documentary fiction film, at the same time a portrait of the city and some of its inhabitants, which evokes the story of the century in a poetic adaptation of the individual fates. Supported by an ingenious sound dramaturgy and the power of its images, the film is able to convey the feeling of hope that has gone through hardship and despair. "

- Lexicon of international film

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.artechock.de , accessed on July 28, 2012
  2. ↑ End credits of the film and cover of the VHS cassette, Taxi-München eG, 1996
  3. ^ ADAC Motorwelt , edition 12/96, page 110ff
  4. ↑ Taxi Lisboa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used