Taxi driver Bänz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Taxi driver Bänz |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 2560 meters, 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Werner Düggelin , Hermann Haller |
| script |
Schaggi Streuli , Werner Wollenberger |
| production | Oscar Düby |
| music | Robert Blum |
| camera | Emil Berna |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
| occupation | |
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Taxichauffeur Bänz is a Swiss sound film that Werner Düggelin and Hermann Haller made for the Zürcher Praesens-Film in 1957 based on a script by Schaggi Streuli and Werner Wollenberger . The folk actor and playwright Schaggi Streuli also played the title role. Next to him is the young Maximilian Schell , who was at the beginning of his career.
action
Widower Oskar Bänz (Schaggi Streuli) is a solid, middle-class taxi driver whose whole love is his daughter Irma. In order to be able to take care of her, he never remarried, and to finance her medical studies, he rents a room to Toni (Maximilian Schell), a promising young footballer from the country who is in love with the girl. However, Toni cannot handle the temptations of the big city, gets into bad company and neglects training and evening classes . When he was dropped from his football club because of a lack of performance and then also lost his job as a car salesman, Bänz placed him with the taxi company he drove for at Irma's request. But Toni fails here too. He kept running into debt and eventually went to Constance to make money by gambling . In doing so, he loses everything. Finally, he is also suspected of theft. A difficult time of rethinking begins for Bänz and Toni. And Irma plays a crucial role in this.
background
The set was designed by Max Röthlisberger . Philippe Dériaz assisted the director in the crowd scenes . Emil Berna was in front of the camera . The film music was composed by Robert Blum .
Taxi driver Bänz was the only feature film by theater director Werner Düggelin. Stage writer Schaggi Streuli has written a long series of works for the stage and for the radio. Some of the fabrics later became feature films. Taxi driver Bänz is the only work that Streuli wrote directly for the screen.
The film premiered in Switzerland on June 26, 1957 in the Zurich cinema "Urban"; in West Germany it ran on March 13, 1983 on television. Since then it has been repeated several times.
Praesens Film Zürich brought out the taxi driver Bänz in the original Swiss German version in their Edition Classic “Der gute Schweizer Film” as a VHS video (order no. 320-D).
reception
The popular actor and playwright Schaggi Streuli, who also wrote the script, shines in the title role. Maximilian Schell, born in Vienna, grew up in Basel and Zurich and became famous in Germany, plays Toni. It is his first film that he is making in Switzerland: a very likeable description of everyday life in Switzerland in the 1950s, which is also remarkable for its confidence in the dialect. Today, taxi driver Bänz is considered a classic in Swiss cinema.
Evangelische Filmzentrale (1975): “Here too, Schaggi Streuli shows the simple life, but not the well-protected family, but the urge for money, for more and more money. To achieve this, people from Zurich travel to Konstanz, where the casino fools them into being lucky. The bitter end is not long in coming and serves as a warning. "(Quoted from Aeppli 1976)
Artistically, however , taxi driver Bänz was a failure. Even the press made no secret of the fact that they were fed up with the stubbornness of Streuli. "... the honesty that his roles conveyed lost its enthusiasm on the part of the audience at the end of the 1950s." (Staedteli at cyrano.ch)
Policeman Wäckerli , Oberstadtgass and taxi driver Bänz were "films that were perfectly shot in terms of form, but were uncritical in terms of content and adhered to the old image of society ..." (Roos p. 404)
Unnamed critic at kabeleins.de “This is how it looks” about taxi driver Bänz : “After“ Policeman Wäckerli ”and“ Obberstadtgasse ”, the third part of a picture sheet from everyday life in Switzerland; pleasant conversation, which, however, belittles reality. "
literature
- Felix Aeppli: The intellectual narrowness of home - Swiss film in the fifties. 1976. (online at: aeppli.ch )
- Thomas Bodmer: Taxi driver Bänz: The city was a place of no use. (online at: zueritipp.ch ) July 7, 2014.
- Reto Buehler: The city was bad - theater meets film: When Düggelin staged Streuli. In: Zürcher Tagesanzeiger. July 9, 2014.
- Epd film: Journal of the community work of Protestant journalism. Volume 5, Joint Work of Evangelical Journalism, 1988, p. 86.
- Beatrice von Matt: Werner Düggelin: Portrait and Conversations. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung , 2006, ISBN 3-03823-269-6 .
- Josef Roos: Kurt Früh and his films: image or caricature of Swiss reality after 1945? (= European university publications: theater, film and television studies. Volume 58). Verlag Lang, 1994, ISBN 3-906752-48-8 , pp. 404, 453, 469.
- Rudolf Schwarzenbach: The position of the dialect in German-speaking Switzerland: Studies on the language usage of the present. (= Contributions to Swiss-German dialect research. Volume 17). Verlag Huber, 1969, DNB 458913685 , p. 372.
- Thomas Staedteli: Portrait of the actor Schaggi Streuli. (online at: cyranos.ch )
- Werner Wider, Felix Aeppli: The Swiss Film 1929–1964: Switzerland as a ritual. Volume 2: Materials. Verlag Limmat, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-85791-034-8 , pp. 244, 256.
- Yvonne Zimmermann: Mountain Guide Lorenz: Career of a failed film. (= Zurich Film Studies. Volume 11). Verlag Schüren, 2005, ISBN 3-89472-511-7 , pp. 152, 154, 334
Web links
- Taxi driver Bänz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Taxi driver Bänz at filmportal.de
- Taxi driver Bänz 1957 film portrait on cyranos.ch
Illustrations:
- Photo by Schaggi Streuli as taxi driver Bänz
- Photo by Maximilian Schell as Toni
- Photo by Elisabeth Müller as Irma
- Photo with Stephanie Glaser: Toni succumbs to the temptations of the big city in the bar
Individual evidence
- ↑ to artfilm.ch , ard.de and zdf.de
- ↑ cf. by Matt p. 275
- ↑ "He first became popular with his radio plays, some of which were later also successfully filmed.", Cf. Thomas Staedteli at cyranos.ch
- ↑ cf. zdf.de
- ↑ opened in 1934, the cinema was on St. Urban-Gasse, hence its name; see. stadt-zuerich.ch
- ↑ see IMDb / releaseinfo
- ↑ cf. ard.de and zdf.de
- ↑ Manufacturer: Stella Video AG Zurich, cf. film-retro-shop.de ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ so at dhm.de
- ↑ cit. after Aeppli 1976
- ↑ so at kabeleins.de
