Texas - Doc Snyder keeps the world in suspense
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Texas - Doc Snyder keeps the world in suspense |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Ralf Huettner Helge Schneider |
| script | Helge Schneider Schringo van den Berg |
| production |
Hanno Huth Jochen Bludau |
| music | Helge Schneider |
| camera | Diethard Prengel |
| cut | Ariane Traub |
| occupation | |
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Texas - Doc Snyder holds the world in suspense is a German film from 1993. The director , leading actor , screenwriter and film musician is the German entertainment artist Helge Schneider . It was his first of a total of five films.
The low-budget production plays with stereotypes of Westerns , but is ultimately assigned to any genre and marked by Schneider's unconventional, absurd humor. Most of the scenes and dialogues were improvised.
action
After over 30 years, Doc Snyder returns to his hometown of Texas to have his mother wash a sack of dirty laundry. He loses the laundry bag in a robbery on a stagecoach. The Nose Man, an aging gunslinger who was robbed on the occasion, seeks revenge. At home with his mom, Doc finds out that his brother Hank is about to be hanged. Of course, this has to be prevented. Doc can get his big brother out of jail with a trick, but the sheriff catches them on the street. Doc shoots the sheriff in a duel, but Hank dies too, whom Doc used as a bullet trap. After Doc's mother tried a whiskey distilled by her son from her old mountain pines , she too dies, so that he is now all alone and without a family. A duel with the furious nose man is inevitable; Doc remains the winner. Doc even encounters God: God comes to his aid with an earthquake when the people of Texas try to attack Doc. Eventually Doc rides off alone with his guitar; the younger of the two noble ladies from the stagecoach wants to go with him, but he refuses, partly because he is a solo guitarist . Towards the end, two people from another time appear: Inspector 00 Schneider and his assistant. The film ends with the inspector running over Doc Snyder in his car and then declaring that Doc Snyder doesn't even exist.
Emergence
Most of the film was shot on the open-air stage of the Karl May Festival in Elspe in the Sauerland and in the surrounding forests and fields. The cast consisted for the most part of lay people and consisted of Schneider's circle of friends and acquaintances. Especially Andreas Kunze in the role of Doc Snyder's mother stands out due to his convincing portrayal of the role of women - not his first.
Schneider staged an absurd story that got further away from the script with each day of shooting . After completing the film, however, he found that the work contained many lengths and no longer met his expectations, which he attributed in part to the cooperation with a co-director that was forced on him. Without further ado, he organized a re-shoot and supplemented and changed the film so much that nothing was left of the original script.
Schneider, for example, invented the character of the commissioner, on the one hand to bring a new note to the film and on the other hand to establish a connection to the follow-up film " 00 Schneider - Hunt for Nihil Baxter ". During the filming he had already noticed Helmut Körschgen , car park attendant in Elspe , to whom he quickly gave the role of assistant Körschgen. Körschgen played so unmistakably that he was to be part of the following film again.
In the end, an anarchic and almost entirely improvised patchwork quilt of comical, absurd to grotesque scenes and figures was created. Some of the recordings, which one would normally consider unsuccessful, were left in the film precisely for this reason, which is what makes “Texas” so charming and ironic.
Reviews
“Pretty much the weirdest of all comical westerns [...]. In his typical denial comedy, Helge Schneider tells of a West where there is always something going on, you just don't know exactly what. "
Web links
- Texas - Doc Snyder holds the world in suspense in the Internet Movie Database (English)