dream city
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | dream city |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Schaaf |
| script | Johannes Schaaf, Rosemarie Fendel |
| production | Heinz Angermeyer |
| music | Eberhard Schoener |
| camera |
Gérard Vandenberg , Klaus König |
| cut | Russell Parker |
| occupation | |
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Traumstadt is a German fictional film made in 1973 by Johannes Schaaf based on the 1909 novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin . The leading roles are played by Schaaf's then partner Rosemarie Fendel and the Swedish star Per Oscarsson .
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Florian and Anna Sand are a Munich artist couple. Florian works as a graphic artist, but he feels inhibited and increasingly frustrated by the circumstances. The dream of absolute artistic freedom cannot be realized in his present life. For three days now, a mysterious stranger has followed him at every turn, who finally speaks to him and imagines Sand to be the agent of a dream city. He tries to lure Sand and his wife as new residents with the promise that you can actually realize all your wishes and dreams there. The goal is the completion of absolute freedom. Florian and Anna embark on the lengthy journey to the mysterious El Dorado far away from the rest of civilization and upon arrival, where they are greeted by a strange dwarf, are initially very impressed by the possibilities of such a visionary city. The hustle and bustle of this optically baroque and yet Kafkaesque place with its often bizarre figures, which are somewhat reminiscent of the panopticon of people in a classic Fellini staging, fascinates the newcomers.
But soon Anna in particular has her problems acclimatizing herself in this strange place and processing the impressions that storm her. It frightens and confuses what is offered, the abundance and the limitlessness of this utopian world. Anna suffers a nervous breakdown, and the dream city as a place of debauchery becomes a nightmare city not only for her. The irregularities, the unrestrained living out of one's own desires and desires turns out to be a double-edged sword and creates terrible distortions in human interaction. Florian becomes estranged from his wife day by day and feels magically drawn to a mysterious beauty. General chaos soon spreads, moral decay and perversion, libertinage and excesses of violence are omnipresent in the “dream city”, whose demise seems to be programmed. Only Florian does not seem to have recognized the downside of absolute freedom, the limitless decadence, until this parallel world collapses like a house of cards. Hardly anyone will escape this disintegration ...
Production notes
Dream City was created in Přísečnice (Czechoslovakia) and in Israel (exterior shots). The film took half a year to shoot and around two million DM in production costs. The world premiere took place on November 15, 1973. The first German television broadcast was on November 4, 1975 on ARD , which Traumstadt had co-produced through its Südwestfunk broadcaster.
Willy Egger was in charge of production, Wilfried Minks and Bohuslav Kulič created the film structures. Director Schaaf also made a guest appearance.
Reviews
“A broad-based film painting with orgiastic fantasies and sophisticated artistic stimuli, which partly faithfully follows Kubin's model, partly reinterprets it and implements it with surreal images and brilliantly staged happenings. The overload with symbols leads the aspired ambivalence (the Janus-headed as a concept of freedom) in places of course into mere confusion. "
Web links
- Dream City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dream city at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ "Dead end of profundity" in Der Spiegel 47/1973
- ↑ dream city. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 19, 2016 .