Disorder and Early Suffering (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Disorder and early suffering |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Seitz junior |
| script | Franz Seitz junior |
| production | Franz Seitz junior |
| music |
Rolf Wilhelm Friedrich Meyer |
| camera | Wolfgang Treu |
| cut | Adolph Schlyßleder |
| occupation | |
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Disorder and Early Suffering is a 1976 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Thomas Mann . Martin Held and Ruth Leuwerik played the leading roles under the direction of Franz Seitz , who also produced the film .
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The story, a subsidiary work by Thomas Mann, has strong autobiographical features. Many of the characters involved have similarities with members of the Mann family.
Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic . Professor Abel Cornelius published a German national paper during the First World War . Now, in the crisis year of 1923, he would like to distance himself from it. When the student Max Hergesell asks him about his scruples, he feels challenged and obliged to defend his old positions against his better judgment.
Cornelius makes harsh judgments about the new era and takes refuge in monkeys with his five-year-old daughter Eleonore, known by everyone as Lorchen. At a party for his older children, Hergesell, whom Cornelius begins to accept despite all the differences due to his talent, and almost to envy him, causes the professor, who has fallen out of time, a bitter disappointment.
Production notes
The film premiered on January 27, 1977.
With this less important work from Thomas Mann's oeuvre, the director and producer Seitz resumed the series of Mann films he had begun in the 1960s. For the female lead, he was able to win the de facto largely retired 50s film star Ruth Leuwerik.
For the 82-year-old veteran actor Walter Rilla , disorder and early suffering was the farewell performance on the big screen after 54 years in the cinema. He made a tiny appearance as a passenger on a tram. The later Fortune presenter Frederic Meisner played in this film with the film's son Martin helds, Bert Cornelius, one of his few film roles. The actress of Lorchen, Sophie Seitz, is the granddaughter of the director.
Ina Stein designed the costumes .
Reviews
In the Berliner Morgenpost it was said: “This emigration into private life is described by Mann privatissimo, the time stays outside the door of the upper-class villa. Seitz carefully traced the missing contour. He inserted newsreels from 1923 into the film plot (including the first in which Hitler was captured on celluloid) and supplemented the dialogue with examples from writings in which Mann reflected his time more clearly. Certainly a more critical reflection of the text and especially of its main character would have been conceivable, but this cautious and soulful retelling does not go into that. It always remains what a man calls true to work. Seitz does not put the questionable historical awareness of this history professor up for discussion, he just presents it. "Conclusion:" The thematically obvious bourgeois endgame has not become this film narrative, but rather loving literary preservation. "
The film observer analyzed the staging as follows. “The epoch that shaped this story is different from ours. Anyone who makes this story into a film will hardly expect any information about our present from it - rather, someone will be prompted to make a film because they like Thomas Mann. This affection can be seen in Franz Seitzen's film, and it should be said with confidence that it takes courage to confess one's love for a writer: after all, 'Disorder and Early Suffering' has become a rare, unusual film in our cinema landscape . […] By the way, those characters in the film who belong to a younger generation also appear modern; they could come from our reality. Franz Seitz treats them all with sympathy and curiosity. This even applies to Ruth Leuwerik, who plays a terribly un-emancipated housewife. At some point the film suddenly comes to an end, and it is as if you were a guest yourself at that happy, contemplative and stimulating dance evening. You got to know a few people. "
The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “Thomas Mann film was determined by quality, level and visual appeal. Man's multi-layered irony and art of distancing itself, however, is translated into too direct a sense, and the melancholy sketch of the collapse of an upper-class lifestyle does not achieve the effect of a timeless example. "
Web links
- Disorder and Early Sorrow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Disorder and early suffering at filmportal.de
- Disorder and early suffering in netzine.de
- Disorder and early suffering in sn-herne.de
- Disorder and early suffering in arsenal-berlin.de