Walkabout (film)

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Movie
German title Walkabout
Original title Walkabout
Country of production Australia
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Nicolas Roeg
script Edward Bond
production Si Litvinoff ,
Max L. Raab
music John Barry ,
Karlheinz Stockhausen ,
Rod Stewart
camera Nicolas Roeg
cut Anthony Gibbs ,
Alan Pattillo
occupation

Walkabout (cross-reference: The Dream of Life ) is a 1971 Australian motion picture . Directed by Nicolas Roeg . It is the first film that the cameraman Roeg made under his own responsibility. The film is based on the 1959 novel The Children ( The Children ; later under the title Walkabout ) by James Vance Marshall .

action

A young girl is stranded with her little brother in the Australian outback . Their father suddenly opened fire on his children, set the car on fire and then killed himself. They meet an Aboriginal boy who goes with them on a journey through the bustling desert. This journey develops into an initiation , the walkabout . Civilization accompanies the three in the form of a transistor radio. The Aboriginal boy saves the two, although they don't understand each other, but in doing so puts himself in danger. After a dance, he commits suicide. The girl returns to civilization and gets married.

Reviews

"Nicolas Roeg's first directorial work is a sensitive, from today's perspective slightly woodcut-like criticism of civilization, at the same time a suggestive composition of expressive images and original sounds, located in a quasi-mythical space of fascination and threat to human life."

- Lexicon of international film

The magazine Slant thought of Michelangelo Antonioni and Jacques Tati , and concluded: "[...] an understanding that humanity is our greatest natural resource does no harm."

Images : "an elusive film" ( to elusive movie ) "Some of the settings [Jenny Agutter] agree well with the Point of View of the Aborigines [...]" .

Ekkehard Knörer : “And then, without comment, the hard cut into the future. [...] But what lies on the way, how is this way to be read, for the observer, for the figures. Something closes without opening up. "

Roger Ebert claims: “ No one who saw Walkabout has ever forgotten it .” ( No one who saw Walkabout has ever forgotten it ).

Awards and nominations

Cannes International Film Festival 1971

Others

  • The American folk rock band The Walkabouts took their name as a tribute to this film.

literature

  • James Vance Marshall: The children. (Original title: The Children ). German by Ilse von Laer . 2nd Edition. Schwabenverlag, Stuttgart 1965, 123 pp.
  • James Vance Marshall: Walkabout. Belmont Books, New York 1971, 158 (16) pp.
  • Christian Heger: On the bitterness of illusions. An intercultural foray through Nicolas Roeg's film 'Walkabout'. In: Ders .: In the shadow realm of fictions. Studies on the fantastic history of motifs and the inhospitable (media) modernity. AVM, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86306-636-9 , pp. 150-163.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walkabout. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 19, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Ed Gonzalez: Walkabout. In: Slant. August 7, 2001, accessed on March 7, 2009 (English): "understanding that humanity is our greatest natural resource couldn't hurt"
  3. ^ Gary Johnson: Walkabout. In: Images. 1998, accessed on March 7, 2009 (English): "Some of these shots can be interpreted as coming from the Aborigine's point-of-view"
  4. ↑ s. Web links.
  5. ^ Roger Ebert : Walkabout. In: Criterion Collection . May 6, 1998, accessed March 7, 2009 .