Warning of a holy hooker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Warning of a holy hooker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 18/16 * |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| script | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| production | antiteater -X-film, Nova International , Rome |
| music | Peer Raven , with songs by Ray Charles , Leonard Cohen , Gaetano Donizetti , Elvis Presley , Rod Stewart and Spooky Tooth |
| camera | Michael Ballhaus |
| cut |
Franz Walsch (= Rainer Werner Fassbinder) Thea Eymèsz |
| occupation | |
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Warning of a holy whore is the ninth feature and feature film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the last one produced by the antiteater -X-film.
action
The film shows the shooting of a film team in Spain, waiting for its director, the main actor and the check for the film funding . Upon arrival, Jeff, the director, becomes the focus of the action. Apathy and hysteria, intrigues, envy, affairs, the exercise of power and submission mix in the central meeting point, the bar, where Cuba Libre is consumed in large quantities. Alternating pairs and groups emerge. Hanna falls in love with the main actor Eddie. Director Jeff and production manager Sascha try to organize the chaos through authoritarian behavior. The film team rebels against the director in small, spontaneous, rather unorganized actions. In one shot, Jeff explains to his cameraman how he imagines a scene to be shot and what this has to do with the film title “La Patria o La Muerte” (Fatherland or Death) in the context of a film that opposes “state-sanctioned brutality “Turn. Leading actor Eddie initially refuses to kill a person in front of the camera. When the choleric Jeff slaps the production secretary Babs while drunk, he is knocked down by her companion. Only then can the recordings begin and the film will now be made despite all adversities and circumstances.
General
The film recaps the shooting of Whity . It was shot in September / October 1970 in Sorrento , Italy. The action has been moved to Spain for authenticity. The film is the motto
"Haughtiness comes before the event"
taken, prefixed, then in the credits a quote from Thomas Mann's Tonio Kröger :
"I tell you that I am often dead tired to portray the human without participating in the human ..."
Background and production notes
As a warning of a holy whore , Fassbinder called the group members together again. On the first day of shooting, he wrote to implore them
"Dear friends or comrades or something: Let's look at the work on this film as the last chance to check why it went this way and not otherwise."
The film was shown for the first time on August 28, 1971 at the Venice International Film Festival ( Attenzione alle puttana santa ). In the Federal Republic of Germany the film was released in Hamburg cinemas on September 1, 1971, and in West Berlin on October 22, 1971. It had its television premiere on January 2, 1972 in the NDR program .
In 1972 a legal dispute broke out over the music titles used, the production companies could not raise the money claims and thus only an acoustically corrected, "mutilated" version was shown. On the tenth anniversary of his death in 1992, the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation bought the music rights and released an authorized version into cinemas on May 14, 1992.
DVD
On August 23, 2005 Arthaus Filmvertrieb released a DVD. Furthermore, the film was released in the two thousand and one edition under the number Film 4/1971. The DVDs contain the FSK rating from 16 * years. During the FSK test (number 44070) on October 19, 1971, the warning of a holy hooker was released from the age of 18 *.
Statements from the director
“Without their realizing it, something has arisen out of dramatic hysteria and clichéd passion that they could never quite grasp, what constituted the reason for their confusion, what made them sin and pray: the film that attracts and eludes them, the film - a holy whore. "
“Everything collapsed while we were filming Whity, and it suddenly became clear to everyone that what we wanted to do had never been done. And 'Warning of a Holy Whore' is actually about the making of 'Whity'. 'Warning of a holy whore' is about waking up and realizing that one has dreamed of something that doesn't exist. "
“The development that my director goes through is that he realizes that the group is not a group and that he gives up the dream of the collective. He loses his illusions and sees the situation as it is ... The real issue is how the group works and how leadership positions are created and exploited. "
Reviews
“The antiteater played itself, unmistakably with the greatest pleasure, but with reversed roles and according to a given script. Even with the swan song for the group, Fassbinder managed to get them all to produce his image of the antiteater: his truth about the group, his self-expression and his self-pity. "
“Fassbinder's résumé and a new beginning after nine films; a sarcastic self-reflection of the industry in the tradition of Godard and Fellini's eight and a half . "
Web links
- Beware of a Holy Whore at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Warning of a holy whore on the website of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.
- Fassbinder today. (PDF; 1.1 MB) basisfilm.de
- Warning of a holy whore at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Wilhelm Roth: Annotated filmography. In: Peter W. Jansen, Wolfram Schütte (Ed.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Frankfurt am Main 1992, pp. 144f.
- ↑ a b c d Fassbinder today. (PDF; 1.1 MB) basisfilm.de
- ↑ Thomas Mann: Tonio Kröger and Mario the magician. A tragic travel experience. Frankfurt am Main 1999. 1st ed. 1903 and 1930. p. 32.
- ↑ a b c Warning of a holy hooker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 23, 2017 .
- ^ Warning of a holy hooker filmportal.de
- ^ Warning of a holy hooker, FSK exam, filmportal.de
- ↑ Michael Töteberg (Ed.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The anarchy of the imagination. Conversations and interviews. Frankfurt am Main 1986, p. 42.
- ^ Michael Töteberg: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Rowohlt's monographs, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, p. 56.