When Katelbach comes ...
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | When Katelbach comes ... |
| Original title | Cul-de-sac |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| script | Roman Polański, Gérard Brach |
| production |
Gene Gutowski , Sam Waynberg |
| music | Krzysztof Komeda |
| camera | Gilbert Taylor |
| cut | Alastair McIntyre |
| occupation | |
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When Katelbach comes ... , original title: Cul-de-sac (cul -de-sac ) is a British thriller by Roman Polański from 1966.
action
The strange couple George (a former entrepreneur) and Teresa (a former prostitute ) live with lots of chickens in a castle on the English coast. The flirtatious French Teresa has a relationship with a youth from the village. The unexpected visit of two injured gangsters changes the roles of everyone involved. The gangsters did something that went wrong. They call their boss Katelbach, who is supposed to come and save them - but Katelbach doesn't come. One of the gangsters succumbs to his injuries and is buried. The absurdity increases when friends of George appear and Teresa's remaining gangster is presented as a butler to camouflage the guests. The remaining gangster is shot by George, who then goes mad .
background
Gérard Brach and Roman Polański wrote the screenplay with the title When Katelbach Comes in 1963 in Paris. The relationship between Teresa and George is reminiscent of the unhappy marriage between Roman Polański and the Polish film star Barbara Kwiatkowska .
The name of the gang boss 'Katelbach' is an allusion to the actor André Katelbach, who played the role of 'master' in Polański's short film Le gros et le maigre (1961) about an absurd master-slave relationship. While he didn't say a single word there, Katelbach is only present as a voice on the phone in When Katelbach comes ... by contrast.
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All interior and exterior shots were filmed in and around Lindisfarne Castle in Northumberland . Polanski used the locations again for his film Macbeth .
For Gilbert Taylor it was the second film after Ekel in which he stood in front of the camera for Polanski. For the film, Taylor was nominated for a BAFTA Award (Best British Cinematography) in 1967 .
The scene on the beach with George, Dickie and Teresa was the longest plan sequence filmed under natural conditions that was ever used in a film at the time it was created - it is almost seven and a half minutes long. ( Hitchcock's Cocktail for a Corpse from 1948 already consists of several de facto plan sequences, each up to ten minutes long, but was created exclusively in the studio.)
This scene, which is right in the middle of the film, represents a preliminary climax and at the same time a turning point in the plot. The sequence was particularly difficult to shoot because an airplane flying over the protagonists was in exactly the right place should appear in the dialogue. The movements of the camera were achieved exclusively by panning the tripod and changing the depth of field.
synchronization
The German synchronization of the film was done by Berliner Synchron GmbH . The dialogue book was written by Klaus von Wahl , who was also responsible for the dialogue direction.
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| George | Donald Pleasence | Wolfgang Spier |
| Teresa | Françoise Dorléac | Renate Küster |
| Richard | Lionel Stander | René Deltgen |
| Albert | Jack MacGowran | Knut Hartwig |
| Christopher | Iain Quarrier | Thomas Eckelmann |
| Christopher's father | Geoffrey Sumner | Konrad Wagner |
| Christopher's mother | Renee Houston | Friedel Schuster |
| Philip Fairweather | Robert Dorning | Fritz Tillmann |
| Marion Fairweather | Marie Kean | Kate Jaenicke |
| Jacqueline | Jacqueline Bisset | Marianne Lutz |
Movie reviews
- Karsten Visarius writes in his contribution to the Metzler Film Lexicon: "The film, which can also be seen as an alternative to the experiments of the European film avant-garde, has remained Polanski's most important contribution to cinema as an artistic form."
- Lexicon of the international film : “A bitterly angry parable on the communication disorders of bourgeois society and their disposition to violence , a model study of the emergence and reversal of power relations . Polanski's second feature film made in England fascinates with its dramatic calculation and the suggestively condensed atmosphere of the macabre. "
- Evangelical film observer : "Intelligently entertaining tragic comedy by Roman Polanski."
Awards
Web links
- If Katelbach coming ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- When Katelbach comes ... in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ When Katelbach comes. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 10, 2019 .
- ^ Metzler Film Lexicon. Edited by Michael Töteberg . 2nd, updated and exp. Stuttgart: Metzler 2005. ISBN 978-3-476-02068-0
- ↑ When Katelbach comes ... In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ev. Munich Press Association, Review No. 250/1966