Who sows violence

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Movie
German title Who sows violence
Original title Straw dogs
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Sam Peckinpah
script David Zelag Goodman
Sam Peckinpah
production Daniel Melnick
music Jerry Fielding
camera John Coquillon
cut Paul Davies
Tony Lawson
Roger Spottiswoode
occupation

Who sows violence is a psychological thriller by the US-American director Sam Peckinpah from 1971. The film is based on a novel by the writer Gordon Williams entitled The Siege of Trencher's Farm .

action

The young American mathematician David Sumner and his wife Amy move for a few weeks into the house of Amy's late father in her home town, a small rural community in England. David wants to work there in peace, but Amy's careless remark gives rise to a rumor that he is hiding abroad from the increasing politicization at US universities as a result of the Vietnam War . The attractive Amy also kindles the erotic fantasies of some villagers who are building a garage on behalf of the Sumners and are therefore constantly on the property. David's awkward manner quickly arouses the contempt of the villagers, who keep trying to show the young American off and humiliate him. Their animosity becomes particularly evident when they deliberately endanger David's life while overtaking and at the moment when the couple opens the closet one evening and, to their horror, finds his hanged cat in it.

A few days later, four villagers invite the unsuspecting David to go hunting. Another, Charlie Venner, who has wanted Amy before, uses the situation to rape her. While he is still there, she is raped by another villager. David doesn't find out about this, but his relationship with Amy is increasingly distant. After being left alone to hunt by the men, he dismisses the construction workers and pays them off.

At a village festival in which they both take part, the young girl Janice Hedden persuades the mentally retarded Henry Niles to follow her outside; she tries to seduce him. When Janice is about to leave, Niles inadvertently kills her.

As David and Amy drive home, the confused Niles runs into them on the night country road. They hurt him and take him home with them. David calls the restaurant and asks for a doctor. A five-man lynch mob then goes to David's house and demands that Niles be released. David refuses because he suspects that it would mean the death of Niles. Major John Scott, who intervenes anxiously and tries to appease, is accidentally shot by the girl's father.

Amy urges David to hand Niles over to the mob, whose fate she is indifferent to. David firmly refuses. When he fends off the onslaught of the mob, he undergoes a frightening transformation. If he is disgusted with himself at the beginning, especially after beating the first of the five intruders to death in a fit of anger, then after the apparently complete confrontation he says to himself: "Jesus, I got 'em all!" Oh God, I've done them all), for a moment he seems to feel incredulous pride at having dealt with the brutal men all by himself. One of the men whom David believed dead attacks him again. But Amy comes to David’s help and shoots the attacker.

He then leaves his wife alone in the house with the five killed men to take Niles to the police. This farewell seems to be a farewell forever, because in the car Niles says to David: “I don't know my way home”, to which David replies: “That's okay. I don't, either “(It doesn't matter, neither do I).

background

The film was shot from January 7 to April 29, 1971 in the small town of St Buryan in the county of Cornwall on the south-west coast of England and in the Twickenham Film Studios in St Margarets near London .

The film was initially only available in a shortened version; Not until July 12, 2007 was a “Special Uncut Edition” released on DVD.

Reviews

“Sam Peckinpah's film is a study of the mechanisms of violence , intensely and effectively staged and extremely difficult to digest. A masterpiece that is unfortunately rarely seen. And if so, then mostly shortened and cut up. Peckinpah is not, as he was accused, about glorifying violence. At Peckinpah - in contrast to the clean and sterile action cinema of today - violence is always associated with pain and suffering and is never easy problem solving. "

- prism

“An extremely effective and effectively staged study of the mechanisms of violence, which - admittedly without a more in-depth analysis - is presented as a poorly suppressed basis of contemporary society. Brutality and violence are neither made palatable through irony nor alienation and are therefore not played down. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Remake

In August 2009, directed by Rod Lurie , Straw Dogs was filmed, a remake of the classic, with Lurie also writing the script and relocating the setting from England to the southern United States. The main roles in this new edition fell to James Marsden as David and Kate Bosworth as Amy Sumner. The True Blood star Alexander Skarsgård , Dominic Purcell and James Woods can also be seen in other roles . The US theatrical release for the remake was September 16, 2011, and the film opened in German cinemas on December 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for those who sow violence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 44 509 DVD).
  2. ↑ imdb.com: filming locations
  3. ↑ schnittberichte.com: Who sows violence
  4. ↑ prisma.de: Who sows violence
  5. ↑ Who sows violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used