Who is Harry Kellerman?

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Movie
German title Who is Harry Kellerman?
Original title Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1971
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Ulu Grosbard
script Herb Gardner
production Fred C. Caruso
music Shel Silverstein
camera Victor J. Kemper
cut Barry Malkin
occupation

Who is Harry Kellerman? is a 1971 tragicomedy by director Ulu Grosbard . Herb Gardner wrote the screenplay based on one of his short stories. Barbara Harris was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1972 for her portrayal of Allison Densmore .

action

The musician and composer Georgie Soloway stands at night on the roof of a skyscraper in Manhattan and writes a farewell letter. When the wind blows the letter away and Georgie tries to grab it, it falls from the roof. The fall - a hallucination - ends on the couch of his psychiatrist Dr. Moses. Soloway leaves the psychiatrist and gets into an argument with a newspaper seller on the street. This pursues him and Soloway flees into a taxi, whose back seat is back to the couch in Dr. Moses will. More hallucinations and flashbacks follow.

Georgie Soloway receives a call from his friend Sally, who tells him that a man named Harry Kellerman called her and claims that Georgie is married with two children. After this call Georgie made a spontaneous guest appearance with Capt. Loves Band (played by Shel Silverstein and Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show ) at Fillmore East and then meets another friend, Susan. Susan asks Georgie if he really thinks she's stupid, after all, that's what he told Harry Kellerman. Georgie denies this and says he would kill Kellerman.

Susan leaves Georgie in an argument and Georgie goes home. There he speaks in various flashbacks with his parents, his ex-girlfriend Ruthie, who are sitting at the breakfast table, and remembers the conversation with his wife Gloria in which she asked for a divorce. In another hallucination, Georgie is standing on the windowsill of a skyscraper, and a crowd is celebrating in the street below. Georgie discovers that his ex-wife Gloria is standing a few windows away and apparently also wants to jump. They talk briefly, then Gloria falls into the depths, while Georgie looks after her and at the same time is in the partying crowd. Georgie leans forward, falls, and lands again on his psychiatrist's couch.

Soloway takes a taxi to a theater, where he watches an audition. On stage is Allison, with whom Georgie speaks after the audition and sings a song with her. In the end, Allison receives a call from a man who tells her something about Georgie. Allison asks who the caller is. The camera shows Georgie answering that his name is Harry Kellerman.

Reviews

"Weird pop film with an excellent Hoffman."

- cinema.de

“In a very idiosyncratic and complex form, the film asks the question of the self and the meaning of life. Actually excellent, especially in the second part, human touching. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Ulu Grosbard ('Dangerous Confession') succeeded in an exciting and touching study of an existential crisis of meaning. Sometimes he couldn't decide whether he wanted to tell a comedy or a psychological drama. Dustin Hoffman shines in the title role of the fictional pop star of the 1970s, whose psychedelic loss of reality is made palpable with formally appealing image compositions and a labyrinthine montage that turns the linear course of time upside down. "

- prism

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is Harry Kellerman? on cinema.de
  2. ↑ Who is Harry Kellerman? on prisma.de , accessed on January 9, 2012