Deer crossing (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Deer crossing |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| script | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| production |
Rolf Defrank , Gerhard Freund |
| music | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| camera | Dietrich Lohmann |
| cut | Thea Eymèsz |
| occupation | |
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Wildwechsel is a German television film by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder based on the play of the same name by Franz Xaver Kroetz . The film, commissioned by the Sender Freies Berlin , was produced within 14 days in March 1972 for approx. 550,000 DM by the Intertel company. The world premiere was on December 30, 1972; the television first broadcast took place on January 9, 1973 on ARD television . It was officially released in theaters on March 8, 1973.
action
The 14-year-old Hanni is seen by her parents as a small child, although she already confidently expresses her point of view. When she met the 19-year-old Franz, she slept with him, which earned him 9 months in prison for seducing a minor and the dismissal from his unskilled position. When he was released early for good conduct, Hanni's father complained about the government and wanted the death penalty and the strict old regime back, even if “that about the Jews” was wrong.
The parents are at a loss when they realize that Hanni does not want to give up the relationship with Franz. Franz and Hanni continue to meet secretly. When Hanni becomes pregnant, they want to have an abortion, but fear that Hanni will then be handed over to the police. When Hanni's father threatens to report Franz at further meetings, Hanni gets a pistol. She urges Franz to protect her and shoot her father. Hanni lures his father to meet Franz in the forest, where he shoots him. Both are arrested. In front of the courtroom, Franz learns from Hanni that her child died shortly after it was born. Hanni turns away from him and says the relationship was only physical. Downhearted, Franz agrees that she has no real love.
background
The plot of the play and at the same time that of the film adaptation is based on a true case: In 1967 the father of the then 13-year-old Erika B. was killed with a rifle by his own daughter and 19-year-old Alfred M. in Lohne (Oldenburg) . This was preceded by Erika's relationship with Alfred, who was therefore sentenced to a nine-month youth sentence, from which he was released early. After serving their sentence, they continued their relationship until Erika became pregnant. So they decided to kill the father.
Author Franz Xaver Kroetz described the filming of his play as " pornography with a socially critical touch" and tried to prevent the film from being shown in cinemas. But Kroetz did not find the naked manhood obscene , which frightened many television viewers when the film was broadcast. Obscene he called " the denunciation of the people who make the film ". Fassbinder on this:
“Well, I would defend myself against the accusation of denouncing people in all things that I have done. On the contrary, I mean that I really denounce people less than almost everyone else and deal too positively with people where it is actually no longer acceptable. If, for example, in Wildwechsel the father talks about his war experiences, when his views become particularly terrible, then we have always treated them particularly gently to make it clear that what is terrible is what they speak and what, of course, their views are, which are theirs but have been taught that man is actually something tender or tender and that what he says or thinks is terrible - and not that it is that. "
Reviews
“Family drama based on a stage play: in form and content, a provocative attack against petty bourgeois stench and dull moralism. Radically subverting the ideal world of folk play clichés, Fassbinder shows a claustrophobically narrowed milieu that determines the feelings and actions of the protagonists and still determines their helpless attempts at liberation. "
“Fassbinder fills Kroetzen's artful artless word score of speechlessness, in which the pauses between the individual movements take up the larger space, with life. From the dry template he gains a harrowing children's tragedy: Spring awakening in Lower Bavaria. (...) With violent violence, the two young people are seized by feelings that the environment wants to suppress. Father and mother then ask at a loss what they did wrong. Fassbinder reveals the helplessness of these people, feeling them with infinite delicacy even in their stubbornness and limitation. Fassbinder's mastery of cinematic means is complete, his ability to set moods or to let them change through the most economical use of colors, tracking shots or music "
“Fassbinder has largely left the extreme stylizations of earlier films behind him. Wildwechsel , along with other television works such as Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and I Just Want That You Love Me (1976), most closely follows a classic realism in the director's filmography , in which only the expressionless and choppy nature of the acting still seems alienating . People have lost their emotions. They seem narcotized by the petty-bourgeois narrowness of their home. Even the lovers are bleating at each other most of the time, unable to articulate their true feelings. (...) The playwright had two scenes in which Hanni was staged even more decisively as a sexual aggressor removed before the television broadcast. (...) But even if the playwright has enforced his somewhat outdated idea of textual fidelity, Fassbinder succeeded in appropriating the material in the best possible sense. "
Awards
- 1973 won Eva Mattes as best actress of the German Film Prize . With this award, her performance in The bitter tears of Petra von Kant - also a Fassbinder film - was recognized.
Further films
- Deer crossing ; Directed by Dieter Berner , with Emanuel Schmied and Friederike Weber, performance by the Theater der Courage, Vienna (TV film ORF, 1972)
- Luxury eljárás ; Directed by Peter Szasz (Movie for TV Hungary, 1981)
World premiere stage play
Wildwechsel had its world premiere as a play in June 1971 under the direction of Manfred Neu on the studio stage of the Dortmund City Theaters .
literature
- Elke Gösche: Franz Xaver Kroetz '"Wildwechsel". On the work history of a dramatic text in the media . (= Research on literary and cultural history; 37). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1993, ISBN 3-631-46479-7 .
- Isabel Gotovac: Franz Xaver Kroetz '“Wildwechsel” - In the controversy with Rainer Werner Fassbinder . Grin Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-15969-7 .
Web links
- Wildwechsel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Deer crossing at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- Deer crossing , film and background information, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin
- Deer crossing in the online film database
- Wildwechsel on deutsches-filmhaus.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective program, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation (ed.), Berlin, 1992.
- ↑ 40 years ago: RWFs Bremer Freiheit und Wildwechsel - poisonous murders and an outrageous scandal at the turn of the year 1972/73 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release, Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, Berlin, December 27, 2012.
- ^ Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation (ed.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder: poet, actor, filmmaker; Work exhibition May 28 - July 19, 1992. Argon, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87024-212-4 , p. 31.
- ↑ TV interview with Wilfried Wiegand, Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, 1974. Published in: PW Jansen and W. Schütte (Eds.): Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich, 1974 and Fischer Taschenbuchverlag , 1992.
- ↑ Deer crossing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 11, 2016 .
- ^ Film review Michael Kienzl: A failed love in the Bavarian province or how a television film led to the dispute between Fassbinder and Franz Xaver Kroetz. Critic.de, June 20, 2012.
- ↑ Wildwechsel von Kroetz in Dortmund - Melodrama of the normal Hellmuth Karasek, Die Zeit , June 11, 1971.
