For example Otto Spalt
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | For example Otto Spalt |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 100 min. (Cinema), 95 min. (TV, video, DVD) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | René Perraudin |
| script | René Perraudin |
| production | René Perraudin |
| music | Klaus Doldinger |
| camera | René Perraudin, Werner Nitschke |
| cut | René Perraudin, Barbara Kunze |
| occupation | |
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For example Otto Spalt is a German feature film from 1988 . The title of the English language version in the United States is The Case of Mr. Spalt .
action
Between 1978 and 1987, the filmmaker René Perraudin made five experimental and comedic short films, each with Otto Sander in the leading role. It was clear from the start that in the end these five episodes would be combined into one movie.
The result is the film-in-film satire “for example Otto Spalt”, in which a director named Otto Spalt tries to finance his next project. To do this, he must present his previous work to a bureaucratic and film-unfamiliar body:
- "Phantom" :
- A mammoth work with 5,000 contributors, in which Otto Sander's portrait merges with all the others into a single average face.
- "Backward" :
- a work completely rotated with the camera running backwards. Otto Sander played it backwards , so that in the normal - i.e. forwards - played film, as protagonist Otto Trebert, he is the only forward acting and speaking object and everything around him runs and speaks backwards.
- "Bulette Pauli" :
- a bloodthirsty horror film in which Otto fights for his life with a meatball; the film was shot in a single take.
- "The murder with the scissors" :
- a crime film in which the editor, convicted as a murderer, tries to cover up his act by constantly cutting his own film.
- "Close Up" :
- a science fiction agent film about micro and potato chips with the inventor Professor Spalt in the shortage between the CIA and the KGB.
The screening of the five films in front of the duped committee rocks into a single disaster. Nevertheless, for Otto Spalt, things turned out very differently than expected.
Awards
publication
The film premiered on February 13, 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival . On March 31, 1990, the film was broadcast for the first time on N3 television (now NDR television ) and several more times on public and private TV. a. twice on VOX (1996 and 2006 in the “Midnight Movie” series), on September 12, 2013 on the occasion of the death of Otto Sander on RBB television and on June 30, 2016 on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
In 2017, on the recommendation of the Deutsche Kinemathek , the 35 mm negative was digitized and restored with funds from the FFA to safeguard the German film heritage . The film is now available as DCP and in various HD formats.