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Klassenverhältnisse
', known in English as ''Class Relations'', in French as ', is a 1984 film by the French filmmaking duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. It is based on Franz Kafka's unfinished first novel, '' Amerika''. The German filmmaker Harun Farocki appears as one of the leads, and the film also features a cameo from American experimental filmmaker Thom Andersen. Farocki made a documentary about the filming process, '. Cast * Christian Heinisch as Karl Roßmann * Nazzareno Bianconi as Giacomo * Mario Adorf as Onkel * Laura Betti as Brunelda * Harun Farocki as Delamarche * Manfred Blank as Robinson * as Heizer * Anna Schnell as Line * Klaus Traube as Kapitän * Georg Brintrup as Student * Hermann Hartmann as Oberkassierer * Gérard Semaan as Schubal * Jean-François Quinque as Stewart * Villi Vöbel as Pollunder Style As Franz Kafka never visited the United States, the film was intentionally shot in Europe, with the bulk of shooting occurring in Germany. The film feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
34th Berlin International Film Festival
The 34th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 17–28 February 1984. The festival opened with ''The Noah's Ark Principle'' by Roland Emmerich. The Golden Bear was awarded to the American film '' Love Streams'' directed by John Cassavetes. The retrospective was dedicated to German-American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director Ernst Lubitsch. The Honorary Golden Bear was awarded to American director Jules Dassin and Greek actress Melina Mercouri and the Homage section was dedicated to the couple. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: * Liv Ullmann, actress (Norway) - Jury President * Jules Dassin, director, screenwriter and producer (United States) * Edward Bennett, director and screenwriter (United Kingdom) * Manuela Cernat-Gheorghiu, film historian (Romania) * Lana Gogoberidze, director and screenwriter (Soviet Union) * Tullio Kezich, film critic, playwright and screenwriter (Italy) * Steffen Kuchenreuthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straub–Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub (; 8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (; 1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. '' From the Clouds to the Resistance'' (1979) and '' Sicilia!'' (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works. Biography Straub, who was born in Metz, met Paris-born Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community at the time. He was friends with Francois Truffaut and contributed to his publication ''Cahiers du Cinéma'', although Truffaut refused to publish Straub's more inflammatory writings. He worked as an assistant to the film director Jacques Rivette on the 1956 film ''A Fool's Mate''. He also worked in Paris as an assistant to Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film ''The Tin Drum''. He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books. Biography Adorf was born in Zürich, Switzerland, the illegitimate child of Matteo Menniti, an Italian surgeon and Alice Adorf, a German medical assistant. He grew up in his maternal grandfather's hometown, Mayen, where he was raised by his unmarried mother. He rose to fame in Europe, and particularly Germany, and also made appearances in international films, including ''Ten Little Indians'' and '' Smilla's Sense of Snow''. He also played a small role in the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's ''Smiley's People'' as a German club owner. In Italy he also played in a number of movies. In the 1960s, he married Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film. Early life and education Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is now Nový Jičín in the Czech Republic. His father, Abdul Qudus Faroqui, had immigrated to Germany from India in the 1920s. His German mother had been evacuated from Berlin due to the Allied bombing of Germany. He simplified the spelling of his surname as a young man. After World War II Farocki grew up in India and Indonesia before the family resettled in Hamburg in 1958. Farocki, who was deeply influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Luc Godard, studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) from 1966 to 1968. He began making films – from the very beginning, they were non-narrative essays on the politics of imagery – in the mid-1960s. From 1974 to 1984, when its publication ceased, he edited the magazine '' Filmkritik' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lubtchansky
William Lubtchansky (26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010) was a French cinematographer. Biography Lubtchansky's first film was Agnès Varda's 1965 short, ''Elsa la Rose''. He shot over 100 films, including several for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet and Nadine Trintignant. He has also worked with Philippe Garrel, François Truffaut, Marcel Camus and Peter Brook (for the 1989 6-hour version of ''The Mahabharata''). Lubtchansky died in Paris, France, on 4 May 2010 from heart disease. Selected filmography * ''Time to Live'' (1969) * '' It Only Happens to Others'' (1971) * ''Violins at the Ball'' (1974) * ''Speak to Me of Love'' (1975) * '' Noroît'' (1976) * ''Here and Elsewhere'' (1976) * ''Duelle'' (1976) * ''The Woman Next Door'' (1981) * '' Neige'' (1981) * ''Le Pont du Nord'' (1981) * ''Cap Canaille'' (1983) * ''Love on the Ground'' (1984) * '' Class Relations'' (1984) * '' After Darkness'' (1985) * '' I Love You'' (1986) * ''Agent troubl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Champetier
Caroline Champetier (born 16 July 1954) is a French cinematographer. She has contributed to more than one hundred films since 1979. She won the César Award for Best Cinematography for her work on '' Of Gods and Men'' in 2011. She was the president of the French Society of Cinematographers (AFC) between 2009 and 2012. She has a daughter with Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Alice de Lencquesaing Alice de Lencquesaing (; born 11 August 1991) is a French actress who appeared in Mia Hansen-Løve's 2009 film '' Father of My Children'' with her father Louis-Do de Lencquesaing Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (born 25 December 1963) is a French act ..., who is an actress. Selected filmography As cinematographer As director/screenwriter References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Champetier, Caroline 1954 births Living people Cinematographers from Paris French women cinematographers French women film directors French women screenwriters French screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amerika (novel)
''Amerika'', also known as ''The Man Who Disappeared'', ''The Missing Person'' and as ''Lost in America'' (German: '), is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The novel originally began as a short story titled "The Stoker". The novel incorporates many details of the experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The commonly used title ''Amerika'' can be traced to the edition of the text put together by Max Brod, a close friend of Kafka's during the latter's lifetime, after Kafka's death in 1924. Plot summary :''The first chapter of this novel is a short story titled "The Stoker". The story describes the bizarre wanderings of sixteen-year-old European immigrant Karl Roßmann, who was forced to go to New York City to escape the scandal of his seduction by a housemaid. As the ship arrives in the United States, he becomes friends with a stoker who is about to be dismis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Andersen
Thom Andersen (born 1943 in Chicago) is an American filmmaker, film critic, and teacher best known for his works of experimental film, including his 1975 film ''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' and the 2003 essay film ''Los Angeles Plays Itself''. Biography Andersen attended the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s and then returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to attend USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he studied with Arthur Knight and eventually assisted on Knight's project ''The History of Sex in Cinema''. While at USC, Andersen met long-time friend and collaborator Morgan Fisher, who assisted on Andersen's student film ''Melting'', a portrait of a sundae. He regularly attended local screening series including shows by the Trak Film Group and Movies Round Midnight and famously wrote about an unpopular screening of Andy Warhol's ''Sleep''. After USC, Andersen attended UCLA and completed his experimental documentaries ''Olivia's Place ''and ''Eadweard M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1984 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. The year's highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada was ''Beverly Hills Cop''. ''Ghostbusters'' overtook it, however, with a re-release the following year. It was the first time in five years that the top-grossing film did not involve George Lucas or Steven Spielberg although Spielberg directed and Lucas executive produced/co-wrote the third placed '' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' (the highest-grossing film worldwide that year); Spielberg also executive produced the fourth placed ''Gremlins''. U.S. box office grosses reached $4 billion for the first time and it was the first year that two films had returned over $100 million to their distributors with both ''Ghostbusters'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' achieving this. ''Beverly Hills Cop'' made it three for films released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term ''Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Betti
Laura Betti ( Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a documentary about him in 2001. Betti became famous for portraying bizarre, grotesque, eccentric, unstable or maniacal roles, like Regina in Bernardo Bertolucci's ''1900'', Anna the medium in ''Twitch of the Death Nerve'', Giovanna la pazza in ''Woman Buried Alive'', hysterical Rita Zigai in '' Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina'', Therese in '' Private Vices, Public Virtues'', Emilia the servant in Pier Paolo Pasolini's ''Teorema'' for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and Mildred the protagonist's wife in Mario Bava's ''Hatchet for the Honeymoon''. Early life Born Laura Trombetti in Casalecchio di Reno, near Bologna, she grew up to be interested in singing. She first worked professionally in the arts as a jazz singer and moved to Rome. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Brintrup
Georg Brintrup (born 25 October 1950) is a German-Italian film director, screenwriter and producer, known for his non-narrative film essays on poetry and music as well as his biographical films. Life and career Georg Brintrup had already made several underground films between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s before he started his studies in journalism, the history of art and the Romance languages at the University of Münster. Some of the films he made during this period have been shown at avant-garde theater productions in Münster. In 1973, he started his studies in film and communication sciences at the I.S.O.P. in Rome. Part of his thesis entitled "Literature in Films" (1975) was his short film ''My miracles'', seven poems by Else Lasker-Schüler, which was shown during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1978 in German. In 1975 he made his first film essay as an independent filmmaker: ''Spielregel für einen Wiedertäuferfilm'' (''Rules ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
