''Schmutz'' is a 1985 Austrian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Paulus Manker
Paulus Manker (born 25 January 1958) is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer.
Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other. H ...
. It was entered into the
15th Moscow International Film Festival and was nominated for the Golden Prize. It won C.S.T. Award at
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival (1986) and Best Director and Special Recommendation for the soundtrack at
Ghent International Film Festival
Film Fest Ghent, spelt Film Fest Gent in Flemish and also known as International Film Fest Gent, is an annual international film festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival held its first edition in 1974, under the name Internationaal Filmgebeuren ...
(1986).
Josef Schmutz is a custodian clerk given the task of guarding an outdated industrial plant. The film is an allegory on the obsessive outsider and the banal roots of totalitarianism.
Cast
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Fritz Schediwy as Joseph Schmutz
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Hans-Michael Rehberg
Hans-Michael Rehberg (2 April 1938 – 7 November 2017) was a German actor.
Biography
Rehberg, born in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, was one of six children. He grew up in Bavaria after the family moved to Lake Starnberg.
After training as an ac ...
as Oberkontrollor
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Siggi Schwientek as Fux
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Josefin Platt
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Mareile Geisler
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Axel Böhmert
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Günter Bothur
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Constanzia Hochle
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Hanno Pöschl
Hanno Pöschl (born 2 July 1949 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actor.
Pöschl has enjoyed a long and prolific career working with directors Maximilian Schell, Peter Patzak, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Paulus Manker, Richard Linklater, and G ...
References
External links
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1985 films
1985 drama films
Austrian drama films
1980s German-language films
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