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Mahlzeiten

BR Deutschland 1966/1967 Spielfilm

Table for Love

Elisabeth is studying photography and Rolf is in medical school. They’re in love, so marriage is a given. And it’s also in line with Elisabeth’s credo that "every woman should get married". Children quickly follow – another expression of Elisabeth’s strong will. But their "new happiness" suffers from her dominance. Rolf quits school. He leaves the family for a while, works first as a pharmaceuticals rep, then resigns to work for a cosmetics company. After all, he has five children to feed, although he has already performed an abortion on Elisabeth. The two turn to religion, but Rolf can’t find salvation …

"It was just all too soon, too fast." Edgar Reitz embedded his story of the catastrophe of a young couple that is unable to live up to their own idealized expectations in a consciously artificial film, "which undertakes to portray societal reality as an archetype" (Enno Patalas, 1967). Avant-garde structural elements such as off commentary, close-ups, captions and interviews are interjected into the film narrative. And they, no less than anything, were part of the reason Reitz won the prize for best first film at the Venice Film Festival.

Source: 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

 

Credits

Director

  • Edgar Reitz

Screenplay

  • Edgar Reitz
  • Alexander Kluge (Beratung)
  • Hans Dieter Müller (Beratung)

Director of photography

  • Thomas Mauch

Editing

  • Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Music

  • Maurice Ravel

Cast

  • Heidi Stroh
    Elisabeth
  • Georg Hauke
    Rolf
  • Nina Frank
    Irina
  • Ruth von Zerboni
    Rolfs Mutter
  • Ilona Schütze
    Ilona
  • Dirk Borchert
    Freund
  • Klaus Lackschewitz
    Freund
  • Peter Hohberger
    Brian Leak

Production company

  • Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion GmbH (München)

Producer

  • Edgar Reitz

Alle Credits

Director

  • Edgar Reitz

Assistant director

  • Ula Stöckl

Screenplay

  • Edgar Reitz
  • Alexander Kluge (Beratung)
  • Hans Dieter Müller (Beratung)

Director of photography

  • Thomas Mauch

Assistant camera

  • Frank Brühne

Editing

  • Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Assistant editor

  • Anni Giese
  • Elisabeth Orlov
  • Maximiliane Mainka

Sound

  • Herbert Prasch
  • Hans-Jörg Wicha

Music

  • Maurice Ravel

Cast

  • Heidi Stroh
    Elisabeth
  • Georg Hauke
    Rolf
  • Nina Frank
    Irina
  • Ruth von Zerboni
    Rolfs Mutter
  • Ilona Schütze
    Ilona
  • Dirk Borchert
    Freund
  • Klaus Lackschewitz
    Freund
  • Peter Hohberger
    Brian Leak

Production company

  • Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion GmbH (München)

Producer

  • Edgar Reitz

Unit production manager

  • Bernd Hoeltz (Organisation)
  • Werner Leckebusch (Organisation)
  • Uwe Gluntz (Organisation)
  • Peter Thoma (Organisation)
Duration:
2573 m, 95 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 26.01.1967, 36889, ab 18 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 21.03.1967, München, Filmtheater am Lenbachplatz

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Mahlzeiten

Versions

Original

Duration:
2573 m, 95 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 26.01.1967, 36889, ab 18 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 21.03.1967, München, Filmtheater am Lenbachplatz

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