Götter der Pest (1970)

Réalisateur:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Scénariste:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (writer)

Date de sortie:

24 juillet 1970 (Allemagne de l'ouest)

Genre:

Crime | Drame

Intrigue:

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

Récompenses:

2 wins

Avis des utilisateurs:

Alienation through boredom

Ensemble

Hanna Schygulla	...	Johanna Reiher
Margarethe von Trotta	...	Margarethe
Harry Baer	...	Franz Walsch
Günther Kaufmann	...	Günther
Carla Egerer	...	Carla (as Carla Aulaulu)
Ingrid Caven	...	Magdalena Fuller
Jan George	...	Polizist
Lilo Pempeit	...	Mutter
Marian Seidowsky	...	Marian
Micha Cochina	...	Joe
Yaak Karsunke	...	Kommissar
Hannes Gromball	...	Supermarkt-Chef
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	...	Pornokunde (uncredited)
Irm Hermann	...	(uncredited)
Doris Mattes	...	Marie Luise (uncredited)
Peter Moland	...	(uncredited)
David Morgan	...	Catcher (uncredited)
Kurt Raab	...	Gast in der Kneipe (uncredited)
Katrin Schaake	...	Wirtin im zweiten Café (uncredited)
Thomas Schieder	...	Tommy (uncredited)
Lilith Ungerer	...	Mädchen im ersten Café (uncredited)

Réalisé par
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Scénaristes (dans l'ordre alphabétique)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder		writer

Produit par
Rainer Werner Fassbinder	....	producer
Michael Fengler	....	producer

Musique originale
Peer Raben

Image
Dietrich Lohmann

Montage
Rainer Werner Fassbinder		(as Franz Walsch)

Création des décors
Kurt Raab

Directeur de production
Christian Hohoff	....	production manager
Peer Raben	....	production manager (as Wilhelm Rabenbauer)

Assistant réalisateur
Kurt Raab	....	assistant director

Technicien du son
Gottfried Hüngsberg	....	sound

Caméra et Département Electrique
Ekkehard Heinrich	....	lighting technician
Herbert Paetzold	....	assistant camera

Dpartement Editorial
Kurt Raab	....	assistant editor

Divers
Peter Gauhe	....	script

Companies de production

• Antiteater

Distributeurs

• e-m-s the DVD-Company (2002) (Germany) (DVD) (special edition)
• New Yorker Films (1977) (USA) (subtitled)

Autre(s) titre(s):

Gods of the Plague (USA)

Durée:

91 min

Pays:

Allemagne de l'ouest

Langue:

Allemand

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Singapore:M18 (cut) | UK:18 | West Germany:16

Lieux de tournage:

Dingolfing, Bavaria, Germany

Société:

Antiteater

Anecdotes:

In the hotel, Franz Walsch uses the pseudonym Franz Biberkopf. That's the name of title character of Alfred Döblin's famous novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz", which Fassbinder would adapt to a 13-part TV-miniseries later in his career.

Guillemet:

Margarethe: Why do they call you "the Gorilla"?
Günther: Because I'm big and strong... and everyone has to have a name.

Connexions De Film:

Référencé sur Innocent (2005)

Alienation through boredom

If only Bayer or Pfizer could bottle this movie for insomniacs, they'd make an even bigger fortune than they do now. Fassbinder proved he could fashion unique cinematic art out of a bunch of people standing around excoriating each other in several of his early pictures, but here the internal tensions never mount and the tropes don't connect. Some claim it to be a homage to film noir, and certainly there is alienation, paranoia and betrayal in spades, as well as iconic visual references to classics like Laura and Double Indemnity. But the moody lighting and framing in his excellent "The American Soldier" are much closer to the noir stylings of Alton and Planer than the arid non-style here.

However, the greatest offense of the film is the inclusion of a seemingly endless, static sequence featuring the playing of a phonograph record of a gimmicky children's tune about an oddball menagerie -- I guarantee you that this nauseating little ditty will echo in your skull for days. At the same time, the subtitlers are owed a great deal of credit for their incisively clever translation of the absurd rhyming couplets into (very British) English.