Die Pfütze
AVCreation
EDU_AVC_0792
• Staged short film about a schoolboy being abducted and eventually killed by an adult man—although the murder isn’t explicitly shown. While it is clear who committed the crime, some responsibility, the story emphasizes, should be placed on bystanders, both grown-ups and adolescents. Because it is their gullibility and callousness, despite the boy’s cries for help, that made the killing possible.
• This particular part of the story suggests that the film targeted adult spectators in an effort to increase their awareness. If so, it would justify the story form.
• In the final scene a jazz band drowns out the boy’s cries for help; but as the band plays outdoors, somewhere in the terrain vague where the boy has been taken to, this feels rather contrived (I daresay, too willfully—and woefully—Hitchcockian).
• The film was shot silent, with dubbing and (very selective) sound effects added in a studio. It is remakable how the sound lacks ‘atmosphere’ and ambience (see e.g. Michel Chion’s "Le son au cinéma" for a critique of this practice).
(Nico de Klerk)
• This particular part of the story suggests that the film targeted adult spectators in an effort to increase their awareness. If so, it would justify the story form.
• In the final scene a jazz band drowns out the boy’s cries for help; but as the band plays outdoors, somewhere in the terrain vague where the boy has been taken to, this feels rather contrived (I daresay, too willfully—and woefully—Hitchcockian).
• The film was shot silent, with dubbing and (very selective) sound effects added in a studio. It is remakable how the sound lacks ‘atmosphere’ and ambience (see e.g. Michel Chion’s "Le son au cinéma" for a critique of this practice).
(Nico de Klerk)
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Franck Film Produktion (Produzent*in)
Bavaria Filmverleih (Verleih)
Herbert M. Franck (Regisseur*in)
Gisela Withake (Autor*in)
Horst Nagel (Kameraperson)
Gerd Kunath (Darsteller*in)
Peter Royen (Darsteller*in)
Jost Enselig (ANDERE LEISTUNG)
Bavaria Filmverleih (Verleih)
Herbert M. Franck (Regisseur*in)
Gisela Withake (Autor*in)
Horst Nagel (Kameraperson)
Gerd Kunath (Darsteller*in)
Peter Royen (Darsteller*in)
Jost Enselig (ANDERE LEISTUNG)