Fiction

KLASSENVERHÄLTNISSE

Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
BRD, FRA 1983
126 min
V'10

Klassenverhältnisse is based on Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel “Der Verschollene”. It doesn’t deal with the real United States but it is rather a kind of allegory taking place in no specific time in history. Jean-Marie Straub’s and Danièle Huillet’s version/adaptation is about class relations and about the society that is created by capitalism, which is utterly cruel, capricious and ludicrous. Beside Caroline Champetier and Christophe Pollock, it is William Lubtchansky who is responsible for extraordinary black-andwhite cinematography.

Credits
  • Christian Heinisch - Karl Roßmann
  • Nazzareno Bianconi - Giacomo
  • Laura Betti - Brunelda
  • Harun Farocki - Delamarche
  • Mario Adorf - Onkel
  • Manfred Blank - Robinson
  • Reinald Schnell - Heizer
  • Anna Schnell - Line
  • Klaus Traube - Kapitän
  • Hermann Hartmann - Oberkassier
  • Gérard Samaan - Schubal
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet nach «Der Verschollene» von Franz Kafka
  • William Lubtchansky
  • Caroline Champetier
  • Christophe Pollock
  • Manfred Blank
  • Louis Hochet
  • Georges Vaglio
  • Jean-Marie Straub
  • Danièle Huillet
Janus Film, Hessischer Rundfunk, NEF Diffusion

Jean-Marie Straub

35 mm
bw
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