Putting Things Straight
Putting Things Straight | |
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![]() Film set Berlin Oct 1979 | |
Directed by | Georg Brintrup |
Written by | Georg Brintrup |
Produced by | Hartmut Bitomsky Christhardt Burgmann |
Starring | Gisela Stein Hanns Zischler Ulrich Gregor Hans Christoph Buch Harun Farocki |
Cinematography | Ali Reza Movahed |
Edited by | Carlo Carlotto Georg Brintrup |
Music by | Arnold Schönberg Classical Arabic music |
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Running time | 60 min |
Country | Germany |
Language | German |
Putting Things Straight (German title: “Ich räume auf”) is a 1979 film directed and written by Georg Brintrup. The director's first TV-release, it was shot in 16 mm film. The filmscript is based on a polemic printed in 1925 ("Ich räume auf - Meine Anklage gegen meine Verleger")[1] by the Jewish German poet Else Lasker-Schüler, the principal woman representative of German Expressionism.
Premise
The film describes a dispute between poetess Else Lasker-Schüler and her publishers. The film takes place in Berlin before, during and after World War I it deals with the rights of the author quoting from Karl Marx: "A writer is judged as productive, not on the amount of ideas he produces, but on the amount of money his publisher is able to profit from his works."[2]
Cast
- Gisela Stein – Else Lasker-Schüler
- Frank Burkner – Paul Cassirer
- Hanns Zischler – Alfred Flechtheim
- Ulrich Gregor – Kurt Wolff (publisher)
- Hans Christoph Buch – Franz Werfel
- Harun Farocki – Friend of Flechtheim
Production
The film was first broadcast on December 23, 1979 by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. It was then shown at the 1980 International Film Festival Rotterdam
References
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- Films set in Berlin
- 1970s historical drama films
- Films based on poems
- Films set in the 1910s
- German historical drama films
- Films about Jews and Judaism
- Films set in the 1920s
- 1970s German-language films
- 1979 drama films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s German films
- West German films