The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:46:06 | 6,54 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Español, 中文, Русский
Genre: Art-House, Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:46:06 | 6,54 Gb
Audio: Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Español, 中文, Русский
Genre: Art-House, Drama
Director: Alexander Kluge
Writer: Alexander Kluge
Stars: Jutta Hoffmann, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hans-Michael Rehberg
In this film, Kluge continues his fascination with history, culture and cinema as he examines the close of the 20th century. Opening with a production of Verdi’s Tosca, he sets up a contrast between the treatment of moral and aesthetic issues in the 19th century and their examination in the cinema. Several stories – with characters who are mainly nameless, such as “The big boss, a man in a hurry,” Homeworker,” “Superfluous employee” – are juxtaposed, creating a filmic essay, a montage of ideas and reflections on the present, a present which affects our views of the past and our hopes for the future. At the center, serving perhaps as a metaphor for both his film and cinema itself, is the story of a director who goes blind while working on his latest film. He continues working, his head full of images, trying to create what he cannot see.
An episode film that "bids farewell to classical cinema" (A. Kluge). Fragments of reality that all still strictly follow one thought - how one moment in time can swallow up everything that has happened beforehand and afterwards. There's the daughter of the porter couple in Warsaw who surrenders herself to a German soldier in order to preserve the historical Polish film treasures. There is the completely indispensable one, who suddenly becomes unnecessary because the boss prefers someone else. There are the hurried ones, who restlessly rush around the world in order to make decisions that are constantly becoming less meaningful. There is the young surrogate mother, who doesn't want to give back the child until the parental guardians listen to her suggestions on how to care for it. And finally, there is a famous director who goes blind during filming and still continues, because his head is full of images. Although even Alexander Kluge can't manage without individual persons, this movie is not about individual destinies, but rather - so shortly before the end of a murderous century, or better said a millennium - the fate of mankind. The individuals only serve to deliver the necessary proof.
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
Special Features:
- Short film: Blinde Liebe (2001, 24 mins)
- Short film: 16 Minutenfilme (2007, 17 mins)
* both with the same subs as the main feature
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