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FICTION
Gefischte Gefühle
Fished Feelings
Manfred Kaufmann
Silvia and Walter are a young couple. She is a bookseller and he is making a video film about a married couple who have separated
after 25 years. Walter listens to the two versions of their story of which the mechanism of violence and patience, power and
helplessness are also evident in his own relationship with Silvia, which has reached an open crisis because of a third person,
Romana. Their mutual friend, Michael, is a homosexual and he also has partnership problems with his lover, Florian. He judges
the relationship between Silvia and Walter in which suppressions and projections are increasing as being more serious. He
is becoming more macho in his male role, she is becoming more aware of "the other", her rival... Walter's attempt to sell
his video to television fails. When he and Michael want to air the film via the house antenna to the flats of a high-rise
building at the prime broadcasting time, the two women trick them. Instead of the interview film, their live "double" conference
is aired in which Silvia and Romana call upon their feminist comrades to show solidarity against men.
"...Women's liberation and the simultaneous reduction of male supremacy, divorce problems of an aging married couple and relationship
complications between homosexuals..." (Multimedia, No.13/1980, Vienna).
Technical Data | |
Running time: | 117 |
Format: | 35 mm |
Screen ratio: | 1:1.66 |
Language spoken: | German |
Production year: | 1980 |
Credits | |
Director(s): | Manfred Kaufmann |
Writer(s): | Manfred Kaufmann, Henriette Fischer |
Cinematography: | Tamás Ujlaki |
Editing: | Henriette Fischer, Manfred Kaufmann |
Key cast: | Silvia Sommer, Walter Eckermann, Romana Scheffknecht, Michael Hopp |
Producer: | Manfred Kaufmann |