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Die Niklashauser Fart (1970)

Drama | 90 minutes
2,40 20 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 90 minuten

Alternative titles: The Niklashausen Journey / Die Niklashauser Fahrt

Country: West Germany

Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler

Stars: Michael König, Hanna Schygulla and Margit Carstensen

IMDb score: 5,8 (641)

Releasedate: 26 October 1970

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Die Niklashauser Fart plot

The shepherd Hans Boehm alias 'The Black Monk', claims to have been summoned by the Holy Virgin to start a revolution against the church and the landowners. He tries to revolt the peasants, but they only expect miracles from this "messiah".

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dutchtuga

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Terrible Fassbinder where keeping attention is an almost impossible task. If one is interested in socio-political issues that took place during this time, Die Niklashauser Fart has a few interesting issues and questions to offer, but as a film it fails miserably. Walking 'characters' standing there purely to express text is not my idea of film. Would have made a play out of it Rainer and spare the movie audience this socio-political statement.

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kshanti

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As Dutchtuga already wrote, this TV film feels like a play. And especially such a highly politically charged avant-garde kind of theater with exaggerated acting performances. Characters who don't actually speak to each other, but rattle off long monologues that are actually political treatises. In the rare moments when there are effective dialogues, the level is not too bad.

Only a few scenes (the massacre at the campsite and then the funeral pyre/crucifixion at the junkyard) feel like you're watching a movie. The budget really must have been nothing because there didn't seem to be any money for lighting some scenes that are incredibly dark.

In the middle of the film there is also a very strange musical note. A rock band plays a song (with horrible sound recording) while a large part of the cast is in each other's arms for the band. Is that supposed to represent how they are preparing the revolution?

On paper it seems like an interesting idea for a movie, a modern interpretation of a medieval story, but the mayonnaise didn't really take off. In later films, Fassbinder succeeds in combining social criticism and an interesting way of telling a story, but as one of his first feature films, this one is somewhat disappointing.

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