1977 Der Garten Eden (the garden Eden)

1977 Der Garten Eden (the garden Eden)

Rejissyor: Lutz Mommartz. Bundesfilmpreis: Filmband in Silber Camera: Dieter Fietzke and Lutz Mommartz, Sound: Herbert Baumann, Important help: Ingrid Lutz, Henning Brandis, Franz van der Grinten, Fritz Gorrissen, Pastor Mühlhoff, Ernst Schönzeler, Ata Jansen, Frau Heukulum, Brigitte Groenewald, Familie van de Sandt, Familie Schmidt, Hennes Stelzer, Bauer Timpe, Hugo Bos and al inhabitants from Schanze / Germany. A utopian film about landscape and people from the Niederrhein / Germany. SEBASTIAN FELDMANN, RP, 20.12.1977 Where is the Garden of Eden, the paradise? At the Niederrhein /Germany, as old local legends will tell us; It is in ourselves, when we realize it on earth. so it is everywhere, or, as Ernst Bloch says, "there where no one has been before"? At home? About the Garden of Eden in the gap between utopian and forgotten draft Lutz Mommartz from Düsseldorf has made a three-hour movie. He seeks a conceptual way between the Archimedean idea-points "home", "paradise" and "utopia". Lutz Mommartz managed it to be an exceptional and thoughtful film. Even the first, dreamlike images show the high standards of the director. In a vaporous fantasy-air-water Tableaux the first day of creation is painted. The separation of dry land, wet and atmospheric shines in colors as from William Turner - until a stunning rubber lens rear movement from far away retracts us from a golden cloud hole, from the vision to our feet. All of a sudden the local Carnival from the Rhein appears: Masks, faces, therebetween the filmmaker wandering through the crowd, on a search. Of course, Lutz Mommartz does not intent to find that paradise at the mythological niederrhein place. He suggests in his film, that one must order his Earth- / Eden-garden himself; He digs with his cinematic work well in the Lower Rhine plaice and society; But the topos of the landscape it is only hook for Utopia. Utopia, in the greek meaning a logical placelessness, a perfect nowhere-land, here becomes a quite concrete place with its beauty, it

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