Bierkampf (Herbert Achternbusch, 1977) : Filmoteca de ficción

Bierkampf
Herbert Achternbusch (Alemania, 1977) [85 min]

Sinopsis:

En "La lucha por la cerveza", en Cineteca Nacional, escribió:Al grito de “¡Atención, policía!”, un funcionario estatal vestido de uniforme se mete en el gentío que supone la Fiesta de la Cerveza. Como un derviche danzante pasa por el barullo de las carpas de cerveza hacinadas, corre por mesas y jarras de cerveza, titubeando constantemente entre agresiones y anhelo de contactos humanos. Busca entrar en contacto con las personas, les habla, las provoca y les pregunta si son “el Estado”. A simple vista, esta película constituye un ejemplo descabellado del cinéma vérité: la cámara da testimonio de las reacciones de una multitud medio ebria frente a la provocación de un individuo atrevido. El escenario sirve sobre todo como sitio simbólico en el que la lucha por la cerveza se convierte en la lucha por la supervivencia, en la que un individuo que se salta las reglas se enfrenta a una sociedad homogénea.

strobo, en KaraGarga, escribió:Herbert Achternbusch's anarchistic mockery of the german (especially the bavarian) mindset. At least something has changed - while this is in fact a capture of bavarian tv-station Bayrischer Rundfunk, in the 70s Achternbusch was considered a persona non grata in the bavarian broadcasting system, due to his blasphemic and radical left statements. Thanks to the guys from eselkult for making this one available!

This movie is located at the "Oktoberfest" (bigbig, legendary and well-known drinking fest for dumb white-bread idiots) in Munich/Germany. A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the "Oktoberfest". - Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other relatives and some friends start to follow him while he gets some new acquaintances. The craziness begins! Full ahead! You cannot really say what the sense of this movie is, maybe it's about senselessness of life in general and about the relativity of common values. Amateur actors philosophize about this and that - most of them unemotional as a stone. But this doesn't ruin the movie - it's quite the contrary and supports the absurdity of the scenes and texts. There's no real storyline, it's more like a collage of sketches and clips. And it's also funny that you never know if the protagonists are actors who know they play for the movie (but I guess they do not know WHAT KIND of movie this is!!) or if they are just visitors of the Oktoberfest who happen to fall victim to a crazy-genius movie-director by chance, you know, like hidden-camera or something. - You never know. - And sometimes people get really angry by being annoyed by our false policeman out of control - and I am very sure that he'd got some punches in the face without this uniform. Many of the mono- and dialogues are really funny as hell and also quite intelligent in a subtle and subversive meaning. This movie and with it it's director was a total find for me, I must recommend this a lot, 10 out of 10!
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