Class Relations ( Klassenverhältnisse ) ( Amerika, rapports de classe )

Class Relations (DVD) (*)

$42.99

Original Title: Klassenverhältnisse
Alternate Title: Amerika, rapports de classe
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
122 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Danièle Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub

Written By:
Franz Kafka

Actors:
Christian Heinisch ..... Karl Roßmann
Nazzareno Bianconi ..... Giacomo
Mario Adorf ..... Der Onkel
Laura Betti ..... Brunelda
Harun Farocki ..... Delamarche
Manfred Blank ..... Robinson
Reinald Schnell ..... Der Heizer
Anna Schnell ..... Line
Klaus Traube ..... Der kapitän
Hermann Hartmann ..... Der Oberkassier
Gérard Semaan ..... Schubal
Jean-François Quinque ..... Der Stewart
Villi Vöbel ..... Pollunder
Tilman Heinisch ..... Green
Anne Bold ..... Klara

Synopsis:

Financed in Germany and filmed in New York, Class Relations is adapted from Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika. Christian Heinisch plays a bourgeois German forced to leave his homeland after a scandal. He accepts his uncle's invitation to move to America, where he takes a succession of "Joe Jobs." Heinisch tries, but he is unable to shake off his old-world customs. Worse, the class structure in Europe never prepared him to have to actually use his hands to make a living. Rather than tack on an ending of their own, writer/directors Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub conclude Class Relations in the same manner that Kafka left Amerika behind when he died--with the hero's ultimate fate still in limbo.

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