Sun Stop! ( Sonne halt! )

Sun Stop! (DVD) (*)

$24.99

Original Title: Sonne halt!
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
165 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Ferry Radax

Written By:
Ferry Radax

Actors:
Konrad Bayer ..... Matrose / Dandy
Ingrid Schuppan ..... Eva
Suzanne Hockenjos ..... Französin
Alberto Jolly ..... Matrose

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***The film's audio is subtitled in English, while few title cards are in French without translation***Sun Stop! is the result of a collaboration over three years between the avant-garde filmmaker Ferry Radax and the avant-garde poet Konrad Bayer. It has long been considered as a classic of Austrian experimental filmmaking. The plot, which becomes submerged in the process of montage, runs, according to Radax, something like this: 'The story of a dandy who first of all shoots down the sun out of boredom and then, just as the world changes momentarily, the moon as well. At the same time he leads a secret, poetic double life as an initerant sailor.'

A sailor arrives at the port of 'Buenos Aires'. while at the same time appearing as a Dandy at Fegina, the 'Riviera' of Monterosso al Mare (Konrad Bayer in a double role). Both are connected in a mysterious way through some kind of 'inner monologue'. A stylish, cool beauty (Suzanne Hockenjos) is getting bored by the Dandy, so he shoots down the sun from the sky, possibly in order to impress her. But a very erotic Eve (Ingrid Schuppan) catches the sun and takes it away from the Dandy. Now he shoots down the moon as well, but also this fails to impress the cool blonde. Angered by her indifference, the Dandy destroys his whole strange world, and subsequently loses Eve. Grief about her death and despair about the Lady's rejection make him turn into a sailor again. Again, the sea is waiting for him.

Shot in 1959 in Monterosso al Mare (Italy) and edited between 1960-62, SONNE HALT! (Sun, Stop!), is the masterpiece of legendary Austrian filmmaker Ferry Radax (*1932) and probably the best Austrian avantgarde movie ever made. This "tour de force" of image-sound montage is partly based on the unfinished novel "Der sechste Sinn" (The Sixth Sense) by the Viennese dadaistic poet Konrad Bayer, who committed suicide in 1964. Bayer also appears prominently in the movie and his voice can be heard constantly on the soundtrack.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 17 December, 2012.

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