The Expulsion from Paradise
- Herb Andress: Anton Paulisch / Andy Paul
- Elke Haltaufderheide: Astrid Paulisch
- Ksenija Protic: Isolde Countess of Roseburg
- Jochen Busse: Berens
- Andrea Rau: Evi
- Herbert Fux: Cameraman
- Werner Abrolat: Director in the lift
- Jean -Pierre Zola: Gerganoff
- Georg Tryphon: Producer
- Wolfgang Lukschy: fence
- Willy Schultes: Man on the stand-up bar
- Elisabeth Bertram: Mother Paulisch
- Trude Breitschopf: customer
- Gert Wieden Mayrhofen: minister
The Expulsion from Paradise is a German feature film. It was premiered on April 2, 1977 as part of the Duisburg Film Week.
Action
Anton Paulisch wanted to make the film as an actor and an international career. So he moved from Munich to Rome. Under the stage name Andy Paul, he was actually involved in various productions, but without ever playing a major role. More bad than good, he gets by somehow. But it was the near death of his mother leads him back to his hometown. Although he bequeathed his mother a powerful picture of the expulsion from paradise, which he had admired as a child again. But above all, he and his sister Astrid inherit a small photo business. On the high debt loads, however.
Nevertheless, it creates the sister that Andy for the time being remain in Munich. And he goes on a search for movie roles. Although solves his performance as a robotic mechanical man regularly admiration, but still the tour ends soon in disaster: During the filming for a commercial then also out yet that he can not drive a car. His sister, however, admired and cared for him continues. Long ago, a more than fraternal affection developed. The advances of the stuffy bank branch manager Astrid Berens seems only to respond, as this allows the financial hardship would be fixed soon.
A certain Countess Rosenburg gives Andy still a really big role. The beautiful noblewoman is in fact just in dire need. They financed their luxurious lifestyle as marriage swindler - and a dupe of her is hot on the trail. Only through a representational peak power Andy Paul can save them in a hotel bar before the unmasking. On the spot he is her " secretary ". Quick 's assets grow. But even more skilled crooks take the two soon everything.
The wedding between Astrid and the store manager is now no longer be prevented. However, it is only part of an elaborate plan of Bankers. But already the honeymoon everything is very different. Andy will namely with a sudden, he has just received a sensational offer from Rome by telegram. Without hesitation hijack Astrid, Andy and the Countess the start of Berens clear car and drive off. For him there is no space.
He has but then caught up only beyond the Alps. But not because of his newly wedded wife, he raced behind, but because of a toolbox full of embezzled bank funds. The Countess can not resist the temptation of Bankers. To clarify the situation one last time. Well, never to return one separates itself. Soon, Andy and Astrid Rome and the great gate of Cinecittà have achieved. Under solemn ringing of bells they go into the movie a paradise. An angel would even points the way.
Background
The film carries a strong autobiographical elements, both in terms of the director Niklaus Schilling, as well as with respect to its lead actor Herb Andress.
Schilling, a Swiss, who was resident in Munich since 1965, had to put some effort into the film industry even after his foot recognized by critics debut film Nightshade. He sees history, consciously and German mythology arrested, borders on the one hand of so-called filmmakers from trying to imitate the mainly ( U.S. ) American models, on the other hand of filmmakers that are based on an educated middle class, elitist art concept. The loss of consciousness for the identity of the film as a medium of popular culture, he does not last as the cause of the severe identity crisis in the film industry who willingly sold themselves to the television and commerce, as discussed in the expulsion from paradise.
Andress, an Austrian, was once drawn to the fixed goal of a film career in Hollywood. One of his best known early roles was the presentation of the Mechanical Man in the television series My Favorite Martian. Mostly he was often set to the role of the blond Germans in war films of the German Nazi officer. From the American film criticism, he was already referred to sometimes as " Teutonic crossing" from Lee Marvin and James Caan. After his return to Europe in the early 1970s he was known to the local audience through some film supporting roles, but especially through television appearances, especially as the main character in the TV series Happy, Köhler. The expulsion from Paradise was his first feature film starring role after returning.
Reviews
" Episodic -scale, staged with a light hand film, woven from moments of melodrama, satire and the comedy thriller. A multi-layered exploration of myths and cinema clichés, which also questions the role of the actor in the film industry. "
"This is one of those rare and weird films that constantly surprise the audience and amaze, who oppose any expectations and are hardly classify categorical. What begins as a melodrama, suddenly turns into a comedy, then thriller, once again melodrama and finally ends in such a super kitsch that one believes to dream. "
"In terms of material consciousness, technical and artisan filigree work and aesthetic sophistication, this film examines this country has no equal. As the green plant in the desert: a miracle! "
Peter Buchka highlighted in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, " as sovereign here melancholy about an old childhood dream how accurate the analysis of the local cinema situation as witty and perceptive the blend of reality and (film) mythology, portrayed by niederdrückendem everyday and uncompromising Wi- dream is. "
Awards
1977 took the film as a German contribution in the competition at the International Film Festival of Berlin.