No Shooting Time for Foxes
- Helmut Förnbacher: A young man
- Christian Doermer: Viktor
- Andrea Jonasson: Clara
- Monika Peitsch: Lore
- Edda Seippel: Clara's mother
- Helmuth Hinzelmann Viktors father
- Suse Count: Viktor's mother
- Alexander Golling: An uncle
- Willy Birgel: Hunting Author
- Nina Stepun: ballet dancer
- Erna Haffner: editor
Closed season for foxes is a German feature film from the year 1966. It is the debut film of director and producer Peter Schamoni and was based on the novel The Gate of Günter Seuren.
Action
A young man and his friend Viktor are two young men from middle-class house. They come from Dusseldorf. For their families and their society, they have nothing left but contempt. Nevertheless, you are the manners of this society, the real life brings them trouble. Your own life are the intelligent young men compared with a loss. For hunts the young man working as a driver. With Viktor he seeks a nice place and calls the close season for foxes, where they see themselves as the driven foxes. To escape from this world, Viktor migrated to Australia and sellers of hunting weapons. His friend is in Germany and is a journalist, but that does not even interest him.
Background
Peter Schamoni had since the late 1950s turned numerous short films that have been successfully shown at festivals. He was considered one of the most promising talents of the young German film, when he presented with a closed season for foxes his feature film debut.
Reviews
" The debut of the short film director Peter Schamoni is only partially successful a counter-proposal to grandpa's cinema, from which the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto to distance. Perceptive in the critical approach and in the milieu drawing, the film lacks the analytical consistency in tracking social contexts; a more conciliatory tone sentimentality is unmistakable. "
" German contemporary film, which revolves with a keen sense of atmospheric authenticity using the example of two young people to the problems of the generation of the Thirty Years' and their tendency illustrates to say no to a world which they eventually adjust. Formal noteworthy in the profiling of the topic sometimes supercooled, but worth seeing as a result of a revival of active young German film for viewers aged 18 and worthy of discussion. "
Awards
The film premiered in competition at the Berlinale 1966. Schamoni where Peter was awarded the Silver Bear for Special Jury Award. Hans Posegga ( Best Music ) and Edda Seippel ( Best Supporting Actress ) received a 1966 German Film Award in Gold.