Pago 10
Daily Nebraskan
Thursday, March 22, 1934
Continued from Page 6
At a lovely wood near Berlin called Freienwalde
they enjoy each other, and there is a moving scene in
which they play blindman's bluff and she rushes
in tears to her lover who has just fallen. Barbara
Sukovva, so brilliant as the terrorist sister in Marga
rethe von Trotta's Marianne and Juliane is very
different here, an embodiment of innocence. Her
crooked smile reveals no sneer. Franz's very odd
method of kissing fastening himself roughly and
suddenly on the neck at first seems vampiric, but
becomes almost endearing with the spell of the
story.
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Bariln Alaxanderpiatx, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder; screeplay
by Fassbmder from a novel by Alfred Doblins; Produced by Peter Marthe
sheimer. At the Sheldon Film Theatre, 12th and R streets. '
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Eva Hanna Schygulla
Mack Franx Buchrleaer
Llna Elisabeth Trlssenaar
Retnhold Gottfried John
Mleze Barbara Sukowa
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Franz's relation with Teinhold, hauntingly played
by Gottfried John, is even more complicated. There
is latent homosexual desire between them, and the
trading of women they engage in Reinhold passes
the ones he is tired of off on Franz, like used cars is
what film scholar June Levine has called in different
terms, sex by proxy. The narrator notes that while
Franz dances with Eva, he is thinking only that the
two people he loves are Mieze and Reinhold, There is
a strong doppelgangcr relation here. On first meet
ing Reinhold, Franz is certain the flashy dresser has
served time. Though he is wrong in this, the sense of
identification with Reinhold and complementing
natures is powerful for Franz. Gottfried John's stut
ter and droopy sensitivity reveal a guilt which he
assuages by sitting on the sinner's bench at Salva
tion Army meetings then going ahead with his evil
and vindictive acts like throwing Franz out of a
moving car, making him lose his arm, and trying to
take Mieze away from Franz.
The scene of temptation, a sort of replaying of tlfe
drama in the Garden of Eden, is absolutely extraor
dinary, and one of the most powerful I've ever seen. .
It is very long, and in its fullness seems to move
slower and more fatally to the end: It forms the
climax of the 12th part of the film, which is itself the
climactic and second to last part. The forest at
Freienwalde is overcast, and-fog overwhelms the
trees. A wood cross appears behind a frieze of bran
ces, and Reinhold alternately threatens and entices
Mieze, who passively accepts his embrace and asks
to know more of Franz's past. As Sukowa stands
stock still, John winds around her in a serpentine
yet natural way. He shows her the appalling tattoos
he has on his wrist and chest anvils on which, he
tells her, people are to be laid. When she ultimately!
refuses him, he comes on top of her, and in the
unclear distance chokes her.
When Eva brings the newspaper with the news of
Mieze's death to Franz, he at first refuses to under
stand the paper, actually will not take in the infor
mation. Then he disclaims responsibility: "It's not
my fault. You never know what a guy's gonna do."
This is a key to the entire film for Franz has kept
his eyes obstinately shut to the evil others have done
him. He sets himself up for it he actually invites it,
through a submerged wish for self-destruction which
shows itself in his fascination with a certain glitter
ing and smoky street of temptation which contrasts
vividly with the bleak light of the streets outside it
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Eva (Hanna Schygolla) holds Fissz Eilber
kepf (G outer Lantprccht) la Fcsstinder's
Berlin Alcxatidcrplatz.
and where it is said, the great Whore of Babylon,
who lives on the blood of saints, has her lair.
The purpose of the Epilogue, which Fassbinder
himself wrote and added to the end of Doblin's nar
rative, seems to be to bring this interpretaiton home:
it's called "A Dream of the Dream of Franz Biber
kopf." His friends and lovers accuse him of his pas
sivity and irresponsibility; and in the end he still
does not seem to have learned how to add two and
two, though he says he can. Deliberate anachro
nisms like Nazi brownshirts and gas chambers, as
well as the music of Janis Joplin and Elvis, work to
separate this final part from all the others and
strike home. And when Franz is lifted up on an
aluminum cross in front of one of Heironymous
Bosch's horrific visions, it is the crucifixion of Ever
yman, but of an Everyman who has stayed in Jerusa
lem awaiting it.
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