Les flocons d’or (Goldflakes)

A multilingual film, the summary of Schroeter’s early films: four episodes about great feelings and emotions, about the search for luck, about destiny and mortality, taking place in Cuba, France and Bavaria. Beautiful dreamlike variations on classic genres, from kitschy Mexican melodrama to poetic realism of French art films to Bavarian Heimatfilm in dialect. As Schroeter said: “It starts with an introduction conceived like a romantic poem about the general theme of the film: Death”. Les Flocons d’or was Schroeter’s last “super underground film” for which he could combine a unique international cast. Andréa Ferréol gambols erotically with three dogs and recites Poe’s The Raven; Magdalena Montezuma incarnates an angel of death; Bulle Ogier personifies “The Murderous Soul”; and Udo Kier carries a flower into the forest, like Schroeter’s hero Novalis, before repeatedly bashing his head into a rock.

Les Flocons d’or was intended to open the senses to tragedy through Kitsch, without shying away from the trivial. I wrote in my exposé: “Willow Springs no longer allowed love, Les Flocons d’or lets it resurrect”. The first episode, titled En Cuba 1949, was my answer to the grand cinema melodramas in the style of Ava Gardner and Rita Hayworth. [...] The second episode, Un Drame du rail, we filmed as a naturalistic drama at the Bochum freight station. [...] The third episode, Coeur brisé, set in Avignon, anticipated my fascination with madness from Tag der Idioten. [...] The fourth episode, Der Verrat, was a parody of the new German Heimatfilm in the style of Pioniere in Ingolstadt (Pioneers in Ingolstadt) and Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern (Hunting Scenes from Bavaria). [...]

PRODUCTION 1: Andreas Thein - Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
Schulstr. 4
40213, Düsseldorf, Germania
Tel. 49 2118993724
andreas.thein@duesseldorf.de

PRODUCTION 2: Stefan Droessler - Filmmuseum München
St. Jakobs-Platz 1
80331, München, Germania
Tel. 49 8923322575
stefan.droessler@muenchen.de

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