Filmstill Harold And Aaude

Blauer Salon
Summer term 2023
Harold and Maude
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Harold and Maude

  • Harold and Maude
  • Comedy
  • USA
  • 1971
  • Director: Hal Ashby
  • 91 min
  • 35mm IB Tech
  • Original Version with german Subtitles
  • with Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles

Harold is very inventive when it comes to his hobby: staging his suicide - on a rope, in a pool, in a massacre, by explosion. The main beneficiary (as his psychiatrist puts it) is his rich and domineering mother. His second hobby is no less morbid: he attends funerals of people he doesn't know. He shares this predilection with Maude, who is by no means morbid but extremely fun-loving. A love story develops between the two. By the way, she is sixty years older than him.

Hal Ashby tells his story of the mismatched couple with a light touch, skillfully avoiding anything that could turn it into a tragedy. Naturally, Harold's environment - consisting of his mother, his military-obsessed uncle, his psychiatrist and a priest - reacts with disapproval, but Ashby stages the accusations in such a way that it is clear Harold will not take it all so seriously. This wonderful ode to life shows a love that goes beyond all conventions and is possible after all, in the most beautiful flower-power style.

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Supporting FilmThe Cameraman's Revenge

  • Месть кинематографического оператора
  • Animation, Comedy, Short
  • Russian Federation
  • 1912
  • Director: Władysław Starewicz
  • 13 min
  • 16mm
  • Without dialogue

A jilted husband takes his revenge by filming his wife and her lover and showing the result at the local cinema. This was one of Starewicz' first animated films, and stars a cast of animated beetles.

Live scoring: Pavel Polenz and Lehel Lajos (sounds, vocals & electronics)

Loan of the film print with kind support of Metropolis Archiv - Kinemathek Hamburg.
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