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- Title
NEW GERMAN CINEMA'S FORGOTTEN FILM: HANSJÜRGEN POHLAND'S KATZ UND MAUS.
- Authors
Saryusz‐Wolska, Magdalena
- Abstract
Katz und Maus, a film by Hansjürgen Pohland, is usually mentioned merely as the failed adaptation of the second volume of Günter Grass's Danziger Trilogie. It is in fact one of the most controversial films in German film history, and was even discussed in the Bundestag. Directed by one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and released in 1967, Katz und Maus is one of the first films of the New German Cinema; however, it has never been discussed thoroughly in the context of this movement. Owing to its cast that included the sons of Willy Brandt in the role of Joachim Mahlke, the film eventually became an even greater scandal than its well-known literary source. Its critics focused on the controversial masturbation scenes while failing to note how it was influenced by the cinéma d'auteur movement as well as how Pohland managed to establish a kind of cinematic translation of Grass's narrative style. The aim of this article is to discuss the background of Pohland's Katz und Maus within the New German Cinema as well as to analyse its formal references to the European New Wave Cinema of the 1960s.
- Subjects
KATZ und Maus (Film); POHLAND, Hansjurgen; NEW German cinema; FILM adaptations; GRASS, Gunter, 1927-2015; AUTEUR theory (Motion pictures); NEW wave films
- Publication
German Life & Letters, 2013, Vol 66, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0016-8777
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.1111/glal.12006