Klassenverhältnisse (1984)
Directed by Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Psychological Drama |
Release Date - Feb 27, 1987 (USA) |
Run Time - 126 min. |
Countries - Germany, France |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Financed in Germany and filmed in New York, Class Relations is adapted from Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Amerika. Christian Heinisch plays a bourgeois German forced to leave his homeland after a scandal. He accepts his uncle's invitation to move to America, where he takes a succession of "Joe Jobs." Heinisch tries, but he is unable to shake off his old-world customs. Worse, the class structure in Europe never prepared him to have to actually use his hands to make a living. Rather than tack on an ending of their own, writer/directors Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub conclude Class Relations in the same manner that Kafka left Amerika behind when he died--with the hero's ultimate fate still in limbo.
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bourgeois, class [social], German [nationality], immigrant, working-class