Putting Things Straight
| Putting Things Straight | |
|---|---|
 Film set Berlin Oct 1979 | |
| Directed by | Georg Brintrup |
| Produced by |
Hartmut Bitomsky Christhardt Burgmann |
| Written by | Georg Brintrup |
| Starring |
Gisela Stein Hanns Zischler Ulrich Gregor Hans Christoph Buch Harun Farocki |
| Music by |
Arnold Schönberg Classical Arabic music |
| Cinematography | Ali Reza Movahed |
| Edited by |
Carlo Carlotto Georg Brintrup |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 min |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
Putting Things Straight (German title: “Ich räume auf”) is a 1979 film directed and written by Georg Brintrup. The director's first TV-release, it was shot in 16 mm film. The filmscript is based on a polemic printed in 1925 ("Ich räume auf - Meine Anklage gegen meine Verleger")[1] by the Jewish German poet Else Lasker-Schüler, the principal woman representative of German Expressionism.
Premise
The film describes a dispute between poetess Else Lasker-Schüler and her publishers. The film takes place in Berlin before, during and after World War I it deals with the rights of the author quoting from Karl Marx: "A writer is judged as productive, not on the amount of ideas he produces, but on the amount of money his publisher is able to profit from his works."[2]
Cast
- Gisela Stein – Else Lasker-Schüler
- Frank Burkner – Paul Cassirer
- Hanns Zischler – Alfred Flechtheim
- Ulrich Gregor – Kurt Wolff (publisher)
- Hans Christoph Buch – Franz Werfel
- Harun Farocki – Friend of Flechtheim
Production
The film was first broadcast on December 23, 1979 by Westdeutscher Rundfunk. It was then shown at the 1980 International Film Festival Rotterdam