Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations) (1984)
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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… More 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Feb 21, 1984 Wide
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Cast
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Christian Heinisch
as Karl Rossmann
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Mario Adorf
as Uncle Jakob
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Harun Farocki
as Delamarche
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Manfred Blank
as Robinson
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Alf Bold
as Waiter
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Libgart Schwartz
as Theres
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Alfred Edel
as Head Wiater
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Andi Engel
as Head Porter
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Laura Betti
as Brunelda
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Thom Andersen
as Guile
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Reinald Schnell
as Heizer
