Klassenverh%C3%A4ltnisse
Klassenverhltnisse , known in English as Class Relations, in French as Amerika, rapports de classe , is a 1984 film by the French filmmaking duo of JeanMarie Straub and Danile Huillet. It is based on Franz Kafkas unfinished first novel, Amerika.
As Franz Kafka never visited the United States, the film was intentionally shot in Europe, with the bulk of shooting occurring in Germany. The film features prominently architecture, flora and costuming including a policeman in a bobby helmet that is unlikely to be found in the United States. Only a handful of shots were shot on location in the United States, including the Statue of Liberty and the Missouri River. Though Huillet and Straub are both French, the film was shot in German, the books original language.The film was shot on blackandwhite 35mm Kodak film stock by French cinematographer William Lubtchansky. Like all other StraubHuillet films, it only uses location sound recorded at the same time as the image, emphasizing cinemas documentary nature over the pictorial. ........
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