The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1971)
(Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter)
Country: GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
Synopsis:
A professional goalie out of play with a pulled muscle for a few days strangles a cinema cashier and goes to visit an old friend running a frontier inn.
Review:
Like The Left-Handed Woman by the same author this is a film devoted to the unexplained erratic behaviour of its central character, and the conceit hinted at in the title and elaborated later on, both in context and out, by a frontier customs officer seems arbitrary and not especially meaningful. However, it is this very arbitrariness that no doubt makes it a product of its time, and the film has its admirers certainly.
(Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter)
Country: GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
Synopsis:
A professional goalie out of play with a pulled muscle for a few days strangles a cinema cashier and goes to visit an old friend running a frontier inn.
Review:
Like The Left-Handed Woman by the same author this is a film devoted to the unexplained erratic behaviour of its central character, and the conceit hinted at in the title and elaborated later on, both in context and out, by a frontier customs officer seems arbitrary and not especially meaningful. However, it is this very arbitrariness that no doubt makes it a product of its time, and the film has its admirers certainly.
(Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter)
Country: GER
Technical: col 101m
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar
Synopsis:
A professional goalie out of play with a pulled muscle for a few days strangles a cinema cashier and goes to visit an old friend running a frontier inn.
Review:
Like The Left-Handed Woman by the same author this is a film devoted to the unexplained erratic behaviour of its central character, and the conceit hinted at in the title and elaborated later on, both in context and out, by a frontier customs officer seems arbitrary and not especially meaningful. However, it is this very arbitrariness that no doubt makes it a product of its time, and the film has its admirers certainly.