Foreplays is a column that explores under-known short films by renowned directors. Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Machorka-Muff (1963) is showing April 24 – May 23, 2019 on Mubi as part of the series A Straub-Huillet Retrospective. Machorka-Muff (1963), the first film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, is an adaptation of "Bonn Diary," a short story by Heinrich Böll—a writer to whom the filmmakers would return in Not Reconciled (1965). Sharp and exacting as a keen-edged knife, the film follows the visit of Erich von Machorka-Muff (Erich Kuby), a former Nazi colonel, to the capital of West Germany. The main purpose of his trip is, as we shall discover, the inauguration of a Military Academy Memorial. Killing two birds with one stone, this event will also allow him to rehabilitate the name of Marshal Hürlanger-Hiss, in honor of whom the academy is named. Those who approach Machorka-Muff casually, without previous information about its historical background,...
- 4/21/2019
- MUBI
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