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The niklashausen journey, die niklashauser fart.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Michael Fengler

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

Michael König Hanna Schygulla Rainer Werner Fassbinder Margit Carstensen Walter Sedlmayr Günther Kaufmann Kurt Raab Ingrid Caven Peer Raben Franz Maron Karl Scheydt Hanna Köhler Peter Berling Carla Egerer Michael Fengler Sigi Graue Magdalena Montezuma Elga Sorbas Ursula Strätz

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Michael Fengler

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Thea Eymèsz

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Dietrich Lohmann

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Janus Film und Fernsehen WDR

Alternative Titles

Le Voyage à Niklashausen, A Viagem a Niklashauer

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26 oct 1970, releases by country.

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Review by teamgal ★★★ 3

The most revolutionary aspect of THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY is that Rainer Werner Fassbinder spent government money to make a Godardian period piece that's crammed full of Marxist dogma. Many an old German woman surely died from stroke when they caught this on state-sponsored television. Seems to me that of everything Fassbinder ever made this is the work in which he went the hardest. He doesn't give a fuck what you think, he's just doing his thing. And somehow, Andy Warhol, JLG and Straub–Huillet make perfect bedfellows.

The closest Fassbinder ever got to making a Ken Russell movie.

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Review by DavidNeedToKnow ★★½

This film was often like a stage play and was still in the director's testing and discovery phase. Somehow medieval but also modern and in its way like Godard's works and clearly inspired by it. Just like Buñuel here and there. The philosophical and marxist content was interesting and the dialogues and monologues had substance. Many of the usual faces from the Fassbinder crew can be seen, but of course Hanna Schygulla stands out as always. The pacing could have been better and more dynamic wouldn't have hurt anything here. For arthouse fans.

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Review by Liz ★★★½

Elements of this are undoubtedly Godardian (especially those long takes), but this reminds me a lot more of Yoshida's Eros + Massacre in its time-flattening narrative. Like that film, Fassbinder puts the activists of the present on an equal plane with those of the past, each interacting with and feeding off of the other and learning from their mistakes. It's incredible to think that something this radical -- politically and artistically -- was produced for television.

Review by Levi ★

please Rainer get away from the french already

Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★ 2

An angry, militant film that feels like a step away from Fassbinder's previous gangster flicks although it retains the French New Wave influences. It's a film about religion and revolution told with both medieval and contemporary aspects on screen at the same time. Decidedly artsy, very heavy on political discourse and fundamentally interesting, The Niklashausen Journey is a fine film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Review by Sally Jane Black

Fassbinder at his angriest, most profane, most Godardian.

Review by Thomas ★★

Like many of Fassbinder´s early films, “The Niklashausen Journey” seems to be inspired by Godard, yet not his cool and playful gangster movies but his artsy, avant-garde political essay films that are far removed from a conventional, narrative-driven movie. Thematically, the film focuses on the relationship between Christianity and socialist revolution. There are some interesting ideas and images and I appreciate Fassbinder´s irreverent “I don´t give a fuck” attitude but overall, the film is too inaccessible and all over the place for me.

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Review by BrandonHabes ★★

THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY isn't a film. It's an acerbic political thesis that happened to be filmed that's wildly ambitious but only occasionally effective here and there. It made me reflect on comparable films that are far richer in terms of their cinematic deconstruction of religious and political systems, including Buñuel's THE MILKY WAY (1969), Jodorowsky's THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973), and Bresson's THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (1977). Lots of anti-bourgeois, anti-capitalist, anti-clerical sentiment runs amok throughout, and you can tell Fassbinder wants to condemn both radical groups and the cultures that produce them. 

But I think his stridently avant-garde approach hurts him a bit, mostly because there's not a lot of cinematic offering to this experience. His soaring but uneven ideas about…

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½ 2

Post 1968 self doubting cinema. Among Fassbinder's most frontal and often inventive movie. It does balance his mixx of anger and defeatism of someone who seems to understand that he arrived after disaster whoe artistic gestures are limited. That suit the movie. Rich acting by his usual stock company. Co-directed by Michael Fengler.

Review by Dante ★★★★½

enough hot people spouting leftist ideology to give Jean-Luc Godard circa 1967 a serious run for his money. don't sleep on this, it's major!

Review by Adriana Scarpin ★★★★

A Viagem de Niklashauser estreava há 50 anos na Alemanha. Surpreendentemente este Fassbinder é baseado num fato histórico ocorrido na Alemanha da Idade Média com Hans Böhm, este teve uma visão da Virgem Maria em que ela o incitava a criar um levante contra a Igreja e as classes abastadas. Essa história casa muito bem com o estilo de narrativa experimental anacrônica pós-68 que os diretores fazem aqui, é basicamente uma rechamada à revolução e é tudo que eu precisava assistir hoje. DVDRip no MakingOff.

Review by LUBBY ★★★★ 1

I’ll admit that I was slow to warm up to this, but as it kept rolling I got way more into it. Some favoeite moments include one woman’s Silent Hill -ass mental breakdown about halfway through this, the scene of the three women (witches?) in Gehenna, the massacre, and especially the scene in the junkyard. Truly one of those movies that only gets wilder as it goes.

I haven’t yet seen any of Straub & Huillet’s films, but I feel like they’re probably pretty close to being like this. This is an incredibly dense movie that douses you in Marxist-Leninist theory while immersing you in its religious themes, it’s really a lot to take in, and not the kind of movie that…

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The Niklashausen Journey

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michael Fengler

Michael König

Hanna Schygulla

Margit Carstensen

Michael Gordon

The Niklashausen Journey (1970) Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Michael Fengler

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Michael König (Hans Boehm) Hanna Schygulla (Johanna) Margit Carstensen (Magarethe) Michael Gordon (Antonio) Günther Kaufmann (Leader of the farmers) Kurt Raab (Bishop) Franz Maron (Magarethe's husband) Walter Sedlmayr (Priest) Karl Scheydt (Niklashausen citizen) Chris Karrer (Self)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.

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Reviewed by: Leanne McGrath

This early avant garde film by the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema is one of his most explicitly political pieces, condemning both radical groups and the harsh societies that produce them.

It follows a small group of people trying to start a proletarian revolution against the decadent Bishop and upper classes. They are led by shepherd Hans (Michael Konig), who claims the Virgin Mary appeared to him and told him to start the uprising.

The film is based on the real Boehm, a drummer in Niklashauser, in 1476, who claimed to be the new Messiah.

Fassbinder initially creates sympathy for his revolutionaries and the cause they believe in before ultimately criticising them as much as he slams the decadence of the foolish ruling classes – represented by a Nero-esque Bishop who lives in luxury and is surrounded by a harem of semi-naked boys.

Our protagonists preach of equality but move into a rich woman’s home to live more comfortably. They abuse religion to recruit followers, then complain people are now dictated to by religion rather than thinking for themselves.

The Niklashauser Journey is not easy watching. The influence of Godard is evident, as is the theatricality of Brecht. The voyeuristic point of view the audience usually enjoys is removed – characters talk direct to us and are often framed as though on stage.

Medieval sets, costumes and music are teamed with modern ones and other periods are mentioned – there is reference to the Russian revolution with a song about Lenin.

Fassbinder displays his usual skilful camera work. Long panning shots are used frequently rather than quick cuts, as are sweeping 360degree rotations. Sequences are long and often uneventful but filled with rich detail.

But while visually striking at times, narratively the film often plods along and the revolutionary rants tend to get repetitive.

Those interested in political films and Fassbinder’s frequent themes of criticising his 70s Germany will find much of interest in The Niklashauser Journey but it is definitely one that requires your thinking cap.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Michael Fengler

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler

Starring: Michael Konig, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Michael Gordon

Runtime: 88 minutes

Country: West Germany

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On Laetare Sunday, March 24, 1476 – the day winter is driven out and summer invited in – the drummer Hans Böhm (Michael König) appears in the Franconian town of Niklashausen. He is a shepherd who in the past – on similar occasions – has performed music and songs.

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