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The Niklashausen Journey

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  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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On Laetare Sunday, March 24, 1476—the day winter is driven out and summer invited in—Hans Böhm (Michael König), a shepherd known for his musical performances, burns his drum in front of the assembled peasants and speaks to them of his revelation: the Mother of God has appeared and instructed him to preach to the people. Soon his preaching moves from the religious to the political, and thousands of peasants from Bavaria, Swabia, Hesse, Thuringia, and Saxony journey to see him. But while his support increases, Böhm is filled with an inarticulate dissatisfaction that can be absolved only by embracing his own self-destruction. Fassbinder links revolutionary tumult with performance art experiments and the simple grace of sheepherding in a film set on the trash-strewn streets and junkyards of Berlin in 1970. In a gesture of rebelliousness and oddball conflation of modern decadence (and youth culture) with medieval religious art, Fassbinder himself plays a character called the Black Monk, dressed in dark sunglasses and a slick black leather jacket.

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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.

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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.

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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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1970 ‘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

Cinematography Cinematography

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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DavidNeedToKnow

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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teamgal

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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Liz

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.

Levi

Review by Levi ★

please Rainer get away from the french already

Darren Carver-Balsiger

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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Sally Jane Black

Review by Sally Jane Black

Fassbinder at his angriest, most profane, most Godardian.

Thomas

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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BrandonHabes

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…

Filipe Furtado

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.

Dante

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!

Adriana Scarpin

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.

LUBBY

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 story is slight, but every scene sticks with the viewer and drips with meaning.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2018

Fassbinder suggests a temporal continuum of thwarted upheaval that can only be addressed (and, thus, confronted) by way of frontal artistic attack.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2007

Amazingly simple editing and sound design -- most scenes are complete in one shot and use only one or two sound effects or just music in addition to the dialogue-- create a minimally realist and hypertheatrical vision of class conflict and potential doom.

Twisting a German tradition to his own ends, Fassbinder restyles Bohm's martyrdom as a provocateur's call to arms.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2006

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Strictly for medieval shepherds on the look out for stray sheep.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 23, 2006

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a film about absolutely nothing

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 22, 2002

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This 1970 allegory about allegory veers from intellectual exercise into emotional exhortation and blurs the line between theater and film. Nesting complex visual strategies within simpler ones, writer-directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who plays a monk in a motorcycle jacket) and Michael Fengler present a series of scenes that demonstrate the martyrdom of a shepherd, who’s also a performance artist and revolutionary, after his followers persuade him to abandon his sheep and take up residence in the home of a bourgeois chick who’s got a big crush on him. The story alternates between this troupe—allegorical characters within the fiction of the movie as well as the street-theater pieces they perform—and a clan of ecclesiastical and royal types who seem to spend most of their time choreographing decadent scenarios in elaborate interiors. Amazingly simple editing and sound design—most scenes are complete in one shot and use only one or two sound effects or just music in addition to the dialogue—create a minimally realist and hypertheatrical vision of class conflict and potential doom.

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In the 15th Century, Hans Böhm, a shepherd, claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. He began preaching and gathered around him thousands of disciples who believed him to be the New Messiah. He was arrested and burned at the stake by the church. Fassbinder uses this true story to reflect the sexual and political upheaval in Germany, showing how and why revolution fails.

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Color, DVD, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2002
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Hanna Schygulla, Michael Konig, Margit Carstensen, Kurt Raab, Michael Gordon (II)
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The Niklashausen Journey

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  • Filmcritic.com Christopher Null a film about absolutely nothing
  • Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dennis Schwartz Strictly for medieval shepherds on the look out for stray sheep.
  • TV Guide Robert Pardi Twisting a German tradition to his own ends, Fassbinder restyles Bohm's martyrdom as a provocateur's call to arms.
  • Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector Amazingly simple editing and sound design -- most scenes are complete in one shot and use only one or two sound effects or just music in addition to the dialogue-- create a minimally realist and hypertheatrical vision of class conflict and potential doom.
  • CinePassion Fernando F. Croce Fassbinder suggests a temporal continuum of thwarted upheaval that can only be addressed (and, thus, confronted) by way of frontal artistic attack.

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  1. The Niklashausen Journey (TV Movie 1970)

    The Niklashausen Journey: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler. With Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Michael Gordon. 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.

  2. The Niklashausen Journey

    The Niklashausen Journey. 1970, Drama, 1h 26m. 67%. Tomatometer 6 Reviews. 32%. Audience Score 100+ Ratings. Want to see. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email.

  3. The Niklashausen Journey (TV Movie 1970)

    The Niklashausen Journey is very much a product of its time, being halfways between a Goddardian (by way of Brecht) "distanced" telling of a historical tale, full of anachronisms and on-screen commentary, and a hip parable, not unlike an ultra-leftist Godspell with polemic replacing the songs.

  4. The Niklashausen Journey

    The Niklashausen Journey. On Laetare Sunday, March 24, 1476—the day winter is driven out and summer invited in—Hans Böhm (Michael König), a shepherd known for his musical performances, burns his drum in front of the assembled peasants and speaks to them of his revelation: the Mother of God has appeared and instructed him to preach to the ...

  5. The Niklashausen Journey (1970) Movie Review from Eye for Film

    Eye For Film >> Movies >> The Niklashausen Journey (1970) Film Review The Niklashausen Journey. Reviewed by: Leanne McGrath "But while visually striking at times, narratively the film often plods along and the revolutionary rants tend to get repetitive." ... The Niklashauser Journey is not easy watching. The influence of Godard is evident, as ...

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    The Niklashausen Journey. Edit. Summaries. 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 ...

  7. The Niklashausen Journey

    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, ...

  8. The Niklashausen Journey

    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.

  9. The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

    T he Niklashausen Journey (a.k.a. Die Niklashauser Fart) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most overtly political film and also, arguably, his most experimental, as it combines historical references and contemporary concerns in an attempt to portray all kinds of political radicalism as a fundamentally lost cause.Fassbinder co-directed the film with Michael Fengler, another up-and-coming force in ...

  10. The Niklashausen Journey (movie, 1970)

    The Niklashausen Journey (United Kingdom) Drama. 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 ...

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    The Niklashausen Journey Reviews. The story is slight, but every scene sticks with the viewer and drips with meaning. Full Review | Aug 28, 2018. Fassbinder suggests a temporal continuum of ...

  12. The Niklashausen Journey [1970] by Michael K?nig

    The Niklashausen Journey is about Hans Bohm a shepherd from the 15th century who claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. As he begins to preach his message he is followed by several people who believe him to be the new messiah. As a result of this he is arrested and burned at the stake. Although this film takes place in the 15th ...

  13. The Niklashausen Journey

    The Niklashausen Journey. by Lisa Alspector October 26, 1985. This 1970 allegory about allegory veers from intellectual exercise into emotional exhortation and blurs the line between theater and ...

  14. The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

    Film Movie Reviews The Niklashausen Journey — 1970. The Niklashausen Journey. 1970. 1h 30m. ... Karl Scheydt (Niklashausen citizen) Hanna Köhler (Sängerin) Peter Berling (Executioner) ...

  15. The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

    THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY Die Niklashauser Fart. Directed by. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler. West Germany, 1970. Biography, Drama, TV Movie. 90. Synopsis. 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 ...

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    It is also possible to buy "The Niklashausen Journey" on Apple TV as download or rent it on Apple TV online. Synopsis. 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 ...

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    The shaggy 5th-century shepherd (Michael König) claims to have divine visions, rallies the masses against the decadent elite, is incinerated for his trouble. (His opposite number is the aristocratic momma's boy who delights in the opportunity to belittle a pleb, "I must smell him for myself!") Tenebrous mansions and Red hymns, injustices ...

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    The Niklashausen Journey is a film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler with Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Margit Carstensen, Michael Gordon .... Year: 1970. Original title: Die Niklashauser Fart. Synopsis: 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 ...

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    The Niklashausen Journey (1970) 10/26/1970 (DE) Drama, TV Movie 1h 30m User Score. Overview. 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 ...

  22. The Niklashausen Journey [DVD]

    The Niklashausen Journey is about Hans Bohm a shepherd from the 15th century who claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. As he begins to preach his message he is followed by several people who believe him to be the new messiah. As a result of this he is arrested and burned at the stake. Although this film takes place in the 15th ...

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    The Niklashausen Journey (1970) starring Michael König, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.