Albert – Warum? / Ausschnitte aus der Oper »Albert Warum?«

Albert – Warum? | West Germany 1978 | Dir+Scr: Josef Rödl | Cin: Karlheinz Gschwind | Music: Arno C. Bamberg | Cast: Michael Eichenseer, Georg Schiessl, Elfriede Bleisteiner, Martin Holnberger, Hans Prösl, Ludwig Rödl | 108 min | original version | “Rödl has used the cinema's craft with such unobtrusive brilliance that his debut film looks like a naturalistic portrait of Bavarian village reality. The longer one follows the touching giant Albert through his martyrdom, the stronger the impression that he is the only normal person far and wide.” (Der Spiegel) “ALBERT – WARUM? is a miracle in two respects: first, because Rödl made this very precisely and not at all amateurishly staged film with a small group of friends for a mere thirty thousand marks; second, because he achieves a quiet, poetic uncompromisingness that invites comparison with Robert Bresson's films MOUCHETTE and AU HAZARD BALTHASAR.” (Die Zeit) – Albert Warum?