Ordnung
Order
In the face of political pressure at home, Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless moved to Germany in the mid-seventies to continue his filmmaking career there. Yet despite critical acclaim and festival recognition, he remained a perpetual outsider figure in German cinema, a position also explored in typically unflinching fashion in 1980’s "Ordnung", albeit in transposed form. Aside from his Polish name, Herbert Sladowsky is German through and through, with seemingly everything one needs as such: wife, apartment, career, bourgeois friends. But something is wrong, something that will not be diagnosed or pathologised, but just shown in all its agony with patient, riveting focus, with a stillness that is as hard to bear as Sladowsky’s life. He hasn’t worked as a civil engineer for nearly two years, sits in the dark at home, bellows in the street in the morning to wake up the neighbours, frets about having fed a cigarette to a goat; even when with people, he is always alone. The despairing notes he writes are ultimately misread as poetry, but they are the clearest expression of his desire: "Let them say there is a man who sleeps and never wakes up."
Source: 73. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Herbert Sladkovsky
- Maria Sladkovsky
- Heidi
- Jürgen
- Ärztin
- Oberarzt
- Pfleger
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Story
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Lighting design
Set design
Construction manager
Costume design
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound
Sound assistant
Foley artist
Audio mixing
Music
Cast
- Herbert Sladkovsky
- Maria Sladkovsky
- Heidi
- Jürgen
- Ärztin
- Oberarzt
- Pfleger
Production company
in co-production with
Producer
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Shoot
- 1979: Frankfurt am Main, Taunus [Herbst]
Festival-Aufführung (FR): 16.05.1980, Cannes, IFF
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Ordnung
- Weiterer Titel (eng) All in Order
Versions
Original
Festival-Aufführung (FR): 16.05.1980, Cannes, IFF
Formatfassung
Aufführung (DE): 20.02.2023, Berlin, IFF - Forum Special