Clinch

Film Information:
Year:

1978

Clinch

País:

 

Director:

John Cook

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

97 min

Cast:

  • Hermann Juranek, Christa Schubert, Franz Schuh, Waltraud Misak, Johanna Froidl

Production:

  • GUIÓN: John Cook, Helmut Zenker
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Helmut Pirnat,
  • Kurt Mayer
  • MONTAJE: Susanne Schett
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Rudolf Klingohr

Contact:

  • Austrian Filmmuseum
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  • 1010 Vienna, Austria
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Synopsis

Original Title: Schwitzkasten

Clinch is not as anarchic in spirit as Cook’s other works. Its beauty is extremely controlled, its camera movement is minimal, its lighting is exquisit and the dialogues show a special care for the way people actually speak. Clinch can be read as showing a worker’s defeat by the capitalist system, for which reason its controlled aesthetic is commonly seen as expressing certain social inevitabilities. But it seems appropriate that a film about a worker’s progress, about solidarity and how to live it, should be so (self-)consciously organized, as organization is crucial when facing as supremely organized an enemy as capital. In this light, Clinch shows how to live solidarity, how simple defiance and decency can be.

John Cook’s films are presented in new prints, restored by the Austrian Filmmuseum.

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