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Dominican Rep. Mann ist Mann
- Original title
- Mann ist Mann
- Year
- 1931
- Running time
- 51 min.
- Country
Germany- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Genre
- Documentary. Drama | Half-length Film. Silent Film. Stage Play
- Synopsis
- Stage play directed by Berthold Brecht, filmed by Carl Koch, about a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.
Mann ist Mann is a parable about the mutability of man. The place is Kilkoa, India. Galy Gay (Lorre), a simple, poor Irish dock worker goes out to buy a fish but instead agrees to purchase a cucumber that he does not need. When a machine-gun unit of British Tommies, standing on stilts and wearing false noses and hands to effect, that has lost its fourth man realizes that here “is a man who can’t say no,” they propose a business deal. If Galy Gay will agree to replace their missing comrade, they will sell him an elephant at a bargain price. “For about any kind of deal I am your man,” says Galy Gay, who soon disavows his wife, his name, his past, altogether his sense of identity. Because “one man’s as good as another,” the soldiers take Galy Gay apart like a car and reassemble him bit by bit. To complete the transformation, the soldiers arrest him when he tries to sell the fake army elephant and convict and sentence him to death. “I’m not the man you’re looking for,” says Galy Gay, throwing himself on the ground. “I don’t even know him. My name is Jip. I swear it.” The soldiers smell progress. Time is up. Galy Gay walks to the place of execution “like the protagonist of a tragedy” and stands against the “Johnny-are-your-pants-dry-wall.” At the shout of “three,” he faints. Entreated to prepare the former Galy Gay’s funeral oration - since “you knew him - better than we did, maybe” - the reconstructed Jip sings “The Song of the Both” (“What’s a Man? Something and nothing.”) before delivering his own eulogy. The conversion of the weak-minded, soft-hearted docker into a human fighting machine - armed with pistol, rifle, hand grenades, and a knife between his teeth - is complete. 1fps- Movie Soulmates' ratings
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