The Trap

The Trap ( Fällen ) is a film of Peter Watkins left in 1975

Synopsis

In 1974, radio operator Sveriges inviting the public to introduce scenarios on “the future”, Watkins and the journalist Bo Melander develop a scenario on the topic of the nuclear power.

The action proceeds in 1999, in the entirely video-supervised underground apartments of engineer, John, working for a treatment plant of nuclear waste on the west coast of Sweden. Television delivers optimistic messages over the New Millenium. Bertil, the brother of John and one of his nephew, Bo, accused of “antisocial” activities, come to join it to celebrate the new year, but the visit quickly becomes oppressive because of the political dissensions of the two brothers. Bertil, denouncing the consumer society which produced this nuclear waste, shows John to be a prisoner of a system which it guarantees blindly.

Realization

The film was made entirely in studio, with four television cameras. Watkins, seeking to find, in spite of this not very flexible equipment, the style of the current events to which it is attached, leaves with each cameraman the responsibility for the images which it takes and does not give, contrary to the uses into force at the time, not of precise instruction on the movements and framings. He will say to Joseph Gomez ( Peter Watkins , Twayne Publishers): “I had the feeling to abdicate a share of this control that many realizers assert jealously like their absolute prerogative. It seemed to me that I opened the possibility for other members of the team of taking personal initiatives. ” and speaks about a “spontaneous experiment where we all could take share” .

Data sheet

  • Title: The Trap

  • original Title: Fällen
  • Realization: Peter Watkins
  • Scenario: Bo Melander and Peter Watkins with the actors
  • Production: Stig Palm
  • Photography: Allen Mauritzon, Raymond Wemmenlöv, Bengt Ove Gustavsson, Torsten Törnqvist, and Lars Bermann
  • Assembly: Monika Barthelson
  • Sound: Rolf Berling
  • Lighting: Paco Härleman
  • Direction technical: Egon Blank
  • Costumes: Gunnel Nilsson
  • Country of origin: Sweden
  • Format: Color - Mono
  • Kind: Science fiction
  • Lasted: 65 min.
  • Language: Swedish

Artistic distribution

  • Karl Lennart Sandquist : John
  • Bo Melander: Bertil
  • Anita Kronevi: Margareta
  • Jonas Berg : Bo
  • Thomas Carlsson: Peter

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • description of film by Peter Watkins

  • card IMDb

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