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  Samir
Morlove - Eine Ode für Heisenberg
  Switzerland 1987
Videotape, 70:00, colour
The wonderful adventures of private detective Morlove take the viewer for a non-stop ride from one surprise to the next. Every unwritten law of film and video is hilariously trampled underfoot. 'Morlove' is a strip-cartoon of a video: a colourful marriage of fiction with a string of cynical jibes at prevailing trends in the field of social criticism. Any scene remotely capable of being labelled macho, racist or male chauvinist receives a reproof in the form of a scribbled footnote. The bizarre ups and downs of the story's hero, preceded by a conversation between two billiard balls representing Einstein and Heisenberg, lead via 'Rick's cafe' in Casablanca to the underground subculture of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev. 'Private Eye' Morlove, with his poor head for heights and other neurotic tics, hardly answers to our usual expectations regarding private detectives and that is really just as well, since this production answers to no usual expectations at all.

Erik Quint

Scenario: Samir, Martin Witz, Camera: Lukas Strebel, Editing: Christoph Schaub, Kathrin Pluess, Rolf Schniders, Light: Bruno Gabsa, Sound: Ronnie Wahli, Florian Eidenbenz, Music: Fred Buscaglione, Sovjet Sex, Nadjma, Production: Videoladen Zürich, With: Michell Huettner, Anke Schubert, Ingold Wildenauer