26/71 Zeichenfilm - Balzac Und Das Auge Gottes

Synopsis

An animation film with stick figures of a man and a woman and the three-cornered eye of God. Kren got the story from Balzac, which tells of a hanged man who survived, and the custom that allows him in this case to take a widow as his wife. Despite the film’s brevity, the story is even more complicated in Kren’s version: the man is a suicide case, rescued by the eye of God after he has had sex with the woman. In the end, the woman hangs on the rope.

Kurt Kren: That is a type of male chauvinism. God is male in German. He helps the man, but he is a man.

Hans Scheugl: Who says: "But Otto..."?

KK: The eye of God.

HS: Why?

KK: Because the woman does not care at all about the eye and because it is completely full of shit and cannot see who is there, and naturally, the first person that comes to mind is Otto Mühl.