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Reisender Krieger is a Swiss film by Christian Schocher. The film depicts a week in the life of a travelling cosmetics salesman, inspired by Homer's Odyssey and the novel Ulysses by James Joyce. A road movie with amateur actors, it was aired in 1981 in television and premiered in cinema in early 1982. == Plot == This plot description follows the director's cut of 2008. On a grey autumn morning, a middle-aged man named Krieger leaves his Swiss Plattenbau home in a housing estate called ''Wohninsel Webermühle'',〔Located in Neuenhof AG, see: 〕 driving a Citroën CX. Krieger visits beauty and hair salons, trying to sell products of the ''Blue Eye'' label, especially the ''Blue Dream'' Eau de Cologne, advertising with the slogan "That's how this winter smells in Switzerland" (in Swiss German: "Eso schmeckts dä Winter i dr Schwyz"). He isn't very successful. His route leads him to Basel via Olten. In Basel, Krieger visits the autumn fair (''Basler Herbstmesse'') after having phoned his wife from the hotel room. He drinks in a bar and in a dance hall, though rather observing the night life surrounding him than taking an active part in it. The following day Krieger drives on, into the Swiss Alps. He takes along another salesman who had his driving licence suspended. Krieger mentions to him that he was a member of the French Foreign Legion. After visiting a hair salon in a Graubünden tourist village (the woman in charge mentions that ''Blue Eyes eye shadow doesn't sell well), they go to a local evening event with dance music. Krieger's morning shower and shave are shown extensively. He then travels without the other salesman, and now takes along a hippie sporting a full beard and felt hat. At first quiet, his new travel companion soon makes homosexual advances, but is refused by Krieger who says that he's content with his wife. Finally, Krieger throws him out of the car. After a drive through Lucerne, Krieger talks with the female owner of a hair salon. The hairdresser, talking in Basel German and smoking a lot, asks Krieger about his life and his relationship to his wife while they drink champagne. She berates Krieger for spending his time in bars and driving. According to her, Krieger is always tired when he visits her and looks in need of a hair wash〔"Kopfwäsche", the German word for hair wash, means also a dressing-down.〕 - "you want to sell me something, but I'd have something much better for you". Krieger fears for his job and stresses that he has to provide for his wife - to which the hairdresser responds asking him whether he thinks that leaving his wife alone in a tower block means providing for her. And for the rest, the hairdresser professes, she's fed up with the "arsehole-ness" ("Arschlochigkeit") of the world in general. - After leaving her, Krieger wanders aimlessly around the city streets at night-time. Another day. Krieger sleeps in his car on the side of a mountain road. A young woman walks by, he notices her and offers her a lift to Tenna. Krieger is allowed to stay overnight on her parents' farm. The four of them eat "Gschwellti" (potatoes boiled in their jacket) and conduct a faltering conversation. The father is rather suspicious of Krieger and asks the daughter - in Krieger's presence - where she has "picked up that one". Krieger gives her a flask of perfume. Krieger drives to Zürich, visiting ''Blue Eyes office. Apparently he's looking for someone or something there, opening various doors on the floor. As Krieger argues with an employee on the floor, a big ''Blue Eye'' logo painted on a glass pane is carried to another room, followed by a photographer and female models. - Krieger goes out, into the Zürich nightlife. At a bar, a middle-aged woman offers him sex; it remains unclear whether he accepts, but in the next scene, he sits alone, smoking and drinking before a stage where an Asian female singer performs Strangers in the Night. - Another bar, Krieger smokes and drinks. A young man in a leather jacket comes in, takes a seat at a table, and starts drumming fast rhythms with his hands and feet. Krieger pays and leaves, only to notice at another bar that the young guy is there again. - Krieger dances in a disco. The drummer is also there and accompanies the rhythm with a whistle. Krieger and the drummer - his name is Jürgen - start to hit the nightlife together and become friends. In the early morning, they drunkenly talk in the ''Shopville'' subterranean shopping mall under Zürich Main Station, telling of their lifes. Jürgen mentions that his deaf stepfather had no understanding of music at all. At the ''Blue Eye'' office, Krieger throws an empty bottle at the building. He gives Jürgen the key to the car and says "Bring me home, boy". On the way, they sing ''Somebody Loves Me''. The car vanishes in the underground parking of ''Wohninsel Webermühle''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reisender Krieger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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