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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1984 DVD Release: 03/17/2009 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Studio: New Yorker Video Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama

Financed in Germany and filmed in New York, Class Relations is adapted from Franz Kafka's unfinished novel -Amerika. Christian Heinisch plays a bourgeois German forced to leave his homeland after a scandal. He accepts his uncle's invitation to move to America, where he takes a succession of "Joe Jobs." Heinisch tries, but he is unable to shake off his old-world customs. Worse, the class structure in Europe never prepared him to have to actually use his hands to make a living. Rather than tack on an ending of their own, writer/directors Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub conclude Class Relations in the same manner that Kafka left -Amerika behind when he died--with the hero's ultimate fate still in limbo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Christian Heinisch - Karl Rossmann