The visit
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The visit |
| Original title | The Visit |
| Country of production | Italy , USA , Germany , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernhard Wicki |
| script | Ben Barzman |
| production |
Darryl F. Zanuck Julien Derode |
| music |
Hans-Martin Majewski Richard Arnell |
| camera | Armando Nannuzzi |
| cut |
Samuel E. Beetley Françoise Diot |
| occupation | |
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The visit is a feature film from 1964 and a film adaptation of the play The visit of the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt .
action
Claire Zachanassian is a very rich woman. She returns to her hometown after years of absence. The mayor of the city is plagued by great financial worries and he has high hopes that the wealthy daughter will help the city. However, Mrs. Zachanassian has not forgotten why she left the city at that time. She was expecting Serge Miller's child as a teenager and was driven out of town by the citizens. With the visit, the time for revenge has come. She is ready to help the city with its money worries. However, they are demanding that Serge Miller be killed for it. Under the pressure of financial worries, Serge Miller is actually sentenced to death. Only shortly before his execution does Claire Zachanassian pardon her former lover.
background
The big difference between the film version and the play is the happy ending that is worked into the film . Serge Miller (Alfred Ill there) is actually murdered at Dürrenmatt. However, 20th Century Fox requested the change from Bernhard Wicki. Another change was the move from Switzerland to a country in the Balkans . The filming of the film took place from September 9 to December 17, 1963 in Ponte Galeria near Rome . The film was invited to the Cannes International Film Festival in 1964 . The world premiere took place as part of the competition. The German cinema premiere was finally in September 1964.
Bernhard Wicki was equally friends with Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch , between whom there was a friendship, but also a rivalry. At that time, Frisch was living in Rome and paid a visit to the shooting. The fact that he appears in the film for 8 seconds, in which he can be clearly recognized, went almost unnoticed for more than half a century and was not even known to Dürrenmatt and Frisch connoisseurs.
Reviews
“Bernhard Wicki's staging has some highlights, but largely lapses into superficial realism and turns the bitter parable into a more conventional melodrama. The happy ending - the woman saves her former lover from execution at the last moment - seems like an imposed compromise. "
Awards
In addition to being nominated for the competition for the Palme d'Or in Cannes , the Swiss costume designer René Hubert was nominated for an Oscar in 1965 for his work on this film .
literature
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Old Lady's Visit. A tragic comedy . Arche Verlag, Zurich 1956
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt: The Old Lady's Visit. Diogenes, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-257-23045-1 .
- Lawrence J. Quirk : Ingrid Bergman and Her Films. Translated from American English by Marie Margarete Giese. Goldmann, Munich 1982, pp. 142f., ISBN 3-442-10214-6 .
Web links
- The visit to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The visit to Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Roman Bucheli: Max Frisch goes Hollywood - and nobody notices it , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 26, 2017, p. 37.
- ↑ The visit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .