The story of Adèle H.

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Movie
German title The story of Adèle H.
Original title L'Histoire d'Adèle H.
Country of production France
original language French , English
Publishing year 1975
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director François Truffaut
script François Truffaut,
Suzanne Schiffman ,
Jean Gruault
production Claude Miller
music Maurice Jaubert
camera Néstor Almendros
cut Martine Barraqué ,
Yann Dedet ,
Jean Gargonne ,
Michèle Neny ,
Muriel Zeleny
occupation
synchronization

The history of Adèle H. (original title: L'Histoire d'Adèle H. ) is an award-winning French film drama by François Truffaut in 1975. The plot is based on the diary of the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo , who in the film by Isabelle Adjani played becomes.

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Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the French writer Victor Hugo , is devastated after the accidental death of her older sister Léopoldine. Her father lives in exile on the Channel Island of Guernsey , where Adèle immortalized himself in the British officer Lt. Albert Pinson in love. In 1863 she followed him to Halifax , Canada , where she was given accommodation with the Saunders family under an assumed name as Miss Lewly. Although Albert rejects her, Adèle writes to her family that she has married him. Her father urges her to return home.

Adèle also tells the father of Albert's actual fiancé that Albert is her husband, which leads to the break between Albert and his fiancé. Adèle follows Albert to Barbados , where he will be stationed next. Because of her obsessive and unrequited love for Albert, Adèle is increasingly losing touch with reality. She walks aimlessly through the streets in shabby clothes and is unable to recognize Albert herself. A local takes care of her and makes sure that Adèle returns to her homeland. In Paris , her father had her admitted to a sanatorium , where she died of mental derangement in 1915 at the age of 84.

background

Originally, Jeanne Moreau was supposed to play the role of Adèle Hugo. Then Catherine Deneuve was in conversation, who was temporarily in a relationship with director François Truffaut. After all, it took seven years for the project to start rolling and Truffaut chose Isabelle Adjani to be its leading actress. The film was shot from January 8 to March 21, 1975 on original locations in Barbados, Senegal and on the Channel Island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo owned a house.

The film premiered in France on October 8, 1975 and was shown four days later at the New York Film Festival . Adjani, who was only 20 at the time, received an Oscar nomination for her performance and was at that time the youngest ever to have been nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category. Truffaut's film was shown in German cinemas in 1978. On December 1, 1984, The story of Adèle H. was shown on DFF 1 for the first time on television in the GDR . In 2003 the drama was released on DVD.

Reviews

"François Truffaut reconstructs the inner drama with great discretion and only suggests psychological connections and historical circumstances," wrote the lexicon of international films . The result is "a moving story that is convincing both humanly and cinematically".

Prisma described the film as an “exciting psychogram”, which “far removed from conventional love stories depicts the failed attempt at self-realization”. Leading actress Isabelle Adjani played “the suffering of the young woman and her decline with compelling mastery”. In doing so, "her face [...] reflects all the nuances of an internalized great love that has lost itself to nothing, the insignificant lieutenant, and is beginning to lead a delusional life of its own." Also, "Nestor Almendros' atmospheric pictures [...] are equal to the acting performance". Cinema simply drew the conclusion: "Massive drama of a one-sided Amour fou."

Awards

German version

The German dubbed version was produced by Interopa Film GmbH , Berlin.

role actor Voice actor
Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewly Isabelle Adjani Cornelia Meinhardt
Lt. Albert Pinson Bruce Robinson Edward Vickers
Mrs. Saunders Sylvia Marriott Hanna Miller
Mr. Whistler Joseph Blatchley Frank Glaubrecht
hypnotist Ivry Gitlis Martin Hirthe
Mr. Lenoir Cecil De Sausmarez Joachim Nottke

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The story of Adèle H. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ The story of Adèle H. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on August 1, 2018 .