1001 recipes from a cook in love
| Movie | |
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| German title | 1001 recipes from a cook in love |
| Original title | შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი Shekvarebuli culinaris ataserti retsepti |
| Country of production | Georgia |
| original language | Georgian |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nana Jordschadze |
| script |
Irakli Kvirikadze , André Graill |
| music | Goran Bregović |
| camera | Giorgi Beridze |
| cut |
Guili Grigoriani , Vessela Martschewski |
| occupation | |
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1001 recipes of a cook in love ( Georgian შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი / Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti ; English : A Chef in Love ) is a Georgian film and a romantic comedy by the director Nana Jordschadze from 1996. Pierre Richard plays the man in love with a Georgian princess Cook. At the 1997 Academy Awards , the feature film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
action
The son of Cecilia, the lover of the French traveler Pascal Ichak, translates his memoirs for Ichak's niece in the 1990s. Flashbacks tell the story of the traveler and chef Pascal Ichak, who fell in love with the Georgian Princess Cecilllia on a train in Georgia in the 1920s . She becomes his lover after the much older man seduces her culinary. He uses his sense of smell to save the life of the President of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . He is then allowed to open a gourmet shop in Tbilisi . The love story goes smoothly until the Red Army invades the Caucasus as part of the Russian civil war . He is forced to give up his business and has to live in the basement. She is forced into a relationship with a party official. He starves to death, but leaves his prescriptions and the manuscript behind. During the translation, Cecilia's son learns that Ichak is his birth father.
background
The film takes up the story of a French chef who actually starved to death in rooms above his former restaurant after the Communist takeover.
When Pierre Richard met Nana Jordschadze in Cannes in 1995 , his film career was cooling off. The film was a comeback for him.
reception
The film service evaluates the film as a multi-layered film, located somewhere between comedy and melodrama, which seeks the legacy of the past in the present and celebrates the vital power of survival of the aesthetic. For the New York Times , 1001 Recipes is a typical film of the time that could only be made after perestroika . It's not just about celebrating good cuisine, but also a return to pre-communist values. Ichak's statement that communism will pass, but fine dining will survive, is so central. The topic of biological paternity in the film is not accidental, but related to the question of origin.
Web links
- 1001 recipes of chef fell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Annette Insdorf, The Chef, The Translator And the Lover , The New York Times, April 20, 1997.
- ↑ Portrait of Pierre Richard: The star's comeback , dpa article on www.cinema.de.
- ↑ 1001 recipes of a cook in love , Filmdienst.de.