24 hours from the life of a woman (1968)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 24 hours from a woman's life |
| Original title | Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme |
| Country of production |
France , Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominique Delouche |
| script | Dominique Delouche, Paul Hengge , Eberhard Keindorff , Marie-France Rivière , Johanna Sibelius , Albert Valentin |
| production |
Louis-Emile Galey , Luggi Waldleitner |
| music | Jean Podromides |
| camera | Walter Wottitz |
| cut |
Edith Schuman , Geneviève Winding |
| occupation | |
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24 hours from the life of a woman (original title: Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme ) is a Franco-German feature film from 1968 by Dominique Delouche , who also - together with Paul Hengge , Eberhard Keindorff , Marie-France Rivière , Johanna Sibelius and Albert Valentin - wrote the script. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig . The main roles are cast with Danielle Darrieux and Robert Hoffmann . The film was to be shown for the first time as part of the Cannes International Film Festival in 1968 , which was planned for May 10-24, 1968. After these were canceled, however, its premiere took place on June 7, 1968 in Germany. In France, the work was first seen on the screen on December 25, 1968.
The work is a remake of the German film of the same name from 1931.
action
The 42-year-old widow Alice observes a young man with a terrifying passion for gambling in Monte Carlo , who completely ruins himself in the casino . She saves Thomas from suicide and spends a night in the hotel with him in a frenzy of helpful compassion. In the morning Alice reacts to this with shame and horror. Endeavoring to bring the matter to a good end, she meets again during the day with the young man, who now venerates her with overflowing gratitude like a maternal saint. And that is precisely what hurts this woman and awakens more than maternal love in her. She secretly prepares to leave with Thomas on the same train and stay with him. When she finally reaches the station, the train has already left. And in addition to her disappointment at having lost him as a man, there is a much more bitter addition: when she, looking for memories, enters the casino again, her protégé, who even in a church had fervently renounced gambling forever, is playing with the money advanced by Alice for his drive home. Worse still: He gives it back to her in a wild rebellion of a temporary profit and humiliates her deeply in front of all the guests of the casino.
Differences to the novella
While the plot takes place around 1880 in the literary original, the events in the film are set at the time of the First World War . The scriptwriters have turned the young Austrian diplomatic candidate with Polish roots into a German deserter with somewhat blurred motifs . After all, the cool Scottish woman, who is essentially by no means unimportant for Stefan Zweig, in the line-up with Danielle Darrieux, has become a warm-hearted French woman who already reacts confused and happy after the night as if an unexpected fling.
criticism
The Protestant film observer summarized his opinion as follows: “Stefan Zweig's masterful novella, as the first feature film by a young French director, turned out to be unsatisfactory to disappointing for connoisseurs of the literary original due to some internal redesign. For other viewers, it offers cultured, sentimental entertainment from the age of 16. ”The Lexicon of International Films , on the other hand, has a better opinion of the work . It drew the following conclusion: "Elegant film adaptation of a novella by Stefan Zweig, excellent in photography and representation: the drawing of a declining epoch dominated by melancholy poetry."
literature
- Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 190.
Web links
- 24 hours in the life of a woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 267/1968, pp. 270 to 271.
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 4130.