Accident incident in Oxford
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Accident incident in Oxford |
| Original title | Accident |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph Losey |
| script | Harold Pinter |
| production |
Norman Priggen Joseph Losey |
| music | John Dankworth |
| camera | Gerry Fisher |
| cut | Reginald Beck |
| occupation | |
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Accident - Incident in Oxford (Original title: Accident ) is a British drama film directed by Joseph Losey in 1967 . Harold Pinter's script is based on the novel The Accident by Nicholas Mosley .
action
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University . When he was at home in the evening, he heard a nearby car brake sharply and crash. He runs to the scene of the accident and finds two of his students in the wrecked car: William, a son of noble parents, and Anna, a young Austrian . William did not survive the accident, Anna is in shock. Stephen brings Anna to his house and remembers the events that preceded the accident.
William tells his tutor Stephen that he has fallen in love with his fellow student Anna. The two are soon a couple. Stephen, who has lost erotic interest in his third-time pregnant wife, Rosalind, feels drawn to Anna himself. In addition to his frustration, he is jealous of the media success of his colleague and friend Charley. During a business trip to London, he sleeps with Francesca, the university director's daughter, without finding emotional satisfaction. Upon his return, he discovers that Anna has started an affair with Charley. Charley is so sure of his love for Anna that he even tells his wife Laura about Anna. However, Anna decides to marry William and asks Stephen to tell Charley. Before Stephen Charley can speak, the accident happens.
When Anna regains consciousness, Stephen offends her. Anna defends herself at first, but then lets him go. He smuggles her back to the dormitory early in the morning and hides her involvement in the accident. To Charley's dismay, Anna decides to return to Austria. The last setting shows how to start, the front of Stephen's house. The family dog runs into the street, and again you can hear a car braking and crashing into pieces.
background
Accident was created with a budget of around 300,000 British pounds and launched on 6 February 1967 in London . The film had its cinema premiere in Germany on May 30, 1969.
The writers Nicholas Mosley and Harold Pinter can both be seen in supporting roles. Dirk Bogarde shot here for the fourth and last time with director Joseph Losey, as did Stanley Baker . After the accident, Jacqueline Sassard only stood in front of the camera one more time and then withdrew from the film business.
Reviews
“Using a complex flashback technique, the film reveals the personal frustrations, tensions and failed life plans hidden behind the idyllic facade of the university town. A cinematically and dramaturgically masterfully constructed moral image of the British bourgeoisie, which condenses its material into a nightmare in an intellectual-pessimistic abstraction. "
“In memories and flashbacks, a story unfolds that leads into the abysses behind the facade of the traditional noble university town. Together with the playwright Harold Pinter, Joseph Losey made one of the best films of his career! "
“This psychological puzzle, in which director Losey, screenwriter Pinter and lead actor Bogarde worked together for the second time after The Servant, fluctuates between icy humor and distant observation. The cold, slightly sarcastic tone with which Losey looks at his characters here, ironically, hits exactly the stereotype of the British professorial world, but behind it hovers an atmosphere of compelling tragedy, towards which this rushing description of the affair between a student and Bogarde's professor is heading. Behind the wonderfully captured indolence of a summer in Oxford, the entire ensemble is captivating, not least the reliable Stanley Baker. "
“A very nuanced drama, carried by inner tension, worth seeing, even if completely free of judgment. Recommended for adults. "
Awards
Prices
Cannes International Film Festival 1967
- Grand Jury Prize for Joseph Losey
Writers Guild of Great Britain 1968
- WGGB Award for Harold Pinter
Nominations
Golden Globe 1968
- Nomination in the category of best foreign film in English
British Film Academy Award 1968
- Nomination for Best British Film
- Nomination for Best British Actor for Dirk Bogarde
- Nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Harold Pinter
- Nomination in the category Best Production Design for Carmen Dillon
literature
- Nicholas Mosley: Accident . Hodder and Stoughton, London 1965, 191 pp. WA: Dalkey Archive, 1985, ISBN 0-916583-11-2 (English edition)
- Nicholas Mosley: The accident . German by Hilde Maria Kraus-Demlova. Droemer / Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1969, 222 pp.
- Isabel Kobus: Dialogue in Novels and Films. Investigations into Joseph Losey's literary adaptations "The Go-between" and "Accident". New Studies in English and American Studies (Volume 73). At the same time dissertation. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / New York / Paris / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-631-33456-7 , 285 pp.
Web links
- Accident - incident in Oxford in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Product to film on screen Online (English)
- Criticism in Variety (English)
- Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edith de Rham: Joseph Losey . Trafalgar Square, London 1991, ISBN 978-0-233-98723-1 , p. 180.
- ^ Accident - Incident in Oxford in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ^ A b Accident incident in Oxford in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ^ Criticism on Cinema.de; Retrieved September 30, 2012.
- ↑ Criticism ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Allesfilm.com, accessed September 30, 2012.
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 279/1969
