Alone with Giorgio
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alone with Giorgio |
| Original title | Liza / La cagna |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marco Ferreri |
| script | Marco Ferreri, Ennio Flaiano , Jean-Claude Carrière |
| production |
Raymond Danon , Alfred Levy |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Mario Vulpiani |
| cut | Giuliana Trippa |
| occupation | |
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Alone with Giorgio (original title: Liza / La cagna ) is a French - Italian film drama with Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni from 1972. The literary model was the novel Melampus (1970) by Ennio Flaiano , who was also involved in the creation of the screenplay was.
action
The Italian Giorgio lives on a small, lonely island in the Mediterranean Sea surrounded by the remains of an old German air force base. He makes a living by drawing caricatures. His only companion is his dog Melampo. One day, however, a young woman named Liza swims to the island from a yacht. She has just left her lover, the owner of the yacht. The next day she still doesn't want to go back to the yacht. The crew of the luxurious boat therefore unloads their things on the island.
Shortly after getting to know each other, Giorgio and Liza get closer. After he has brought her back on land, Liza is sure that she wants to live with him on the island. She lets herself be brought back to the island and happily falls into Giorgio's arms. However, she quickly developed a jealousy of the close relationship between Giorgio and his dog. When Liza kills her rival for Giorgio's favor by letting him swim to exhaustion and then drowning, she begins to wear a collar and fetch sticks like Melampo beforehand. She wants Giorgio's full attention and she likes being dominated by him.
Their strange coexistence comes to an abrupt end when Giorgio has to return to Paris for family reasons . He learned from his son that his wife had attempted suicide. Before Giorgio leaves the island for the mainland, he asks Liza to wait for him on the island. Shortly after his return to civilization, which he wanted to leave behind forever, Liza appears at his place and asks him to return to the island as her master immediately so that they can continue to live together as before. Although Giorgio's wife continues to appear unstable, Giorgio decides to live with Liza. After their return a storm rages on the island, which drives their boat with all the fishing equipment into the open sea. No longer able to feed themselves, Giorgio and Liza decide to leave the island again. To this end, Giorgio repairs an old aircraft at the base. However, it remains to be seen whether the plane can ultimately take off.
background
The shooting took place in Paris and on the French Mediterranean island group Îles Lavezzi . Director Marco Ferreri and the two main actors Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni , who were also a couple privately during the shoot, also shot the western Don't Touch the White Woman (1974) together two years later .
Alone with Giorgio was premiered on May 3, 1972 in France . The film was released in Germany on July 12, 1974.
Reviews
"Only the well-known leading actors compensate for the emptiness and formal sloppiness in terms of content", judged the lexicon of international films . Clarke Fountain of the All Movie Guide described the film as a "dark, unconventional comedy" that is full of symbolism.
German version
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Liza | Catherine Deneuve | Gisela Fritsch |
| Giorgio | Marcello Mastroianni | Holger Hagen |
| Giorgio's friend | Michel Piccoli | Wolfgang Völz |
Web links
- Alone with Giorgio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alone with Giorgio. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ “This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. [...] A great deal more happens in this movie, all of it symbolic. " Clarke Fountain, cf. omovie.com
- ↑ Alone with Giorgio. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 11, 2018 .