Amore (1948)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Amore |
| Original title | L'amore |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| script | Roberto Rossellini (first episode) Federico Fellini Tullio Pinelli Robert Rossellini (second episode) |
| production | Roberto Rossellini |
| music | Renzo Rossellini |
| camera |
Robert Juillard Otello Martelli (first episode) Aldo Tonti (second episode) |
| cut | Eraldo da Roma |
| occupation | |
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A human voice
The wonder
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Amore is a two-part, Italian drama from 1947 and 1948 directed by Roberto Rossellini with Anna Magnani in the lead role. The first part is based on Jean Cocteau's La voix humaine (1930); in addition to Rossellini himself, the young Federico Fellini , who also plays the role of the shepherd , was involved in the script for the second part .
action
A human voice ( Una voce umana )
The first part shows the despair of an abandoned woman. A woman of the world keeps talking on the phone all night long with her lover, who has left her for a younger woman. The phone call is like a verbal duel: there is lies and begging, accusation and excuse. She asks him a favor, but this doesn't save the broken relationship either. In the end, the woman strangles herself with the telephone line.
The miracle ( Il miracolo )
At the center of the second part is a simple and simple-minded farm worker. When one day she saw a bearded shepherd on a hill, the believing woman believed that it must be a saint, namely Saint Joseph. Both sit down together and you drink your wine. Then the woman falls asleep tired and slightly drunk. The shepherd, however, proves to be a lousy contemporary and offends himself on the woman in his sleep. When she wakes up again, she is pregnant. But she is not appalled, on the contrary: the woman now believes that by divine providence she was chosen to bear the child of a saint. The villagers just laugh at so much simplicity and drive the farm worker out of the village. In the mountains, where she finds shelter in an abandoned church, the woman finally gives birth to her child.
Production notes
The first episode of Amore , “A Human Voice”, was made in Paris, the second, “The Miracle”, on the Amalfi coast. The two-parter premiered on August 21, 1948 during the Venice Film Festival . The mass start was on November 2, 1948 in Rome. The German premiere did not take place until January 19, 1962.
Christian Bérard created the film structures, Fellini also served as assistant director for Das Wunder Rossellini.
Reviews
“Two very different episodes, which in the broadest sense only combine the theme (Love) and the great performance of the leading actress Anna Magnani. In the first part she offers an acting “tour de force”, which almost makes the viewer feel like a voyeur (...) In the second part love appears ... as grace, as an unswerving guideline, as light in the darkness of a poor life. "
Bucher's encyclopedia of the film located Amore as “two fundamentally different stories about a woman's insistence on her subjectively perceived error” and called Rossellini's two-parter a remarkable portrait of a woman.
In the Lexicon of International Films it says: “Two-episode film by Rossellini, tailored to the versatile actress Anna Magnani, who is convincing through her intense play. (...) Oppressive character studies that revolve around loneliness, suffering and heartlessness. "
Awards
The film received several awards:
- Nastro d'Argento for Anna Magnani as best supporting actress (1949)
- New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture (1950) (together with Jofroi , 1934, and Eine Landpartie , 1936)
Rossellini was nominated for the Grand International Prize during the Venice Film Festival.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films, Verlag CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M. 1977, p. 662
- ↑ Amore. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2018 .
Web links
- Amore in the Internet Movie Database (English)