Ariane - love in the afternoon

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Movie
German title Ariane - love in the afternoon
Original title Love in the afternoon
Country of production United States
original language English , French
Publishing year 1957
length 130 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Billy Wilder
script IAL Diamond
Billy Wilder
production Doane Harrison
Lee Katz
William Schorr
Billy Wilder
music Franz Waxman
camera William C. Mellor
cut Léonide Azar
Chester W. Schaeffer
occupation
synchronization

Ariane - Love in the Afternoon (Original title: Love in the Afternoon ) is an American romantic comedy by director Billy Wilder from 1957 with Gary Cooper , Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier in the lead roles. The screenplay is based on the novel Ariane, jeune fille russe by Claude Anet , published in 1920 .

action

The music student Ariane is the daughter of Claude Chavasse, who specializes as a private detective in marital affairs in Paris society. His daughter likes to rummage through her father's files, which he doesn't like to see. While studying secretly, she gets to know the extensive files of the rich American Frank Flannagan and is fascinated by him.

Meanwhile, her father observes the wife of "Monsieur X", who meets regularly with Flannagan in a Paris hotel and informs X about it. The angry husband decides to shoot Flannagan red-handed at the hotel. Ariane, who overheard the conversation, tried unsuccessfully to notify the police and ended up going to the hotel herself to warn Flannagan. Monsieur X has to leave the hotel without having achieved anything because he has found Flannagan with Ariane, whom he does not know. Flannagan now meets with Ariane several times without finding out her name or any further information about her. Her father notices a change in mood in her, but does not know that it could have anything to do with Flannagan's departure.

After a year, Flannagan returned to Paris and happened to meet Ariane at the opera. At further meetings she gives him to understand that he is only one of many lovers. To find out more, Monsieur X advises him to contact the private detective Claude Chavasse. He quickly discovered that it was his daughter who invented her lovers only to impress Flannagan. He asks Flannagan not to hurt his daughter.

Flannagan decides to leave and informs Ariane of his decision in the hotel room. She asks Flannagan to be allowed to accompany him to the train station. Flannagan agrees. Flannagan boards the train at the station. While the latter is about to leave, Ariane is trying to convince Flannagan that she doesn't need him and is happy with other men. Flannagan takes Ariane onto the train at the last second, and they both leave together.

backgrounds

  • For screenwriter, producer and director Billy Wilder , it was the only collaboration with lead actor Gary Cooper who got the lead role after the cancellation of Cary Grant and Yul Brynner . In order not to cause offense at the premiere, the original ending, the journey together on the train, was replaced by a scene with Maurice Chevalier , who told about their marriage and their future life in New York.
  • The Allied Artists Pictures took over the distribution in the USA. The United Artists brought the film to the German movie theaters in 1957.
  • The film made known the melody of the song "Fascination", composed by Fermo Dante Marchetti in 1904 , which can be heard several times in the film in an instrumental version.
  • John McGiver made his film debut as the jealous husband Monsieur X.
  • At the box office at the time, the film was a failure, which many critics largely attributed to Cooper's age - he was 55 years old at the time. Cooper was deeply disappointed by the comments that he was too old to be the lover and reportedly underwent a facelift in response .
  • The story was filmed for the first time in 1930 under the title Ariane by Paul Czinner with Elisabeth Bergner and Rudolf Forster in the leading roles.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1957 by Ultra Film Synchron GmbH in Munich. The synchronous direction was with Josef Wolf . Contrary to the rule that film criticism only mentions dubbing negatively - if at all - Dora Fehling notes just under a month after the West German premiere on October 11, 1957: “Even the dubbing was so successful in this lucky hit by film that the witty, cheeky dialogues triggered applause. "

role actor Dubbing voice
Frank Flannagan Gary Cooper Paul Klinger
Ariane Chavasse Audrey Hepburn Marion Degler
Claude Chavasse (narrator) Maurice Chevalier Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Monsieur X John McGiver Bum Kruger
Michel, Ariane's admirer Van Doude Hans Clarin

Reviews

The lexicon of international films found that "Claude Anet's frivolous novel" "loses its erotic tension in Wilder's film adaptation due to the miscast with Gary Cooper", but that "thanks to Audrey Hepburn's leprechaun-like charm it becomes a romantic fairytale comedy". For the Protestant film observer , the film was a “somewhat lengthy, but sympathetically presented love story” and it was “good entertainment from 16”. Cinema described Ariane - Love in the Afternoon as a "charming comedy" and attested her "polished dialogues". Cooper biographer René Jordan, who is critical of many of Cooper's films, praised: "The film has a charm that does not fade, and the increasing claim to be called a masterpiece."

Awards

literature

  • Claude Anet : Ariane. A Russian girl. Translated from the French by Georg Schwarz. P. Zsolnay, Vienna 1924 [ Ariane, jeune fille russe. 1920, German; numerous new editions.] DNB 572741677
  • Claude Anet: Ariane. Translated by Guy Chapman. A. A. Knopf, London [1928]. [Further editions 1933 a. ö.]
  • Homer Dickens: Gary Cooper and His Films. Translated and edited by Robert Fischer (=  Citadel-Filmbücher. Ed. By Joe Hembus .) Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10218-9 [ The Films of Gary Cooper. Secaucus 1974, German]
  • René Jordan: Gary Cooper. His films - his life. [Translated from English by Claudia Walter] (= Heyne Film Library , edited by Thomas Jeier . Volume 25). Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-86025-X [ Gary Cooper. A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies. New York 1974, Ger.] Pp. 157-160.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Details about the song in the English language Wikipedia: Fascination
  2. ^ Ariane - Afternoon Love in the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ A b René Jordan: Gary Cooper. His films - his life. [Translated from English by Claudia Walter] (= Heyne Filmbibliothek , edited by Thomas Jeier). Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-86025-X [ Gary Cooper. A Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies. New York 1974, German] p. 160.
  4. ↑ a b c Ariane - love in the afternoon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 27, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors. 3rd improved, supplemented edition. Schüren, Marburg 2013 [1. Edition 2001], ISBN 978-3-89472-812-0 , p. 310.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Ariane - love in the afternoon . In: Synchronous database , accessed on May 27, 2020.
  7. ↑ a b c d Ariane - Love in the afternoon (1957). In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors. 3rd improved, supplemented edition. Schüren, Marburg 2013 [1. Edition 2001], ISBN 978-3-89472-812-0 , p. 7.
  9. ↑ Release info for Love in the Afternoon. In: Internet Movie Database ; accessed on May 27, 2020.
  10. ↑ Dora Fehling. In: Telegraph . November 3, 1957. Quoted from the digital attachment (as of 07/2019) to: Thomas Bräutigam: Stars and their German voices. Lexicon of voice actors. 3rd improved, supplemented edition. Schüren, Marburg 2013 [1. Edition 2001], ISBN 978-3-89472-812-0 , entry "Ariane - love in the afternoon".
  11. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 682/1957
  12. ↑ Ariane - Love in the afternoon on cinema.de