Bloody wedding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bloody wedding |
| Original title | Les noces rouges |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script | Claude Chabrol |
| production | André Génovès |
| music | Pierre Jansen |
| camera | Jean Rabier |
| cut |
Jacques Gaillard Monique Gaillard |
| occupation | |
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Wedding in Blood ( Les Noces rouges ) is a French movie from the year 1973 . Directed by Claude Chabrol .
action
Lucienne, the wife of town mayor Paul Delamare involved in property speculation, has a passionate relationship with Pierre Maury. Your husband has no idea. He even makes the rival, who has killed his long-time deeply depressed wife by poison and thereby faked a suicide, to the city council and his deputy. Lucienne's daughter Hélène has a feeling for secrecy. She covers up the mother's relationship because she doesn't like her stepfather and wants Lucienne to be happy. When Paul suspects what is going on behind his back, he sets a trap for Lucienne. The relationship between his wife and Pierre fits into his business strategies; he can thereby keep Pierre dependent. After Lucienne explains to Pierre that she could no longer live like this, the latter decides, with her help, to eliminate Paul in a fictitious car accident. After the fact, a suspicion arose, but because of an instruction from a “president”, he was not followed up. One can assume that the President was intervening here - in the town hall there is a picture of Georges Pompidou , which is clearly zoomed in. However, the daughter unintentionally gets things rolling again: after Lucienne assures her that it was indeed an accident, she writes a letter to the police asking them to clear up any rumors about a relationship between Lucienne and Pierre and their connection with to face her stepfather's death through an investigation. She wants “everything to be clean” and trusts the mother, who this time lied. In doing so, they are forcing the police to act. Lucienne admits her involvement in the murder. Pierre is also taken away.
Source of the film plot
The plot of the film goes back to a French criminal case, which aroused great public interest as the story of the "diabolical lovers of Bourganeuf ". On August 21, 2007, "The Devilish Lovers of Bourganeuf" was shown on French television in the 5th episode of the documentary series "50 Years of News". Bernard Cousty and Yvette Balaire were passionately in love, but they were both married; them with the mayor of Bourganeuf, René Balaire. They didn't want to leave it at an affair, but both refused to get a divorce. Hence, they planned to murder Cousty's wife and Balaire's husband. On December 24, 1969, Ms. Cousty died unexpectedly, officially, of complications from flu; there was no suspicion of a crime. Two months later, on February 23, 1970, Mayor Balaire was found burned in his car that had crashed. It was only after more than a year that the police discovered his murder.
In May 1972, Yvette Balaire was sentenced to ten years in prison by a Limousin court for an accessory to murder. Bernard Cousty received the death penalty; However, for formal reasons, he succeeded in resuming his proceedings. He was then sentenced to life imprisonment on March 1, 1973 by the Gironde jury.
censorship
Because of the political allusions, the censorship and the Ministry of Education intervened. They forced the premiere to be postponed until after the French parliamentary elections in 1973.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : "Chabrol links a melodramatic crime story from the milieu of the French bourgeoisie with concrete political allusions and sharp criticism of Gaullist legal tendencies more clearly than in his earlier films."
- Wolf Donner , Die Zeit , 1976: "[...] The camera and its famous circular pans, color and dialogue direction, the actors (Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu) are masterful."
Awards
The film was nominated for a Golden Bear at the 1973 Berlinale and won the FIPRESCI Prize .
Others
The costumes were designed by Karl Lagerfeld .
Web links
- Wedding in Blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bloody wedding in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ [France 5] "50 ans de faits divers": "Les amants diaboliques de Bourganeuf". August 20, 2007. From TelleestmaTele.com (French), accessed January 31, 2019.
- ↑ a b Wolf Donner: Film Tips . In: Die Zeit , No. 48/1976. November 19, 1976. From Zeit.de, accessed January 31, 2019.
- ↑ Bloody wedding. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 31, 2019 .