Bobby Deerfield

Movie
German title	Bobby Deerfield
Original title	Bobby Deerfield
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1977
length	124 minutes
Rod
Director	Sydney Pollack
script	Alvin Sargent
production	Sydney Pollack
music	Dave Grusin
camera	Henri Decaë
cut	Fredric Steinkamp
occupation
Al Pacino : Bobby Deerfield Marthe Keller : Lillian Anny Duperey : Lydia Walter McGinn : Brother Romolo Valli : Uncle Luigi Stephan Meldegg : Karl Holtzmann Jaime Sánchez : Delvecchio Norm Nielsen : Magician Mickey Knox : Tourist Dorothy James : Tourist Guido Alberti : priest Monique Lejeune : Catherine Modave Steve Gadler : Bertrand Modave Van Doude : flautist Aurora Maris : woman in the gas station Gérard Hernandez : Carlos Del Montanaro Maurice Vallier : priest Antonino Faa Di Bruno : Vincenzo André Valardy : autograph hunter Féodor Atkine : Tommy Patrick Floersheim : Mario Bernie Pollack : Mechanic Al Silvani : mechanic Isabelle de Blonay : nurse Franco Ressel : man with dog Dominique Briand : reporter

Bobby Deerfield is an American film drama from 1977, turned to the Roman Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque (1961). Directed by Sydney Pollack . The German-language premiere took place on November 24, 1977.

action

Formula 1 racing driver Bobby Deerfield is a calculating lone control freak. Everything is going very well professionally as he has a winning streak. After witnessing the death of a colleague, he worries about his own death. He visits an injured colleague in the hospital - he himself was injured in the accident that killed the other colleague - and there meets the impulsive doomed Lillian Morelli. She wants to enjoy the last part of her life to the full and flees the clinic with Bobby. Bobby, who has a partner in Paris, falls in love with Lillian, who initially reacts cautiously. She later begins a passionate and self-destructive affair with Bobby. The film ends with Lillian returning to the hospital as her condition has deteriorated significantly. Bobby drives melancholy to his next race.

reception

criticism

Critics have called Bobby Deerfield an exaggerated melodrama. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote that it was one of the most cynical films of the year by the likes of Sydney Pollack and Alvin Sargent who should know better. The film got a rate of 22% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes .

The lexicon of international film judged more positively that the design was "psychologically differentiated, staged with a great sense of nuances and played impressively, but not entirely free of sentimentalities."

Cash receipts

Bobby Deerfield grossed $ 9,300,000 in the United States.

Awards

• 1978 Golden Globe Award nomination for Al Pacino for Best Actor in a Drama.

additional

Remarque's novel is very different from film. The novel is set shortly after World War II . Original recordings were used for the racing scenes. The racing drivers Carlos Pace , Tom Pryce , James Hunt , Patrick Depailler , Hans-Joachim Stuck and Mario Andretti can be seen.

Bobby Deerfield was released on DVD in 2008 .

Web links

• Bobby Deerfield in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• on Rotten Tomatoes

Individual evidence

1. ^ Review of the film from September 30, 1977
2. ↑ Bobby Deerfield. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Bobby Deerfield . In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved August 5, 2013.
4. ^ Awards for Bobby Deerfield . Internet Movie Database . Retrieved January 23, 2012.