Caroline Chérie (beautiful as sin)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Caroline Chérie (beautiful as sin) |
| Original title | Caroline chérie |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denys de La Patellière |
| script | Cecil Saint-Laurent |
| production | Jacques-Paul Bertrand |
| music | Georges Garvarentz |
| camera | Sacha Vierny |
| cut |
Michèle Boëhm , Claude Durand |
| occupation | |
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Caroline Chérie (Beautiful as Sin) (Original title: Caroline chérie ) is a Franco-German-Italian film drama from 1968 by Denys de La Patellière . The screenplay was written by Cécil Saint-Laurent based on his own novel “Caroline Chérie. In the beginning there was only love ”. The leading roles are cast with France Anglade , François Guérin , Bernard Blier and Vittorio De Sica . The film had its world premiere on January 18, 1968 in Italy. It was first shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 22, 1968.
The work is a remake of the film " In the Beginning Was Only Love " from 1951, directed by Richard Pottier and Martine Carol played the lead role.
action
The film is set at the time of the French Revolution . While things are seething everywhere in the country, the 18-year-old girl Caroline de Bièvre is also seething, but for different reasons: She finally wants to "sink into the strong arms of a man". On the occasion of a rural festival, she does the same with the adventurer Gaston de Sallanches. Then, at her father's insistence, she marries her unsympathetic lawyer, Georges Berthier, a citizen with views that she cannot befriend. Fortunately for her, her husband is politically active, so that he is soon persecuted in this confused time and his wife is freed from him in this way. Unfortunately, she is now also put on the search list, and this kinship liability triggers an escape that leads from one bed to another. Again and again, Caroline has no choice but to show appreciation for the help she has given or to buy the help with her charms. But eventually it lands but then in prison, but from their Erstliebhaber Gaston in an establishment managed that against high costs from the captors provides refuge. When finally there is no more money, she should earn it with rich customers. She refuses such a request and instead gives her favor to a poor swallower who is doomed to die. Thereupon she succeeds in escaping, and Caroline ends up again in the arms of Gaston, who in the meantime has been promoted to colonel by Napoleon Bonaparte himself . With him she finally finds her happiness in life.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film noted tersely in the work if it were one, the "colorful remake of Saint-Laurent-novel, less frivolous than long-winded." Evangelical movie watchers indeed emphasizes the good color photographs, but concludes: " Superficial and in places tasteless equipment film ”.
literature
- Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 181.
Web links
- Caroline Chérie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Caroline Chérie at filmportal.de
- Five pictures from the film at Cinema.de
- Review of the film at Moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 157/1968, p. 156
- ^ Lexicon of international films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 501