Charade (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Charade |
| Original title | Charade |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 (previously 16) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stanley Donen |
| script | Peter Stone |
| production | Stanley Donen |
| music | Henry Mancini |
| camera | Charles Lang |
| cut | Jim Clark |
| occupation | |
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Charade is a 1963 American film directed by Stanley Donen. Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant star in a twisted and twisted story about a young widow in Paris who is pursued by a gang of gangsters and finds help from one charming American who changes his identity several times.
The film mixes a variety of genres , such as crime film , thriller , agent film , romance and ( screwball ) comedy . It has often been called "the best Hitchcock film that isn't Hitchcock ". Charade also attracted attention through the film music and the title track ( Henry Mancini ), the opening credits ( Maurice Binder ), the script with the pointed dialogues between Hepburn and Grant, and the fact that the film was shot on the original location in Paris.
action
The US simultaneous interpreter Regina Lampert decides to part ways with her husband Charles on her skiing holiday. When she returns to Paris , her large apartment is completely empty. The French police inform her that her husband was killed, apparently while on the run, and give her a bag that was secured from the dead man, containing a few belongings, including a notebook, several passports in his name and a stamped, unsealed letter to his wife. The $ 250,000 that auctioned off the entire home furnishings could not have been found.
As a result, Regina is embroiled in an opaque crime story that revolves around an episode from World War II . She is threatened by three ex-war comrades of her husband. They demand from her $ 250,000, which should come from a joint gold theft. Lampert cheated on his OSS comrades and hid the gold from them, which has now disappeared without a trace. A CIA Mister Bartholomew tells Regina to spy for him. On a skiing holiday, she also met the American Peter Joshua, who subsequently mixed up her emotional world. Joshua pretends to be a charming helper at first. When his connection with the gangsters is exposed, he claims to be Carson Dyle's brother. Carson Dyle was also involved in the theft of gold, but was allegedly killed in the war. When Regina finds out that Carson Dyle didn't have a brother, Joshua claims he is a master thief.
The contents of the bag that Lampert last had with him are repeatedly searched unsuccessfully by those involved. Everyone distrusts everyone, and one by one the war comrades are mysteriously murdered. At last, however, those who remained had the decisive idea almost at the same time: the lost assets are in the stamps on the envelope that was in Lampert's pocket. You can find the cover, but not the stamps: Regina had previously torn out the supposedly insignificant stamps and gave them to her friend's little son, who had already exchanged them at a flea market. The honest dealer, however, returns the brands to Regina and explains their value.
The showdown between Joshua and Bartholomew begins at the colonnades of the Palais Royal . Regina doesn't know who to trust until Bartholomew admits that he's not a CIA agent, but Carson Dyle, who supposedly died in the war. She escapes to the empty Comédie-Française and hides in the prompter's box, where Bartholomew discovers her. He is about to shoot her when Joshua, who is following his steps from the lower stage , triggers the mechanism at the last moment for the plate on which Bartholomew is standing, so that Bartholomew falls into oblivion and dies. Regina wants to return the stamps to the American embassy the following day, and Joshua gives the impression that he wants to keep her from doing so - which makes the surprise even greater for her: he himself is the "recipient", works at the embassy treasury and had the job to get back the proceeds from the gold heist. His real name is Brian Cruikshank. The happy ending is completed when he proposes to her.
background
Charade is clearly based on the style of Alfred Hitchcock's crime films and has an exciting story with a number of surprising twists. One after the other must die until there are only three left. With Audrey Hepburn , Cary Grant , Walter Matthau , James Coburn and George Kennedy, Stanley Donen assembled a remarkable cast of stars.
The dialogues between Lampert and Joshua are (in the classic style of screwball comedy ) of polished intelligence and alternate between the charm of two people who are about to fall in love with each other and the increasing distrust that Lampert has towards Joshua, since he always has one Lie replaced by the next. The chemistry is visibly right between the couple, even if Grant was 59 when shooting, and 25 years older than Hepburn. In addition, the film presents luxurious decorations, with Paris an atmospheric set and Audrey Hepburn in the costumes of her favorite designer Hubert de Givenchy .
Hepburn was the first actress to receive a percentage of gross profit. After Charade had proven to be a great success, the director Donen shot three years later with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren the very similar thriller comedy Arabesque .
The postage stamps used in the film were actually slight modifications of real, extremely valuable postage stamps, e.g. B. the famous Tre Skilling Banco from Sweden from 1855, one of the most expensive postage stamps in the world. In the film, the mark shows a value of 4 instead of 3 schillings. The film also uses the 19th century Hawaiian Missionaries with a value of 3 cents, although the stamps only existed with a value of 2, 5 or 13 cents. As mentioned in the film, a collector (Gaston Leroux) was actually murdered because of this stamp. Furthermore, an example of the famous ox head series from Moldova from 1858 is on display. However, there were only stamps in value increments of multiples of 27; hence the correct value would be 81, not 82 as in the movie.
The German cinema premiere took place on December 13, 1963. Charade was first seen on German television on July 19, 1974 from 8.15 p.m. on ARD .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was made for the cinema premiere in 1963 at Berliner Synchron . The dialogue direction was done by Klaus von Wahl , the dialogue book was written by Fritz A. Koeniger .
| role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Cruikshank (Peter Joshua / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield) | Cary Grant | Curt Ackermann |
| Regina "Reggie" Lampert | Audrey Hepburn | Uta Hallant |
| Carson Dyle (Hamilton Bartholomew) | Walter Matthau | Martin Hirthe |
| Tex Panthollow | James Coburn | Arnold Marquis |
| Herman Scobie | George Kennedy | Hans Wiegner |
| Leopold W. Gideon | Ned Glass | Hans Hessling |
| Inspector Grandpierre | Jacques Marin | Klaus Miedel |
| Sylvie Gaudel | Dominique Minot | Ruth Scheerbarth |
| Jean-Louis Gaudel, child | Thomas Chelimsky | Ilya Richter |
| Monsieur Felíx, stamp collector | Paul Bonifas | Paul Wagner |
| Entertainer in the night club | Monte Landis | Harry Wüstenhagen |
Reviews
“An excellent crime film that cleverly delays its punch line; partly macabre, partly contagiously cheerful. "
“Imaginative film (...); an amusing drama of confusion of the very first quality. (Rating: 2½ out of 4 possible stars: above average). "
“The fast-paced mix of rogue comedy and spy thriller skillfully combines dry black humor and thriller tension . Of course, the role model Alfred Hitchcock is always noticeable (even if the master himself would probably have cast the female lead with a cool blonde like Tippi Hedren ). Hardly anyone has come as close to Hitchcock's mastery of speed, tension and macabre humor as Stanley Donen with this film. (Rating: 4 out of 5 possible stars: super film). "
Prizes and awards
- Academy Awards 1964 : Nominated in the category of best theme song " Charade " . Music: Henry Mancini. Text: Johnny Mercer
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Golden Globe 1964 : Nominated in the categories
- Best Actress in a Comedy / Musical Film: Audrey Hepburn
- Best Actor in a Film, Comedy / Musical: Cary Grant
- Bafta Award 1965: Winner in the “Best Actress” category: Audrey Hepburn. Nominated in the “Best Actor” category: Cary Grant
Remakes
- The Truth About Charlie , a remake from 2002, starring Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton anddirected by Jonathan Demme , turned out to be a flop and never got a theatrical release in Germany.
- Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne - You Stole My Heart is a Bollywood film from 2003 and thus an Indian version of the original film.
Web links
- Charade in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Charade atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Review by Dietrich Kuhlbrodt in the film headquarters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Charade . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 30986-a / V).
- ↑ movie review , in: decentfilms (English; own translation), accessed on April 5 2018th
- ^ David Lidman, John D. Apfelbaum: The World of Stamps & Stamp Collecting. ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Lexicon of International Films. CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997.
- ^ Charade at the German synchronous file
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV". Extended new edition. Verlag Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 123.
- ↑ Charade. Prism , archived from the original on August 27, 2006 ; Retrieved November 26, 2015 .
