Christine (1958)

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Movie
German title Christine
Original title Christine
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1958
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Pierre Gaspard-Huit
script Pierre Gaspard-Huit
George Neveux
Hans Wilhelm
Arthur Schnitzler (template)
production Spéva-Films, Paris
Play-art, Paris
Rizzoli Films, Rome
( Henri Baum )
music George Auric
camera Christian Matras
cut Louisette Hautecoeur
occupation

Christine is a French-Italian melodrama by director Pierre Gaspard-Huit from 1958. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's play Liebelei (1895), the focus of the plot is a young couple whose happiness ends tragically. Romy Schneider and Alain Delon can be seen in the leading roles .

action

Vienna, 1906: Lieutenant Dragoon Fritz Lobheimer has an affair with the married Baroness Eggersdorf. While the baroness is very interested in the liaison with the young lieutenant, Lobheimer wants to end it in secret, but is not quite sure how to go about it.

In this situation he meets the musician's daughter Christine Weiring in a wine tavern in Grinzing. A deep love relationship soon develops between the two of them and Lobheimer now wants to end his affair with the baroness for good.

In the meantime, however, Baron Eggersdorf has learned of his wife's infidelity and challenges the young lieutenant to a firearms duel. The first shot fatally wounded Fritz. When Christine learns of the death of her loved one, she takes her own life in desperation.

Origin background

The film is the fourth adaptation of the play Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler. Romy Schneider's mother Magda had already played the role of Christine in Max Ophüls ' film Liebelei (1933) 26 years earlier . The first film adaptation was made in 1914 by the Danish director Holger-Madsen . Gaspard-Huit's film adaptation of the fabric was the first in color.

The shooting took place in the film studios of Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris.

Christine was Romy Schneider's first film to be shot in French. Since she did not have sufficient command of the language at that time, it was dubbed by Gilberte Aubry. Aubry had already spoken to Schneider in a number of French dubbed versions of her German and Austrian films such as Sissi , Monpti or a Queen's Girl Years . Jean-Claude Brialy later recalled in an interview: “At the beginning she had a heavy accent. Especially at the beginning of the shooting. We teased her with it. She threw her things on the floor once in anger. "

Romy Schneider and Alain Delon got to know each other during filming and subsequently became a couple in private.

The world premiere took place on December 19, 1958 in the Gloria-Palast Stuttgart. The French premiere followed on December 24, 1958 in Paris.

criticism

“Schnitzler's Liebelei , the emotional and socially critical story of the failure of a young love in imperial Vienna around 1905, is only a vague background in this production for two young actors who are supposed to lend a touch of shine. A dignified, but outdated production, the show values ​​of which offer at best a splendid cinema for the educated middle class. "

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Individual evidence

  1. Christine Filmdetails IMDb.de, accessed on August 28, 2011.
  2. According to programm.ard.de, accessed on December 22, 2019
  3. Gilberte Aubry at imdb.com
  4. According to an interview published on objetif-cinema.com
  5. Icon Romy Schneider: "She poisoned herself until her heart stopped." Spiegel Online , May 29, 2007, accessed on August 28, 2011.
  6. Start dates IMDb.de, accessed on August 28, 2011.
  7. ^ CineGraph - Lexicon for German-language film - Romy Schneider
  8. Christine. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used