The arrangement
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The arrangement |
| Original title | The arrangement |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elia Kazan |
| script | Elia Kazan |
| production | Elia Kazan |
| music | David Amram |
| camera | Robert Surtees |
| cut | Stefan Arnstein |
| occupation | |
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The arrangement is the title of an American film drama from 1969. The novel of the same name by Elia Kazan served as a literary model . The film was made in Panavision using the Technicolor process .
action
The creative director of an advertising agency, Eddie Anderson, lives in a luxury villa with his wife Florence and their adopted daughter. He is very successful professionally and can afford a carefree life. It is all the more surprising that he throws himself in front of a passing truck. He is admitted to a clinic where he suddenly loses his speech. He reminisces about his previous life in his mind, remembers his reputation in society and the people he has met. But he does not find a phase in his life in which he was really happy. Almost none, because he had found happiness in a previous hot affair with Gwen ... and then lost it again, because he then had scruples and stayed with his wife. It is the negative balance of a man who wants to undo certain weak points in his life.
When he is physically healthy again and can leave the hospital, his previous approach to life and its principles have changed. He realized that he had been wasting his energy on trivial matters for years. He breaks all bridges behind him and moves to live with his seriously ill father in New York. He sees Gwen again, who meanwhile has a child and lives with a friend without loving him. Eddie can't forget her. There is a row with the family because they want his money. Florence shows up with him with a lawyer and a psychiatrist. But he firmly rejects her request to return to her. He felt constricted in his marriage to her and he doesn't want to experience that again. His mental state deteriorates and he is admitted to a mental hospital. He is only released after the death of his father. Gwen is waiting for him and goes to the funeral with him.
background
- Originally Marlon Brando was slated to play Eddie Anderson. However, the murder of Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968 caused him to refrain from doing so. He only wanted to work in films that stand up for the rights of oppressed people.
- Kazan had a budget of six million dollars.
- Despite the attractive cast, the film did not have much success in the United States. a. also because there are too many flashbacks. In contrast, it met with a positive response from critics in Europe.
Reviews
- "A drama staged by a heavy hand ... Despite the top-class cast, a flop that never really took off." (Lothar R. Just: Heyne Filmlexikon 1999)
- “In 'The Arrangement', Kazan's deep doubts about America's affluent society are manifested. Personal experiences are reflected in the antihero Eddie, who in his struggle for self-realization cannot withstand the social and moral pressure and begins to revolt against the establishment. "( Thomas Koebner : Filmregisseure. Reclam 1999)
- “Kazan's film adaptation of his own bestseller novel describes, autobiographically influenced, problems of the second generation of immigrants in the USA. The story is rather superficial, the staging is melodramatic, the cast is good and expensive. ”( Lexicon of International Films )
literature
- The arrangement . Knaur Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1968; as Knaur paperback 1971, ISBN 3-426-00251-5 .
- Roland Lacourbe: Kirk Douglas. His films, his life. Heyne, Munich 1985, pp. 186ff, ISBN 3-453-86088-8 (Heyne Filmbibliothek; Vol. 88).
Web links
- The arrangement in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The arrangement. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .