The blood of others

Movie
German title	The blood of others
Original title	Le Sang des autres
Country of production	France , USA , Canada
original language	English
Publishing year	1984
length	131 minutes
Rod
Director	Claude Chabrol
script	Brian Moore
production	Naser el-Attasy , Denis Héroux , John Kemeny
music	Matthieu Chabrol François Dompierre
camera	Richard Ciupka
cut	Monique Fardoulis Yves Langlois
occupation
Jodie Foster : Hélène Michael Ontkean : Jean Sam Neill : Bergman Lambert Wilson : Paul Stéphane Audran : Gigi Alexandra Stewart : Madeleine Jean-François Balmer : Arnaud John Vernon : Charles Roger Mirmont : Marcel Christine Laurent : Denise Kate Reid : Madame Blomart Jean-Pierre Aumont : M. Blomart Marie Bunel : Yvonne Kotz Monique Mercure : Madame Kotz Michel Robin : Raoul Micheline Presle : Madame Monge Renaud Verley : Dr. Duval Claude Vernier : Delisle

The Blood of Others (AKA: Le Sang des autres ) is a film drama of Claude Chabrol from the year 1984 . The screenplay by Brian Moore is based on the novel of the same name by Simone de Beauvoir from 1945. Jodie Foster played the main role .

action

The American Hélène met the communist Jean in Paris in 1938 . Hélène writes love letters to Jean, which Jean does not answer. He tells Hélène during a meeting that he does not want to encourage her. Later, Hélène becomes pregnant by Jean, but she aborts the womb.

After the start of the Second World War , Jean becomes a soldier and is taken prisoner . The entrepreneur Bergman comes to Paris. He falls in love with Hélène, who in turn continues to love Jean and obtains his release. Bergman lures Hélène with promises to give her a career in the fashion world. Jean joins the Resistance .

The resistance fighters accuse Hélène of collaborating with the Germans; to prove her innocence, she takes part in an attack against the occupiers.

Reviews

The film service wrote that the "very soulful" film has an "extremely simple plot" and that it maintains a balance between "sentiment and humor". It is “not a great work by Chabrol,” he said, “because of the atmosphere, convincing dialogues and the scenic implementation”.

Cinema magazine wrote that the "star-studded miniseries with unexpectedly clumsy dialogues" disappoints. The film is "a poor melodrama despite big names".

backgrounds

The film was shot from July 4th to November 12th 1983 in Brussels , Cormeilles-en-Parisis in Val-d'Oise and Paris.

literature

• Louis Chunovic: Jodie Foster: a portrait. VGS Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2416-0 , pp. 98-100.

Web links

• The Blood of Others in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Blood of Others at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Blood of Others. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ^ Review on Cinema.de, accessed on September 19, 2008.