The flesh is weak
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The flesh is weak |
| Original title | Bufere |
| Country of production |
Italy France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Guido Brignone |
| script | Sabatino Lopez |
| production |
Gualtero Bagnoli Carlo Bugiani Livio Pavanelli |
| music | Ettore Montanaro |
| camera | Mario Montuori |
| cut | Jolanda Benvenuti |
| occupation | |
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The meat is weak (original title: Bufere - the German title is an allusion to Mt 26.41 EU ) is an Italian-French feature film from 1953 in black and white by Guido Brignone . The leading roles are cast with Jean Gabin , Silvana Pampanini and Carla Del Poggio . The script was written by Sabatino Lopez . In Italy, the film was first shown in cinemas on February 6, 1953, and in Germany on October 30 of the same year.
action
The attractive artist Daisy gets into an argument with her partner, the famous trapeze artist Sergio Farnell. After being slapped by him, she decides to take revenge on him. At the next performance, she crashes him. During a visit to the hospital, Daisy meets Sergio's doctor, the surgeon and university professor Antonio Sanna. Although he is basically happily married to his wife Maria, he quickly succumbs to the seductive arts of the beautiful artist. Little by little the doctor neglects his family. He becomes completely a slave to Daisy. This goes so far that one day he has to find out during an operation that he is no longer up to the task. He is negligent in causing the death of a patient.
Sergio, whose injury to the spine was discovered by Dr. Sanna has been successfully treated opens the doctor's eyes to Daisy's true character. He is about to turn away from her when she visits him at a lecture at the university, and he is immediately attracted to him again. This love affair does not remain hidden from Maria Sanna either. Together with their son Mario, she leaves her husband.
The day will come when Dr. Sanna decides to break down all the tents behind her and go with Daisy through the country. Family friends tell Maria about the plan. Then she confronts her rival while driving a car. In her excitement, Maria noticeably increases the driving speed. She can no longer avoid an oncoming truck. Both women are seriously injured.
Daisy does not survive the accident. Maria, on the other hand, is operated on successfully by her own husband. The couple are reconciled and move in together again.
criticism
The lexicon of international film has a bad opinion of the film : "Banal passion melodrama, unrealistic and without psychological delicacy."
source
Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number
Web links
- The flesh is weak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1026