The specter of freedom

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Movie
German title The specter of freedom
Original title Le Fantôme de la liberté
Country of production Italy ,
France
original language French
Publishing year 1974
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Luis Buñuel
script Luis Buñuel,
Jean-Claude Carrière
production Serge Silberman
camera Edmond Richard
cut Hélène Plemiannikov
occupation
synchronization

The ghost of freedom (original title: Le Fantôme de la liberté ) is an Italian-French drama film by the director Luis Buñuel from 1974 . The film consists of a loosely held together series of surreal scenes; it is often understood as a satirical attack by Buñuel on social conventions and the inaccessibility of true freedom .

action

The stick of history is passed on from one to the other. A minor character from the first story becomes the main character in the following one. In a normal situation, one element is always alienated and this creates surreal situations that take the very conventional French society to absurdity.

For example, the school calls because a little girl has disappeared. When the parents come to school, the child comes to his mother and says: I'm here! But one does not listen to him because children are not allowed to speak in the presence of adults, and so the search continues even though the girl is clearly present. The father goes to the doctor who tells him his values ​​are very good, only a harmless procedure is necessary, but it is cancer. The doctor's office assistant goes to her sick father in the country, has to stop at an inn when it rains, where monks come to her room at night to smoke and play poker with her; in the next room a good, handsome young man who wants to sleep with his old aunt, who is still a virgin. She only gives in when he comes back from a trip into the next room, where he and all the other guests were forced by a hatter to watch him play masochistic games. In another scene, a company meets to have a bowel movement - they retreat to a small room to eat.

synchronization

The German synchronous processing was created in 1974 at Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke in Berlin . The dialogue book was written by Fritz A. Koeniger , and the dubbing director was Dietmar Behnke .

role actor Voice actor
Nurse Milena Vukotic Renate Danz
Monsieur Foucauld Jean-Claude Brialy Lothar Blumhagen
Madame Foucauld Monica Vitti Renate Küster
Police Prefect Julien Bertheau Siegfried Schürenberg
Successor to the Police Prefect Michel Piccoli Claus Biederstaedt
Monsieur Legendre Jean Rochefort Stefan Wigger
Dr. Pasoli Adolfo Celi Gottfried Kramer
Francois Pierre-François Pistorio Mathias Einert
Commissioner Claude Piéplu Martin Hirthe
Sister of the Prefect Adriana Asti Ilse Pagé
professor François Maistre Klaus Miedel
Father Gabriel Paul Le Person Peter Schiff
monk Bernard Musson Helmut Heyne
Innkeeper Paul Frankeur Klaus Sunshine
Lady of the house Alix Mahieux Lola Luigi
aunt Hélène Perdrière Tilly Lauenstein

Reviews

  • Roger Ebert said in 1995 that the film was a brilliant achievement, the triumph of a director who confronts and overcomes almost impossible complications and contradictions. "[The movie] is very funny, yes, but remember: with Buñuel, you only laugh when it hurts."
  • Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times in 1974: “'Le Fantôme' is no less dense with symbols [... than The Golden Age ], but the style is more precise, less heavy, much funnier, no less mysterious and yet so economical that [...] he also manages to make some concise observations about ecology. "
  • “Without a continuous red thread, master director Luis Buñuel joins one bizarre episode after the other in his film. All they have in common is the principle of the upside-down world. For example, you can see a dinner party sitting on toilet bowls around the table and retreating to a quiet place to eat. The absurd appears normal, the normal absurd. Buñuel denounces the apparent freedom of the bourgeoisie: the illusion of a society incapable of dealing with freedom. Buñuel's approach is not always easily accessible, but always amusing and full of taboos. "(Tele)
  • “In the Buñuel series, 'The Specter of Freedom' follows the film The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie . As there, Buñuel directs his sarcastic joke against the bourgeois world and its compulsive processes, which he parodies in a frightening and comical way by turning laws, manners and customs upside down and mocking them. He pushes the broken narrative style even further, only secondary characters create something like loose connections between the individual episodes. Otherwise, the film is full of dark symbols, malicious allusions, unsettling puzzles. Buñuel is thus approaching his surrealist beginnings again, perhaps without the shock effect from back then, but still irritating and provocative enough. "(ARD Presse)

Awards

Buñuel was awarded the Nastro d'Argento in 1975 by the Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani for directing this film .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ including Time Out Film Guide 13 , omovie guide
  2. ↑ The Ghost of Freedom in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved April 22, 2009
  3. ↑ Roger Ebert
  4. ↑ New York Times  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : “'Le Fantôme' is no less dense with symbols […], but the style is more precise, less heavy, much funnier, no less mysterious, yet so economical that […] he also manages to make a few pithy observations on ecology. "@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / movies2.nytimes.com