The angel's house
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The angel's house |
| Original title | La casa del ángel |
| Country of production | Argentina |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Leopoldo Torre Nilsson |
| script |
Beatriz Guido , Martín Rodríguez Mentasti , Leopoldo Torre Nilsson |
| production | Argentina Sono film |
| music |
Juan Ehlert , Juan Carlos Paz |
| camera | Jan Kalis |
| cut | Jorge Gárate |
| occupation | |
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The Angel's House (original title: La casa del ángel ) is an Argentine film drama in black and white from 1957 by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson , who - together with his future wife Beatriz Guido and Martín Rodríguez Mentasti - wrote the script. It is based on the novel of the same name by Beatriz Guido. Elsa Daniel , Lautaro Murúa , Guillermo Battaglia and Berta Ortegosa can be seen in the leading roles . The work had its world premiere on July 11, 1957 in Argentina. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on February 10, 1969 in the program of the second German television station ZDF .
action
Argentina in the 1920s. Ana and her older sisters grow up closely guarded by their mother and a teacher. Their father is a wealthy and influential landowner. In order to prevent the awakening erotic sensations of Anas and to keep them "pure", the sensitive girl is not only isolated from the sisters, but above all is largely shielded from the environment. Nevertheless, the mother, who with great intransigence imposes her prudish and bigoted religious prejudices on the children, cannot prevent Ana from accidentally meeting the hot-blooded young politician Pablo Aguirre and secretly starting to rave about this man. In their eyes, he becomes a hero when he stands up for freedom of speech in the Chamber of Deputies. But this calls the political opponents of Pablo on the scene. A violent argument ensues, in the course of which Pablo publicly slaps the MP Esquirel, who then challenges him to a duel. Ana's father, who is friendly to Pablo, makes the garden of his property available for the duel. The night before the duel, Ana goes to Pablo in the guest room and gives herself to him voluntarily or involuntarily. Pablo survives the duel, but Ana begins to hate him so much that she wishes him dead.
Years go by; the mother dies, the sisters marry. Ana regularly meets her former lover, who has destroyed her life, but whose image she is constantly following. A helpless gesture, a silent, embarrassed look are the only timid indications of an enthusiastic, romantic, but short bond, which no one will ever find out about because it was illegal, namely "sinful".
Reviews
The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “Using the example of the individual fate of a young girl who breaks through life thanks to a wrong upbringing, the isolation, the outdated views and life habits and the decadence of the Argentine leadership perspective are made clear. One of the best and most important films by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson in terms of his oeuvre, which can be recommended for discussion (from 18). "
The Lexicon of International Films comes to a very positive assessment : “The Argentine director Torre Nilsson became internationally known with this melancholy-bitter love drama. Behind the lyrical story of two 'royal children' who cannot find each other, there is a political background: the heroine's parents appear as the allegorical embodiment of the Perón regime, which had been overthrown two years earlier (1955). "
Web links
- The house of the angel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 77/1969, pp. 77–78.
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 1517.