The house in the chalk garden
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The house in the chalk garden |
| Original title | The Chalk Garden |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ronald Neame |
| script | John Michael Hayes |
| production | Ross Hunter |
| music | Malcolm Arnold |
| camera | Arthur Ibbetson |
| cut | Jack Harris |
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The house in the chalk garden is the title of an English color film in Universal-Filmverleih from 1963 . The literary model was the play Der Kreidegarten (original title: The Chalk Garden ) by Enid Bagnold . The DVD of the film was released on October 1, 2014. The color film length is 106 minutes.
action
Miss Madrigal is applying for the position of educator for 16-year-old Laurel in an old house on the chalk cliffs on the English south coast. She does so even though six other waiting applicants refrained from doing so without even having spoken to Mrs. St. Maugham, the girl's grandmother.
Miss Madrigal makes a good impression at the interview, especially because of the calm and confidence with which she appears. Although she does not provide any certificates or references, she receives the position.
The eccentric old Mrs. St. Maugham still lives by the laws of the past and has never forgiven her daughter Olivia for getting married a second time after her husband's death. She persuades her granddaughter Laurel, who is living with her, that her mother has left her. With the help of the new teacher, she wants to bind the girl even more tightly.
But Miss Madrigal has her own ideas, she feels that her guardian needs a lot of love and understanding. But she met with little accommodation. From their first meeting, Laurel hates them. She also claims to have been mugged at the age of twelve and to have seen her father's suicide . In her efforts to help the child, she finds an ally in Maitland who can solve some of the stories made up.
To play a prank on Miss Madrigal and learn something about her, Laurel rummages in her room and finds a paint box with the initials CDW
One day Judge McWhirrey is a guest in the old house. During a conversation, he tries to analyze how, in his opinion, someone accused of murder feels. He relies on a previous case in which a woman was found guilty of murder. He even mentions her name: Constance Doris Wakeland. Miss Madrigal contradicts the judge's statements with passion.
Laurel remembers the initials inside the wooden paint box and takes Maitland into his confidence. Both are convinced that the educator is the said murderer. Nevertheless, the two do not reveal anything. Rather, Maitland asks Miss Madrigal to intercede with Mrs. St. Maugham that she gives her child back to Olivia, which she does. By chance Laurel overhears the conversation, is relieved that her mother loves her after all, and overjoyed when she comes to take her to her home.
The two women stay behind. The old lady sees herself robbed of her granddaughter and thus of her life. All that remains is the chalk garden and its stunted plants. In her grief she realizes that she can no longer do without Miss Madrigal's company. She sees that they need each other and promises her future companion to help them rehabilitate. When asked whether Miss Madrigal was rightly convicted, she receives a sibylline answer. Yet she affirms that she would not rest until she found out the truth.
background
Deborah Kerr and Felix Aylmer, who plays the judge here, were already in Quo vadis ? together in front of the camera. Aylmer played General Plautius, with whom the Kerr lived as the hostage Lygia. He also has a small role in Edward, my son .
Hayley Mills is John Mills' daughter and made many films in her early years, including a. Tiger Bay with Horst Buchholz and The Marriage of Her Parents announce a double role based on Erich Kästner's double Lottchen .
The German synchronous arrangement was created in 1963 in the studio of Berliner Synchron under the direction of Klaus von Wahl . The dialogue book is from Karin Vielmetter . Marianne Kehlau spoke for Deborah Kerr , Friedrich Schoenfelder lent his voice to John Mills , and Hayley Mills was spoken by Marion Hartmann .
Academy Award
- Dame Edith Evans in 1964 as best supporting actress nomination, but came away empty.
Reviews
- "A dense, well-staged and exquisitely staged film adaptation of a stage chamber play, intelligent and sincere in dealing with the problem." - Lexicon of international film
- “(...) routinely staged, entertaining.” (Rating: 2 out of 4 possible stars = average) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon “Films on TV” , 1990
literature
- Enid Bagnold : Der Kreidegarten (Original title: The Chalk Garden ). German by Annie and Peter Capell. Theater Verlag Desch, Munich, Vienna and Basel 2001
Web links
- The Chalk Garden at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Source / individual references
- Illustrated film stage, Munich No. 6954
- ^ The Chalk Garden (1964) - Ronald Neame | Releases | AllMovie. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The house in the chalk garden. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
- ↑ The house in the chalk garden in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ; Retrieved October 19, 2008
- ^ Lexicon of International Films . CD-ROM edition. Systhema, Munich 1997
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . Extended new edition. Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 344