The life of the bohemian
| Movie | |
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| German title | The life of the bohemian |
| Original title | La vie de Bohème / Boheemielämää |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Sweden , Finland |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 103 minutes |
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| Director | Aki Kaurismäki |
| script | Aki Kaurismäki (based on a novel by Henri Murger ) |
| production | Aki Kaurismäki |
| camera | Timo Salminen |
| cut | Veikko Aaltonen |
| occupation | |
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Das Leben der Bohème (Original title: Boheemielämää / La vie de Bohème) is a Franco-Finnish fictional film by Aki Kaurismäki from 1992. Kaurismäki wrote the script for the French-language tragicomedy based on Henri Murger's episodic novel Scènes de la vie de bohème (German title : Boheme. Scenes from Parisian Life) from 1851. The black and white film was first shown on February 18, 1992 in the Berlinale program .
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To make matters worse, the not exactly successful writer Marcel is thrown out of his meager apartment because of rent arrears. During this time he met the Albanian painter Rodolfo, whose pictures were not in great demand, and shortly afterwards the composer Schaunard, the new tenant of his old home. The three artists become friends and find their way through life in Paris rather badly. Should there ever be some money, it will be squandered together at the lowest possible level. But better times seem to be coming. Rodolfo falls in love with Mimi, a country woman who is also less fortunate and whose only friend ended up in prison in Paris. Marcel gets a position as an editor at a newspaper and Schaunard becomes his advertiser . When Rodolfo can sell a picture, he wants to celebrate it over dinner with Mimi. A pickpocket steals all of his money unnoticed in the metro. When he was unable to pay the bill in the restaurant, the police summoned found that he was staying illegally in France and he was deported to Albania. What remains are a sad Mimi and Baudelaire, his dog.
Three months later in May he managed to return to France in the trunk of a Trabant. Baudelaire is delighted, but Mimi has a new Ferrari-driving friend. She does return to him, but when the financial circumstances of the three friends worsen again - Marcel has lost his editor's position and the Parisian gallery owners are not interested in Rodolfo's pictures - she leaves the shared apartment.
On All Saints' Day, when the three of them are having dinner together, Mimi reappears. She never stopped loving Rodolfo, but Mimi is terminally ill and at best has to live until spring. The three friends give everything to pay for the hospital costs and to make Mimi as bearable as possible for her remaining time.
Reviews
Der Spiegel ruled on March 16, 1992: “Apart from this attached melodrama, Kaurismäki's bohemian stories are pure pleasure. And it's good that he narrowly failed again to shoot his ultimate flawless masterpiece: So he can try it again soon. "
The lexicon of international film writes about the film "A laconically told, superbly photographed and melancholy meditation on camaraderie and the power of love in the struggle for survival against alienation and the cold."
Awards
Aki Kaurismäki was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize for Das Leben der Bohème at the Berlinale in 1992 and the Jussi for best director the following year . In the same year, the actors Matti Pellonpää and André Wilms received the European Film Award for best leading and supporting actor .
background
Aki Kaurismäki had the idea of filming Murger's novel as early as 1976 when he was reading the book. An additional motive was the revenge on Puccini , the composer of the opera La Bohème , who is believed by the general public to be the father of this great story.
The directors Samuel Fuller and Louis Malle have minor roles in the film. Aki Kaurismäki himself has a momentous cameo for the plot: He plays the pickpocket in the metro.
In 2011 André Wilms played the role of Marcel again in the film Le Havre .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The life of the Bohème : Release dates
- ↑ Paris Heroes' Life Der Spiegel 12/1992
- ↑ The life of the bohemians. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Awards for Das Leben der Bohème on imdb.com
- ↑ Aki Kaurismäki: The life of the Boheme . Haffmans, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-251-01150-2 , p. 121f
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Life is tough but cheerful : filmbulletin.ch (PDF; 1.3 MB)
Web links
- La Vie de Bohème in the Internet Movie Database (English)