The dawn
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The dawn |
| Original title | Arbor |
| Country of production | France , Hungary , Israel |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miklós Jancsó |
| script | Miklós Jancsó |
| music | Simon Zoltan |
| camera | Armadn Marco |
| cut | Jean-Paul Vauban |
| occupation | |
Dawn ( L'Aube ) is a French feature film by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó from 1985. It is a free film adaptation of the novel of the same name (1960) by Elie Wiesel . The production was shown at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival , where it competed for the Golden Bear.
action
Elischa is a young Jew who escaped from Buchenwald camp, where his family was murdered. He fought against the British Army in Palestine before Israel was founded. When the British set about executing a captured Jewish fighter, the Jewish associations want to retaliate for this death and execute a captured British officer. Elisha is ordered to carry out the murder at dawn. The task ahead tears Elisha inwardly because he takes the religious commandments, including that not to kill, seriously. His conscience torments him all night.
Reviews
Outside of the Berlinale, the film was only shown in French cinemas. Positif said that the tension and density of this work stemmed from the contrast between the material, which is characterized by the unity of the place, and the tireless choreography of the camera. For the Cahiers du cinéma , this film confirmed the break between theme and form, which Jancsó had long noticed. "Numerous humanly great sentences, which are taken directly from Wiesel's book, take on an unbearable boisterous streak on the screen." The skepticism, supported by a staging that takes up different perspectives, rather emphasizes the inability to communicate something. Because it wants to put forward everything, the for, the against, the in-between, the film does not lead any discourse.
Web links
- The dawn in the Internet Movie Database (English)