My mother's castle

Movie
German title	My mother's castle
Original title	Le Château de ma mère
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1990
length	98 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Yves Robert
script	Louis Nucéra , Yves Robert, Jérôme Tonnerre
production	Alain Poiré
music	Vladimir Cosma
camera	Robert Alazraki
cut	Pierre Gillette
occupation
Philippe Caubère : Joseph Pagnol Nathalie Roussel : Augustine Didier Pain : Uncle Jules Thérèse Liotard : Aunt Rose Julien Ciamaca : Marcel Victorien Delamare : Paul Joris Molinas : Lili des Bellons Julie Timmerman : Isabelle Paul Crauchet : Moon of the Parpailloun Philippe Uchan : Bouzigue Patrick Préjean : Dominique Pierre Maguelon : François Maxim Lombard : Monsieur Arnaud Michel Modo : The manufacturer
chronology
←  Predecessor My father's fame

My mother's castle (original title: Le Château de ma mère ) is a French feature film from 1990. It is the second part of the film adaptation of the autobiographical novel A Childhood in Provence by Marcel Pagnol , after The Glory of My Father .

action

Around 1905 Marcel is supposed to prepare for the high school exam. As a reward, a stay in a holiday home in his beloved hills of Provence beckons. Following a suggestion from the mother, the family also spends the weekends in the holiday home. Marcel meets the girl Isabelle and falls in love with her. But Isabelle soon becomes ruler over him. Lili and Paul observe the two and inform the parents. After the bitter disappointment of his first love, he turns back to his friend Lili. After a former student, who is now a sewer attendant, illegally gives his father a key to shorten the path to their holiday home and they are caught by a guard while taking a harmless shortcut, his father is put in a precarious position. The mother collapses. The sewer attendant can, however, relax the situation with his two friends.

After five years the idyllic childhood ends with the death of the mother. His brother Paul, who later worked as a shepherd in the hills, died at the age of 30. His friend Lili was killed by a bullet in the war in 1917.

When Marcel grew up and bought a castle to film, he discovered that it was the castle that played an important role in his childhood. Here they were caught by the guard.

Reviews

The TV magazine prisma judged: “In this second part, director Yves Robert shows wonderful landscape shots, slapstick-like gags on the fringes and pretty decor. Viewers inclined to nostalgia can immerse themselves in an almost forgotten time in a very successful film adaptation. "

"The lovingly staged film, carried by delicate humor, impresses above all with its beautifully photographed landscape shots and the sensitive and natural play of the actors."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The four-fold nomination for the French César in the same year did not lead to a prize in any category.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Web links

• My mother's castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of release for my mother's castle . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 66 253 V).
2. ↑ My mother's castle. In: prisma.de . Retrieved December 7, 2017 . 
3. ↑ My mother's castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .