The mauve-colored taxi
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The mauve-colored taxi |
| Original title | Un taxi mauve |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yves Boisset |
| script |
Michel Déon , Yves Boisset, Anne Dutter , Georges Dutter |
| production | Catherine Winter |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Tonino Delli Colli |
| cut | Albert Jurgenson |
| occupation | |
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The mauve taxi ( Un taxi mauve ) is a 1977 French drama film directed by Yves Boisset . It is based on the novel of the same name by Michel Déon , which was published in 1973 and won the Grand Prix du Roman .
The video for the film was also released in Germany as Das Schloß der Tyrannen . Another German title is Irisches Intermezzo .
It was shot in English, but the film was first released in French (with Rampling and Ustinov themselves dubbing in French). The film was released in France on May 27, 1977.
action
The film is set in the countryside in the south and west of Ireland. Several stories are interwoven. A common thread is the old country doctor Seamus Scully, played by Fred Astaire, who is driven to his patients in a mauve taxi (the driver is Sean, played by Jack Watson). The characters are mostly eccentric foreigners with a mysterious background who have withdrawn to Ireland for various reasons and keep their stories hidden from each other.
The writer Philippe Marcal, played by Philippe Noiret, has retired to a small Irish village after the death of his children and is apparently ill. Sharon Frederick, played by Charlotte Rampling, is married to a Guelph Prince. She is the sister of young Jerry Keen, played by Edward Albert, who like her is the scion of a million dollar American family, but who for mysterious reasons broke up with the family and is living in exile in Ireland. He occasionally hunts with Marcal. Marcal, in turn, begins an affair with Sharon Frederick. Taubelman, played by Peter Ustinov, is a busy, opaque Russian exile who is planning a horse center and lives in a castle with his beautiful, seemingly mute daughter Anne, played by Agostina Belli. He needs money for this, which is why he wants to marry his daughter Anne to Jerry Keen, who have fallen in love with each other. Sharon Frederick has to agree to the use of the money and finds out Taubelman's machinations.
The sociable Irish country doctor Scully shows up at crucial points in the story in his taxi and gives life advice.
Others
Boisset was nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1977.
Philippe Sarde's score also includes contributions by the Irish folk band Chieftains .
The film was shot in Ireland, especially in Eyeries in County Cork , Ashford Castle ( County Sligo ), Rosturk Castle ( County Mayo ), the beach at Coumeenoole and Slea Head ( County Kerry )
It is one of the last Fred Astaire films.
Web links
- The mauve taxi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Mauve Taxi , Irland.net
- Review by Marie Anderson on kino.zeit on the occasion of the broadcast on 3sat 2010