The Stranger (1967)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The stranger |
| Original title | Lo straniero |
| Country of production |
Italy France Algeria |
| original language |
Italian French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| script | Luchino Visconti Georges Conchon Suso Cecchi D'Amico Emmanuel Roblès based on the novel of the same name (1942) by Albert Camus |
| production | Dino De Laurentiis |
| music | Piero Piccioni |
| camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
| occupation | |
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The Stranger is an Italian-French-Algerian fictional film from 1967 by Luchino Visconti with Marcello Mastroianni in the leading role. The template for this was the existentialism novel of the same name by Albert Camus .
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In French-controlled Algeria in 1935: The French Arthur Meursault is the epitome of an indifferent, indifferent person, a strange owl who cannot really differentiate between good and bad, right and wrong, whose range of values is solely based on his own standards and not those society follows. He lives an inconspicuous and indifferent life without ups and downs. He also seems incapable of deeper emotions. When his mother dies, he feels nothing, even at her grave he cannot shake tears. The very next day, he began an ultimately meaningless affair with a woman, the stenographer Marie Cardona. Meursault is a stranger: a stranger to his fellow men, a stranger in his city, a stranger in the world.
Meursault's roommate is called Raymond, who can't keep his hands off women. He seeks Arthur's friendship and asks him to help him with an Arab girl's affair. Meursault, indifferent as always, agrees. One evening Meursault and Marie hear desperate shouts from Raymond's room: It is the Arab girl who is calling for help and seeking refuge with the man who is severely abusing her. The police intervene, but Raymond doesn't have to fear any consequences. Nevertheless, since that incident, he feels persecuted day after day by the brother of the Arab girl. One day Arthur, Marie and Raymond travel to the sea. Here, too, the Arab suddenly appears. At the moment the four people silence each other, Meursault grabs a firearm and completely unexpectedly strikes the man down. The novel says: “I realized that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the unusual silence of a beach where I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at a lifeless body, which the bullets penetrated without being seen. And there were, as it were, four short blows to the door of doom. "
Arthur Meursault is arrested, imprisoned, charged with murder and found guilty. In a statement, he again claims completely indifferent that he did not want to kill the young Arab and only gets laughter in the courtroom. It is not so much the act as such that frightens those present, but its accompanying circumstances, the numbness, the indifference, the apathy, the cold heart and indifference of the delinquent, in short: his "being strange" in this world in every respect. Meursault is sentenced to death, but he does not feel guilty, not even the fear of his own, inevitably approaching death is something that frightens him or even demands an emotion from him, because for Arthur Meursault death is the only reality. In the face of a priest who demands repentance and penance from him immediately before his execution, he realizes how happy he has been so far and how absurd this life seems to him.
Production notes
The Stranger premiered in Italy on October 14, 1967, and opened in France six days later. The strip was seen in Germany from March 1, 1968. In the same year, Der Fremde was nominated for the Golden Globe for best foreign language production.
The buildings were designed by Mario Garbuglia , the costumes were designed by Piero Tosi .
Leading actor Marcello Mastroianni and film editor Ruggero Mastroianni were brothers.
Reviews
“The story of a man who is destroyed as a stranger by intolerant society because he follows his conscience and not its conventions and prejudices. Careful rendering of the novel by Albert Camus, exemplary in terms of the milieu drawing. "
“The film brings nothing new to those familiar with the original, and impartial visitors little information about Camus' worldview, which takes a back seat to the external plot and the beautiful images. Nevertheless, it could give cause for thought about existentialist and Christian world interpretation and view of life, therefore recommended for interested visitors and for discussion. "
“Excellent adaptation of Albert Camus' existentialist novel about a man who feels completely isolated from society. Mastroianni has been perfectly cast in the lead role. "
"Luchino Visconti (' Death in Venice ') has masterfully adapted the story of a man who has no place in this world because he follows his conscience and not social conventions."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Stranger in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 121/1968.
Web links
- The Stranger - Albert Camus' anti-hero par excellence in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- The stranger in the Internet Movie Database (English)