The Idiot (1946)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The idiot |
| Original title | L'Idiot |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1946 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georges Lampin |
| script |
Charles Spaak , Georges Raewsky |
| production | Sacha Gordine |
| music |
Maurice Thiriet , V. de Butzow |
| camera | Christian Matras |
| cut | Léonide Azar |
| occupation | |
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The Idiot (original title: L'Idiot ) is a French film adaptation of the Dostoevsky novel of the same name from 1946.
action
After five years in a Swiss sanatorium, the young Prince Myshkin returned to Saint Petersburg in 1870 . He visits the wealthy General Jepanchin, whose wife is Myshkin's aunt. The general accommodates the destitute Myshkin with his friend Ganja Ivolgin. At the request of the general, Ganya should marry Nastassja Filippovna and make her an honorable woman. At the age of 16, she was seduced by Totzkij, a rich Russian, and for years his lover. Ganya, to whom Trotsky promises a small fortune for his marriage to Nastassja, gets into an argument with his sister Sophie. Sophie is against a connection with Nastassja, because she doesn't want a woman with a bad reputation in her family. When Nastassja visits the Ivolgins, Myshkin opens the door for her. He is immediately fascinated by her. Sophie, on the other hand, is angry and insults her potential sister-in-law, which is why Ganja wants to slap her in the face. The peace-loving Myshkin, however, intervenes and instead receives a slap in the face from Ganja.
In the evening, when Ganja's and Nastassja's engagement was to be announced at a company, Nastassja announced that she would not marry Ganja. The flour dealer Rogozhin then enters the room and puts a wad of money on the table. He really wants to marry Nastassja and is ready to pay the highest price for her. When Nastassja met Myshkin, he asks her if she would like to marry him. It is true that she considers Myshkin to be the most honorable man she has ever met; however, she leaves the company with Rogozhin and moves in with him. Aglaya, the youngest daughter of General Jepantschin, is supposed to marry Totsky. At the engagement party, however, Myshkin steps forward and says that this connection is illegal because Aglaya does not love Totsky. He is also excited that everywhere in Russia there is only hypocrisy and indifference. The other guests, however, dismiss his naive moral ideas as madness, as he was just a poor fool.
While Rogozhin is laying valuable jewelry at Nastassja’s feet, but doesn’t offer her loving words, Aglaya receives an enthusiastic letter from Myshkin. When Myshkin wanted to travel to Pavlovsk with the Jepantschins , Nastassja invited him over shortly before his departure. She leads him to believe that Rogozhin's jewelry is very fond of her and makes fun of Myshkin's naivete. But he sees in her laugh rather a cry for help, which is why he continues to feel drawn to her and asks her to leave Rogozhin. Rogozhin finally arrives and reacts jealously. However, Myshkin can convince him not to be his rival. Enthusiastic about his sincere belief in God, Rogozhin declares him his brother. But shortly afterwards - Nastassja has since left him - Rogozhin gets ready to stab Myshkin, but then lets go of him.
Myshkin and Nastassja meet again in the gardens of Pavlovsk. Rogozhin also arrives one evening. When he threatens to kill Myshkin, Nastassja agrees to marry Rogozhin. In addition, she ensures that Aglaja's mother no longer wants to marry her daughter to Totzkij by suggesting that Totzkij is in financial difficulties. Aglaya, who fell in love with Myshkin, is finally free for him. Myshkin, however, feels torn between Aglaya and Nastassja. When Aglaya leaves him disappointed, Nastassja asks him to finally cure her sadness. Back in Saint Petersburg, Myshkin and Nastassja are about to get married. But when Myshkin confesses to thinking of Aglaya, Nastassja withdraws and disappears. Myshkin goes in search of her and finally finds her dead on a bed with Rogozhin. When Rogozhin confesses to stabbing her, Myshkin has a fit out of desperation over the misery of the world.
background
The Frenchman Georges Lampin of Russian origin made his directorial debut with the film. Ten years later he also tried to make a film adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement , in which Jean Gabin played the leading role. The Idiot was filmed in the Studios Éclair in Épinay-sur-Seine and in the Studios de Neuilly in Neuilly-sur-Seine . Léon Barsacq designed the film structures , while Marcel Escoffier designed the costumes. Albert Wolff conducted the orchestra for the recordings of the film music .
The idiot premiered in France on June 7, 1946. The film was released in German cinemas in 1948 and was shown for the first time on German television by ZDF on February 14, 1966 .
criticism
The lexicon of international films found that Lampin's Dostoyevsky adaptation "has impressive acting performances and a dense atmosphere, but lags behind other film adaptations of the work, since static and pleasantly good cinema images predominate", especially since the "important psychological component of the material [ ...] at best “be hinted at. Bosley Crowther of the New York Times also praised the "fine cast" and the "good production values", but also said that director Lampin had failed to bring an "intellectual dream" to the screen.
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1948 by Rex-Film Bloemer & Co. The dubbing director was Erich Kobler based on the dialogue book by Willi Karras .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Nastassja Filippovna | Edwige Feuillère | Lu Neatly |
| Rogozhin | Lucien Coëdel | Walter Richter |
| Totsky | Jean Debucourt | Konrad Wagner |
| Prince Myshkin | Gérard Philipe | Max Eckard |
| Aglaya Jepanchina | Nathalie Nattier | Paula Denk |
| General Jepanchin | Maurice Chambreuil | CW castle |
| Yelisaveta Prokofievna Yepanchina | Marguerite Moreno | Lilli Schönborn-Anspach |
Web links
- The idiot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Idiot on filmsdefrance.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. filmsdefrance.com
- ↑ The idiot. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ "With a fine cast and good production and an honest regard for the source, Director Lampin has not been able to rouse a drama from an intellectual dream." Bosley Crowther : French Production of 'The Idiot' Offers a Sensational Young Actor in Gerard Philippe . In: The New York Times , February 5, 1948.
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
