The fight on the island
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The fight on the island |
| Original title | Le Combat dans l'île |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Cavalier |
| script | Alain Cavalier Jean-Paul Rappeneau (dialogues) |
| production | Fred Surin |
| music | Serge Nigg |
| camera | Pierre Lhomme |
| cut | Pierre Gillette |
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The fight on the island (original title: Le Combat dans l'île) is a French film drama directed by Alain Cavalier from 1962 with Romy Schneider and Jean-Louis Trintignant in the leading roles.
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Clément is a very hot-headed and extreme person. His quick temper, coupled with pronounced jealousy, makes married life almost unbearable for the young Anne. To make matters worse, Clément has also joined a right-wing extremist organization called the “Group of Thirteen”. One day Anne has had enough of his tantrums and breaks up with him. His unstable nature makes him unsustainable even for his own family; Clement's father, a manufacturer, throws him out of the company without further ado. To the extent that Clément now believes that he is losing the ground under his feet, the boss of the “Thirteen”, Serge, gains more and more influence over him. Serge even manages to get him to agree to commit a political murder. Before he even begins this insane act, Clément wants to see his wife again and talk to her. She forgives him, then Clément carries out the assassination attempt. But somebody in the group must have passed the attack plan on to the state, at least Serge explains to his people that one was blown. After this betrayal, the conspirators split up, and each goes into hiding for himself. Anne and Clément are cared for by his childhood friend Paul. As a hermit, the young printer lives in an idyllic mill on an island on the Seine .
Little does Clément know that he has become Serge's plaything. He didn't kill anyone, his pistol shot only hit a life-size doll. The chosen victim is still alive! Clément is stunned, a world collapses for him. He wonders why Serge, whom he adored like a father, held this charade with him. The terrorist boss has meanwhile gone to South America. Despite Anne's requests, Clément wants to follow Serge to confront him. But Clement's absence also means that Anne and Paul are getting closer. Paul has found out that Anne's past life is a bit disreputable, which makes her wife all the more interesting for him. Anne begins to reciprocate his feelings.
In the meantime, Clément has taken up Serge's trail in Rio de Janeiro . When he locates him, he shoots his former idol and returns to France. Anne has learned about the murder, which Clément believes is justified because of Serge's manipulative machinations, from the newspaper and distances herself in every way from her husband. The love for Paul and his encouragement to resume the acting career that was once given up for the sake of Clément makes her float as if in seventh heaven, especially since she is also pregnant by Paul. One day Clément appears in the Seine mill. Nobody is at home, only the domestic servant Cécile, and she immediately rushes to Paris to inform Anne of her murderous husband's return home. When they both meet again, Anne confesses that she has fallen in love with Paul and is expecting a child from him. Clément is shaken to his very foundations, after Serge has now, as he believes, cheated on his wife too! He wants to get revenge on Paul for this. Clément challenges Paul to a pistol duel, man against man, but Paul stubbornly resists it.
The police have meanwhile arrested most of the members of the “Group of Thirteen”, only Clément and another terrorist, Lucien, are still at large. You want to flee abroad. But Clément cannot leave his wife, he knocks Lucien down and returns to Paris alone to see Anne again. He hopes to meet her in the theater, but his wife has stopped working on the stage because she wants to give birth to her child with Paul on the island. It was already autumn when Clément managed to get to the island again. He sneaks around the house and aims his revolver through the window at the expectant mother. Anne is injured in the face. Furious with rage, Paul rushes outside and takes up the fight against Clément. This is killed by Paul. Inside Anne hears footsteps in front of the door. She is terrified that the wrong man of the two could enter her little paradise ...
Production notes
The fight on the island , although the film was not a great success, marked the start of Romy Schneider's career in France in the early 1960s. The film was made in 1961 and had its world premiere on August 17, 1962 in Germany. On September 7, 1962, the fight on the island started in France. The German television first broadcast took place on January 29, 1973 on ZDF .
Bernard Evein created the film structures .
Political background
The fight on the island is heavily influenced by the events surrounding the right-wing extremist activities of the French secret organization OAS , whose murderous machinations reached their climax in 1961 and 1962, i.e. at the time this film was made.
Reviews
“The critics only half-heartedly or not at all agreed to this politically tinged jealousy story with a bloodthirsty end - they retained their benevolence for the actress Romy Schneider. Even the reviewers of the demanding German cineastes' primer ' Filmkritik ' found Romy 'cleansed as an actor', 'really changed', 'quite believable in all nuances'. "
"If the film first takes up the subject of political terrorism, it sinks into a trivial jealousy story with a bloodthirsty ending."
Web links
- The battle on the island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Easy, Mausi . In: Der Spiegel , March 13, 1963, No. 11.
- ↑ The fight on the island. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .