The fearless rebel
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The fearless rebel |
| Original title | Vanina Vanini |
| Country of production |
Italy France |
| original language |
Italian French |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| script |
Monique Lange Diego Fabbri Roberto Rossellini Jean Gruault based on the novel Vanina Vanini (1829) by Stendhal |
| production | Mori's Ergas |
| music | Renzo Rossellini |
| camera | Luciano Trasatti |
| cut | Daniele Alabiso |
| occupation | |
| |
The Fearless Rebel is an Italian - French feature film from 1961 directed by Roberto Rossellini with Sandra Milo in the leading role. At her side as Vanina Vanini is Laurent Terzieff as the (according to the German title) fearless rebel.
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Italy in 1823. The 19-year-old Roman princess Vanina Vanini is coveted by many noble youngsters, but none of them seems to be good enough for her. She is bored to death by the same varnished Roman beauties. All of Italy is going through troubled times, it is a time of turmoil. The peasants and the common people rebel against the big landowners and the clergy, who seem to suck the blood out of their veins, and Vanina Vanini too is drawn into this vortex of general questioning of old orders and values. Because she falls in love with a “class enemy” of all people, with the daring and determined Pietro Missirilli, a rebellious farmer from Romagna. Missirilli is protected and hidden from his persecutors by Vanina's father, Prince Asdrubale, and sometimes even has to dress up as a woman.
Vanina falls in love with this man who is so very different from all the men she knows and who was badly wounded in the fray. Vanina sacrifices herself for her lover in order to heal him. But Pietro Missirilli has a mission, and even love for the buxom princess cannot dissuade him from his convictions: when the fatherland calls, personal feelings have to take a back seat, according to his credo. Vanina does what she can and achieves what she did not want: Pietro Missirilli confronts his captors because, out of desperation and love for him, she betrayed his fighters and thereby exposed him to the reputation of having become a traitor to his ideals. Pietro Missirilli is sentenced to death, Vanina intervenes by playing with the man who loves her and the uncle who is obscured by her beauty. Even the prince of the church is called in to obtain the pardon of the beloved. But Pietro is not at all happy with such help and Vanina's commitment to his life, and so this love affair ends tragically in stormy times: He ends on the scaffold, and Vanina goes to the monastery.
Production notes
The fearless rebel originated in Gradara in Marche and in Forte di San Leo in Emilia-Romagna . The film premiered in Italy on October 12, 1961 and was shown for the first time in Germany on March 16, 1962. On March 30, 1962, the fearless rebel started in Austria.
The buildings were designed by Luigi Scaccianoce , the costumes by Danilo Donati .
Reviews
“Roberto Rossellini's attempt to emulate Luchino Visconti's famous work ' Senso ' turned out to be involuntarily grotesque. The story of the Roman princess Vanina Vanini, who leans toward an enemy of her class, a rebel of the risorgimento, with excessive love, could very well have turned into a subtle and cinematic delightful piece of evidence about the impossibility of 'love in and of itself'. Rossellini, meanwhile, lets his couple indulge in dialogues that fluctuate between 'I won't leave you, my beloved', and 'But the dear fatherland is calling me'. The same applies to the historical background, which tastes all too embarrassingly of the setting - which not only excludes any question about the current relevance of the fable, but no longer gives rise to the idea that at least a story from days gone by is being told here with decency. "
“This basically attractive subject was ridiculed by the once celebrated director Roberto Rossellini (' Rome, Open City ') in his film. The grim-looking lover (Laurent Terzieff) and the dough-faced lover (Sandra Milo) talk like the grandchildren of Courths-Mahler and use gestures that no silent film has known more dissolute. The composer of the film music apparently had agony to choose between Wagner and Verdi. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Not an action film, as the title suggests, but a melodramatic adventure story, which despite serious depiction ... loses due to inconsistency, but staged and opened with time (1823)."
“Stendhal's Italian novella about the passion of Princess Vanini for a persecuted patriot in 1823, to whom the freedom of Italy is more important than death. A disappointing Rossellini film, believable neither as a love tragedy nor in terms of political motivation. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The fearless rebel in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The fearless rebel in the dictionary of international films
Web links
- The fearless rebel in the Internet Movie Database (English)