The seduced man - L'Homme blessé

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Movie
German title The seduced man - L'Homme blessé
Original title L'Homme blessé
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1983
length 109 minutes
Rod
Director Patrice Chereau
script Patrice Chéreau,
Hervé Guibert
production Claude Berri ,
Marie-Laure Reyre ,
Ariel Zeitoun
music Fiorenzo Carpi
camera Renato Berta
cut Denise de Casabianca
occupation

The seduced man - L'Homme blessé is a milieu study by the French director Patrice Chéreau from 1983. The film drama is based on an original screenplay by Chéreau and Hervé Guibert . The main roles are occupied by Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vittorio Mezzogiorno .

action

The Borowiecki emigrant family of Polish origin is one of the few families that does not go on vacation. However, the daughter is sent to Frankfurt as an au pair. The parents and 16-year-old brother Henri accompany the girl to the train station in the evening. The train is late. Henri notices the looks of an older man who, as it later turns out, is Doctor Bosmans, who moves in the prostitute scene. Henri feels at the same time magically attracted and repelled by the man who looks at him eagerly.

Henri is shy, bored, crazy about himself and thinks that his mother talks too much and his father too little. The next day he goes back to the train station in the hope of meeting the stranger from last night again. There he met Jean Lerman in the train station toilet, for whom he developed a passion from the beginning that grew into an obsession . The result is that he feels torn between his fear of a world that is strange to him and his longing to be with Jean. He falls hopelessly in love with the opaque man who is almost twice his age, whose raw charm and gross sex appeal attract him. Right from the start he cannot escape the milieu into which he is now slipping.

Jean, who lives with a long-suffering woman, gives him more puzzles than he'd like. On the one hand he organizes the station line, on the other hand he gives the police tips every now and then. In addition, he goes on a thief tour with the boys who stand by him unconditionally. Because of the cold feeling around him, Henri also changes increasingly, not much remains of the formerly crazy romantic. For example, Henri looks on while a man brutally kicks a pensioner who is lying on the floor, and feels strangely excited and attracted when the perpetrator grabs him and brutally kisses him.

The relationship between Henri and Jean ends in hopelessness, at the end of which Henri finally strangles Jean during the act of love.

production

Production notes

Produced by Azor Films, France 3 Cinéma, Oliane Productions, Renn Productions and the Société des Etablissements L. Gaumont , among others , the film is the third on-screen work directed by Patrice Chéreau.

The German dubbing was carried out in 1992 by Rondo-Film GmbH in Berlin, dialogue script and dialogue director: Heinz Freitag.

publication

The film was presented on May 18, 1983 at the Cannes Film Festival . On May 25, 1983 it was then shown in French cinemas. In October 1983 he was represented at the Chicago International Film Festival . In November 1983 it was published in the Netherlands, in January 1985 in the USA and in Denmark. It was shown for the first time in Australia in 1986, in Sweden in May 1987 and in Japan in November 1993. In November 2005 it was screened at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival and in October 2007 at the Finnish Film Archive screening. In July 2009 it was screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic. It was also published in Argentina, Spain, Hungary and Poland.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was shown for the first time on August 2, 1985 under the title The seduced man , which was the original French version with German subtitles. On July 24, 1992, a German dubbed version was broadcast by 3sat .

The international film title is: The Wounded Man .

criticism

“An oppressive study of the milieu told in atmospherically dense images with a bleak mood. The staging is a bit stretched, but played excellently and, with all the clarity in the description of the hustler and spanner milieu, never speculative. "

- Lexicon of international film

The film magazine Cinema drew the conclusion "brilliantly played gay drama" that is "played poetically, provocatively and thrillingly".

Karsten Witte from the weekly newspaper Die Zeit wrote that the film had a “sweeping rhythm, acting power and a vision that could be compared to Genet ”.

Awards

Chéreau's film was represented in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival 1983 , but had the disadvantage of Shōhei Imamura's tragic comedy The Ballad of Narayama . A year later, the Césars awarded the drama the prize for the best original screenplay , while lead actor Jean-Hugues Anglade and film editor Denise de Casabianca received nominations in the categories of “Best Young Actor” and “Best Editing” .

literature

  • Chereau, Patrice; Guibert, Hervé: L'homme blessé: scénario et notes . Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1983. ISBN 2707306436 (French edition)
  • Dirk Naguschewski: Disabled men figurations of homosexuals in French cinema In: Freiburg gender studies, 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'Homme Blessé - The Seduced Man movie poster
  2. ↑ The seduced man - L'Homme blessé. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 20, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ The seduced man - L'Homme Blessé - Naiver provincial youth experiences his coming out in the city on cinema.de (with 8 film images)
  4. ↑ Karsten Witte : Patrice Chéreau's new film “The seduced man” - Torn off glitter
    In: Die Zeit , August 2, 1985. Accessed on May 18, 2017.