Desideria (1980)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Desideria |
| Original title | Desideria: La vita interiore |
| Country of production | Italy , Germany |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gianni Barcelloni |
| script | Gianni Barcelloni, Enzo Ungari , Günter Ebert |
| production |
Galliano Juso , Karl Spiehs , Alexander Grüter |
| music | Pino Donaggio |
| camera | Claudio Cirillo |
| cut | Daniele Alabiso |
| occupation | |
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Desideria is an Italian-German social drama written in 1980 by Gianni Barcelloni with Lara Wendel and Stefania Sandrelli in the leading roles. The film was based on the novel “La vita interiore” (in German: The Inner Life ) by Alberto Moravia .
action
The story takes place in upscale, Italian social circles in Rome. At the center of the action is the teenage Desideria. The brunette girl was once adopted as a child by the wealthy Viola. She is considered a nonconformist who is not accepted by society and has accordingly raised her child, who does not know that it has been adopted, to be a rebel and revolutionary. After a unsuccessful suicide and subsequent hospitalization , Desideria, the “longed for” girl, has blossomed from the not very handsome and chubby girl into a half-ripe Lolita with an innocent look. When Desideria learns that Viola is not her birth mother, who once worked as a whore, the young woman finally begins to break with everything and everyone. A deep hatred of society breaks through in her.
Her declaration of war on her mother, who once paid a lot of money for the adoption, and the establishment breaks ground in the shape of the choice of her lovers, who make Desideria herself appear as a whore. First she gets into bed with Quinto, a proletarian revolutionary as he is in the book. But for Desideria, Quinto is little more than a sexual object; In truth, the “revolution” he claims to be fighting for is nothing more than that of a bourgeois moralist with a gun. Shortly after Quinto killed the betraying comrade Erostrato - who was Viola's lover and had acted as a spy for the police - Desideria shot him with his own gun, in the apartment of her adoptive mother, who Quinto wanted to kidnap as the ultimate act of the anti-bourgeois revolution . Then Desideria leaves the apartment and goes out on the street. Viola is already waiting there in the car. Desideria climbs up to her and they both drive away without a word.
Production notes
Desideria was written between April 14th and June 18th, 1980 and was premiered on September 4th, 1980 in Rome. The German premiere took place on October 24, 1980 in Munich.
Otto W. Retzer was one of two production managers, the film structures were created by Bernardo Giovannoni.
criticism
“The unsuccessful film adaptation of a novel by Alberto Moravia depicts the hustle and bustle of a group of unruly young people in the luxury district of Rome. (...) The half-hearted soft porn, staged as viscous as it is fragmented, remains - unrealistic and boring - entirely on the surface of the problems. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Desideria in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on August 30, 2018
Web links
- Desideria in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Desideria at filmportal.de