The banker's wife

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Movie
German title The banker's wife
Original title La Banquière
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1980
length 131 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Francis Girod
script Francis Girod
production Ariel Zeitoun
music Ennio Morricone
camera Bernard Zitzermann
cut Geneviève Winding
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synchronization

The banker's wife (original title: La Banquière ) is a French film drama from 1980. Directed by Francis Girod , Romy Schneider starred as Emma Eckhert. Leading roles are occupied by Jean-Louis Trintignant , Jean-Claude Brialy , Claude Brasseur and Marie-France Pisier as well as Daniel Mesguich , Jean Carmet and Noëlle Châtelet .

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Paris 1921: Emma Eckhert, a hat maker with bisexual inclinations, marries the older but wealthy businessman Moïse Nathanson. Marriage serves Emma as a tool for her planned ascent into the better society of Paris. After a while she starts an affair with the rich Camille. With their support, Emma becomes president of a savings bank. The success of their bank is based on excessive guaranteed interest payments to savers. Horace Vannister, owner of a competing bank, suspects that Emma's rise is not going well. Horace has influential political friends and achieved a bank review.

After the bank is raided by a court order, Emma is charged with stock manipulation and sentenced to three years in prison. While in custody, Emma continues to fight for her success and to regain her reputation. However, she only succeeds again when the government changes and Emma is subsequently rehabilitated. When she returns to her bank and promises her angry creditors that their debts will be completely settled, she is killed in an assassination attempt.

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The real Marthe Hanau , the role model for the title role, was, however, less philanthropic than the banker's wife embodied by Romy Schneider. It cheated thousands of small savers with its pyramid scheme, which collapsed in 1928. She was arrested, released after bribing politicians, and arrested again. Sentenced to three years in prison, she committed suicide there in 1935.

Production notes

Hôtel du Palais, one of the film locations

It is a production by Partner's Productions, France 3 and Gaumont in collaboration with Société Française de Production (SFP). The film was shot in the town hall in Bois-Colombes in the Hauts-de-Seine department , in the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris , in the Hôtel du Palais, 1 avenue de l'Impératrice, Biarritz , in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , on avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Paris, on Rue Soufflot in Paris, in the Galerie Véro-Dodat and in the Paris Stock Exchange .

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The banker's wife in the German synchronous file

reception

publication

The film premiered in France on August 27, 1980. In Germany, Die Bankiersfrau was released in cinemas on April 2, 1981 and was shown for the first time on German television on September 23, 1988 on the occasion of the 50th birthday of Romy Schneider, who died in 1982, on Sat.1 . In DFF 2 it ran for the first time on December 25, 1988. In some cases it also ran under the alternative title Die Bankpräsidentin .

It was published on October 30, 1980 in Belgium (Gent), on March 26, 1981 in the Netherlands, on May 12, 1981 in Spain, on July 27, 1981 in Denmark and on November 26, 1981 in Portugal. In December 1982 it came to the cinema in Turkey and in October 1986 in Japan. It was also published in Brazil, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Poland. The international titles are The Lady Banker and The Woman Banker .

On May 16, 2012, Studiocanal released the film as part of the Romy Schneider Edition on DVD.

criticism

The lexicon of international films describes Die Bankiersfrau as “an elaborate star film that neither maintains its comedy style nor clarifies connections of a political and economic nature”. "The desired portrait of modern role behavior" is "drowned out in a staging that loses sight of the topic through the luxurious decorations".

Cinema spoke of a "drama with a brilliant Romy Schneider". The film is "[o] pulentes Eurokino [...] with great actors". Prisma described the film as an “imposing portrait of an unusual woman”. The director was “less concerned with the tangling of politics and the financial world” than with “the melodramatic aspects of an eventful life”.

L'Oeil sur L'Ecran spoke of a watered down portrait of Marthe Hanau that made it possible for Romy Schneider to shine in this role. It appears beautiful and majestic and only gives the film its full dimension. The implementation of Girod is luxurious, the list of leading actors down to the supporting roles is impressive, but the film is a bit stiff and ultimately a bit boring.

Awards

When the César was awarded in 1981 , the film was nominated in four categories: “Best Cinematography” , “Best Editing” , “Best Production Design” ( Jean-Jacques Caziot ) and Best Sound ( Jean-Pierre Ruh ). However, the film was defeated by the competition in all nominated categories.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Die Bankierfrau . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2012 (PDF; test number: 52 255 V).
  2. a b La banquière (1980) de Francis Girod sS films.blog.lemonde.fr (French), accessed on 23 September 2018.
  3. Die Bankiersfrau Fig. DVD case Romy Schneider Edition
  4. The banker's wife. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. The banker's wife cf. cinema.de, accessed on September 23, 2018.
  6. The banker's wife cf. prisma.de, accessed on September 23, 2018.