The ladies from the coast
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The ladies from the coast |
| Original title | Les dames de la cote |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 450 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nina Companéez |
| script | Nina Companéez |
| production | Likes Bodard |
| music |
Guy Bontempelli , José Padilla |
| camera | Jacques Guérin |
| cut | Nicole Berckmans |
| occupation | |
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The ladies from the coast (original title: Les Dames de la côte ) is a five-part French television film by Nina Companéez from 1979 about the life of a family before and during the First World War .
action
After Clara Decourt and her husband Henri von Paris moved to the “Feuilleforte” family estate in Normandy and their sons Marcel and Raoul joined them in the summer of 1913, the family had a big party to which all the neighbors were invited. While Marcel is a romantic and idealistic young man, his brother Raoul is reserved and cynical. Her 17-year-old cousin Fanny Villatte falls in love with Marcel, but shortly afterwards her aunt Alix takes her to Paris to be introduced to society. Clara, who is unhappily married to Henri, is looking for a new housekeeper. She decides on the farm girl Blanche. Her cousin Georgette, who also wanted the job and is Raoul's lover, loses her mind a little later and commits suicide.
When the First World War broke out, the “ladies of the coast” had to take over the duties of their men. They get to know an independence that they could never have imagined. Fanny, who doesn't want to wait any longer for shy Marcel to propose to her, finally marries Raoul. However, due to traumatic war experiences, the latter develops extreme jealousy, so that Fanny soon realizes that she has taken the wrong man as a husband. The news of her father's death also makes her sad.
Fanny eventually returns to Paris, where she begins a dissolute life in order to forget her grief. One day she meets Marcel again and they realize that they still love each other. They start an affair and from then on meet secretly. But out of respect for Raoul, who knows nothing about their connection, Marcel goes abroad. When Blanche's husband dies at the front, she becomes a nurse. In a hospital she takes care of the seriously injured Louis, who falls in love with her. However, he is bound. Only when his wife Marianne fell ill with the Spanish flu after the war and died, Blanche and Louis were able to marry.
background
The shooting took place in Deauville , among other places . Director Nina Companéez later worked for the multi-part television series Evas Töchter (1982) again with the main actors Edwige Feuillère , Fanny Ardant and Francis Huster .
The women from the coast was broadcast as a five-part series from December 22, 1979 on French television for the first time. François Truffaut saw the series and was immediately fascinated by Fanny Ardant, which is why he invited her to dinner with Gérard Depardieu , with whom he was filming The Last Metro (1980). Truffaut then cast the two actors as tragic lovers in The Woman Next Door (1981) and made Ardant a star.
The series was first shown in seven parts on German television from July 13, 1981.
German version
The German dubbed version was created for the first German television release.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Alix | Edwige Feuillère | Carola Höhn |
| Clara Decourt | Françoise Fabian | Maddalena Kerrh |
| Fanny Villatte | Fanny Ardant | Johanna Liebeneiner |
| Marcel | Francis Huster | Peter Ehret |
| Louis | Michel Aumont | Jochen Striebeck |
| Adélaïde | Denise Gray | Toni Treutler |
Web links
- The ladies from the coast in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on dvdtoile.com (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. fernsehserien.de
- ↑ The ladies from the coast. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on April 2, 2017 .