The family

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Movie
German title The family
Original title La famiglia
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1987
length 127 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ettore Scola
script Ettore Scola,
Ruggero Maccari ,
Furio Scarpelli
production Franco Committeri
music Armando Trovajoli
camera Ricardo Aronovich
cut Francesco Malvestito
occupation
synchronization

The family (original title: La famiglia ) is an award-winning Italian - French film drama directed by Ettore Scola from 1987.

action

From the perspective of the retired professor Carlo, the story of a middle-class Italian extended family from 80 eventful years is told:

It begins with Carlos' baptism in 1906, when his family posed for a portrait together for the photographer. Aunts, uncles, cousins ​​and siblings - they all live in a large apartment in Rome . The Belle Époque can still be enjoyed. But then the First World War draws in and times change. The grandfather, the patriarch of the family, dies and Carlo and his brother Giulio regularly quarrel.

In his early twenties Carlo is already professor of literature, like his grandfather was. He falls in love with the pianist Adriana, but ultimately makes her sister Beatrice his wife - a decision that he regrets for years. The warm-hearted Beatrice becomes a good wife and loving mother of his children for him, but inwardly he always longs for Adriana, who out of consideration for her sister does not want to get involved in an affair as much as he does.

As the years go by, the individual family members go through the Second World War , the difficult post-war period, the economic boom; experience love, friendship and disappointments; expect children and mourn the deceased. And it is always Carlo's apartment where they meet and are together.

After Beatrice dies, Carlo realizes that he married the right woman. He would not have been happy with Adriana, because they would always have argued, even if they loved each other very much. On his 80th birthday in 1986, the whole family gathered again to celebrate Carlos' anniversary. His children, grandchildren, his brother Giulio and Adriana have come and are now posing with Carlo in their midst for a new photo for the family album.

background

Ettore Scola's family saga, which for more than eight decades only takes place in the home of the head of the family, celebrated its premiere in Italy on January 22, 1987 , where the film subsequently won numerous awards. In Germany , Die Familie was released on September 3, 1987.

Reviews

According to the lexicon of international film , the "private milieu [...] portrayed in the film forms the background of an excellently played and staged world in which contemporary history can be seen in the mirror of unspectacular events". With sympathetic characters, with the "openness of the story to the individual perspective of the beholder" and with a "precise [n] formal [n] structure" Ettore Scola created "a melancholy declaration of love for a typically Italian form of the extended family".

“Scola unfolds his chronicle in a witty and witty way, framed between two photos from 1906 and 1986,” said Cinema . The film is like a "big painting of a bygone era". Also prism called Scola's film as "excellent played and staged chronicle of a Roman family over a period of 80 years." With the apartment as the focal point of the film, this shows "[i] n atmospheric density [...] an unspectacular, but nonetheless captivating time color of this century, with birth and death, happiness and pain constantly alternating as society changes".

Awards

Multiple awards for his film: Ettore Scola

Nastro d'Argento

David di Donatello

  • Best movie
  • Best Director (Ettore Scola)
  • Best Actor (Vittorio Gassman)
  • Best Screenplay (Ruggero Maccari, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola)
  • Best Editing (Francesco Malvestito)

Further

German version

The German synchronized editing was created in 1987.

role actor Voice actor
Carlo Vittorio Gassman Erik Schumann
Beatrice Stefania Sandrelli Rita Engelmann
Adriana Fanny Ardant Viktoria Brams
Jean Luc Philippe Noiret Lambert Hamel
Giulio Carlo Dapporto u. a. Manfred Lehmann
Adriana as a young woman Jo Champa Katja Nottke
Giulio as a young man Massimo Dapporto Joachim Tennstedt

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The family. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  3. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  4. ↑ The family. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .