The woman at the window

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Movie
Original title The woman at the window /
Une femme à sa fenêtre /
Una donna alla finestra
Country of production France , Italy , Germany
original language French
Publishing year 1976
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Pierre Granier-Deferre
script Pierre Granier-Deferre,
Jorge Semprún
production Albina du Boisrouvray
music Carlo Rustichelli
camera Aldo Tonti
cut Jean Ravel
occupation
synchronization

Die Frau am Fenster is a French - Italian - German film drama from 1976 with Romy Schneider in the lead role. A novel by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle served as a literary model .

action

Delphi 1936: Margot Santorini, the wife of an Italian diplomat, the building contractor Raoul Malfosse and his chauffeur Michel Boutros visit the archaeological sites of the ancient Greek city. Malfosse, who is infatuated with Margot, is annoyed by the apparent affection between Margot and Boutros, which he caught red-handed in bed earlier. Finally you drive on with his car. Boutros gets out at an olive grove and wants to continue on foot. He says goodbye to Margot with a kiss and tells her that he will wait five days for her.

Shortly before that, the new Greek head of government, General Metaxas, managed a coup d'état, as a result of which he was able to establish a military dictatorship. Since then he has had all trade unionists and communists persecuted by the police. These include boutros, which the police chief Primoukis classifies as particularly dangerous. Primoukis is doing everything possible to arrest Boutros. But so far this has always escaped him. In a bar in Athens , Primoukis meets with Margot, who, however, does not tell him anything about Boutros' whereabouts and immediately says goodbye to him to take a ship to Patras . Margot is married to her husband Rico Santorini. Both know about each other's flirtations and love affairs. They eventually realize they are estranged and both consider divorce. Primoukis finally visits Malfosse and asks him what boutros are doing in Patras. After the police chief said goodbye to him, Malfosse immediately called Margot to warn her. Primoukis knows about her and Boutros and she should leave immediately, taking a detour.

Years later, Malfosse, who has since risen to major, picks up Rico in prison. Shortly afterwards, they greet a little girl in a monastery and take him to the countryside, where they stay with a married couple. It turns out that Margot gave the girl into Rico's care two years ago. Margot was then arrested while trying to meet Boutros. She met him in 1936 when she was standing at the window of her hotel room and he was fleeing the police and seeking refuge with her. Margot and Rico also helped Boutros to hide from the police and to get out of the hotel unnoticed. Margot then asked Malfosse to hire Boutros as a chauffeur. For her sake, Malfosse agreed and Margot, bored of her luxury life, helped Boutros to re-establish his contacts with other communists. At first, Boutros had resisted Margot's advances, including at a party on Malfosse's estate, when she told him the plan for his escape from Greece, he merely kissed her. Only in the morning shortly before his escape did he agree to more and sleep with her.

Their daughter, the girl who was entrusted to Margot Rico, traveled to Athens in 1967 to find out about her parents. She looks very similar to her mother, something that a man she meets in a café does not miss. He tells her that her father once led a partisan unit and was ambushed near Delphi. Primoukis put out his eyes and then had him shot. She learns from Amalia, an acquaintance of her father, that her mother was arrested in a raid in 1943. Since then there has been no trace of Margot.

background

The Temple of Apollo in Delphi, a location in the film

The shooting took place in Athens , Delphi and Paris . The film was released on November 10, 1976 under the title Une femme à sa fenêtre in French cinemas, where it was seen by more than 1.2 million viewers. In Germany it was shown in cinemas on February 25, 1977. On July 12, 1980, it was shown for the first time on German-speaking television on DFF 1 .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films found that the film was told in a "temporally complex interleaving" and thus wanted to "illustrate a human-political decision of the heroine against the decadence and the cynicism of her surroundings". However, he remains "on the level of sentimental adventure". Cinema describes Die Frau am Fenster as a “sometimes a bit confusing love story” that Pierre Granier-Deferre has packed “in fascinating pictures” and in which the “authentic political background” and “the tasteful decorations and costumes only serve as a backdrop”.

Awards

At the ceremony of César 1977 Romy Schneider was in the category Best Actress nomination, but as well as the subject Mitnominierten Isabelle Adjani and Miou-Miou the idea Annie Girardot in Dr. med. Françoise Gailland . There was another nomination for the César in the category Best Editing , but the film editor Jean Ravel also had to admit defeat to the competition.

German version

role actor Voice actor
Raoul Malfosse Philippe Noiret Horst Niendorf
Michel Boutros Victor Lanoux Thomas Bride
Rico Santorini Umberto Orsini Hartmut Reck
Primoukis Gastone Moschin Heinz Petruo
Dora Cooper Delia Boccardo Andrea L'Arronge
Avghi Martine Brochard Helga Trümper
Amalia Neli Riga Sigrid Pawlas
Andréas Vasilis Kolovos Panos Papadopulos

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. The woman at the window. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. cf. cinema.de
  4. The woman at the window. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 11, 2018 .
  5. cf. synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )