The Marquise of O. (1976)

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Movie
German title The marquise of O.
Original title La Marquise d'O ...
Country of production Germany , France
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Eric Rohmer
script Éric Rohmer
Heinrich von Kleist ( novella )
production Klaus Hellwig
Barbet Schroeder
camera Néstor Almendros
cut Cécile Decuqis
occupation

The Marquise von O. is a German-French literary film adaptation by Éric Rohmer from 1976 based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist .

action

The title character, daughter of the commandant, cannot remember anything after being raped by a Russian count, even given her pregnancy. The parents are outraged and violate their daughter, who is taking her three children from her first marriage, against the will of her parents. The marquise places an ad to find the father of her expected child. Soon the count reports, after some further confusion the marquise is allowed to return home. On the day after the Count explains the facts, the wedding takes place at the request of the parents, but in an otherwise empty church.

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Reviews

According to the Lexicon of International Films , Kleist's novella in Eric Rohmer's "sensitive film adaptation has become the demonstrative opposite of a sentimental drama". With a sense of the absurdity of the story, Rohmer "exposes the ironic moral criticism of the original in order to develop a cheerful plea for humanity in practice beyond bourgeois conventions."

Awards

literature

  • The Marquise of O… 70 colored film frames by Éric Rohmer with a text by Kleist. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1976/2011, ISBN 978-3-8296-0571-7 .
  • Michael Staiger: Film adaptations of literature in German lessons. Oldenbourg, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-637-00557-0 , pp. 70-77.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Marquise of O. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used