The Night (1961)

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Movie
German title The night
Original title La notte
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1961
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michelangelo Antonioni
script Michelangelo Antonioni
Ennio Flaiano
Tonino Guerra
production Emanuele Cassuto
music Giorgio Gaslini
camera Gianni Di Venanzo
cut Eraldo Da Roma
occupation
synchronization

The night (original title: La notte ) is an Italian-French feature film by Michelangelo Antonioni from 1961.

action

The married couple Giovanni and Lidia Pontano live past each other. The writer Giovanni has been married to the beautiful Lidia for ten years, but nothing seems to connect the attractive couple anymore. Together they visit their terminally ill friend Tommaso in the hospital. Then they go their separate ways.

Giovanni has to go to a promotion party for his new book. Lidia walks in Milan in places of her past. Then they meet again at home and, at Lidia's request, go to a nightclub, where a black artist couple performs to jazz music. Giovanni, who always seems to try to play the role of the affectionate husband, does not feel the signals from Lidia.

Then they decide to go to a party of the rich industrialist Gherardini. He has a lucrative offer for Giovanni. He wants the writer to write a book about him and the history of his company. Giovanni and Lidia are having a superficial amusement at the party. Giovanni flirts with the pretty Valentina Gherardini, the host's daughter. Giovanni notices how far he has moved from Lidia. Lidia later receives the news that Tommaso has died in the hospital. The night ends and Lidia confesses to her husband that she no longer loves him.

background

The night is the second part of a trilogy about the life of modern couples in Europe after the Second World War . The first film The Play with Love was made in 1960 and the third part in 1962 in 1962.

The shooting of The Night took place in Milan , where the premiere was also celebrated on January 24, 1961. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in June 1961 at the Berlinale .

Reviews

For the lexicon of international films , Die Nacht was a “brilliantly staged film” that explored one of the misery of the modern world “at the highest artistic level”: “the isolation of people, their inability to communicate”. The result was "one of the most influential films in post-war European cinema, which - not least because of its excellent actors - is still able to fascinate today".

Awards

Antonioni won the Golden Bear at the 1961 Berlinale with this film . The other two parts of the trilogy each won awards at the Cannes International Film Festival .

The Wiesbaden Film Assessment Office gave the film the rating of “Particularly Valuable”. The reasons for the FBW report in 1961 stated: “The committee is aware that it has been given a film for assessment to which the conventional canon of film aesthetics is no longer applicable. Even in the formal sense, La Notte opens up perspectives that cannot be examined in detail by a committee that has only limited time available. The evaluation committee would like to emphasize the provisional nature of its findings, which should be nothing more than the first reaction, as it were, to a cinematic structure for which the term 'genial' is undoubtedly available. The comments of the evaluation committee on the film La Notte can be nothing more than imperfect, fragmentary remarks that stay away from any interpretive arts. "

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created in 1961 at Ultra Film Synchron in Berlin . The dubbing was done by Hermann Gressieker , who also wrote the dialogue book.

role actor Voice actor
Dr. Giovanni Pontano Marcello Mastroianni Herbert Stass
Lidia Jeanne Moreau Hannelore Schroth
Tommaso Garani Bernhard Wicki Bernhard Wicki
Gherardini Vincenzo Corbella Ernst Wilhelm Borchert

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Krusche, Jürgen Labenski : Reclams film guide. 7th edition, Reclam, Stuttgart 1987, pp. 398f.
  2. The night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. See fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
  4. See kino.de
  5. See synchrondatenbank.de