The night of the generals
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German title | The night of the generals |
Original title | The Night of the Generals |
Country of production | Great Britain , France |
original language | English , French |
Publishing year | 1967 |
length | 145 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Anatole Litvak |
script |
Joseph Kessel , Paul Dehn |
production | Sam Spiegel |
music | Maurice Jarre |
camera | Henri Decaë |
cut | Alan Osbiston |
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The Night of the Generals , also known as The Night of the Generals (original title: The Night of the Generals ), is a British - French crime and war film by director Anatole Litvak from 1967. It is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst and premiered in London in late January 1967 . The Federal German rental start was on March 7, 1967.
action
In 1942 a prostitute was murdered in Warsaw . The defense - Officer Gray takes over the investigation as a witness a German General saw coming out of the room of the victim. The evidence that Grau collects incriminates three high officers: General von Seydlitz-Gabler, Major General Kahlenberg and Lieutenant General Tanz. Since all three have something to hide - namely the murder, an extramarital love affair and the collaboration on a plan of overthrow - the generals ensure that Grau is removed from the case and “praised” to Paris .
The case remained under lock and key until the three generals were summoned to Paris in 1944. There are currently plans to remove Hitler forged. Kahlenberg is one of the conspirators, while Seydlitz-Gabler is undecided. Tanz, who knows nothing about the plans, is loyal to the Nazi leader. Private Hartmann, orderly of General Tanz, witnesses a second murder of a prostitute in Paris. The killer is dance. He asks Hartmann to desert , since his word would not count against that of a general. Grau investigates the murder and realizes that it was committed in the same way as the murder in Warsaw. He resumes his investigation and identifies Tanz as the killer. Before Grau can arrest him, July 20, 1944 , comes the assassination attempt on Hitler. Shortly thereafter, Grau confronts Tanz with the evidence. Dance kills the investigator and portrays him as one of the conspirators.
Long after the end of the war, another prostitute was murdered in Hamburg in 1965 . The French Interpol official Morand takes on the case. He acts out of gratitude to Grau, who did not report his contacts to the Resistance during the occupation . At a reunion of old Nazis, Morand Tanz confronts the results of his investigation. When Morand presented Hartmann as his witness, Tanz went into an adjoining room and shot himself.
background
Alexandre Trauner, Oscar- winning for Das Appartement (1961), was responsible for the furnishings. The later Polish director Andrzej Żuławski was employed as an assistant director.
The film character of Lieutenant General Tanz is based on Paul Hausser , who, as SS Colonel Group Leader and Colonel General of the Waffen SS, suppressed the General's coup in France after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, and like the film General Tanz for a while after the war was in custody and, after his release, played a leading role in the veterans' associations of the Waffen SS.
Reviews
The film-dienst noted that Anatole Litvak's film wanted to be "a psychological study, time-lightening and restoration criticism" and at the same time "depict conspiracy conflicts (July 20) and conscience problems" without, however, "giving up melodrama, criminalistic stimulus and erotic tickling [...]" to want. In this way the night of the generals ends “in the colportage” and is only “[really] oppressive” in certain scenes, for example with the “destruction of a residential area in Warsaw”. According to the film magazine Cinema , the film adaptation of the novel "unfortunately has lengths". Instead of taking over as a director with “mass extermination and criticism of fascism, psychological study plus crime story”, “[Litvak] should have focused”. The conclusion was: "Ambitious, but completely overloaded."
Even the Protestant film observer did not think much of The Night of the Generals . The result was a “[a] elaborately shot crime film about a girl-murdering German general”, which “could neither offer the viewer a time picture nor a psychological study [...]” and whose “entertainment value was poor despite the large cast”.
Awards
Peter O'Toole received a David di Donatello for best foreign actor for his performance .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was produced by Ultra Film Synchron GmbH, Munich.
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Lieutenant General Dance | Peter O'Toole | Sebastian Fischer |
Major gray | Omar Sharif | Michael Chevalier |
Private Hartmann | Tom Courtenay | Joachim Ansorge |
Major General Kahlenberg | Donald Pleasence | Wolfgang Buettner |
Ulrike von Seydlitz-Gabler | Joanna Pettet | Heidi Treutler |
Inspector Morand | Philippe Noiret | Holger Hagen |
General von Seydlitz-Gabler | Charles Gray | Wolf Ackva |
Eleonore von Seidlitz-Gabler | Coral Browne | Carola Höhn |
Colonel Sandauer | John Gregson | Heinz Petruo |
Otto | Nigel Stock | Benno Hoffmann |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel | Christopher Plummer | Paul Klinger |
Liesowski | Yves Brainville | Benno Sterzenbach |
doctor | Sacha Pitoëff | Alexander Allerson |
Wionczek | Charles Millot | Holger Kepich |
Colonel | Raymond Gérôme | Heinz Welzel |
Kopatski | Pierre Mondy | Willy Friedrichs |
Raymonde | Nicole Courcel | Marianne Mosa |
From Stauffenberg | Gérard Buhr | Herbert Weicker |
Houses | Michael Goodliffe | Erich Ebert |
Colonel Mannheimer | Patrick Allen | Manfred Andrae |
General Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel | Harry Andrews | Erik Jelde |
literature
- Hans Hellmut Kirst : The night of the generals. Novel . Goldmann, Munich 1978, 348 pages, ISBN 3-442-03538-4 .
Web links
- The Night of the Generals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Night of the Generals. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 102/1967.
- ↑ The Night of the Generals. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 26, 2017 .