The stroller from Sans-Souci

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Movie
German title The stroller from Sans-Souci
Original title La passante du Sans-Souci
Country of production France / Germany
original language French / German
Publishing year 1982
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jacques Rouffio
script Jacques Kirsner
Jacques Rouffio
production Artur Brauner for CCC film
Raymond Danon
Jean Kerchner
music Georges Delerue
camera Jean Penzer
cut Anna Ruiz
occupation

The Walker of Sans-Souci (original title: La passante du Sans-Souci ) is a Franco-German film from 1982. Jacques Rouffio directed and Jacques Kirsner wrote the screenplay . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel .

action

During a conversation, Max Baumstein, the respected president of a human rights organization , shoots the Ambassador of Paraguay to France, Federico Lego. This is how the public and only now his wife Lina learn of Baumstein's ordeal under the Nazi dictatorship. In flashbacks you can see how Max suffered a lifelong handicap as a result of brutal abuse by the SA . The Viennese couple took him in and looked after him. Ultimately, Max emigrates to Paris with Elsa Wiener, who is very similar to his future wife Lina. Michel Wiener remains in the German Reich to sell his publishing house. However, he is arrested and sentenced to five years in a concentration camp. Elsa Wiener is currently working as a singer and animator in a Parisian cabaret . Through her personal commitment, she can ultimately obtain her husband's release. However, shortly after his arrival in Paris, he and she were shot dead by an embassy employee of the German Reich, who later became Paraguay's ambassador.

Reviews

“As a big flashback, narrated melodramatic love film with political references, which seems badly constructed and uses the evoked Nazi era rather as a nostalgic backdrop. Outstanding is the acting performance of Romy Schneider in her last role. "

- Lexicon of international film

“'The Walker from Sans-Souci' is the last document of the much-cited 'broken heart' that many fans believe Schneider died of shortly after the premiere. Above all, the film is a document of their uniqueness as an actor. [...] She was one of the great artists among the actresses, that alone makes 'The Walker of Sans-Souci' a work of art. "

- Der Spiegel 2009

Theatrical release

The cinema release in France was on April 14, 1982, in the Federal Republic of Germany on October 22, 1982 and in the GDR on May 13, 1983.

Awards

  • William Robert Sivel and Claude Villand received a César in the Best Sound category in 1983 .
  • Romy Schneider was nominated for best actress.
  • Georges Delerue was nominated for best film music.
  • Gérard Klein was nominated for best supporting actor.

Others

  • The title of the film and the literary source (literal translation of the title: The passer-by from [Café] Sans-Souci ) refer to a Parisian café called Sans-Souci .
  • The Stroller from Sans-Souci is the last film with Romy Schneider . It bears the dedication To David and his father in the opening credits . This refers to Romy Schneider's son David, who had a fatal accident in 1981, and his father, Romy Schneider's divorced husband Harry Meyen , who took his own life in Hamburg in 1979.
  • Actually, Romy Schneider should have stood in front of the camera in this film with her son David, who had just passed away. During the filming, the scenes that she then played with another boy in the role of little Max became a great burden.
  • Wendelin Werner , who took over the role of young Max Baumstein because of David's death, became an internationally respected mathematician , especially in the field of probability theory . He received several awards including the Fields Medal in 2006.
  • As a result of her sudden death, Romy Schneider was no longer able to synchronize herself in this last film . This was done by Eva Manhardt, who had already dubbed Romy Schneider in The Old Rifle .
  • The Chanson d'exil , a well-known melody from this film, can be heard in various formations: violin accompanied by a string ensemble , Roma ensemble and at the end of the film as a song. The lyrics are by Jacques Kirsner and Micheline Gautron, wife of the film composer Georges Delerue, and are sung by the French chansonni ère Talila.

Trivia

Max Baumstein presents his wife Lina with a painting by the painter Moise Kisling as a present from New York . He smokes an enormous number of Gitanes brand cigarettes .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Walker from Sans-Souci . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 53 377 V).
  2. ↑ a b The stroller from Sans-Souci. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 23, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Classic film “The Walker from Sans-Souci”: Forever Romy . In: Spiegel online, October 29, 2009. Retrieved September 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ Fiche Film. In: Database of the Cinémathèque française . Retrieved May 17, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ a b Andreas Conrad: The walker from Koenigssee. In: Tagesspiegel Online . September 21, 2008, accessed December 15, 2019 .
  6. ^ German dubbing files, speaker Eva Manhardt . German dubbing files. Retrieved September 24, 2013.