The American Night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The American Night |
| original title | La Nuit Americaine |
| production country | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| directing | Francois Truffaut |
| script |
Jean-Louis Richard Suzanne Schiffman François Truffaut |
| production | Marcel Berbert |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Pierre William Glenn |
| cut |
Martine Barraque Yann Dedet |
| occupation | |
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The American Night (original title: La Nuit américaine ) is a Franco - Italian romantic comedy directed by François Truffaut .
plot
A movie is being shot. Shooting for the film Je vous présente Pamela will take six weeks, and it is about the collective process of its creation: with their different expectations, characters and life plans, the participants from the cast and the team provoke the emergence of arguments, jealousy and stress and the much-cited artistic differences. However, they all share a common passion for the film, for which all sacrifices are worthwhile.
background
A special process is used in the film that gives the viewer the illusion of night, even though the respective scene was shot during the day. This filter trick is called day-for-night (or American night ). A blue filter is placed in front of the lens and the camera is underexposed by one to two f-stops.
The American Night is dedicated to the two American actresses Lillian Gish and Dorothy Gish .
Sequences from The American Night were used in 1978 in Truffaut's Love on the Run . In alleged flashbacks, the script volunteer Liliane now becomes Christine's girlfriend Liliane, who has a brief affair with Antoine. In an argument between Liliane and Alphonse from American Night , Claude Jade is edited in as Christine, giving the impression that the scene actually belongs in the Doinel cycle .
Mathieu Carrière spoke the German audio description of the film, which was produced by Arte in 2003 .
music
The music of the film Le Grand Choral is by Georges Delerue . Michael Winterbottom used the Grand Choral in his film Genova . In the 1987 film Life Story (German version: "Race to Glory"), Peter Howell also uses the Grand Choral in a synthesizer version.
reviews
According to 1001 films , Truffaut drew "the lovable portrait of almost familial relationships between cast and team". The characters are "widely diversified" and would be "cleverly contrasted". Truffaut also emphasizes "the transience, vulnerability and unreality of life on the set". The film reveals "the many illusions of filmmaking, but ultimately does not attack the magic of cinema". Above all, Truffaut placed value on the “lightness of tone, the flow of the narrative” and optimum economy. This enabled him to combine the tautness of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang with "the visual grace" of Jean Renoir .
Kay Weniger 's film encyclopedia found that with this film-within-a-film, Truffaut presented "a cheerful, stylistically energetic finger exercise ... his most popular work, his most suitable for a mass audience" and "at the same time a ... passionate declaration of love for his profession, filmmaking “ have submitted.
The encyclopedia of international film said that François Truffaut had staged "a well-dosed mixture of tragedy and hilarity [...] a thrilling film about the events in front of and behind the camera". The film is also a "at first glance lightweight, but actually designed with great stylistic virtuosity a declaration of love to filmmaking and the world of cinema, with the boundaries between game and reality sometimes blurring".
awards
American Night was nominated for an Oscar in both 1974 and 1975 . First as a French entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category , in which it beat out the competition, and the following year in the Best Director and Best Original Screenplay categories , as well as with actress Valentina Cortese in the Best Supporting Actress category .
There were further nominations for the Golden Globe Award . The film also received three BAFTA Awards , three New York Film Critics Circle Awards , as well as awards from the US National Society of Film Critics and the French Prix Méliès .
synchronization
| role | actor | voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Alphonse | Jean Pierre Leaud | Jurgen Clausen |
| alexandre | Jean Pierre Aumont | Horst Naumann |
| Julie | Jacqueline Bisset | Elizabeth of Molo |
| Liliane | Daniel | Marianne Gross |
| Director Ferrand | Francois Truffaut | Fred Maire |
| Severine | Valentina Cortese | Rosemary Fendel |
| stacey | Alexandra Stewart | Rose Marie Kirstein |
reception
Julian Rosefeldt alludes to Truffaut's film in the title of his 5-channel film installation American Night (2009). Like Truffaut, he lets the viewer z. B. through camera pans on the filming crew participate in the process of making the film, but at the same time destroys the cinematic illusion.
web links
- American Night at the Internet Movie Database
- The American night in the German synchronous file
itemizations
- ↑ a b The American Night. In: Steven Jay Schneider (ed.): 1001 films. Edition Olms, Zurich 2004, p. 573.
- ↑ The American night in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V
- ↑ The great encyclopedia of characters in film. Volume 8, Berlin 2001, p. 65.
- ↑ The American Night. In: Lexicon of international film . Filmdienst , retrieved March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The American Night. In: synchronkartei.de. Deutsche Synchronkartei , retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ^ Julian Rosefeldt. American Night. Ed. by Stephan Berg , Lorenzo Giusti, Arabella Natalini. Bonn: Art Museum 2009. ISBN 978-3-941644-15-1