The naked Bovary
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The naked Bovary |
| Country of production |
Germany Italy |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 96 (German version) 91 (Italian version) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Scott |
| script |
Arnulf Mann Valeria Bonamano based on the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert |
| production |
Roger Fritz for Roger Fritz-Film (Berlin) Alfredo Mirabili for Tritone Filmindustria (Rome), Devon-Film (Rome) |
| music | Hans Hammerschmid |
| camera | Klaus von Rautenfeld |
| cut | Enzo Alabiso |
| occupation | |
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The Naked Bovary is a German-Italian social drama based on the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert from 1969. The title role is played by the 1970s erotic film star Edwige Fenech .
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Emma Bovary is a young woman who married a much older man, the country doctor Charles Bovary. In this marriage, however, she finds no fulfillment. Her husband is busy with his patients around the clock and has little time for his pretty wife and their little daughter. Emma feels more and more neglected. She once expected so much from life. All of her dreams, hopes and longings boiled down to living a life full of excitement and fulfillment. To get at least some variety, she asks her husband to go to a ball with her. In fact, Emma blossoms a little there and is immediately coveted by a man present there. All the more, Emma urges Charles to finally leave the simple area with the poor doctor's office, with which he earns far too little, so that both can go to Paris. Then one day Charles is finally offered a doctor's position in nearby Paris, Joinville.
Emma is now starting a life that Charles' salary can no longer finance. She soon owed a considerable sum of money to the fashion salon owner Adolphe Lheureus, who granted her several loans. One day, in an emergency in Charles' treatment room, Emma meets the blond landowner Rudolf Boulanger. In both cases it is love and passion at first sight: Rudolf is everything that Charles is not: urbane and attractive, a manly and energetic appearance from head to toe. Emma wants to remain loyal to her husband, but Rudolf woos her, and the black-haired beauty is soon over. During a visit to his manor, Emma and Rudolf get caught in a storm. They get soaked and find shelter in a stable. Finally Emma gives up her resistance, both fall on each other and sleep together. But this passionate affair is under a bad star.
Adolphe, with whom Emma is now in debt for 7,000 francs, is now putting the young woman under pressure. Emma signs a promissory note. When her husband rides to an emergency the following night, Emma cannot escape the home fast enough to end up in Rudolf's arms. Again both spend a night of love at Rudolf's estate. When she walks from Rudolf's bed back to her home in the early morning, she is watched by Adolphe. He now puts the thumbscrews on her. Knowing that Emma is cheating on her husband, he demands back the money owed him that she does not have. Instead, he would allow himself to be paid in sexual favors. Emma firmly rejects this intrusiveness and hits Adolphe in the face. Emma and Rudolf decide to run away with each other and want to meet in Paris. Emma, however, does not want to give in to Rudolf's urging immediately and first confesses to her husband that she will part with him. Hardly back home, Emma receives a letter from Rudolf in which he writes that neither of them can see each other anymore. Obviously he changed his mind. Emma is devastated.
Months later. Emma found it difficult to come to terms with Rudolf's inglorious departure. Emma and her husband seem to have come to terms with their marriage. He works, and she gives herself to young lovers like Leon, who has been raving about her for quite some time. One day she meets Adolphe in the corridor of a hotel where she had slept with Leon. So he knows that Emma will continue to horn her husband. Emma tells Leon about the fashion salon owner and that he puts a lot of pressure on her. Her debts to him had now risen to 20,000 francs. She wanted to sell her inherited house in Dieppe in order to finally get rid of Adolphe in this way. But this takes time. Emma tries to trick Leon into stealing the urgently needed money from the safe of his very wealthy uncle. Leon promises to help her. Meanwhile, Emma's husband Charles discovers that his wife is lying to him. By chance he found out that she was not in the town of Verdillon with Madame Volaire, where she allegedly took piano lessons regularly. Charles rightly fears that his wife is cheating on him with someone else.
Emma gets into bigger and bigger trouble. Lheureus explains to her that, contrary to his promise, he resold her promissory notes because she did not want to please him sexually. In deep despair, Emma leaves the completely unsatisfactory conversation with the man who has become repugnant to her. In her greatest desperation, she went to Rudolf, but he could not immediately raise the 8,000 francs she needed at the moment. Emma goes back disappointed. Now she has no choice but to go to Lheureus and surrender herself sexually to him, in the hope that he will buy back and destroy the promissory notes that have been passed on. Alphonse Lheureus gets involved in this deal, and Emma gives in to it full of self-disgust. After that she feels so dirty that she wants to take her own life. At the last moment, Emma Bovary realizes that her real salvation lies in moving on and changing her life.
Production notes
The film, produced by the actor Roger Fritz in a German-Italian collaboration and filmed in Italy, passed the FSK test on September 11, 1969 and was only approved for adults (18 and over). The world premiere took place on October 10, 1969, the Italian premiere on December 1, 1969.
For the 67-year-old director Hans Schott-Schöbinger , who chose the more marketable pseudonym John Scott for the international sale of the film, this was the last film. Harald A. Hoeller was production manager, the film structures were designed by Nino Borghi .
criticism
"Unsuccessful film adaptation of a novel: In complete alienation of the literary original, an adultery story trimmed for sex was created."
“The story of the Flaubert character Madame Bovary is a pretext for showing Edwige Fenech, according to the advertisement, 'Europe's most expensive breasts' within an amateurish, coarse-knit film. Unnecessary."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The film From Skin to Skin , which premiered after Die Nackte Bovary , was largely made in 1968.
- ↑ The Naked Bovary. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 469/1969
Web links
- The naked Bovary in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The naked Bovary at filmportal.de