The Red Hostel (1951)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The red hostel |
| Original title | L'auberge rouge |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1951 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Autant-Lara |
| script |
Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost Claude Autant-Lara |
| music |
René Cloërec Yves Montand (sings introduction and credits) |
| camera | André Bac |
| cut | Madeleine Gug |
| occupation | |
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The red hostel (also: The uncanny hostel ) is a comedic film adaptation of a historical criminal case that took place in a hostel in the Ardèche in the 19th century .
action
A group of travelers stayed in a lonely inn in the middle of the Ardèche mountains , as did a mendicant monk and a novice. The hostel's wife confesses to the monk that she and her husband have already poisoned over a hundred guests with a sleeping potion, robbed their belongings and buried their bodies in the garden. The last victim, an organ grinder, was murdered a few hours earlier. In a hurry he was hidden inside a snowman in the garden. The current guests are said to be the last victims, because the couple are planning to retire.
The woman advises the monk to leave the house that night, otherwise he would face "the same treatment as the others". However, the unsuspecting and high-spirited tour group prevents him from escaping. As a result, the monk desperately tries to save the guests' lives without violating his confidentiality and the secrecy of confession .
In the meantime, the innkeeper's daughter and the novice have fallen in love. When the host's father learns from the monk that the young man is the son of a court president, he forces the priest to marry the couple because he expects the union to be advantageous in the event of arrest. The ceremony on the following morning is interrupted by two mounted gendarmes who want to bring back the minstrel's runaway monkeys. The monk succeeds in arranging that the gendarmes discover the body of the organ grinder in the snowman and arrest the landlords and their servants. Relieved, the tour group makes their way down into the valley with the carriage, but, as the noises during the final scene reveal, they fall to their deaths while crossing the bridge sabotaged by the house servant during the night.
background
The story of the same name by Honoré de Balzac is often cited as the literary model for the film . In fact, this has nothing in common with the historical case: Balzac wrote it two years before the events in the Ardèche were uncovered.
Reviews
The film caricatures the gullibility of the educated bourgeois travel company, the possibility of getting away with impunity with the help of the authorities, and the habitus of the religious, who is torn between duty and self-interest and between religious rule and personal enjoyment.
The church-critical views of some travelers, the religious acts of the monk, which were downgraded to mere externalities, as well as his disrespectful wedding sermon aroused the anger of conservative circles and led to an entire campaign against the film and the director.
The film service described Die Rote Herberge as “an excellently designed sardonic farce that disrespectfully plays with the macabre”. The film shows a "tendency towards symbolism", which however "is intercepted by the well-dosed comedy of the great Fernandel". Reclam's guide saw "an evil satire staged with comedic ease". In the film, the comedy predominates, but “the absurdity can also be felt permanently: Confession is supposed to secure the murder, a monkey brings salvation, good advice means doom”.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Lingua Film GmbH, Munich, based on the dialogue book by Ruth Leschin . Gert Rabanus directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| monk | Fernandel | Stefan Wigger |
| Marie Martin | Françoise Rosay | Christine Ostermayer |
| Pierre Martin | Julien Carette | Mogens von Gadow |
| Fetiche, house servant | Lud Germain | Markus Stolberg |
| Mathilde | Marie-Claire Olivia | Dietlinde turban |
Web links
- The red inn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The red hostel in the online film database
- detailed film review on filmsdefrance.com, (with details on the production and the massive criticism of conservative circles; English)
- Film review on fernandel.online.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The red hostel. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 22, 2018 .
- ^ Reclam's film guide . 2nd edition, 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7 .
- ↑ The red hostel. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2018 .