The beautiful Lili
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The beautiful Lili |
| Original title | La Reine blanche |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 119 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Loup Hubert |
| script | Jean-Loup Hubert |
| production | Jean-Claude Fleury |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Claude Lecomte |
| cut | Raymonde Guyot |
| occupation | |
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The beautiful Lili (Original title: La Reine blanche ) is a French drama film with Catherine Deneuve and Richard Bohringer from 1991.
action
During the 1960s, housewife Liliane lived happily in Trentemoult , a small French port near Nantes , with four children, her father Lucien and her husband Jean, who earned his living as a plumber. Its bathroom installations are in great demand among the aspiring middle class. He prefers to spend his free time building a car with his father-in-law for the annual carnival parade, while Liliane takes on the role of housewife. The family idyll is suddenly clouded when, after twenty years, Jean's childhood friend Yvon from Guadeloupe returns to the provincial town with his black wife Annabelle and three children. Yvon had once fought with Jean for the favor of the beautiful Liliane. But after conquering her for himself, he abandoned her without explanation and left France. Then Liliane, who had been named "White Queen" in a beauty contest, decided on Jean.
By Yvon's sudden appearance, Liliane feels torn between the two men. Jean also senses that Liliane has become restless, which gives him the insight that he was only the second choice for his still desirable wife. As the two spouses become increasingly estranged, tensions between Jean and Yvon become increasingly intense. Her two daughters, however, who are the same age, become friends. Ambitious Jean hopes that his daughter Annie, like her mother, will win the local beauty pageant and that he can proudly display her on his carnival float. But Yvon also builds a car and lets his daughter Mireille take part in the beauty pageant. Despite her black skin color, for which she and her two brothers were initially mocked, Mireille is eventually crowned beauty queen. For Jean, her victory means personal defeat. Disappointed, he packs his things and - like Yvon once did - decides to leave France.
It turns out that Liliane's father Lucien had once interfered in his daughter's love life because he had opposed a marital relationship with the fickle Yvon and preferred the more serious Jean. In agreement with Liliane's mother, he once paid Yvon's gambling debts. In return, Yvon agreed to leave Liliane. When Liliane found out, she felt cheated of the life she had once dreamed of. However, after entrusting the household to Annie, she decides to follow her husband Jean and see him at his first stop.
background
The shooting took place in Nantes , western France . The main actors Catherine Deneuve and Richard Bohringer had already stood together in front of the camera for the film Agent Trouble by mistake in 1987 .
The beautiful Lili was premiered in France on May 8, 1991 . The German premiere was on August 13, 1992.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , Die Schöne Lili was "an excellently played family story, developed unspectacularly and sensitively from the perspective of a child". This tells "with gentle melodramatic accents of love and threatening alienation as well as of the power of large and small feelings". According to Cinema , director Jean-Loup Hubert staged this charming triangular story "with gentle melancholy". The film is "[g] exact like the Deneuve: simply beautiful". Prisma described the film as a "coherent and excellently played family story that lovingly describes the rural milieu of the 1960s".
German version
The German dubbed version was created by Magma Synchron GmbH, Berlin, based on the dialogue book and directed by Joachim Kunzendorf .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Liliane Ripoche | Catherine Deneuve | Helga Trümper |
| Jean Ripoche | Richard Bohringer | Kurt Goldstein |
| Yvon Legualoudec | Bernard Giraudeau | Stephan Schwartz |
| Lucien | Jean Carmet | Mogens von Gadow |
| Annabelle | Laure Moutoussamy | Eva Kryll |
| Annie | Isabelle Carré | Katja Primel |
| Mireille | Muriel Pultar | Uschi Hugo |
| Nicolas | Antoine Hubert | David Conen |
| Milou | Julien Hubert | Julius Jellinek |
| Boulou | Loïc Rutkowski | Roman Plümicke |
| Jérémie | Cyril Regis | Timo Plümicke |
Web links
- The beautiful Lili in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The beautiful Lili. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ The beautiful Lili. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 2, 2018 .