The black tulip (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The black tulip |
| Original title | La Tulipe Noire |
| Country of production | France , Italy , Spain |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 115 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Christian-Jaque |
| script | Christian-Jaque, Paul Andréota , Henri Jeanson , José Luis Dibildos |
| production | Georges Cheyko |
| music | Gérard Calvi |
| camera | Henri Decaë |
| cut | Jacques Desagneaux |
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The black tulip (original title: La Tulipe noire) is a French - Italian - Spanish coat-and-sword film from 1964 with Alain Delon in a double role. The title of the film is inspired by the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas , but its plot is not based on this work.
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France 1789, the French Revolution is imminent. Marquis de Vigogne rules arbitrarily and tyranny over the population of the provincial town of Roussillon. A rebellious mood is already spreading among the people. Count Guillaume de Saint Preux, known as a philanderer and having an affair with the Marquise Catherine de Vigogne, takes advantage of the situation. Night after night, masked as a "black tulip", he robbed his wealthy peers and put them in fear and terror. That is why he is widely regarded as a hero and a fighter for the just cause.
When he sustains a striking face wound from his sword during a duel with his greatest adversary, the police chief Baron La Mouche, his double life threatens to be exposed at court. To prevent his exposure, he calls his little brother Julien, who looks very similar to him, for help. He asked him to represent him at a reception at the Marquis's house. Meek Julien feels that the oppression of ordinary people is unjust. Appealing to this idealism, Guillaume persuades him to take on the role for the occasion. Despite his clumsiness at first, whether while riding (he falls off his horse when it shies away when the bell rings in front of the church portal, and injures his leg) or while trying to find his way around his brother's house, and last but not least in his endeavor to keep up with the advances To fend off the Marquise de Vigogne, Julien succeeds in deceiving those around him. Caro Plantin, the daughter of a common man, falls in love with him when she gives him first aid after falling from a horse. When he was received at the Marquis's house, he learned above all that Prince Alexandre de Grasillach de Morvan Lobo was on his way to Paris with an army in order to put an end to the revolutionary activities on the part of the king. The prince and his troops will take up quarters in the city the next day.
With this news, Julien returns to his brother's hiding place. He asks Guillaume what can be done to prevent the advancing army from intervening in revolutionary events. He tells him what would be promising, but at the same time confesses to his brother that he has absolutely no interest in politics. His sympathy for the revolutionary people is only a pretext to be able to carry out his raids more easily with the benevolence of the common people. So Julien decides against the advice of his cynical brother to continue playing the role of the "Black Tulip", while Guillaume continues to hide with his telltale scar.
With the help of Caro Plantin and her revolutionary father, Julien actually succeeds in putting the prince out of action and sending his army back to Marseille with marching orders. However, Baron La Mouche and his gendarmes find out about them and arrest them in their hiding place in the forest after a fierce battle.
The real Guillaume frees Julien from dungeon at night, but is injured and arrested in the process, while Julien escapes undetected with "Voltaire", his brother's loyal horse. The next day Guillaume is executed by rope in front of the assembled crowd in the market square. Baron La Mouche celebrates the execution in the house of the Marquis as a great triumph. He and the other aristocrats present are all the more shocked when the “Black Tulip” appears before them, as if resurrected from the dead and hung on the gallows as a deterrent. Everyone looks out to the gallows, where the Marquis is now hanging. Now the people in the city, inspired by the news from Paris about the successful assault on the Bastille, are rising against the aristocracy. The nobles are now fleeing the city in a hurry. While La Mouche is being chased away by “Voltaire”, Julien and the citizens of the city release all prisoners from the dungeons. Then the people celebrate a happy festival. Julien wants to continue fighting as a masked avenger, but not to enrich himself like his brother once did, but to free the people from bondage. He has found the ideal partner for this in Caro.
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Director Christian-Jaque had already delivered a classic of the genre with Fanfan, der Husar (Fanfan la Tulipe , 1952), which also alludes to tulips in the original title . With the film from 1964, main actor Alain Delon was able to present two sides of his image in a double role - the good-natured lover and the cynical, cold antihero.
The shooting took place in the Spanish cities of Cáceres and Trujillo as well as in studios in Madrid and Nice . The film was shot on the expensive and complex 70 mm film format, called Superpanorama 70 . The coat-and-sword film premiered in France on February 28, 1964. On March 6, 1964, The Black Tulip was shown in German cinemas, and on November 12, 1965 also in the GDR cinemas . On January 23, 1972, the film was shown for the first time on German television on DFF 1 . In 2006 it was released on DVD.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , the film was “a cloak-and-sword adventure staged with a light hand and full of irony based on motifs by Dumas”. Cinema described the black tulip as "[h] errlich disrespectful revolutionary farce". According to Prisma , director Christian-Jaque staged “the exciting adventure with lots of humor and verve”.
German version
The German dubbed version was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH . The dialogue book was written by Hans F. Wilhelm , who also did the dubbing.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Julien de Saint Preux / Guillaume de Saint Preux | Alain Delon | Christian Wolff |
| Caroline "Caro" Plantin | Virna Lisi | Uta Hallant |
| Baron La Mouche | Adolfo Marsillach | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Marquise Catherine de Vigogne | Dawn Addams | Dagmar Altrichter |
| Marquis de Vigogne | Akim Tamiroff | Eduard Wandrey |
| Lisette | Laura Valenzuela | Christel Merian |
| Plantin | Francis Blanche | Fritz Tillmann |
| Brignon | José Jaspe | Benno Hoffmann |
| Prince Alexandre de Grasillach de Morvan Lobo | Robert Manuel | Martin Hirthe |
| Jean Pierre | Lucien Callamand | Jochen Schröder |
| teller | - | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
Web links
- The Black Tulip in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Synopsis and review on frenchfilmguide.com
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Black Tulip . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2006 (PDF; test number: 31 725 DVD).
- ↑ cf. dumaspere.com
- ↑ in German, "La Mouche" means the (room) fly
- ↑ The black tulip. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de