The crazy rich
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The crazy rich |
| Original title | Folies bourgeoises |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Italy |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script |
Ennio de Concini Claude Chabrol Norman Enfield Maria Pia Fusco |
| production |
Ilya Salkind Pierre Spengler Artur Brauner |
| music | Manuel De Sica |
| camera | Jean Rabier |
| cut | Monique Fardoulis |
| occupation | |
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Die Verrückten Reichen is a Franco-German-Italian comedy film from 1976 by Claude Chabrol with an international acting ensemble led by Bruce Dern , Stéphane Audran , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Ann-Margret , Maria Schell , Charles Aznavour and Curd Jürgens . The story is based on the novel "Le Malheur fou" by Lucie Faure .
action
Claire de la Tour Picquet, a member of the Parisian upper class, works as the press spokeswoman for her American husband, the writer William Brandels. Both belong to the bored culture of the French capital and live in an extremely chic apartment overflowing with art and expensive furnishings, in which there is even enough space for Claire's younger sister Nathalie. An over-the-top, slightly hysterical and downright poorly boiling maid named Gretel, who also indulges in excessive alcohol consumption at the expense of domination, rounds off the picture of a decadent world of the “crazy rich” in this microcosm. Since, in the opinion of William Claire, she does not care enough about her, she begins an affair with him during an award ceremony in the villa of his publisher Jacques Lavolet. Jacques' party world of varnished beauties and blasé pseudo-intellectuals, who prefer to indulge in malicious gossip on location and whose topics of conversation mostly revolve around money, rumors, sex, indiscretions and intrigues, acts like a panopticon of self-lovers, whose only topic is ultimately themselves.
When Claire, who initially believed that Jacques also had other lovers, discovers with the help of a private detective that William is also looking elsewhere and has begun a liaison with the Italian translator of his works, the attractive Charlie Minerva, she becomes madly jealous and begins to go crazy successively. Claire first tries to create spatial distance between her husband, who is currently suffering from writer's block, and his lover by moving to the country with him. But even this step can no longer save the broken marriage, which is only maintained outwardly, for the sake of pure form. On the contrary, both relationships turn out to be just a lie of life. Soon more and more secrets emerge, such as the fact that her husband's writer's block has led his lover Charlie Williams to write texts, that Jacques actually makes other women happy and that the "innocent slut" Nathalie is a little bitch that Claire is on the nose dances around. In Claire, who gradually threatens to lose her mind in a hallucinatory madness and mutates into a full-blown neurotic, the thirst for murder gradually grows ...
Production notes
The Crazy Rich was written between November 1975 and January 1976 in Paris and the surrounding area and was premiered in Paris on June 23, 1976. The German premiere took place on August 26, 1976, the German television first broadcast was on August 29, 1996 on ZDF .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| William Brandels | Bruce Dern | Klaus Kindler |
| Claire de la Tour Picquet | Stéphane Audran | Helga Trümper |
| Jacques Lavolet | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Fred Maire |
| Charlie Minerva | Ann-Margret | Viktoria Brams |
| Gretel | Maria Schell | herself |
| jeweler | Curd Juergens | he himself |
| Dr. Lartigue | Charles Aznavour | Erich Ebert |
Reviews
The film received mostly reviews. Chabrol was accused of having lost the satirical bite of his previous analyzes of society that were critical of bourgeoisie and having instead delivered optical opulence and slapstick. Chabrol himself thought The Mad Rich Man was his worst film. Here are a few examples:
In the time it was said: “The bourgeois Claude Chabrol, who cultivates a strange love-hatred for his class, is throwing a garish farce out of the life of Parisian high society. Adultery all over the place, shallow party chatter in between, lots of beautiful close-ups of Stéphane Audran, stuffed animals and short dream fragments of spouse murder and castration fear. Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Tomas Milian and Charles Aznavour make bizarre short appearances in this smug, incoherent horror show that shows director Chabrol completely at a loss. (...) 'Folies Bourgeoises' might have turned into an evil grotesque, but it lacks the satirical sharpness. "
On Cinema -online you can read: “Despite a certain elegance, the comedy is clearly marked by the production stress: Claude Chabrol ('Biester') shot in two languages, but neither the French nor the English version has the right bite. Also, the comedy too often allows itself to be captured by its own opulence. "
The Lexicon of International Films says: “An entertaining filmic picture arc in which Claude Chabrol stages the decadence of a bourgeois society as an elegant comedy. In doing so, he often comes close to that insignificant shallowness that he wants to caricature. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ The crazy rich in the German dubbing index .
- ^ Report in L'Express.
- ^ Review in: Die Zeit from September 10, 1976.
- ↑ Review in cinema , accessed on March 5, 2020.
- ↑ The crazy rich. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 5, 2020 .
Web links
- The crazy rich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The crazy rich at filmportal.de