A monkey in winter
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A monkey in winter |
| Original title | Un singe en hiver |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henri Verneuil |
| script |
Michel Audiard Antoine blonde François Boyer |
| production | Jacques Bar |
| music | Michel Magne |
| camera | Louis Page |
| cut |
Monique Bonnot Françoise Bonnot |
| occupation | |
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A Monkey in Winter is a French feature film by Henri Verneuil from 1962. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Antoine Blondin . The script based on it was written by François Boyer and Michel Audiard . The film describes how a former soldier in the French army, played by Jean Gabin , deals with his alcohol addiction. The second leading role was cast with Jean-Paul Belmondo .
action
The hotelier Albert Quentin simply cannot forget his time as a marine in the French expeditionary force in China. Every day he dreams through the old adventures in the intoxication of alcohol. When his hometown Tigreville ( Villerville ) is bombed by the Allies, he promises his wife never to drink again if he survives . Fifteen years later, in Fouquet, one of his hotel guests who is a copywriter and alcoholic, he finds a likeable crony who understands him. They spend a lot of time together, which ultimately culminates in a joint binge. After Albert and Fouquet leave the bar, where they were previously noticed by their naughty behavior, Fouquet suggests in the middle of the night to pay his 10-year-old daughter a visit at the boarding school, as she does not feel comfortable there. The manager opens the door, but puts her off for the next day about her condition and sends her away. Never tired, they organize a fireworks display on the beach at the end, during which all the residents of the town wake up and then sleep off their intoxication in a destroyed bunker on the beach.
The next morning they both go to the train station, ready to leave. Albert visits his late father in the cemetery every year around this time - Fouquet takes his daughter Marie home to Paris. On the train, Albert tells little Marie a story from his time in China. Countless wild young orphaned monkeys were then collected by the Chinese, brought over the winter and released again the following spring.
background
The scene in which Fouquet performs his daring bullfighting movements in the middle of a busy street was suggested by Belmondo himself. In a similar situation he had observed the author Antoine Blondin, whose novel was filmed here, in Paris .
Both the production company and the French film supervisory authority initially had concerns about showing a film about two drunk men to the public, but eventually gave in. The censorship was also bothered by the good visibility of the liquor brands.
The film was shot in the winter of 1962 in several municipalities in the Calvados department (Normandy).
criticism
"The largely turbulent, but contemplative-poetic film thrives on a number of splendid ideas and the high acting skills of its actors."
“A film with a lot of mood. Recommended for ages 16 and up. "
literature
- Antoine Blondin: Un singe en hiver. La table ronde, Mayenne 1959
- Antoine Blondin: A monkey in winter. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960 (translated into German by Walter Maria Guggenheimer)
Web links
- A monkey in winter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A monkey in winter in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ allocine.fr section "Toréador prends garde ..." (French)
- ↑ allocine.fr section "L'abus d'alcool est déconseillé" (French)
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056636/locations
- ↑ A monkey in winter. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 433/1962