A secret
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A secret |
| Original title | Un secret |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Miller |
| script | Claude Miller |
| production | Yves Marmion |
| music | Zbigniew Preisner |
| camera | Gérard de Battista |
| cut | Véronique Lange |
| occupation | |
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A secret (original title: Un secret ) is a French feature film from 2007. The screenplay was based on the novel of the same name by Philippe Grimbert . The director was the French Claude Miller .
action
Ten years after the Second World War , seven-year-old Philippe cannot meet the high expectations of his sporty parents: mother Tania is an excellent swimmer , father Maxime is a former wrestler . He invents an imaginary big brother and spends a lot of time with his Jewish neighbor, Louise, who is an old friend of the family. On his fifteenth birthday, she tells him a closely guarded family secret: his father was married once before the war and had a son named Simon. Maxime's wife Hannah and Simon were apprehended during the deportation of the Jews from France and murdered in Auschwitz .
production
Miller uses color codes to delimit the different time levels in the film. Unusually, he chooses black and white for the scenes that take place in the present while the past is staged in color. As he says himself, the director unconsciously orients himself to the structure of the novel, in which the present is told in the past tense and the past in the present tense.
Reviews
Christina Krisch wrote in the Kronen Zeitung on April 9, 2009 that the film was an outstandingly cast "film gem" in which the actresses de France, Sagnier, Depardieu and the Bond villain Amalric shone. Georg Seeßlen said, “[T] he is a film made up of several films, and each of them comments on the others, changes them, takes away the conventional that they might have for themselves: the story of a boy growing up in a petty-bourgeois relationship, in two important sections. "
Awards
The film was nominated for eleven Césars in 2007. Julie Depardieu won a César for Best Supporting Actress. At the World Film Festival in Montreal in 2007, the film received the Grand Prix of the Americas, the main prize of the competition.
Book edition of the original
- A secret. Translated by Holger Fock, Sabine Müller. Suhrkamp pocket, Frankfurt 2017
Web links
- A secret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for A Secret . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Claude Miller about his and The Secret on moviepilot.de
- ^ Kronen-Zeitung of April 9, 2009.
- ^ Critique by Georg Seeßlen on getidan.de
- ^ Fock in the translator database of the VdÜ , 2019