A love from Swann (film)

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Movie
German title A love from Swann
Original title Un amour de Swann
Country of production France , Germany
original language French
Publishing year 1984
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Volker Schlöndorff
script Volker Schlöndorff,
Jean-Claude Carrière ,
Peter Brook ,
Marie Hélène Estienne
production Eberhard Junkersdorf ,
Margaret Ménégoz ,
Martin Wiebel
music David Graham ,
Hans Werner Henze ,
Gerd Kuhr ,
Marcel Wengler
camera Sven Nykvist
cut Françoise Bonnot
occupation
synchronization

Eine Liebe von Swann (Original title: Un amour de Swann ) is a French - German film adaptation of the eponymous chapter from Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time by director Volker Schlöndorff from 1984.

action

The art-loving bon vivant Charles Swann frequented the better circles of Paris around 1885 . He is one of the few converted Jews to be accepted into French higher society. During a visit to the theater, he meets the demi-world lady Odette de Crécy. At first he doesn't find her particularly attractive. However, they get closer to each other during a carriage ride and then spend their first night together.

The affair between the two quickly spread in the higher circles. However, his reputation means little to Swann. All that matters to him is his love for Odette. But the more passion Swann feels for Odette, the more she seems to lose interest in him, especially since he develops a pathological jealousy and suspects every man to pursue her.

One day, Swann received an anonymous letter indicating that Odette had not only met with men but also with women. Odette confesses to the increasingly possessive Charles that she has had lesbian affairs. Although Swann tries to break away emotionally from Odette and suppress his feelings for her, he cannot get away from her. Against the advice of his friend Baron de Charlus, Swann decides to marry Odette. They have a daughter, but because of Odette's past, he cannot introduce her to higher society.

background

Champs-sur-Marne castle , where the film was set

The literary model of the same name forms the middle section of the first volume of Marcel Proust's main work In Search of Lost Time . Director Volker Schlöndorff discovered Proust's Eine Liebe von Swann in his youth: “I must have been sixteen or seventeen, [...] I devoured Un amour de Swann on a weekend [...]. Proust opened up three worlds to me: the French language, the associated society and the unknown regions of love and jealousy. ”When he was offered the film adaptation of Eine Liebe von Swann , he immediately accepted. “I saw the pictures in front of me: a man wanders the boulevards at night, from bar to bar, in a feverish intoxication, looking for a woman who repeatedly eludes him. Late at night he knocks on a window that isn't hers. He puts her up for a long interrogation one afternoon, torments her with jealousy and enjoys his own suffering. Odette and Paris: a woman, larger than life, and a city, the epitome of all cities as well as the man who seeks to own both, for me that is a love from Swann . "

The film premiered in France on February 23, 1984 . In Germany , Eine Liebe von Swann was released in cinemas on March 23, 1984. In 2008 the film was released on DVD together with an interview with Volker Schlöndorff.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films found that Schlöndorff's adaptation of Proust's novel “only captures partial areas of his complex emotional world, but mostly captures them atmospherically coherently”. The film was largely "staged with great detail" and also "impressive in terms of equipment, camera work and use of music". The verdict of the film magazine Cinema was: "Has brittle charm, but good pictures."

For Prisma it was an “elaborate film adaptation”, which turned out to be “pretty bombastic” and in which “Jeremy Irons [...] can fiddle around with Ornella Muti a little”. The film critic Roger Ebert praised Jeremy Irons in particular in the Chicago Sun-Times . He was "perfect as Charles Swann - pale, profound, feverish through passion".

Awards

A love from Swann was awarded two Césars in the categories Best Costumes ( Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle ) and Best Production Design ( Jacques Saulnier ). The film also received two nominations for the BAFTA Film Award in the categories of Best Costumes and Best Non-English Language Film . The jury of the German Film and Media Evaluation awarded the film the rating “valuable”.

German version

The German dubbed version was based on the dialogue book by Florian Hopf , who also directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Charles Swann Jeremy Irons Joachim Bißmeier
Odette de Crecy Ornella Muti Helga Anders
Baron de Charlus Alain Delon Hans-Michael Rehberg
Duchesse de Guermantes Fanny Ardant Viktoria Brams
Madame Verdurin Marie-Christine Barrault Cornelia Froboess
Messieur Bisch Roland Topor Michael Habeck
Swann's servant Marc Arian Kurt Zips

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. volkerschloendorff.com
  2. ↑ A love from Swann. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  4. ↑ cf. prisma.de
  5. ↑ "Jeremy Irons is perfect as Charles Swann, pale, deep-eyed, feverish with passion." Roger Ebert : Swann in Love . In: Chicago Sun-Times , Jan. 1, 1984.
  6. ↑ cf. fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
  7. ↑ A love from Swann. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 13, 2020 .