A fatal family
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A fatal family |
| Original title | Goupi Mains Rouges |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1943 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK from 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Becker |
| script | Pierre Véry |
| production |
Charles Méré Jean Mugeli |
| music | Jean Alfaro |
| camera |
Jean Bourgoin Pierre Montazel |
| cut | Marguerite Renoir |
| occupation | |
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A fatal family is a French country and family drama by Jacques Becker from 1942 . Pierre Véry wrote the screenplay based on his novel Goupi-Mains Rouges .
action
At the center of the action is the life of a large farming family in rural western France. Four generations of the Goupi family live on the farm, where life, separated from world events, takes its own leisurely pace. Despite constant bickering, they stick together on the outside. Excitement only promises rare changes such as the announced arrival of the Parisian Goupi member Goupi-Monsieur, who is supposed to arrive at the train station today to marry his cousin Goupi-Muguet. As soon as the Parisian relative has arrived, the spiral of events turns upwards like a catapult, because another family member, Goupi-Tisane, has been murdered. Since then 10,000 francs have disappeared. The newcomer is suddenly suspected and Goupi-Monsieur is arrested.
The Goupi-Mains Rouges named in the original French title is a poacher in the area. At the request of the now unmanned Goupi-Muguet, he embarks on the search for the real culprit. He found what he was looking for at Goupi-Tonkin: he stole the sum of money, but only killed Tisane because she beat up and tortured young Jean des Goupis. Goupi-Tonkin tries to evade his arrest, flees from the police and is killed in the process. In passing, Goupi-Mains Rouges discovers the family treasure, believed to be lost, and gets advice from the 106-year-old head of the family, Goupi-L'Empereur. Both come to the conclusion that it is better to hide the treasure again. Only on his deathbed does the old man want to reveal the hiding place to his eldest son. After Goupi-Monsieur's release, he and Goupi-Muguet decide to leave the area and move to Paris.
Production notes
A fatal family was filmed from October 10 to December 17, 1942 in Studios Éclair under the German occupation. The exterior shots were taken in the Charente . It premiered on April 14, 1943. In Germany, the film did not open until April 28, 1960.
criticism
In Reclams film leader states: "The crude story of Jacques Becker just an excuse, stubborn to the portrait of a family farmer, a landscape drawing of a milieu. 'Country' is not the scene of the idyll here; there is no rural peace, but an oppressive, genuinely captured atmosphere of violence and mistrust, combined with a bizarre sense of humor. You can feel the influence of Jean Renoir, with whom Becker had assisted for years; but Becker has also developed his own, unmistakable signature. "
In Bucher's encyclopedia of the film you can read: “The realistic narrative style of the film ..., the authentic description of the rural way of life and the warm humor express Becker's continued admiration for Renoir. In France, due to the sparse period of the cast, the film was very popular with its strong emphasis on national identity; abroad, however, the lasting quality of this film was largely underestimated. "
Georges Sadoul wrote: “In the film Goupi Mains Rouges … the plot was just a pretext for the accurate and careful drawing of a family of great farmers. The hostel, the poacher's house, the landscape, the way of life and the people are portrayed very real. The film seemed to continue the great 'natural and social history' that Jean Renoir had created before 1940 in a very personal style . "
In the lexicon of the international film it says: "With bizarre humor and intelligent irony to a brilliant milieu and character study."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reclams Filmführer , by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 323. Stuttgart 1973.
- ↑ Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films , Verlag CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M. 1977, p. 306.
- ^ Georges Sadoul: History of the cinematic art. Vienna 1957, p. 346
- ↑ A fatal family. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- A fatal family in the Internet Movie Database (English)