Explained Pereira (film)

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Movie
German title Explains Pereira
Original title Sostiene Pereira
Country of production Italy , Portugal , France
original language Portuguese , Italian
Publishing year 1995
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roberto Faenza
script Antonio Tabucchi ,
Sergio Vecchio ,
Roberto Faenza
production Elda Ferri
music Ennio Morricone ,
Dulce Pontes
camera Blasco Giurato
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation
synchronization

Pereira Maintains is a feature film by Roberto Faenza from the year 1995 . It is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Antonio Tabucchi .

action

The widowed Dr. In 1938 Pereira lived a quiet life in the Lisbon of the consolidated Estado Novo regime, in the Europe of the growing fascist dictatorships. He is the head of the culture section of the Lisboa newspaper and is happy when he can fill the culture page with translations of literary works. In order to be able to adequately appreciate every deceased writer in an emergency, he hires the young philosopher Monteiro Rossi, who has just completed his dissertation on the subject of death. This impressed Pereira so much that he wanted the Italian Rossi Nekrologe to write it in advance. Although both Rossi and Pereira are initially apolitical in view of the increasingly harsh everyday repression of the dictatorship, none of the obituaries delivered are useful in Pereira's eyes, as they describe and evaluate the life's work of the poet exclusively from a political point of view. Pereira refuses to position himself or the news on the cultural site politically. He ignores the case of a slain coachman who only wanted to protest, as well as the destruction of a shop owned by Jews, even if this news moves him personally: On the trip to a thermal bath, he met a German Jew on the train who owned him asked to use his position for active action.

After his return from short vacation, Monteiro Rossi visits him. His cousin Bruno, who is fighting on the Republican side in Spain, is in town secretly to solicit volunteers. Monteiro Rossi wants to place him with Pereira, but he refuses. However, he places Bruno in a small pension and helps both men out with money. Because of health problems, Pereira visits a sanatorium for a week. Here he meets with the doctor Dr. Cardoso, who slowly makes him think politically. He also makes it clear to him that a newspaper can never be apolitical, so Pereira's superior is an active supporter of the National Socialists.

A lot has changed back in Lisbon. Pereira's phone line was relocated so that every call now ends up with the concierge , who is married to a police officer , who first transfers incoming calls to Pereira. In turn, Pereira can only make calls at the concierge counter. In addition, Monteiro and Bruno have gone into hiding, while Monteiro's friend Marta has assumed a new identity. Pereira learns from his waiter Manuel and later from his Catholic Father António that various writers took a political position after the air raid on Gernika : François Mauriac defended the Basques, Paul Claudel sided with the Vatican, which condemned the Basques, and the fascists, while Georges Bernanos made fascist massacres public and condemned Franco. Pereira decides to publish pro-French excerpts from Bernanos' diary of a country pastor in the next edition of Lisboa , for which he was instructed by Dr. Cardoso is praised. However, his boss criticizes Pereira for his decision and in future orders him to personally approve the cultural side.

The completely exhausted Monteiro Rossi appears at Pereira. He tells Pereira that Bruno has been arrested. Pereira accommodates him and tells Marta that her lover is safe. However, they hang up at the other end of the line. Shortly afterwards, the political police storm Pereira's apartment. Monteiro Rossi is beaten to death for not wanting to reveal Marta's whereabouts. When Pereira is outraged, he too is beaten. Pereira takes action: He writes an obituary for Monteiro Rossi in which he sharply denounces the actions of the police and draws attention to the dead person in his apartment. The obituary ends with a greeting to Marta and the note that the newspaper is commemorating Monteiro Rossi. The printer doubts whether the article will be approved by the censorship. Thanks to a skilful teamwork between Pereira, Manuel and Dr. Cardoso, who plays the head of the censorship on the phone, Pereira even manages to have the article printed on page 1 of the new Lisboa edition. On the same day he packs his things and runs away. While he left the city undetected the next day in the crowd of Lisbon, the newspaper boys were already advertising with the news of the murdered journalist.

production

Explained Pereira was shot in Lisbon, among other places. The film was released in Italian cinemas on April 6, 1995 and also opened in Portugal on March 7, 1996. It was first shown in France on July 3, 1996 and was also shown in German cinemas from September 19, 1998.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Pereira Marcello Mastroianni Wolfgang Hess
Monteiro Rossi Stefano Dionisi Pascal Breuer
Dr. Cardoso Daniel Auteuil Gudo Hoegel
Marta Nicoletta Braschi Irina Wanka
Manuel Joaquim de Almeida Martin Umbach
Mrs. Delgado Marthe Keller Viktoria Brams

criticism

The film won over the critics through the story of an older, cultured person who has become comfortable and who finds his own resistance through the joie de vivre of a young resister. In addition to the atmospheric images of Lisbon, it was above all Mastroianni's acting performance that brought the film good reviews. The film service called explains Pereira a “congenial film adaptation of a successful novel”, which “[was] touchingly staged and photographed in an atmospheric way” and “especially [fascinated] by Marcello Mastroianni's outstanding acting skills”.

Awards

At the David di Donatellos 1995 Marcello Mastroianni won the David for best actor. The film was nominated for a David in four other categories: for best producer (Elda Ferri), for best production design ( Giantito Burchiellaro ), best costume ( Elisabetta Beraldo ) and best editing (Ruggero Mastroianni). The Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani awarded the Nastro d'Argento for the best production design to Giantito Burchiellaro in 1996 and nominated Marcello Mastroianni as the best actor for a Nastro d'Argento.

At the Golden Globes Portugal, Joaquim de Almeida was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in 1997.

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Explains Pereira. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ spiegel.de or kino.de
  3. ↑ Explains Pereira. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used