Eugénie Grandet (1994)

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Movie
German title Eugénie Grandet
Original title Eugénie Grandet
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1994
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
script Pierre Moustiers , based on the novel by Honoré de Balzac
music Michel Portal
camera Marc Quilici, Gérard Vigneron
cut Bernard Morillon
occupation

Eugénie Grandet is a 1994 French film directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe based on the novel Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac .

action

In the middle of the 19th century in Saumur on the Loire : on their 13th birthday, the neighboring families of the Eugénie Grandet pay their respects. While the urbane banker's wife Lucienne des Grassins wants to marry off her son Adolphe to the young Böttcher's daughter, Abbé Cruchot puts his nephew on Eugénie because Eugénie's father, a curmudgeon, has amassed a considerable fortune. That evening, Eugénie's cousin Charles also shows up. After his bankrupt father's suicide, he seeks help from the Grandets. When Monsieur Grandet realizes Charles' financial situation, he sends him away. But Eugénie, who has fallen in love with her cousin, gives him the money she has saved. When father Grandet finds out, he locks Eugenie up, and his wife dies of grief over it. After the death of the curmudgeon Grandet, the Des Grassins and Cruchots continue to intrigue over the estate of the heiress.

background

Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe's film adaptation of the novel by Balzac received several 7 d'or , an award for French television films. The main roles of the film are excellently cast: Jean Carmet plays the father of the heroine, who is played by Alexandra London . With Dominique Labourier as Eugénie's mother and Claude Jade and Pierre Vernier as the intriguing couple Des Grassins, the elegant ensemble is one of the advantages of the film, which is precise in its setting and tone.

The film lexicon writes: “Another film adaptation of one of the most famous novels in world literature, which describes the social change of a society and its consequences based on the individual fate. The film depicts the selfishness of the people as well as the difficult to classify nature of the wealthy bride, who vacillates between willingness to sacrifice, passion and condescension. "

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eugenie Grandet. Filmlexikon , Zweiausendeins .de (accessed on July 23, 2016).