Fear and love

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Movie
Original title Fear and love /
Paura e amore
Country of production France , Italy , Germany
original language Italian , German
Publishing year 1988
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Margarethe von Trotta
script Margarethe von Trotta,
Dacia Maraini
production Angelo Rizzoli ,
Eberhard Junkersdorf
music Franco Piersanti
camera Giuseppe Lanci
cut Enzo Meniconi
occupation

Fear and Love is a French - Italian - German film drama by Margarethe von Trotta from 1988. The literary model was the play Drei Schwestern (1901) by Anton P. Chekhov , the plot being moved from Russia at the turn of the century to Italy in the 1980s has been.

action

The three sisters Velia, Maria and Sandra Parini live in the small Italian university town of Pavia . Velia is the oldest and for the other two a role model and mother figure at the same time, while Maria is unhappily married to a television comedian and suffers from depression. Sandra, the baby girl, is an idealistic medical student who is just celebrating her 18th birthday.

The sisters suffer, each in their own way, from not knowing which way of life, professionally and privately, is right for them. Velia, who has almost come to terms with being alone, falls in love with the married university professor Massimo. But to her displeasure, her sister Maria grows into a competitor in the fight for Massimo's favor. When Sandra falls in love with a doctor, she increasingly neglects her studies. He dies in a car accident, while Sandra remains uninjured. After Massimo remorsefully returns to his wife, the rivalry between Velia and Maria turns into solidarity and together they comfort Sandra.

background

After success with German films such as Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and Rosa Luxemburg (1986), the director Margarethe von Trotta moved the center of her life to Italy . Fear and Love was her first Italian film, but it did not match the success of her political films. The film was shot on the original locations in Pavia .

Fear and Love was premiered on April 19, 1988 in Italy and also presented on May 7, 1988 at the Cannes International Film Festival , where the film drama also took part in the Palme d'Or competition. In Germany , Fear and Love was first shown in cinemas on September 29, 1988.

Reviews

"Ironic-pathetic, also symbolically unsuccessful attempt to illustrate a 'post-feminist' situation using the example of a failing small town group."

- Lexicon of international film

“The grief stories combine in brittle melancholy into a heavy dance of emotions. [...] Dröges emotional bath with a good cast. "

- Cinema

“The film seems loose with no big moments or dramatic events. Fleetingly inspired by Chekhov's Three Sisters , this is a solid but rather unsuccessful film. [...] Despite the ingredients, it never gets going. "

- Corriere della Sera

Awards

Fear and Love participated at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1988 in the competition for the Golden Palm , which was ultimately awarded to Bille Augusts Pelle, the Conqueror . Furthermore, the film received a nomination for the German Film Award in the category of best feature film in 1989 , but was again subject to competition.

literature

  • Anton P. Chekhov : Three Sisters: Drama in four acts . Diogenes Verlag, 12th edition, 2000, 131 pages, ISBN 3-257-20103-6 .
  • Anton P. Chekhov: Three Sisters: Drama in four acts . Reclam, Ditzingen, 2010, 212 pp., ISBN 3-150-18775-3 (Russian / German edition).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fear and Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  3. ↑ "La vicenda si snoda senza grandi scosse né avvenimenti drammatici. Vagamente ispirato a Le tre sorelle di A. Chechov, è un film rispettabile e poco riuscito. […] Nonostante gli ingredienti, non lievita mai." , cf. corriere.it