Fedora (movie)

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Movie
German title Fedora
Original title Fedora
Country of production France
Germany
original language English
Greek
French
Publishing year 1978
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Billy Wilder
script Billy Wilder
I. AL Diamond
production Billy Wilder
music Miklós Rózsa
camera Gerry Fisher
cut Stefan Arnsten
Fredric Steinkamp
occupation
synchronization

Fedora was filmed in 1978 by Billy Wilder based on a short story by Tom Tryon .

action

The world-famous film star and myth Fedora is dead. The independent film producer Barry Detweiler travels to the body laid out for the public and remembers the previous two weeks, which are reproduced below:

Detweiler seeks out the diva, who lives completely withdrawn, on a small island near Corfu in the Villa Kalypso in order to win her over for a film. Although she would have to be an older lady of 67 years, she confronts him freshly preserved, just as beautiful as in 1947, when they met for the first time while filming and spent a night of love together on the beach.

Her small circle of confidants, Countess Sobryansky sitting in a wheelchair, the suspicious nurse Miss Balfour and the bizarre plastic surgeon Dr. Vando, do everything possible to shield Fedora from strangers, controlling every step you take. Detweiler can only be surprised that Fedora's soul life and love needs have apparently remained at the level of a much younger woman. She is also said to be a drug addict.

Detweiler, however, manages to get to her on his own and make his offer. Fedora then drew hope of being able to escape her exile and surveillance in Corfu. When she is abducted by her entourage to Paris, her life ends in a suburban train station, where she throws herself in front of an arriving train. For the fans and the press, the funeral of the star will be staged by the Countess in her Palais in Paris according to every trick in the book.

In a final conversation with the Countess, Detweiler finally learns Fedora's true story. This was for twenty years "like the sick to Lourdes" in the renowned beauty clinic of Dr. Vando made a pilgrimage, where the diva's youth could be preserved again and again - until 1962, when Fedora was distorted there by using a new method; as a result of other medical complications, she also suffered a stroke, so that she has been dependent on a wheelchair ever since.

Fedora's illegitimate daughter Antonia, about whom the public knew nothing, is to take over her role at the awarding of an honorary Oscar , as she looks like the face of the young Fedora. Antonia also makes a few films as a fedora until she falls in love with her film partner Michael York . She finally wants to leave the role of the diva behind and be Antonia again. But Fedora's entourage does not allow this; At first Antonia reluctantly accepts her fate, but breaks because of it.

Countess Sobryansky, who has revealed herself to be the real fedora, asks Detweiler to keep the secret for the sake of the old days. The myth is to be maintained; a few weeks later she dies herself, almost unnoticed by the public.

criticism

film-dienst 14/1978: The film is a “boulevard of twilight” as satire, a swan song for Hollywood, for old school cinema, for Billy Wilder's classic films not least. … A work of old age that primarily achieves its rank by accepting being misunderstood by everyone.

backgrounds

The Fedora character in Tom Tryon's original short story appears to be based on elements of the biographies and careers of Marlene Dietrich , Greta Garbo , Gloria Swanson, and Corinne Griffith . Billy Wilder shifted the time frame of the story by several decades. Tryon's fedora begins her career in the early 1910s, and in Billy Wilder's film the younger fedora is a big star during World War II.

Both the book and the film are peppered with numerous allusions to the technical side of the various rejuvenation procedures: Professor Serge Voronoff and his monkey testicle implants are also mentioned, as are references to the fresh cell therapy according to Paul Niehans and his La Prairie clinic .

Originally, Faye Dunaway had been offered the role of fedora. The role finally went to Marthe Keller , who was to play both the young and the old fedora. Since this was not possible because a head injury caused great pain when applying special make-up parts, Billy Wilder decided to cast the role of the old fedora separately. For this was Hildegard Knef involved. Also Marlene Dietrich to have been asked to play the Countess Sobryansky.

In the German dubbed version, the young Fedora is not spoken by the German-speaking Marthe Keller (she is Swiss), but also by Hildegard Knef.

Billy Wilder was accused of having over long distances, a plagiarism of his own movie Sunset Boulevard from 1950 rotated.

Awards

  • 1982 Fotogramas de Plata for Best Foreign Film to Billy Wilder , together with Atlantic City (1980)

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler William Holden Arnold Marquis
Fedora / Antonia Sobryanski Marthe Keller Marthe Keller
Barry (young) Stephen Collins Norbert Langer
Undertaker Hans Jaray Erik Schumann
director Ferdy Mayne Ferdy Mayne
Dr. Vando José Ferrer Wolfgang Lukschy
Countess Fedora Sobryanski Hildegard Knef Hildegard Knef
Academy President Henry Fonda Gert Günther Hoffmann
Corfu Hotel Manager Mario Adorf Mario Adorf
Michael York Michael York Elmar Wepper
Miss Balfour Frances Sternhagen Marianne Kehlau

literature

  • Thomas Tryon : Fedora or the Forgotten. A novel in 4 episodes (OT: Crowned Heads) . German by Hermann Stiehl. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1982, 404 pages, ISBN 3-499-14955-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fedora. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing files , accessed on April 8, 2020 .