Finis Terræ (1929)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Finis Terræ |
| Original title | Finis Terræ |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Epstein |
| script | Jean Epstein |
| production |
Serge Sandberg for Société générale de films |
| music | Roch Havet (Version 2007) |
| camera |
Joseph Barthès Gustavo Kottula Louis Née R. Tulle |
| cut | Nicolas Delbart |
| occupation | |
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Finis Terræ is a 1929 French silent drama directed by Jean Epstein .
content
Four seaweed fishermen live for three months, during which fishing is possible, on the small island of Bannec off the coast of Brittany (within sight of the better-known island of Ouessant ). The boys Ambroise and Jean-Marie are friends. When Jean-Marie wants to share his last bottle of wine with Ambroise, the bottle breaks because of Ambroise's carelessness. When Jean-Marie Ambroise also accused of stealing his knife, both boys avoid each other, who each form a fishing team with an older fisherman.
When the bottle broke, Ambroise cut his thumb on a piece of glass. Nevertheless, he goes about his work and lays out the fished seaweed and burns it - the seaweed ashes obtained with good technology can bring in a lot of money when sold. The next day, Ambroise hardly has any strength left to fish, which his colleague sees as laziness. When Ambroise takes more and more breaks in the near future and finally apparently sleeps on the beach, his colleague prefers to work with Jean-Marie's team. Ambroise notices this between phases of vertigo and therefore terminates his collaboration. He withdraws completely and so the others do not notice that he is getting worse and worse. Ambroise finally collapses on the beach. The other three fishermen meanwhile also have problems: Since there was no rain for days, their drinking water supply is almost used up.
Meanwhile, on the island of Ouessant, the inhabitants are concerned because they have not seen any smoke on Bannec for a long time, so there is obviously no work there. Even the warring neighbors, the mothers of Ambroise and Jean-Marie, find mutual support through their concern. When the island's doctor, Lesenn, cannot see anything about the Phare du Créac'h either, he decides to row with three other men by boat to Bannec. This is not without risk, as there is no wind and at the same time the Passage du Fromveur, a dangerous tidal current , is between Ouessant and Bannec .
While the men were planning their departure, the three fishermen found Ambroise on the island and put them in his hut. Jean-Marie finds his knife on the beach and now knows that he wronged Ambroise. Since the other two fishermen are not interested in putting their lives in danger when crossing to Ouessant when there is no wind, Jean-Marie begins the rowing boat crossing alone with the feverish Ambroise. Before he has to give up completely exhausted in the heavy fog, he recognizes the rowboat from Ouessant, in which the doctor Lesenn is sitting. Ambroise is still operating on the ship before all six men return to Ouessant. Jean-Marie meets his girlfriend here again and then wakes up at Ambroise's bed, giving him a glass of wine. Lesenn takes a short rest in Ambroise's mother's house before going to the next patient.
production
Finis Terræ is the first film in a trilogy in which Epstein dealt with life on the Breton coast. Mor vran followed in 1931 and L'Or des mers in 1932 . For the filming of Finis Terræ , he worked exclusively with residents of Ouessant, "since Epstein's view that professional actors cannot play side by side with the brutally authentic ocean". The film was shot on Ouessant and Bannec. One of the locations was the Phare du Créac'h lighthouse .
The German premiere of Finis Terræ took place on September 21, 2007 on the arte channel .
criticism
Cinema said that "Silent film master Jean Epstein, better known for expressionist works like the Edgar Allan Poe film The Downfall of the House of Usher , [captured] the raw beauty of the Breton coast with his maritime adventure drama."
The lexicon of international film described Finis Terræ as a “highly dramatic feature film experiment on the verge of documentary, in which extreme nature experiences its poetic transformation. The director used the inhabitants of the fishing village, who give the film its authenticity and adapt it to the rhythm of life and the sea. A film in the tradition of Epstein's Das Gold des Meeres 1932. "
Web links
- Finis Terræ in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See film presentation Finis Terræ on arte.tv ( memento of the original from March 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Finis Terræ on cinema.de
- ↑ Finis Terræ. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
