Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)

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Movie
German title Breakfast at Tiffany's
Original title Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany Filmlogo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1961
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 16, FSK 12 (cut version)
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Director Blake Edwards
script George Axelrod
production Martin Jurow ,
Richard Shepherd
music Henry Mancini
camera Franz Planner
cut Howard A. Smith
occupation
synchronization

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Original title: Breakfast at Tiffany's) is an American feature film from 1961 with Audrey Hepburn in the lead role. It is based on the novel of the same name by Truman Capote . Directed by comedy specialist Blake Edwards .

action

The adorable New York party girl Holly Golightly leads an excessive life full of extremes. Breakfast is in the evening dress in front of the shop window of the luxury jeweler Tiffany and slept until the early afternoon. The nights are long, the parties shrill, the companions numerous, and from the gentlemen she sometimes takes 50 dollars (equivalent in 2020 around 430 dollars, depending on the calculation method) "for the toilet".

For the new tenant in Holly's apartment building, the young, ambitious writer Paul Varjak, who lets the wealthy Mrs. Failenson put up with him, the dazzling Holly, who persistently calls him "Fred" because of his resemblance to her brother, is initially a fascinating study object .

As Paul gets to know her better, however, he feels more and more drawn to her. Holly also feels comfortable around Paul, and so a close friendship begins to develop between the two of them. However, Holly does not allow herself to have deeper feelings towards him because she has a bigger goal. She desperately wants to get married rich, no matter what the cost. Her preferred candidate is a politically influential Brazilian landowner. For his sake she begins to pull up her tents in New York.

Before she can put her plan into action, however, the past catches up with her. One day her husband, Golightly, the elderly country veterinarian from Texas , is at the door and wants to bring her back to him. Paul learns Holly's story. Her real name is Lula Mae Barnes, comes from a poor background and was married at the age of fourteen to care for the widower's children. Paul sees confirmation of what he long suspected: behind the facade of the hungry, reckless Holly hides a deeply insecure, frightened creature. Holly wants to stay in New York, however, and the vet drives back to Texas with a broken heart.

When Holly and Paul return home after a day full of colorful experiences, the masks suddenly fall; Nothing is as it was. For a passionate moment (they spend the rest of the night in Paul's bed together) they both realize that they love each other - for who they are.

When Holly learns of her brother Fred's death soon afterwards, however, she believes she has been punished for her love for Paul. She has a nervous breakdown and breaks off her relationship with Paul. She persistently pursues her marriage plans and makes the final preparations for her departure. On her last day in New York, she asks Paul for a farewell meeting. They wistfully roam the city. On her return to her apartment, Holly is arrested. She is said to have had relationships with the well-known gang boss Sally Tomato, whom she actually visited every Thursday in New York's Sing Sing Prison for a fee . Marriage is now out of the question for the Brazilian because of his public office; he dissolves the engagement.

Paul manages to get Holly free with the help of one of her former patrons. Nevertheless, she wants to travel to South America to start a new life there. When she chases her beloved cat out of the car into the rain, Paul loses his composure. He shows her that in reality she is just on the run from her fear of life. Holly finally registers, finds the hangover in a dramatic ending, and she and Paul kiss in the pouring rain. The song "Moon River", which is repeatedly associated with the film, is played as a choral version in this scene (as in the first).

music

The complete soundtrack for Blake Edwards ' film was composed by Henry Mancini . The best-known title from it is the 1962 Oscar- winning song Moon River , which is sung in a scene by Audrey Hepburn himself. In 2004 the American Film Institute selected the song as number 4 in the list of AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Songs of the 100 Best American Film Songs .

background

  • Truman Capote actually wanted to see Marilyn Monroe in the role of Holly Golightly , but Monroe's adviser and acting teacher Lee Strasberg advised her against the role because playing a prostitute (the novel is a little more explicit than the film in this regard) was bad for her image. Instead, Audrey Hepburn's second choice with her portrayal of Holly became a style icon. The depiction of Holly with her cigarette holder is one of the most famous Hollywood images. Her long black evening dress at the beginning of the film, which was designed by Hubert de Givenchy , also achieved fame . The Givenchy dress worn in the film was bought by an anonymous bidder at Christie's in London in 2006 for 692,000 euros and is considered the most expensive textile in film history.
  • Originally, Steve McQueen designed for the male lead. Due to his commitment to the series Josh ( Wanted: Dead or Alive ), he canceled.
  • The portrayal of the Japanese neighbor has been described as racist and one of the worst portrayals of an Asian in the history of the film. Mickey Rooney, who played Yunioshi-san, was of no Asian background and wore makeup and dentures. In the feature film Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story , the Asian Bruce Lee leaves a screening of Breakfast at Tiffany's after seeing the scenes with the Japanese neighbor. Mickey Rooney said in 2008 that Edwards, as a comedy director, thought the character was funny and that no one had ever complained to him personally about the portrayal. At the same time, he said that if he had known about people's complaints, he would never have played the part. Blake Edwards also said that in retrospect he would have preferred to delete the role from the film.
  • The novel ends, in contrast to the film, without a happy ending. Holly searches in vain for the cat in the rain and finally continues. When Paul later discovers that the cat has found a real home, he also hopes for Holly, whose further fate he does not know. Author Capote was later annoyed by the added happy ending.
  • Moon River , the theme song of the film , became world famous .
  • The film was released in theaters in the Federal Republic of Germany on January 12, 1962, and it was first broadcast in Germany on April 23, 1973 at 8:15 p.m. on ZDF .
  • In the meantime, you can actually have breakfast at Tiffany's in New York: Since November 2017 there has been a café run by Tiffany called the Blue Box Café in the same building.

Awards

In 1962 the film won an Oscar in the categories of Best Song and Best Score (both for Henry Mancini) ; Nominations were for Audrey Hepburn as Best Actress , the Best Production Design and for Best Adapted Screenplay . In the same year, the film received Golden Globe nominations for best film - comedy or musical and for best actress - comedy or musical (Audrey Hepburn).

Also in 1962, the film's soundtrack received a Grammy . The film also won an award for Best Song at the Laurel Awards , and was nominated for Best Comedy , Best Actress, and Best Score.

Orangey , the cat who plays Holly Golightly's nameless cat in the film, received his second PATSY Award (the Oscar equivalent for animals in the film) for the film.

In 2012 the film was entered into the National Film Registry .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created for the German cinema premiere in January 1962.

Character actor Dubbing voice
Holly Golightly Audrey Hepburn Marion Degler
Paul Varjak George Peppard Michael Cramer
2-E (Mrs. Failenson) Patricia Neal Gisela Reissmann
Mr. Yunioshi Mickey Rooney Gerd Duwner
OJ Berman, Hollywood agent Martin Balsam Curt Ackermann
José da Silva Pereira José Luis de Vilallonga Friedrich Schoenfelder
Sid Arbuck Claude Stroud Lothar Blumhagen
Meg Wildwood Dorothy Whitney Agi Prandhoff

Reviews

"Bittersweet love story based on a novella by Truman Capote, staged by Blake Edwards as an extremely elegant mixture of tragic and comedic elements."

- Lexicon of international film

“Admittedly, the film is sentimental and annoyingly deviates significantly from the book at the end. But it is also a stylish firework of wonderful (and at the time daring) dialogues. "

- Cinema

"Magical and melancholy, humorous and moving - this is how 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' became a classic and at the same time a hymn to a great actress."

- Filmstarts.de

"'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is a thoroughly charming and funny Valentine to a special woman and the city she loves and which continues to enchant more than 40 years after her first appearance."

- Allmovie

"Yes, but! The film is slow and sentimental, but it is also a firework of wonderful (then daring) dialogues and shines with style. Simply charming! "

- TV movie

literature

For submission

To the movie

  • Peter Lehman, William Luhr: "I Love New York!" Breakfast at Tiffany's. In: Murray Pomerance (Ed.): City that never Sleeps. New York and the Filmic Imagination. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick / NJ 2007, pp. 23–32 (preview on Google Books)
  • Sam Wasson: Never fall in love with a wild creature. Audrey Hepburn and “Breakfast at Tiffany's” (original title: Fifth Avenue, 5 AM , translated by Dörthe Kaiser). LSD (Lagerfeld Steidl Druckerei Verlag), Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86930-239-3
  • Sarah Gristwood: Breakfast at Tiffany's: the big book on the film (original title: Breakfast at Tiffany’s , translated by Ursula C. Sturm, edited by Anna Cheifetz). Knesebeck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86873-350-1 .

Web links

Commons : Breakfast at Tiffany's  - Album of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFI's 100 Years… 100 songs. (PDF; 134 kB) In: afi.com. American Film Institute (AFI), June 22, 2005, accessed August 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Donald Spoto: Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn. Harmony Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-307-23758-3 , p. 3
  3. ↑ Jessica Guernsey: The Undercover Minstrel Show . In: Dartmouth College (Ed.): Dartmouth Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Quarterly . No. August 2009, August, pp. 2-6. "For an overtly racist Orientalist representation in American film, see Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)."
  4. ^ The Movies, Race, and Ethnicity: Asian Americans: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley . University of California, Berkeley Library System . Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  5. ↑ James Berardinelli : Breakfast at Tiffany’s . reelviews.net. 2000. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  6. ↑ http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/35779 ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Filmdienst.de (Credits), and Spiegel.de,
  8. ↑ Michael Ebert and Sven Michaelsen: The boss of Tiffany & Co., Alessandro Bogliolo, explains the huge difference between luxurious and expensive . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin . tape 2018 , no. 45 , November 9, 2018, p. 66-70 .
  9. ↑ Iris Bass: Cat Lover's Daily Companion . Quarry Books, 2011, ISBN 1-59253-749-9 , pp. 250 .
  10. ↑ Breakfast at Tiffany's in the synchronized files
  11. ↑ Breakfast at Tiffany's. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed May 26, 2008 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  12. ↑ cinema.de
  13. ↑ Filmstarts.de
  14. ↑ Allmovie.com
  15. ↑ tvspielfilm.de
  16. ↑ When Audrey Hepburn played the "noble whore" , review as an audio contribution  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Deutschlandradio Kultur from October 20, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ondemand-mp3.dradio.de