The First Night (1964)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The first night |
| Original title | Girl with green eyes |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Desmond Davis |
| script | Edna O'Brien |
| production | Oscar Lewenstein |
| music | John Addison |
| camera | Manny Wynn |
| cut | Brian Smedley-Aston |
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The First Night (Original Title: Girl with Green Eyes ) is a British film drama from 1964 directed by Desmond Davis . The screenplay was written by the Irish writer Edna O'Brien and is based on her own literary model, the 1962 novel The Lonely Girl . Rita Tushingham , Peter Finch and Lynn Redgrave can be seen in the leading roles . The film premiered on May 14, 1964 in London. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 5, 1965.
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Kate Brady is a strictly religious girl in Ireland . She works as a grocer and lives in a sublet with her friend in Dublin . She is only moderately endowed with external merits, and so it is not easy for her to get a husband, although she would like one for her life. But one day she still has the opportunity to fall in love with a stately specimen of a man. Eugene Gaillard is the chosen one. Although he writes books, (later) he by no means shows himself to be an exceptional man. Because she has taken the initiative, he follows her; then again Kate hesitates. They are both happy for a while. But he is much older than the girl and also married, but lives separated from his wife in a feudal country house. Soon, what was naturally to be expected occurs: the living apart, the separation.
Still on the ship that is supposed to bring Kate to London, she hopes that her lover will find her again. - In vain.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer judges: “Not entirely free of falsified romanticism and religious independence, but psychologically consistent and well designed in terms of film. Well possible for adults. "The lexicon of international films comes to a similar assessment:" A remarkable first work by a young Englishman, credible and discreet in its portrayal of psychological development, but not always sufficiently nuanced in the socially critical allusions. "The state film evaluation agency Wiesbaden granted the work the predicate "valuable".
Web links
- The first night in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 62/1965, pp. 121–122.
- ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 903.