Gold helmet

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Movie
German title Gold helmet
Original title Casque d'or
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1952
length 96 (France) 85 (Germany) minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jacques Becker
script Jacques Becker
Jacques Companéez
production Raymond Hakim
Robert Hakim
André Paulvé
music Georges van Parys
camera Robert Lefebvre
cut Marguerite Renoir
occupation

Goldhelm is a French film from 1951 directed by Jacques Becker .

action

The film takes place in the half- and underworld milieu in Paris at the time of the Belle Époque , around 1900: Felix Leca is the leader of a gang, called Les Apaches, who are making the Belleville district unsafe. This gang also includes the proud Marie, who is usually called the "gold helmet" because of her tall, blond hair. Her self-proclaimed friend Roland Dupuis makes claims on her, but Marie immediately takes the opportunity to get away from him when she meets and falls in love with the wiry and thoroughly honest Georges, a carpenter and carpenter called Manda.

For Léca this is the opportunity to get active, as he has been keeping an eye on Marie himself for some time. In order to get rid of at least one competitor for Marie's favor, he incites Roland and Manda against each other. In this duel, Roland is killed, whereupon Manda and Marie flee and go into hiding. Since Léca also wants to get rid of Manda, he simply reports his friend Raymond to the police and claims that he killed Roland. Léca has correctly speculated: In order to save his friend, Manda is now facing justice.

Manda soon finds out about Léca's intrigues and now flees together with Raymond, who is fatally injured during this escape. Manda now only wants to take revenge on Léca. He followed him to a police station and shot him there. The police arrest him and Manda is sentenced to death in a trial for two murders. Marie watches his execution from the window of an attic room with a completely petrified look.

Production notes

Goldhelm was filmed from September 24 to November 22, 1951 and premiered on March 12, 1952. The German premiere took place on September 4, 1952.

The film was shot in the Billancourt studios, the exterior shots were made in Annet-sur-Marne, Meaux and in Ménilmontant near Paris.

The films are made by Jean d'Eaubonne , the costumes by Mayo .

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films writes: “With Goldhelm, Jacques Becker made the stylistically clearest and most convincing film about the belle époque . The drawing of the shady milieu, the deeply human interpretation of the love affair between Manda and Marie - this is fascinatingly dramatized and impressed not least by the excellent actors Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani. Becker proves to be a master of character portrayal in the mastery of a poetic realism that only a few directors of the time achieved. "

The film's large lexicon of people stated: “His milieu portrait from the turn of the century,“ Goldhelm ”, the clearly structured story about a gangster rivalry, is considered Becker's masterpiece”.

Reclam's film guide states: “Becker was not interested in making a“ historical gangster film ”; He created a very unusual film about the "belle époque", in which the people are more important than the events, the feelings more real than the criminalistic entanglements. A film of unusual beauty, strict will to style, clear dramaturgy - probably Becker's masterpiece. "

In Bucher's encyclopedia of the film you can read: “Becker gives a masterful description of Paris at the turn of the century, both in the set-ups and in the drawing of the characters. Despite the bleak course of action, the film has a life-affirming trait, especially in the external shots, which is mainly due to the strong charisma of Simone Signoret in the lead role. "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Das Lexikon des Internationale Films, Volume 3, P. 1376, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987
  2. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 297.
  3. ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 253. Stuttgart 1973.
  4. ↑ Bucher's Encyclopedia of Films, Verlag CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M. 1977, p. 124.

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