Bunny in the Pit (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Bunny in the pit |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Fritz |
| script | Roger Fritz |
| production | Herbert Maris for Maris-Film (Berlin) |
| music | Uli Roever |
| camera | Rüdiger Meichsner |
| cut | Hermann Haller |
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Bunny in the pit is a German feature film from the year 1968. Directed by Roger Fritz play Helga Anders , Anthony Steel and Françoise Prévost the leading roles.
action
At the center of the story is a middle-aged woman, Francine, and her teenage daughter Leslie. Both women have a highly ambivalent relationship with the much older Maurice Pouliard. He is an extremely respected and successful conductor who has traveled to Spoleto in Umbria with the two women, his lover and their precocious daughter, to perform there at the “Festival of Two Worlds”. Leslie, a talented ballerina, has been in an incestuous relationship with her mother's lover for quite some time. Torn between sexual desire and disgust, Leslie's relationship with the tyrannical and voluptuous Maurice soon also weighs on the (actually only pro forma existing) relationship between Maurice and Francine.
One day, Leslie's rescue approaches in the form of the restless performance artist Brian, who is roughly the same age. Both young people fall in love with each other; Maurice is jealous. Despite her growing and confusing feelings about Brian, Leslie continues to sleep with Maurice. When Brian finds out and turns away from her in disgust, Leslie realizes her true feelings. The two reconciled at a festival party. However, this gives rise to massive ownership claims in Maurice. In order to retain power over “his” two wives, the conductor leaves no stone unturned to pull Leslie and Brian apart. When he finally wants to leave with Francine and Leslie, the young woman has long since made up her mind: she will stay with Brian.
Production notes
Bunny in the Pit was shot from July 10th to August 20th, 1968 in Spoleto and Palinuro , passed the FSK exam on December 10th, 1968 and started nationwide on April 25th, 1969.
Reviews
In kino.de it says: "Love drama in the festival environment of Spoleto, which forms the picturesque backdrop for the curious square story."
"A film that fluctuates between banality and pseudo-profundity, which merges the love affairs of a famous conductor with a mature woman and her daughter with the generation problem and inappropriately large words about questions of worldview."
“Dirty square story in which a music-making bum hits a star conductor hard because he snatches the little daughter from him, with whom the conductor prefers to sleep than with his mother. Embarrassing. Not advised. "
The American critic Dan Pavlides wrote about the film, which was shown in the USA under the title Rabbit in the Pit : “The film attempts to be critical of the cruel and snobbish high society that the man must tolerate in order to insure his economic survival . "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bunnies in the Pit on kino.de
- ↑ Bunnies in the Pit. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 187/1969.
- Jump up ↑ Bunny in the Pit at Allmovie.com
Web links
- Bunny in the pit in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Bunnies in the pit at filmportal.de