Cave of memories
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cave of memories |
| Original title | La madriguera |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| script |
Rafael Azcona Geraldine Chaplin Carlos Saura |
| production | Elías Querejeta |
| music | Luis de Pablo |
| camera | Luis Cuadrado |
| cut | Pablo González del Amo |
| occupation | |
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Cave of Memories is a Spanish married drama by Carlos Saura based on his own story and starring Geraldine Chaplin and Per Oscarsson as a married couple.
action
Spain, in the late 1960s. The businessman Pedro has been married to the much younger Teresa for five years. The marriage has landed on the beaten track, sterile and boring. Both houses are modern and furnished with a certain amount of comfort, and their impersonality reflects the state of their relationship. One day Teresa's life, the house and with it her marriage will be jumbled up with the arrival of inherited furniture. Teresa is more and more immersed in this new, old world, in the “cave of memories” of her childhood. The furniture is initially stored in the basement, where Teresa now often retreats. There she invents games that soon remove her from the real world and alienate her from her husband and her social environment.
Gradually, Teresa brings the furniture up into the actual living area and not only fills the interior design teaching of her previously purely functional house. Pedro, at first alienated by Teresa's activities, finally gets involved in his wife's games and becomes part of this new cosmos of experience. Sometimes the two play father and daughter, sometimes lover and lover, then birth and engagement again. But the two not only never get closer, it seems increasingly impossible from game to game. Rather, the games reveal a now unbridgeable distance that even turns into deep rejection. The final game is consequently called “Separation”: Pedro then packs his suitcase in a very real way and leaves the house. Teresa shoots him right outside the front door, then shoots herself.
Production notes
Cave of Memories was first presented to the public in June 1969 at the Berlinale , where the film was nominated for the Golden Bear . The premiere was on July 10, 1969 in the production country Spain (Madrid). In Germany, the film was first broadcast on September 7, 1971 on ARD .
Awards
- CEC Prize (Madrid 1970) for Carlos Saura as best director.
- Fotogramas de Plata (1970) for Geraldine Chaplin as best leading actress in a Spanish-language film.
Reviews
Reclam's guide saw the film as “more than just a psychological intimate play and a common marriage drama. Social references are obvious, albeit ambiguous. "
“Saura uses private history to portray the situation in Spanish society towards the end of the 1960s. He hides his underlying concern behind fashionable, playful effects that make understanding difficult. "
Web links
- Cave of the memories in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reclams Filmführer, by Dieter Krusche, collaboration: Jürgen Labenski. P. 399. Stuttgart 1973.
- ↑ Cave of Memories. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2018 .