Hot nights
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hot nights |
| Original title | Soleil noir |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denys de La Patellière |
| script |
Pascal Jardin , Denys de La Patellière |
| production | Ralph Baum |
| music | Georges Garvarentz |
| camera | Armand Thirard |
| cut | Jacqueline Thiédot |
| occupation | |
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Hot nights (original title: Soleil noir , in German Black Sun ) is a French-Italian drama from 1966 by Denys de La Patellière . He wrote the script himself together with Pascal Jardin . The leading roles are cast with Michèle Mercier , Daniel Gélin and Valentina Cortese . The film had its world premiere on December 10, 1966 in France. It was first shown in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 9, 1967.
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With feelings rising against the injustice of her family, Christine decides after the death of her father, the industrialist Gaston Rodier, to comply with his wish and to look for her older brother, Guy, who is despised by everyone. Finally she discovers the doctor, who has fallen down due to excessive alcohol consumption, in an African desert settlement, where almost exclusively failed and criminal existences have come together. Guy is plagued by remorse. He had been a collaborator in the Second World War , had propagated a Europe under the leadership of German National Socialists , was then sentenced to death by his compatriots, whereupon he sought his salvation by fleeing. However, the sister fails to persuade her brother to return to France. The refugee wants to stay in his self-chosen exile and with his friend Maria, a patricide who, according to him, is the only person in the world who really needs him.
Christine herself soon finds the man of her life in an American pilot, who also suffered a difficult personal fate. The secret master of the place, a brutal hotel owner who would have liked to win her over, is also powerless against this.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the work is a “melodrama with the ingredients sex, crime and sentiment”. Even the evangelical film observer doesn't think much of the film: "The epic unfortunately turned out to be too bitter-sweet for him [note: the director], sometimes brutal, sometimes gutty and on the whole - especially because it was exaggerated and exaggerated - not very convincing. Only something for uncritical adults. "
Web links
- Hot nights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 92/1968, pp. 84–85
- ^ Lexicon of international films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 1551
- ↑ Hot nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 26, 2018 . Here the quote is slightly modified.