Lord of Brassac Castle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lord of Brassac Castle / Also a French marriage |
| Original title | Le Tonnerre de Dieu |
| Country of production |
France , Germany , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1965 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denys de La Patellière |
| script |
Pascal Jardin Denys de La Patellière |
| production |
Raymond Danon Maurice Jacquin |
| music | Georges Garvarentz |
| camera |
Marcel Grignon Walter Wottitz |
| cut | Claude Durand |
| occupation | |
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Herr auf Schloß Brassac is a French-German-Italian film drama from 1965 with Jean Gabin , Lilli Palmer and Michèle Mercier in the leading roles. The film was based on the novel Qui m'emporte by Bernard Clavel .
action
Léandre Brassac, an old vet with a beefy presence, lives with his wife Marie in a lordly manner in a castle in Nantes . The marriage is fragile, one could almost say: shattered. Deeply bitter that Marie couldn't give him children - he once said that her belly was as dead as a cemetery - she gave in to alcohol while he preferred to stay with his horses and also look after stray dogs - all so as not to have to deal with his wife. The gruff, verbally brutal, sullen old man blossoms a little the first time he meets Simone. She is everything that Marie is no longer for him: young, erotic and of childbearing age. It doesn't matter that she is considered an easy girl. Without explaining too much to his wife, the gentleman at Brassac Castle brings Simone to his property one evening and explains succinctly that she will live here from now on. Marie has long since lost all will to fight and also endures this new humiliation largely without complaint.
Things take a dramatic turn when one day Simone's pimp Marcel shows up, who doesn't just want to accept that Léandre just wants to get his best “horse in the stable” for him. But old Brassac, in keeping with his rumbling and threatening nature, makes it very clear to him who is the master of the house here. Brassac's presumed belief in a future with Simone, who is over 30 years younger than him, turns out to be an illusion one day when she gets to know her neighbor Roger and finally loves her. Simone is afraid of Léandre's outbursts of anger and doesn't really dare to take the decisive step out of the castle. But she is wrong. Léandre Brassac, who has always seen Simone as more of a protective ward than a lover, is happy for the young girl when she one day tells him that she is pregnant by Roger. Because she gives him what he has always longed for in his life: a child! At last he can, if not the role of a father, then take on that of a grandfather. Moreover, this event seems to bring Léandre and Marie Brassac together again.
Production notes
The film Herr auf Schloss Brassac , which in Germany also has the secondary title Also a French Marriage , had its world premiere on September 8, 1965 in Paris. The German premiere took place on November 12, 1965. The German television premiere was on May 30, 1971 on ZDF .
The shooting - “Brassac Castle” recordings - took place at the Château du Bois-Chevalier in Legé near Nantes , among other places .
Ralph Baum was in charge of production and Robert Clavel created the film structures .
useful information
For Lilli Palmer, who in national and international films mostly subscribes to cosmopolitan and elegantly dressed ladies of the upper class, this role was one of her few excursions into the character subject of worn out and neglected wives. In the large Personenlexikon of the film is to the following states: "Every now and then she was allowed to take Dame' image and the stereotype of the smug elegant woman of the world and leave the 'Grande: as such. B. in "Also a French marriage", where she, careworn, shabby and bitter, embodied the dishonorably graying wife of an indifferent and numb Jean Gabins who cheats on his sterile wife with a considerably younger girl ... "
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Léandre Brassac | Jean Gabin | Klaus W. Krause |
| Marie Brassac | Lilli Palmer | herself |
| Simone Leboucher | Michèle Mercier | Uta Hallant |
| Marcel | Robert Hossein | Helmo Kindermann |
criticism
The lexicon of international films saw here a "character comedy tailored entirely to an odd age role for Jean Gabin."
Web links
- Mr. Brassac at Castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lord of Brassac Castle at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 128.
- ↑ Mr. at Brassac Castle in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Lord of Brassac Castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2018 .