In another country (1957)

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Movie
German title In another country
Original title A farewell to arms
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1957
length 152 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Charles Vidor
script Ben Hecht
production David O. Selznick
music Mario Nascimbene
camera Oswald Morris
Piero Portalupi
cut Gerald J. Wilson
John M. Foley
occupation

In another country (Original title: A Farewell to Arms ) is an American film by the director Charles Vidor . The screenplay by Ben Hecht is based on the novel In Another Land ( A Farewell to Arms ) by Ernest Hemingway . The war film was shown for the first time in Germany on March 21, 1958. It is a remake of the film of the same name that Frank Borzage directed in 1932 with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes in the leading roles.

action

Lieutenant Frederic Henry is an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross during the First World War . He returns from a visit to Milan and is transferred to the front with an Italian unit. His friend Dr. Rinaldi, a womanizer, tells him that the English have built a new hospital and that pretty nurses are working there, including the enigmatic Catherine Barkley. Frederic gets to know the grouchy Catherine, who confides in him that she lost her fiancé in the war. She answers Frederic's advances with a slap. But when a thunderstorm approaches, frightened Catherine allows herself to be comforted by Frederic. After a night of love, Frederic confesses his love to her, but Catherine rejects him. As the troops leave town, Catherine tries to find Frederic in the crowd. She finds him and asks him to come back to her.

The ambulances follow the troops through the snow-covered mountain landscape. Two ambulances are destroyed in an attack, Frederic is injured in the knee. He's being taken back to the hospital. He is to be taken to a new American hospital in Milan. Rinaldi arranges for Catherine to be transferred there as well. Frederic is the first patient in the new hospital and is under the special supervision of head nurse Van Campen and the likeable Helen Ferguson. When Catherine arrives, he renews his oath of love. But Catherine knows that she will be recalled as the wife of a soldier from the front and refuses a wedding. Ferguson helps the two to hide their affair from the head nurse.

Frederic learns that Catherine is pregnant and pushes for a wedding. Catherine refuses, but she swears allegiance to him. Van Campen catches Catherine in Frederic's bed and informs the headquarters, which then sends him back to the front. The two spend the last night in a hotel room. At the front, Frederic meets Rinaldi, who has become a broken man through the horror of the war and the many bad wounds. The ambulances were sent to Caporetto . Once there, they find the city destroyed. The people flee in panic, the Italian soldiers hurry to retreat from the Germans. Doctors and paramedics are asked to abandon the patient and withdraw. Frederic asks his friend, Father Galli, to come with him, but he refuses and stays with the patient. The refugees encounter the corpses of soldiers, women and babies. When the ambulance breaks its axle, Rinaldi sets out to get help. But he is captured along with the others. Rinaldi is sentenced to death, but Frederic pleads for his friend's life. When it is realized that Frederic is an American, he jumps into the nearby river and is able to escape.

Frederic takes the clothes off a dead civilian and gets on the train to Milan. When he arrives at Catherine, he explains that he has found his own peace and is tired of war. They decide to Switzerland to escape. They cross the border by boat, have to survive a storm and are almost discovered by a patrol boat. A Swiss police officer, Lieutenant Zimmermann, meets her and takes her to his mother's pension. Six weeks later, Catherine's pregnancy is visible, but she still does not want to marry Frederic so as not to cause a scandal in the village. She goes to Dr. Emerich and laboriously gives birth to a boy. But the boy dies, Frederic sees his death as a punishment for his acts of war. At the hospital he learns that Catherine is bleeding. He prays for her life, but she dies. He swears she will be with him forever and leaves the hospital devastated.

background

The film, partly shot in the Italian Alps, had a budget of approximately 4.3 million US dollars. In 1958 he grossed 25 million US dollars worldwide. It is the last production work by David O. Selznick . Selznick conjured up Hemingway's displeasure because he let a 38-year-old woman play the role of a 21-year-old nurse. He also got into an argument with the original director John Huston and fired him.

Jennifer Jones, the producer's wife, only appeared in four other films after that. Bud Spencer played a minor role as a carabiniere, not mentioned in the credits.

Born in Germany, Alfred Junge was the film's production designer. Andrew Marton was the director of the second unit . Military adviser was Lieutenant Colonel Alessandro Paoletti, medical specialist was Professor Giulio Ferrari.

In 1966, a TV miniseries for British television was made based on Hemingway's novel. George Hamilton and Vanessa Redgrave played the main roles . The director was Rex Tucker.

Richard Attenborough made a third theatrical adaptation of Hemingway's novel in 1996 with In Love and War . Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock can be seen in the leading roles .

Reviews

“From the bitter tragedy of the Hemingway novel of the same name, only visual externalities remain. First and foremost, how successful celebrity cinema is practiced. "

- Lexicon of international film

Award

Academy Awards 1958

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050379/business
  2. ↑ In another country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 4, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used