La femme du déserteur
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | La femme du déserteur |
| Country of production | France , Israel |
| original language | French , Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michal Bat-Adam |
| production |
Jacques Kirsner , Marek Rozenbaum |
| music | Alex Cagan |
| camera | Fabio Conversi |
| cut | Rivka Yogev |
| occupation | |
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La Femme du déserteur (German: "Die Frau des Deserteurs") is a French - Israeli film drama with Fanny Ardant from 1991.
action
Nina, a French concert pianist, meets the Israeli computer specialist Ilan, who is on vacation in Paris . They fall in love, get married and move to Israel with their son Gili . Not much later, Ilan was drafted into the Israeli military for compulsory military service, because the situation in the Middle East was getting worse: Saddam Hussein and his Iraqi forces attacked Kuwait ; the second Gulf War is imminent.
After Nina was successfully accepted into the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra , she received a call from the military and learned that her husband was wounded in combat. She rushes to him and finds to her horror that Ilan was injured not by enemy troops but by Israeli soldiers when he tried to illegally leave his post. While Ilan lies wounded in a hospital and in shock is unable to speak, the allegations that he is a deserter turn out to be true.
Despite this revelation, Nina continues to stand by him and tries to understand his motivations. However, their surroundings are increasingly excluding Ilan, but also Nina. When Nina's concert debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is imminent, symbolically to take place on the day of the United Nations ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, social pressure increases immeasurably. Nina leaves Ilan and returns to France with Gili .
background
Actress Fanny Ardant and cameraman Fabio Conversi met in 1988 while filming Margarethe von Trotta's Fear and Love . In 1990 their daughter Baladine was born. Ardant and Conversi split up, but continued to work together, as they did for La Femme du déserteur , including in 2008 for the comedy Hello Goodbye - a decision made out of love , which Conversi produced and in which Ardant played the lead role alongside Gérard Depardieu .
La Femme du déserteur premiered in France on December 20, 1991 . In Germany the film was not released.
Reviews
Chicago Reader's Lisa Alspector found the film "only arouses some sympathy for the disgraced and misunderstood husband and not for the hypocritical, selfish wife whose motives remain unclear at all times."
Web links
- La Femme du déserteur in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ "This 1991 melodrama creates only generic sympathy for the disgraced, misunderstood husband, and none at all for the smarmy, selfish wife, whose motives are ambiguous throughout." Lisa Alspector: The Deserter's Wife . In: Chicago Reader .