Le Sauveur

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Movie
Original title Le Sauveur
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1971
length 93 minutes
Rod
Director Michel Mardore
script Michel Mardore
production Michel Mardore
music Pierre Jansen
camera William Lubtchansky
cut Françoise Bonnot
occupation

Le Sauveur (in German: Der Retter ) is a French film drama by Michel Mardore about trust and betrayal with Horst Buchholz and the debutante Muriel Catala in the leading roles. The then 18-year-old up-and-coming artist played "a 14-year-old country girl who hid a mysterious stranger (Horst Buchholz) from the Germans in 1943, who allegedly came from England, and who developed the first tender feelings for him over the course of the time together." The director also wrote the novel and the script.

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France, at the time of German occupation during World War II . The teenage girl Nanette lives with her parents in the country and is a dear, sweet, young girl, open-hearted and undisguised towards everyone, an inexperienced teenager, maybe a little naive, very dreamy and looking for the "great love". One day she discovers a young, wounded man who calls himself Claude and who claims that he is a shot down English soldier. The lonely girl here is quickly fascinated by the mysterious stranger who not only promises adventure and the big wide world, but also exudes great attraction to Nanette as a man. And so, despite all the possible dangers, she is immediately ready to help the alleged British. In order not to let “Claude” fall into the hands of the Germans or the Pétain followers, who also include her parents, Nanette helps the young man up and hides him in the attic of her parents' farm. Inflamed in her feelings for "Claude", Nanette spends every free minute with him. Both sunbathe completely naked in the great outdoors, but no matter how hard Nanette tries to seduce him - “Claude” ultimately remains steadfast.

The days together just fly by and almost suggest that you are in the deepest peace. One day “Claude” made contact with the local Resistance through an intermediary, old Monsieur Flouret . Nanette, who has developed a deep trust in the alleged and somewhat older Englishman, is very angry that this is now rare for her and denounces the "enemy Englishman" to the French police militia, which is subservient to the Nazis. When she wants to arrest the alleged Claude, that young man suddenly stands in front of them in the uniform of an SS officer. Nanette is stunned to learn that the fake Englishman, who is actually a German, had only used her infatuation and naivety to get to the remaining Resistance fighters of the local Maquis through her. In order to complete the humiliation of Nanette, the SS man orders that the villagers all assemble and orders Nanette to give the order to shoot them. In tears, the girl collapses. Now Nanette has really lost her innocence. Twenty years later, the nameless German visits the site of his crime. A woman aged prematurely and mourned recognizes him and takes revenge on the war criminal.

Production notes

Le Sauveur was created in the summer of 1970 in or near Ully-Saint-Georges and opened on September 1, 1971. The film was not shown in Germany.

Muriel Catala was selected for this role in 1969 and received the young talent award 'Révélation' 71 '(discovery 1971) after the premiere.

useful information

The Buchholz role was actually supposed to be played by Jean-Pierre Mocky .

The story of the massacre of an entire village was inspired by the events in Oradour-sur-Glane (1944).

Reviews

The film's large lexicon of people praised Muriel Catala's "amazingly mature performance".

This film reminded Samuel Douhaire of the works of Claude Chabrol "in its best moments" .

Éric Senabre found that “Le Sauveur” describes “the corruptibility of innocence which defies all temporal limits” and summed up: “A brilliant, powerfully original work”

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kay Less : Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films, Volume 2, p. 20. Berlin 2001
  2. ^ La Liberation, April 15, 2005
  3. ↑ Home Cinéma, December / January issue. 2004/05

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