Life in the castle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Life in the castle |
| Original title | La Vie de château |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| script | Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Alain Cavalier , Claude Sautet , Daniel Boulanger |
| production | Nicole Stéphane |
| music | Michel Legrand |
| camera | Pierre Lhomme |
| cut | Pierre Gillette |
| occupation | |
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Life in the Castle (Original title: La Vie de château ) is a French comedy film with Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret from 1966.
action
Jérôme, a middle-aged man, lived in 1944 during the German occupation with his mother and young wife Marie in a castle in Normandy . Life together is idyllic, but also a little monotonous. That changes when the Allied invasion is imminent. The French resistance fighter Julien wants to prepare the landing of the Allies on the large estate. In doing so, he also begins to be interested in pretty Marie. The latter soon responded to his advances, especially as she was disappointed by Jérôme's indifference to the German occupiers.
But the German occupation officer Klopstock also wants to conquer Marie for himself. When Jérôme becomes aware of the danger of his rivals for Marie's favor, he finally discovers his own heroism and helps the resistance fighters, with which he wins Marie back for himself.
background
Life in the Castle was the first feature film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau . Before that he had worked as a screenwriter for the directors Louis Malle ( Zazie ) and Philippe de Broca ( Adventure in Rio ). In 1975 he worked again with his leading actress Catherine Deneuve on The Beautiful Wilds .
The Château de Neuville in Gambais served as the location for the exterior shots . Life in the Castle was released in French cinemas on January 25, 1966. In Germany, the film comedy was first shown on television on July 10, 1981.
Reviews
"A largely enjoyable, well-acted comedy with pretty ideas that renounces both animal seriousness and cheap banalization," said the lexicon of international film . The TV magazine Prisma described the film as “[t] he successful directorial debut of Jean-Paul Rappeneau”, which “distinguished itself through its sure instinct for nuanced comedy and bizarre characters”. The director was particularly successful in “developing Catherine Deneuve's comic talent”. The conclusion of Cinema was: "Subtle humor in a magnificent landscape."
For the Protestant film observer it was a "comedy film that tries to give a humorous look at the period of resistance in France and makes fun of both the German and the French with rough jokes". Only towards the end outweighs "national pathos [...] which cancels much of the previous pleasure".
Awards
Leben im Schloß was awarded the Louis Delluc Prize in the Best Film category. In addition, the film received the special jury award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1966, together with The Death of a Bureaucrat by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea .
German version
A German-language dubbed version was created in 1987 for television.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marie | Catherine Deneuve | Helga Trümper |
| Dimanche | Pierre Brasseur | Heinz Engelmann |
| Jérôme | Philippe Noiret | Lambert Hamel |
| Julien | Henri Garcin | Eckart Dux |
| Klopstock | Carlos Thompson | Reinhard Glemnitz |
Web links
- Life in the castle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life in the castle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ^ Protestant film observer . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 278/1966.
- ↑ Life in the castle. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 23, 2020 .