Passions (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Passions |
| Original title | Interno Berlinese |
| Country of production | Italy , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Liliana Cavani |
| script | Liliana Cavania, Roberta Mazzoni |
| production |
Yoram Globus , Menahem Golan |
| music | Pino Donaggio |
| camera | Dante Spinotti |
| cut | Michael J. Duthie |
| occupation | |
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Passions (it. Interno Berlinese , English. The Berlin Affair ) is a German-Italian drama from 1985. The director was Liliana Cavani . The plot is based on the novella Quicksand (Manji) by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō from the years 1928-1930.
action
The film describes how an intimate love affair developed between Louise von Hollendorf, the attractive wife of a German diplomat, and Mitsuko Matsugae, the daughter of the Japanese ambassador, in Berlin in 1938. When Louise's husband learns of the affair, he first tries to end it, but eventually falls in love with Mitsuko himself. The affair between the two women develops into a ménage à trois, eaten up by jealousy and passion. When the story threatens to leak to the public, the three try to commit suicide together. Louise survives and writes the story down.
publication
The film premiered in Germany at the 1986 Berlinale .
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote that "[t] he themes of sexuality and fascism [...] would be given away in a superficial staging" . In addition, "neither the story of an obsessive love nor the emotional worlds of his characters are convincingly conveyed".
literature
- Gaetana Marrone: The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000, ISBN 0-691-00873-6 .
Web links
- Passions in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Passions in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed May 31, 2012