Everyone will receive his reward ...

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Movie
German title Everyone will receive his reward ...
Original title Les Us et les Autres
Country of production France
original language French , English , German , Russian
Publishing year 1981
length 184 minutes / 360 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Claude Lelouch
script Claude Lelouch
production Claude Lelouch
music Francis Lai ,
Michel Legrand
camera Jean Boffety
cut Sophie Bhaud ,
Hugues Darmois
occupation
synchronization

Everyone will receive their wages ... (Original title: Les Uns et les Autres ) is a French feature film by Claude Lelouch from 1981, which was broadcast two years later as a six-part television film , almost twice as long .

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It tells the fate of four families from different countries between 1936 and 1980, whose lives in New York , Paris , Moscow and Berlin are determined and shaped by their love for music:

After the Moscow ballet dancer Tatiana lost a competition in 1936 with which she wanted to become the prima ballerina of the State Ballet, she married the cultural representative Boris Itovitch. When the Second World War broke out, Boris had to join the military. However, before he goes to the front and dies there, he and Tatiana father a son named Sergei.

In Paris, the young violinist Anne falls in love with the pianist Simon Meyer. They get married and eventually work together in the famous Folies Bergère variety theater . However, your happiness is short-lived. After France was occupied by the German Wehrmacht , they were arrested as Jews and deported to a concentration camp by the Nazis . They can save their son by leaving him with a message.

The celebrated German concert pianist Karl Kremer also played for Adolf Hitler in 1938 . In 1940 he was stationed as a simple soldier in occupied France. His only son dies in a gun battle.

Jazz band leader Jack Glenn is celebrating great success in New York. After the war he brought the swing to liberated Paris, while his wife Suzan died in an accident. Their daughter Sara becomes a singer like her mother, her brother Jason becomes a film director who supports Sara in her career.

Karl Kremer gives a concert in New York after the war. Due to his political connections in the Third Reich , the audience stays away. Sergei, the Russian couple's son, meanwhile, becomes a great ballet star seeking political asylum in the United States . Anne, who survived the Holocaust , is still looking for her son in the 1960s, who served as Robert Prat in the Algerian war , has now become a lawyer and wonders where his son Patrick got his musical talent.

The children and grandchildren of the three couples met in 1980 at a charity event sponsored by the Red Cross . This takes place in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and is broadcast on television around the world. Sergei dances to Ravel's Boléro , Sara sings with Anne's grandson Patrick, who has since become a rock 'n' roll star, while the aging Karl conducts the orchestra.

background

For his homage to music and dance as universal languages ​​of hope and community, filmmaker Claude Lelouch was inspired by artists such as Édith Piaf , Herbert von Karajan , Glenn Miller and Rudolf Nurejew when choosing his characters . The film was shot on location in New York City and at the Eiffel Tower in Paris , among others .

On May 27, 1981, Everyone Will Receive His Wages ... was shown in a 184-minute version in French cinemas. The production was the sixth successful film of the year in France with 3,234,549 viewers. A year later the film was released in a shortened version under the title Bolero in the US cinemas. On September 30, 1983, a 360-minute version in six parts was shown on the French television station TF1 . In Germany, the series was first broadcast on television on June 19, 1985.

Reviews

The US trade journal Variety judged Lelouch's film harshly and described Lelouch's film as a “superficial album of intersecting fates” that offered “clumsy, harmless and greasy history in miniature view”.

The lexicon of international films stated: “Especially in the 185-minute theatrical version, however, the music appears as mere filling material for the dry spells of an overly long melodrama in which the horrors of war serve as a thrill.” The “six-hour television version published in Germany "Differs in that" the subject of music as a metaphor for a common language as well as a form of expression and communication is developed far more grippy, without the film growing beyond the claim of quality entertainment ". The only positive conclusion was: "The unconventional, very personal epilogue of the director alone is fascinating."

Jay S. Steinberg of Turner Classic Movies pointed out in his "Home Video Review" that the film suffered from "a rather clumsy construction". It is true that "the camera work was always handled with a sure instinct" and "Lelouch's deep love for the songs, the dance and the artists" is evident, but everyone will receive their reward ... through "the erratic narrative, the multiple roles and its sheer length [... ] not for casual viewing ”.

Awards

At the 1982 César Awards , the film was nominated for the César in the categories of Best Film , Best Editing , Best Film Music and Best Sound (Harald Maury) , but was subject to competition. At the Cannes International Film Festival , Lelouch's film received the Prix ​​Vulcain de l'artiste technicien for the best sound and also took part in the competition for the Palme d'Or . Furthermore, Everyone Will Get Their Rewards… a nomination for the Japanese Academy Award for Best Foreign Film .

German version

The German dubbed version was created in 1985 for the first broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk .

role actor Voice actor
Simon Meyer / Robert Prat Robert Hossein Harald Leipnitz
Anne Meyer Nicole Garcia Marianne Gross
Karl Kremer Daniel Olbrychski Wolfgang Condrus
Evelyne / Edith Évelyne Bouix Susanna Bonaséwicz
Véronique Fanny Ardant Gisela Fritsch
M. Raymond Raymond Pellegrin Joachim Nottke
Director of the Lido Jean-Claude Brialy Lutz Riedel
Richard Richard Bohringer Joachim Kerzel
Jack Glenn / Jason Glenn James Caan Jürgen Kluckert
Jacques Jacques Villeret Engelbert von Nordhausen
Edith's grandfather Paul Préboist Klaus Miedel

literature

Soundtrack

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "This surface album of criss-crossed destinies is heavy-footed, innocent, syrupy thumbnail history." Cf. Review: 'Les Uns et Les Autres' . In: Variety , 1981.
  2. ↑ Everyone will receive their wages ... In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed November 11, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ "It's a fairly unwieldy dramatic construction [...]. The camerawork is handled with flair throughout, and Lelouch's affection for song, dance, and their practitioners is patently deep. Between the narrative leaps, the multiple roles, and its sheer length, Les Uns et les Autres doesn't lend itself to a casual viewing. "Jay S. Steinberg, cf. tcm.com
  4. ↑ Everyone will receive their wages ... In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 24, 2019 .