Never love a stranger
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Never love a stranger |
| Original title | The Rain People |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| script | Francis Ford Coppola |
| production |
Bart Patton Ronald Colby |
| music | Ronald Stein |
| camera | Wilmer C. Butler |
| cut | Blackie Malkin |
| occupation | |
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Never love a stranger (Original title: The Rain People ) is an American film by Francis Ford Coppola from 1968. The director and friend Coppola's George Lucas helped him with this film. "Never Love a Stranger" won the 1969 "Golden Shell" award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in America. The German-language premiere took place on November 28, 1969.
action
Mentally stressed housewife Natalie leaves her Long Island home and husband when she finds out she is pregnant. She escapes from her previous life in the hope that she can make something better of it. On her escape, she meets the minimally mentally handicapped hitchhiker and football player Jimmie, who has a metal plate in his head because of a football accident, and takes him with her. With their friendship, their willingness to take on the duties and responsibilities of unwanted coming motherhood also grows. In the end, the question remains whether she should go back to her husband and family or stay with the hitchhiker she has come to love. The story becomes more complicated when Natalie starts something with the friendly but lonely gas station attendant.
criticism
- “Quasi a female variant of“ Easy Rider ”: Francis Ford Coppola staged this quiet social drama from the New Hollywood era with excellent actors - above all the wonderful Shirley Knight and James Caan. Numerous flashbacks illustrate the dreary everyday life from which the main character begins to flee, and especially in the first part, Coppola's sensitive staging is convincing. ”- Kino.de
- “A man of innocent disposition - he is like a child who is constantly absorbed in the feeling of the moment. Killer also tells Natalie about the rain people who dissolve while crying ... Coppola's first masterpiece dedicated to the shimmer of the rain: New Hollywood through and through, created with a minimal crew on a four-month trip through the USA; shot from a mobile home, half according to the script, half improvised, in long shots, through which the time passes that is becoming more and more meaningless for Natalie and Killer. ”- Film.at
Web links
- Rain People in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at cinema.de
- Never love a stranger on moviepilot
literature
- Bernd Kiefer: Never love a stranger Francis Ford Coppola . In: Thomas Koebner (ed.); Page. 149-152, here 149.
- [Munzinger archive]