Love and violence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love and violence |
| Original title | L'Amour braque |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrzej Żuławski |
| script | Andrzej Żuławski, Etienne Roda-Gil |
| production |
Antoine Gannagé , Alain Sarde |
| music | Stanislaw Syrewicz |
| camera | Jean-François Robin |
| cut | Marie-Sophie Dubus |
| occupation | |
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Love and violence (Original title: L'Amour braque ) is a French drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski from 1985 with Sophie Marceau and Francis Huster .
action
After a successful bank robbery, Micky travels back to Paris with his gangster brothers from Budapest . On the train, he meets the mentally less fortunate Léon, who has just been released from a mental hospital and claims to be the descendant of a Hungarian prince. In the French capital, Léon hopes to find his relatives. Arrived in Paris, Micky wants to take revenge on the Venin brothers who brought his girl, the 16-year-old prostitute Marie, into their power. Although he does not understand the situation, Léon follows Micky and his men to the whereabouts of the Venin brothers and falls in love with Marie at first sight when she opens the door for them. Micky and his armed men storm the room and take Marie with them. Before they leave, Mickey throws two grenades at the Venin brothers. However, these can get to safety from detonation.
Then Micky, Marie, Léon and the others celebrate in a bar. Soon another gang arrives there, led by Micky's father. This wants to bring Micky down. Micky beats his father and shoots him. More men from the rival gang appear in front of the bar. Marie and Léon escape them and find shelter in an apartment. They take off their clothes, which have become wet from the rain, and lie down on a bed. When Marie orally pleases the sexually inexperienced Léon, he breaks off her efforts because he thinks he is bleeding. The next morning, Léon wakes up alone. Marie calls him and tells him that Micky survived. Léon should better leave now. He finally goes to see his aunt. Her daughter Aglaé is also a prostitute, who also tries to become a theater actress. Léon is temporarily housed in the brothel, where Aglaé prepares to seduce him. One evening Léon saw Marie in the house across from a window. He walks over and finds her again with the Venin brothers. On their escape, Léon and Marie are followed into the back yard by one of the Venin brothers, where Micky shoots him.
Léon is then questioned by a detective who has been watching the gangster gangs for a long time and who is worried about Marie. The Baron, one of Mickey's men, then leads Léon to Mickey's hiding place. Together they set out to kill the three Venin brothers who are still alive. After Micky and his men kill two Venin brothers and Marie offers Micky her body as a thank you on the street, Léon has a fit and runs away. Aglaé finally shows him the theater in which she appears. Léon watches her rehearse from the rows of seats. Suddenly Marie appears and tells him that she loves him. They retire to a cloakroom, where Marie ties Léon to a chair and puts make-up on his face. With the chair by his legs, Marie pushes him onto a bed and sits down on him. However, Aglaé interrupts her lovemaking. Léon and Marie then take the train to the mountains. In a mountain hut where Marie spent the holidays with her parents as a child, they enjoy a few quiet days for two. Marie comes to the realization that her life is not predictable and meaningful like in a film or book, but is dominated by chaos and pain.
Micky finally tracks her down and brings Marie back to Paris. Léon and Marie meet again at a theater performance of Chekhov's The Seagull . After a break, Marie Aglaé takes on the role and begins to cry. The last remaining Venin brother, Simon, is also on the stage, which Micky eventually also enters. Simon leaves the theater with Aglaé and Léon and drives them into a parking garage. However, Mickey and his men followed them. After Micky shot Simon, he, his men, Marie and Léon go to the Venin brothers' house, where they watch a video tape on a screen. You can see Marie's mother being abused and set on fire by the Venin brothers and then jumping out of a window in front of Marie's eyes.
When the inspector arrests a suitor Aglaés and shoots him in his car, it turns out that the inspector is Marie's father. Meanwhile, Léon goes to Mickey's hiding place, where Marie, wrapped in a white sheet, sits bleeding on a chair. Micky sticks a knife into her chest in front of Léon's eyes. A gang of gangsters suddenly appears on the street who want to make Mickey an offer. Micky reaches for his gun and shoots the gang, who return fire and kill him. Léon sees himself in a trance on the train with the deceased, including Marie, who advises him to disappear. Léon finally returns to the theater - to Aglaé's relief. Finally, he is sitting on a chair on a railroad track that crosses another track within his range of vision.
background
The film was inspired by the Dostoevsky novel The Idiot and dedicated as a homage to the Russian writer in the credits. The shooting took place in Paris . Director Andrzej Żuławski had previously made the film The Public Woman (1984) with leading actor Francis Huster . From then on, Żuławski lived with Sophie Marceau for many years and made three more films with her: My nights are more beautiful than your days (1989), Blue Note (1991) and The Faithfulness of Women (2000).
Love and Violence premiered in France on February 27, 1985. Around 533,000 viewers saw the film in French cinemas. After Sophie Marceau had become a celebrated young star in her homeland with the hugely successful teenage comedy La Boum - Die Fete (1980), the French audience was shocked by her revealing scenes as a femme fatale in love and violence . About her image change, Marceau said: “Andrzej discovered my sex. Since then I have loved seducing men. ”In Germany, the film was first shown on TV on October 9, 1993 on RTL II .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , love and violence was a "hectic, sometimes unbearably hysterical adaptation that has washed away all philosophical waters and sells chaos as a worldview". According to Yuri German of the All Movie Guide , "the wild pace of the action seen in the film [...] is the same as a journey through hell on a train". “In order to convey the craziness of its time to the audience”, “the colors and sounds got out of control” and it was bursting with violence.
Awards
In 1986 love and violence was nominated for the prize of the Fantasporto film festival as best fantasy film, but was defeated by the Spanish film Fuego eterno .
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1993 at Johannisthal Synchron in Berlin .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marie | Sophie Marceau | Irina Wanka |
| Léon | Francis Huster | Gerald Schaale |
| Mickey | Tchéky Karyo | Jens-Uwe Bogadtke |
| Aglaé | Christiane Jean | Heidrun Bartholomäus |
| Simon Venin | Jean-Marc Bory | Gerhard Paul |
| Gang boss | Said Amadis | Martin Seifert |
| Commissioner | Roland Dubillard | Walter Niklaus |
| Gilbert Venin | Ged Marlon | Michael Telloke |
| baron | Serge Spira | Rolf Römer |
| Pluto | Harry Cleven | Helmut Geffke |
| Claude Venin | Bernard Freyd | Hans-Joachim Hanisch |
| Picsou | Jacques Gallo | Helmut Schellhardt |
| Nestor | Raoul Guylad | Hasso Zorn |
| Donald | Jean-François Soubielle | Walter Jackel |
| Matalon | Vladimir Yordanoff | Ernst Meincke |
Web links
- Love and violence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. jpbox-office.com
- ↑ Eric Stahl: Sophie's World . In: Cinema , October 1995.
- ↑ Love and violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ “The frantic pace of the film's action can be compared to that of a runaway, hell-bound train. The colors and sounds go out of control, and violence abounds - all of which is intended to convey to a viewer the craziness of the time. " Yuri German: L'Amour braque on allemovie.com
- ↑ Love and violence. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on February 25, 2020 .