Darling (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | favorite |
| Original title | For Love of Ivy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Mann |
| script | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| production |
Joel Glickman , Edgar J. Scherick , Jay Weston |
| music | Quincy Jones |
| camera | Joseph F. Coffey |
| cut | Pat Jaffe |
| occupation | |
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Liebling (Original title: For Love of Ivy ) is an American drama film with comic elements from 1968 by Daniel Mann . The script was written by Robert Alan Aurthur . It is based on a story by the main actor Sidney Poitier . Other leading roles include Abbey Lincoln , Beau Bridges and Nan Martin . The film was first released on July 17, 1968 in the United States. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on February 28, 1969.
action
Ivy lives as a black domestic servant in a household of wealthy white business people. She is fine, but only on the outside. The Ivy family grabs them with intrusive friendliness. The young woman does everything “for them…”, for the whites. She is cruelly left alone. She cannot and does not want to see that you absolutely have to live and die alone. The domestic servant exposes the care of the family as sheer egoism that denies her the right to life and love. So it happens that the alleged care turns into complete lack of understanding and sheer hatred when Ivy tries to win a life of her own. A young, sympathetic black man - initially used as an instrument for this ingenious slavery in a golden cage - tears the threads of feigned love together with Ivy. This gives the two of them honest love and freedom.
Reviews
The Protestant film observer has little to complain about: “The play of the two main actors makes the film an impressive description of an excerpt from the American racial problem, the psychological breakdown of which succeeds, even if the construction of the story has been mixed with some unevenness to increase tension . […] Recommended. ”The lexicon of the international film concludes that the work is a“ partly sentimental, partly thickly comical romance ”.
Awards
Abbey Lincoln and Beau Bridges were nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1969 for their roles . Bridges also came in second for the Laurel Award . Sidney Poitier was named Best Actor at the Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián in 1970. The song For Love of Ivy , composed by Quincy Jones and written by Bob Russell , received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1969 .
Web links
- Favorite in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 107/1969, p. 108.
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2293