Lucrezia Borgia (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Lucrezia Borgia |
| Original title | Lucrèce Borgia |
| Country of production |
Italy France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian-Jaque |
| script |
Jacques Sigurd Christian-Jaque Cécil Saint-Laurent |
| production |
Alexandre Mnouchkine Francis Cosne Georges Dancigers |
| music | Maurice Thiriet |
| camera | Christian Matras |
| cut | Jacques Desagneaux |
| occupation | |
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Lucrezia Borgia (original title: Lucrèce Borgia ) is an Italian-French feature film from 1953 by Christian-Jaque . The leading roles are cast with Martine Carol , Pedro Armendáriz and Massimo Serato . The director wrote the script together with Jacques Sigurd and Cécil Saint-Laurent . The latter is also responsible for the novel of the same name on which the script is based. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the film was shown for the first time on November 27, 1953.
action
Italy in the early 16th century. According to the wishes of her brother Cesare Borgia , the tyrant of Rome, his sister Lucrezia is to marry the Duke of Aragon tomorrow , although she has never seen this man. In order to enjoy life to the full beforehand, she throws herself into the Roman carnival and spends a lavish night of love with a strange nobleman. The next day she was taken to her future husband in Castel Sant'Angelo . She is surprised to find that this was her nocturnal lover. But it is the same with him; only he believes that his future wife is a whore.
Cesare Borgia's marriage only served to consolidate his power. He has no idea what is going on in the two people. Lucrezia adores her husband. But he cannot understand how such a beautiful woman can be so depraved. Lucrezia soon senses that the man she loves will slip away from her if she does not reveal herself ruthlessly to him. She hesitantly tells him how she married Giovanni Sforza , how he cheated on her, how she managed, according to Cesare's will, to get consent to the divorce by lying before the Pope. Lucrezia also does not hide the fact that she sought and found diversion in her grief through numerous orgies . Alfonso realizes that for a long time his wife was just a willless tool of her power-hungry brother. But he has only one interest: to unite all of Italy under his rule. Aragon stands in the way of his plans. So it has to be eliminated. Hypocritically, he lets him hand over a poisoned glove. Fortunately for him, however, a dog tears the glove away from him. Shortly thereafter, the animal suffers a painful death. Lucrezia suspects who is behind the attack. She advises her husband to flee.
Cesare has the fleeing man pursued by hunters. They succeed in confronting the duke. When he starts to flee again, they shoot their arrows at him. Lucrezia comes to the wounded man's camp. But he pushes her back because he no longer trusts her. Lucrezia is boiling with anger. She doesn't want to grant her brother this triumph! For the first time she protests against him. She lunges at him with a dagger in hand. But Cesare manages to fend off the sting. - Lucrezia staggers into her rooms with a numb feeling.
Once again as her brother's compliant tool, Lucrezia approaches a new marriage alliance in the big game of politics.
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: “With a lot of money, Christian-Jaques can stage expensive films in a spectacular and booming manner if you ask him to. Even when tailoring the history, he doesn't take it too seriously, if only plenty of bare skin remains for the Technicolor camera. "
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lucrezia Borgia | Martine Carol | Marion Degler |
| Cesare Borgia | Pedro Armendáriz | Ullrich Haupt |
| Duke of Aragon | Massimo Serato | Ernst Kuhr |
| Julie Farneze | Valentine Tessier | Paula Lepa |
| magician | Louis Seigner | Kurt Meister |
| Micheletto | Arnoldo Foa | Alfred C. Werner |
| notary | Howard Vernon | Jürgen Goslar |
source
Program for the film: The New Film Program , published by H. Klemmer & Co., Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, without a number
Web links
- Lucrezia Borgia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Description of the film on moviepilot.de
- Pictures from the film on cinema.de
- The film in Italian on youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2333.