Marie, a Hungarian legend
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Marie, a Hungarian legend |
| Original title | Marie, legendary hongroise Tavaszi zápor |
| Country of production |
Hungary France |
| original language | French , Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 75, 66 (new version 2019) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pál Fejős |
| script |
Illona Fülop Pál Fejős |
| production | Les Films Osso |
| music |
György Ranki Lászlo Angyal Vincent Scotto |
| camera |
István Eiben J. Peverell Marley |
| cut | Lothar Wolff |
| occupation | |
| |
Marie, a Hungarian legend is a religiously decorated, Hungarian-French film drama by Pál Fejős from 1932. The French Annabella played the leading and title role.
action
Somewhere in the Hungarian province. One day the 17-year-old farmer girl Maria, who earns her living as a maid, is seduced and made pregnant by a wealthy and irresponsible farmer. When he found out that his child was about to be born, he refused to marry and disowned Marie, who then left her home village. Marie wanders around Hungary and only finds shelter in a disreputable house in Budapest, a cabaret bar. Here she can earn a little money as a waitress and there she also gives birth to her baby, a girl. When Marie once passed out at work, it was the most disreputable among the disreputable, prostitutes, who took care of her.
One day Marie feels homesick for her village home, and she packs her seven things and returns home with her child. When she comes to Budapest again, Marie is also torn from the authorities the only thing left, the beloved child, because of a scandalous report from a former employer. The state believes that the girl cannot grow up sheltered in such a dissolute environment in which Marie lives and works. Now Marie is finally down mentally. She begins a hiking life again and yet doesn't really feel at home anywhere. Shaken by life, she begins to drink in a tavern. In this state she reaches her home town, drags herself to the village church and curses the Virgin Mary in her emotional pain. Finally she dies there in front of the image of Mary. Then she ascends to heavenly heights. In heaven she feels the same as on earth: Marie has to toil and scrub floors, but everything here is made of pure gold.
The years pass, Marie's little child has become a young woman. Marie's daughter arrives in front of the same tree where Marie met her seducer and where all of her life's misery began and listens to another young man's rasp of licorice. Marie looks down from heaven with great concern and feels that she absolutely has to intervene in order to spare her daughter similar misery. Without further ado, she lets buckets of water rain down. The rain patters down like a heavy shower, so that the young woman immediately seeks space and finds shelter in a house. From now on, Marie's daughter can be sure of heavenly protection.
Production notes
Marie, a Hungarian legend , was written on location in Hungary in 1932 and premiered in Hungary on November 4, 1932. The French premiere took place on February 17, 1933. The film opened in Austria in April 1933 under the title Marie .
The film structures are by Serge Piménoff . Ferenc Lohr took care of the sound .
criticism
On the occasion of the Austrian premiere in the spring of 1933, the Österreichische Film-Zeitung wrote: “Annabella's delicate art of representation, reflecting every emotion of the soul, touches the expression of perfect innocence and the non-understanding of human hardship in a moving way. Fejos has created a film full of accurately observed, lively details around the artist, which is characterized by the beauty of the recording. "
In the large Personenlexikon the film following was in the biography of Fejos to read: In Hungary "he succeeded with the sensitively told and especially occupied with the French Annabella story of the seduced and from the native village to the city displaced peasant girl" Marie " That is the film title of the same name, a lyrical and atmospheric legend from rural Hungary. Fejos described his Hungarian homeland with a great sense of flair and underlined his love for the beauty of the Pusz Valley landscape with each picture. "Marie" was celebrated abroad as a directorial masterpiece. "The same work also praised the pictures of the Hollywood film cameraman J. Peverell Marleys in his biography:" For two films by the director Pal (Paul) Fejos, "Marie" and "People in the Storm", he created u. a. enchantingly beautiful, timelessly poetic landscape shots in the Puszta. "
On Viennale.at you can read: “Fejos is filming an old Hungarian legend, a story of peculiar April showers that mothers evoke from paradise in order to protect the virtues of girls. Fejos interweaves the levels of reality in this work. He filmed the fable with a touch of surrealism and anchored the story in a close observation of village life. (…) Little is said, the progress of the action is left to faces, gestures, the changing of the light and the physiognomy of the Hungarian province. Fejos tries to connect with the internationality of the silent film. The story is simple and moving. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Marie". In: Österreichische Film-Zeitung , April 1, 1933, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films, Volume 2, p. 636. Berlin 2001
- ↑ ibid. Volume 5, p. 283
- ↑ Marie on viennale.at
Web links
- Marie, a Hungarian legend in the Internet Movie Database (English)