Morocco (film)

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Movie
German title Morocco
Original title Morocco
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1930
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Josef von Sternberg
script Jules Furthman
production Hector Turnbull
music Karl Hajos
camera Lee Garmes
Lucien Ballard (Assistant)
cut Sam Winston
occupation

Morocco (original, German distribution title 1931: Hearts in Flames ) is an American love drama by director Josef von Sternberg from 1930 with Gary Cooper , Marlene Dietrich and Adolphe Menjou in the leading roles.

action

Amy Jolly arrives in Morocco as a young night club singer . The wealthy gentleman La Bessière already had an eye on her on the crossing and offers his help, which she refuses. She can get an engagement and is enthusiastically celebrated by the audience.

She meets the Foreign Legionnaire Tom Brown. When his adjutant suspects him of infidelity with his wife, Amy can defuse the situation for the time being. Tom promises to desert for her from the Foreign Legion and go away with her, but leaves her and goes to the front. Disappointed, she accepts La Bessière's proposal of marriage.

On the evening of the engagement party, the group returns without Tom and Amy has to assume that he is injured. She hastily leaves the party (with La Bessière, who accompanies her out of love) to desperately look for Tom at the distant troop base. She finally finds him unharmed in a pub with another woman. Tom tries to convince Amy that he doesn't love her. She finds out that this is not the case, and when the legionnaires leave La Bessière with their wives, she follows Tom into the desert.

background

The screenplay by Jules Furthman based on the novel Amy Jolly, the woman from Marrakech by Benno Vigny .

After Der Blaue Engel, director Josef von Sternberg worked again with Marlene Dietrich , who immediately received an Oscar nomination for best leading actress for her first English-language film . The scene in which she was dressed as a man and kissed another woman gave something to talk about. The kiss was justified with the acceptance of a rose, which she then passed on to Gary Cooper . The censors were satisfied with this reasoning.

The premiere took place on November 14, 1930 in the Rivoli Theater , New York, the German premiere on October 9, 1931 in the Gloria-Palast , Berlin. The Paramount film reached German cinemas in 1931 as Hearts in Flames and was banned in 1935. In the 1981 TV version broadcast as Morocco , Gary Cooper got the voice of Gerhard Garbers and Marlene Dietrich that of Karin Eickelbaum .

Reviews

"The brilliantly staged, memorable film thrives on the suggestive atmosphere of great feelings, the effect of which is visible in numerous sophisticated details."

- Lexicon of international film

“The film lives less from its somewhat clichéd and obscene plot than from the atmosphere of a great passion, an unconditional feeling that Sternberg evokes suggestively. The final scene, when Amy follows the marching Foreign Legionnaires and trudges through the desert sand with other women, becomes a real highlight. "

- Reclam's film guide

“With the seductive visual power of a silent film, Sternberg stages his ars combinatoria . He reinvents Marlene; The problem, he writes, was to transform “the little German housewife” into a cabaret singer with a lascivious touch . Tailcoats and top hats become ingredients of femininity when one of the women kisses her in passing. Even in the moments of greatest devotion - the opening of the eyes, the shading of the gaze, a slight turn of the head, the like careless shedding of a negligee - a trembling hint of self-irony remains. "

- Hanns Zischler

Awards

literature

  • Homer Dickens: Gary Cooper and his films (= A Goldmann paperback. 10218 Goldmann Magnum. Citadel film books ). Edited by Joe Hembus . Translated and edited by Robert Fischer. Goldmann, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-442-10218-9 .
  • Norbert Grob : Morocco / Heart in Flames / Morocco. In: Thomas Koebner (Ed.): Classic films. Descriptions and comments = Reclam classic films. Volume 1: 1913-1945. 5th revised and expanded edition. Reclam junior, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-15-030033-9 , pp. 246-251.
  • Donald Spoto: Marlene Dietrich. The great biography. Heyne Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-05922-0 .
  • Benno Vigny : Morocco. Amy Jolly, the woman from Marrakech. Novel. Kittler et al., Leipzig et al. 1931.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marlene Dietrich - actress . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film , Lg. 21, F 3
  2. ↑ Morocco. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Reclams Filmführer, 2.A. 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
  4. ^ Notes on the film in the blurb in the issue of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Cinemathek