Molière (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Molière |
| Original title | Molière |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Laurent Tirard |
| script | Laurent Tirard Grégoire Vigneron |
| production |
Olivier Delbosc Marc Missonnier |
| music | Frédéric Talgorn |
| camera | Gilles Henry |
| cut | Valérie Deseine |
| occupation | |
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Molière is a French costume and period film directed by Laurent Tirard in 2007 . It was shown on television under the title Mr Molière's Love Adventures .
action
After touring the provinces for 13 years, Molière is returning to Paris with his acting troupe. His fame precedes him, as the group is considered incomparable in the game of farce . Molière is supposed to play in front of the royal family, but wants to finally present serious theater. When he tries to say this to the king's brother, he has to realize that he only expects comedic material from him. The additional encounter with an acquaintance from the past who is dying causes Molière to reconsider his attitude towards comedy. He will write a comedy with serious elements. In the evening he sits down and begins to put his own thoughts on paper.
Thirteen years earlier: Molière and his acting troupe are deeply in debt. Her presentation of plays by Corneille is badly received by the public, especially since Molière is a miserable actor in the serious subject. When two debt collectors read out their demands to Molière and his troupe directly on the stage, he ridicules their reading and turns their performance into a farce. The audience is thrilled and the debt collectors are bound to play the comedy. At the end of the performance, Molière is arrested. His father refuses to pay the debt, but Molière is taken from prison by a man he does not know. He is brought by carriage to the wealthy Monsieur Jourdain. He has had Molière observed on stage and needs his help: He has fallen in love with the young marquise Célimène and wants to win over the widow with a piece he wrote himself. Jourdain, however, is neither a writer nor an actor and now wants to enlist Molière's help. Otherwise, Molière would be sent back to prison, so he agreed to the deal. The spicy thing is that Jourdain is married and has several children. In order not to cause a stir, Molière is introduced into the house in the guise of a priest named Tartuffe and as the supposed new tutor for the youngest Jourdain daughter. Jourdain's wife Elmire is not thrilled to suddenly have a clergyman in the house. The otherwise subdued Jourdain, however, got his way.
Molière soon has to explain to Jourdain that his text is bad for Célimène. His own proposal is panned by Jourdain, but Elmire enthusiastically welcomes it, but she does not know who the author is. Jourdain claims it was a young author whom he found good, but who was rejected by Molière. Elmire despises Molière. He faked a letter from the alleged playwright in which he asked Elmire to visit an abandoned ruin. He knows that his text touched her deeply. He meets her veiled, but when he wants to kiss her, she withdraws and pushes a coin into his hand for his work before she leaves. Before Jourdain she claims that Molière is chasing after her. She arranges a seemingly unobserved meeting with Molière, which Jourdain follows hidden under a table. When Molière shows her the coin, she realizes that he was the author of the lines that moved her. She does not expose Molière. He is now secretly starting an affair with Elmire. At the same time he tries to protect Jourdain from harm. He has been robbed of his money for a long time by his supposed friend Comte Dorante, whose title impresses him. Jourdain believes he can get in touch with Célimène through Dorante and has been giving Dorante letters and jewelry to the young woman for a long time. Dorante, however, donates the pieces in his own name, as he is interested in Célimène himself. Jourdain gives Dorante a valuable ring and a letter that Molière wrote for him. Dorante, however, throws the letter away shortly after leaving Jourdain's estate. Molière finds the torn letter and forces Dorante to arrange a meeting for Jourdain and Célimène the next day. Here Jourdain is as submissive as it is awkward and can get Célimène to allow him to perform his piece on another day.
Dorante sees his source of money in danger in the meantime and therefore campaigns for his son to marry Jourdain's eldest daughter Henriette. She loves her music teacher, but he doesn't have a title. Against the daughter's wishes, Jourdain decides to marry Henriette to Dorante's son. Elmire wants to ransom Henriette from Dorante, but she cannot get the 30,000 francs demanded. She also gives up the plan to flee with Molière, whose true identity she has since learned, in favor of her daughter.
Jourdain's play presentation to Célimène turns into a disaster, but Dorante can convince him that his performance was a success. Molière opens Jourdain's eyes by smuggling him, disguised as a woman, under the ladies-in-waiting of Célimènes and himself appearing before her as a marquis. In a sharp-tongued argument with the marquise, it also becomes clear that she found Jourdain's appearance utterly ridiculous. Jourdain reveals himself and exposes Célimène and her vanity. He is furious and wants to break off the engagement between Dorante's son and Henriette, but Dorante warns him of the far-reaching social consequences. When Jourdain comes home early, he hears his wife making love. Before Molière he suspects that his wife has a lover, but Molière indirectly gives him to understand that he himself is this lover. A connection between Elmire and another man could be prevented if the forced engagement of Henriette was broken up. Jourdain agrees to this trade. On the day of the marriage, shortly before the wedding, the dissolved notary Jourdains, Bonnefoy, appears at the party and explains that Jourdain's camps have been burned, so the family is suddenly penniless. Dorante and his son now hastily evade the marriage, and Henriette can marry her music teacher. Molière, in turn, kept his word and left the Jourdain family. He returns to his acting troupe and takes one of Elmire's advice to heart: as a comedian, he will roam the province for the next 13 years, increasing his fame.
He has now returned to Paris, has found Elmire dying and in one night is writing his play Tartuffe , which is based on his experiences with Jourdain. The premiere is a great success, even if Molière is wistful, he put words in the mouths of the young lovers on stage that he and Elmire once spoke.
production
The film shows a mixture of historical background and fictional story. Author-filmmaker Tirard was inspired by the play Six people looking for an author by the Italian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello . He chose the historically guaranteed fact of Molière's financial bankruptcy and the six-month period of which there was no evidence of Molière's stay. For this period Tirard wrote a story that is largely based on the two plays Der Bürger als Edelmann and Der misanthrope.
Molière was filmed in Paris and at Versailles Palace , among others . The Jourdain estate was found in Courances Castle . The film was released in French cinemas on January 31, 2007. It was shown in Swiss cinemas on June 19, 2008 and was released directly on DVD in Germany in October 2009. The film was shown on television in the first of 2010 under the title The Love Adventures of Mr Molière .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Molière | Romain Duris | Philipp Brammer |
| Jourdain | Fabrice Luchini | Frank Röth |
| Dorante | Edouard Baer | Michael Lott |
| Thomas | Gilian Petrovski | Benedikt Gutjan |
| Valere | Gonzague Montuel | Stefan Günther |
criticism
The film service called Molière an "amusing homage to the theater genius, in which the characters make an attractive reference to the staff of the plays Molière."
Cinema called the film a “funny homage to the master” and wrote: “This is how a real Molière comedy gets off the ground - with depth, the courage to be silliness and the relevant staff. A lot of quotations, complex and well played fun, not only for connoisseurs. "
Awards
At the Moscow International Film Festival Laurent Tirard won for Molière the Audience Award; Fabrice Luchini was awarded the Silver Georg for Best Actor. In 2008 the film was nominated for four Césars : Pierre-Jean Larroque for Best Costume , Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron for Best Original Screenplay , Françoise Dupertuis for Best Production Design and Fabrice Luchini for Best Supporting Actor .
Web links
- Molière in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “Moliere” Director Laurent Tirard , indiewire.com
- ^ Laurent Tirard — Molière — 07/10/07, grouchoreviews.com
- ↑ See program.ard.de
- ↑ Molière. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Molière. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de