Nada (1974)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nada |
| Original title | Nada |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| script |
Jean-Patrick Manchette (novel) Claude Chabrol |
| production | André Génovès |
| music | Pierre Jansen |
| camera | Jean Rabier |
| cut | Jacques Gaillard |
| occupation | |
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Nada is a Franco-Italian revolutionary drama directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Fabio Testi, published in 1974 .
action
The group Nada in the film wants to fight the Vietnam War and achieve a revolution based on the Soviet model in France. Following the example of the Red Army Faction and the Brigate Rosse , a communist underground organization is founded. In the course of the film a US ambassador is kidnapped from a brothel. The ambassador should only be released on certain conditions. However, the government only pretends to negotiate with the Nada group and ultimately storms the group's hiding place. All members of the group and the ambassador are killed in the storm.
criticism
"Chabrol's film" Nada ", which is full of mockery and contempt for the French interior minister and the ruling state in general, is a macabre cinema madness. Bitterly comical interludes run alongside frivolous gangster film and ironic political film elements through the entire film, which almost overwhelms the viewer with explosive aesthetic brilliance and virtuosity. "
"Masterful political parable about fanaticism."
"Controversial political parable."
“The film clearly shows left and anti-Gaullist tendencies. Even though he describes the anarchists as rather less than idealistic outsiders, he denounces above all brutal and pseudomoralistic state power. ""
“Clearly, however, Chabrol condemns both sides. These anarchists are frustrated, lonely, broken people: nihilists without the pragmatic, ideologically secured doggedness that Costa Gavras admitted to the assassins in his thematically comparable film ' The Invisible Uprising ' 'I am against violence', says Chabrol, 'the violence of Terrorists, which is sometimes done for noble motives, and the sometimes disproportionate violence of repression. I am against the absurd machinery that leads to escalation on both sides ... 'But analysis, dialectical thinking and psychological motivation were never Chabrol's strong points; he thinks in situations, constellations, with relish and sarcastic arranged sequences of images, in sensual, optical, cinematic categories, 'Nada' spins like a brightly colored comic strip, loaded with tension and action, to the infernal end and also carries away every reflection with it. At the end of the disaster, the bourgeois esthete Chabrol has formal pleasure again: 'A Shakespeare's end - all the main characters of the drama find their death' "
useful information
The film is a novel adaptation of the book Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette .
- Nada ("Nada"). Matthes and Seitz, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-88221-365-2
- Nada ("Nada"). Verlag Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-86615-247-2 .
Web links
- Nada in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegfried Schober: Chabrol's nihilistic revolt . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1974 ( online ).
- ↑ www.cinema.de
- ↑ Nada. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Thurau in Der Terror directs : www.terrorverlag.de
- ↑ Film: "Nada": Chabrol is getting worse and worse. In: zeit.de. June 21, 1974. Retrieved December 15, 2014 .