Only one woman on board

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Movie
German title Only one woman on board
Original title The Sailor from Gibraltar
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1967
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Tony Richardson
script Christopher Isherwood ,
Don Magner ,
Tony Richardson
production Neil Hartley ,
Oscar Lewenstein
music Antoine Duhamel
camera Raoul Coutard
cut Bill Blunden ,
Antony Gibbs ,
Brian Smedley-Aston
occupation

Only one woman on board (AKA: The Sailor from Gibraltar ) is a British film drama in black and white from the year 1967 of Tony Richardson . The script was written by himself - together with Christopher Isherwood and Don Magner . It is based on the novel The Sailor of Gibraltar by Marguerite Duras . The leading roles are cast with Jeanne Moreau , Ian Bannen , Vanessa Redgrave and Orson Welles . The film was first released on April 24, 1967 in the United States of America. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 19, 1967.

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The English civil servant Alan, almost pathologically dissatisfied with himself and unfulfilled both in life and at work, realizes during his vacation in Italy that he no longer has any deeper feelings with his long-time girlfriend. He unceremoniously stops the girl in a coastal village when he is certain of the attention of another woman, namely the "American" Anna. This - actually a French woman - married the wealthy owner of a yacht as a stewardess, is now widowed and travels restlessly across the seas with her sailor. The motive of her unsteady voyage is the search for one of her frequently changing lovers, a murderer who once fled the Foreign Legion, whom she caught with her ship off Gibraltar and who was not only on board as a sailor for a while. Alan now takes his place for the time being and, together with Anna and the team, follows the meager tracks a young Indian finds. But did the “Sailor of Gibraltar” really ever exist? It seems to be Anna's fantasy, in which she sees all of her unfulfilled wishes and longings embodied. But this question is not answered with absolute certainty in the film.

The film ends with the search through the person of Alans Anna has found fulfillment and real love has blossomed.

Reviews

The Protestant film observer does not have a particularly good opinion of the work: “The long-winded form and vague interpretation destroy any liking for this prominent and ambitiously designed novel. Not recommended for adults either. "The lexicon of international films judges a little more benevolently:" Atmospherically dense film adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras with good acting performances. "

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 234/1967, p. 315.
  2. Lexikon des Internationale Films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2806