Peppermint Frappe

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Movie
German title Peppermint Frappe
Original title Peppermint frappé
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 1967
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Carlos Saura
script Rafael Azcona ,
Angelino Fons ,
Carlos Saura
production Elías Querejeta
music Luis de Pablo ,
Teddy Bautista
camera Luis Cuadrado
cut Pablo G. del Amo
occupation
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Peppermint Frappe (original title: Peppermint Frappé ) is a Spanish film drama from 1967 by Carlos Saura , who - together with Rafael Azcona and Angelino Fons - wrote the screenplay. The main roles are Geraldine Chaplin (in a double role), José Luis López Vázquez , Alfredo Mayo and Emiliano Redondo . The work had its world premiere on October 9, 1967 in Madrid. In the Federal Republic of Germany it had its premiere on May 6, 1969 in the program of the ARD .

action

The Spanish provincial cities are the haven of religiously bound traditions and an uptight middle class. Julian, the doctor, is also a victim of this intellectual narrowness. No longer young, but unmarried, he rages on his sexual desire by cutting out pictures of girls in magazines - a frustrated voyeur since childhood, when he secretly observed women bathing. When he meets the young wife of his friend Pablo, he believes that he has found the fulfillment of his dreams in her. From then on, he identifies Elena with the girl he once admired during the ritual drum procession in Calanda . Julian is really obsessed with capturing Elena's devotional dance in the park for himself on camera. When the beautiful woman only met ridicule and incomprehension, he poisoned - out of envy and unfulfilled love - not only her, but also his friend Pablo with a “ Peppermint Frappe ” cocktail and left the two of them in their car into a ravine fall.

It doesn't take long before Pablo finds a replacement for Elena: his somewhat shy office assistant Ana, whom he transforms into a second Elena - with the help of false eyelashes that he sticks onto her himself, fishnet stockings and a blonde wig. Everywhere the repressed, unfulfilled sexual desire of the man becomes painfully clear in his substitute actions.

Awards

At the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival , Carlos Saura was awarded the Silver Bear for best director.

Reviews

The evangelical film observer draws the following conclusion: “Using the example of the sexually uptight provincial doctor Julian, who turns into a murderer out of envy and unfulfilled love, Saura paints the picture of a society oppressed by conventions and traditions, the frustrated Spanish bourgeoisie. A film worth seeing, and it is not without reason that it is dedicated to Luis Bunuel. ”The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that the work was“ staged with excellent cinematic means ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Critique No. 212/1969, p. 209.
  2. ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 from 1988, p. 2922.