Poetic Realism (film)

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The Poetic Realism was a period mainly of French cinema of the 1930s and 1940s years. Driven by the urge for more realism and social criticism , he often shows the gloomy everyday world of folk heroes and the futility of love.

Origin, features

Poetic Realism emerged under the influence of the economic crisis at the beginning of the 1930s. Some young directors such as Marcel Carné , Julien Duvivier and Jean Renoir , who were no longer unknowns, consciously turned their backs on the French avant-garde around 1935 . Her films were characterized by “preferring the darker sides of life, sympathy for the disadvantaged, attentiveness to social problems, especially the conflict between the individual and society [and] situating people in a specific milieu. Some films from this school, namely the Carnés, revealed an insurmountable pessimistic attitude towards life ”.

The collaboration of the directors with the scriptwriters Jacques Prévert and Charles Spaak , the camera by Eugen Schüfftan and Alexandre Trauner for the sets were important for the development . Poetic realism had its own stars like Jean Gabin , Louis Jouvet and Michèle Morgan .

Important directors and important films

Influences

The term 'Poetic Realism' was later coined by the film historian Georges Sadoul . The film era particularly influenced Italian neorealism and film noir .

literature

  • Beate Raabe: Explicity and tranquility. The French storytelling cinema of the thirties , MakS publications, Münster 1992, ISBN 978-3888115493

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lexicon of Film Terms: "poetischer Realismus" , edited by Hans Jürgen Wulff , Institute for Modern German Literature and Media at Kiel University
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Gregor , Enno Patalas : History of the film (1973)
  3. ↑ cf. Ballinger and Graydon: (2007), p. 13 f.