Price of desire
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Price of desire |
| Original title | Sotto falso nome |
| Country of production |
France Switzerland Italy |
| original language |
Italian French Polish |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roberto Andò |
| script | Roberto Andò Salvatore Marcarelli |
| production |
Fabrizio Chiesa Fabrizio Mosca |
| music | Ludovico Einaudi |
| camera | Maurizio Calvesi |
| cut | Claudio Di Mauro |
| occupation | |
| |
Price of Desire is a film drama by Roberto Andò from 2004. It was made in a Franco-Swiss-Italian co-production.
action
Serge Novak is considered a great stranger to the literary scene. Nobody knows his real name, but Novak had his breakthrough in 1978 with his novel Die Winterreise and since then has continued to write the story of the main character Laszlo in numerous successful novels. Only his publisher knows that Serge Novak is Daniel Boltinski. Daniel is married to the Italian Nicoletta and has a stepson, Fabrizio, with whom the relationship is strained. As a writer, Daniel lives very withdrawn and often far removed from his family, but has numerous love affairs with significantly younger women. One day Daniel is on his way to Fabrizio's wedding in Italy. On the boat trip to Naples he meets a young woman who flirts with him and with whom he spends the night. He doesn't see her again until the next morning at the wedding: it's Mila, the newly wedded wife of his stepson. Daniel immediately suspects that Mila is playing the wrong game, but Mila continues to ensnare him even after his honeymoon. Initially not interested in a continuation of the affair, Daniel finally falls for Mila's charms. When she organizes a secret meeting place in a remote house of her friend Ewa and invites him, he follows her and they sleep together.
One day Daniel receives an envelope with photos that show him in clear poses with Mila. He returns to the house and finds, among other things, a photo of his school friend Paul, who committed suicide at the age of 20. Mila tells him that Ewa's parents can be seen in the photo. Daniel now believes that Ewa wants to blackmail him with his past, which he never talks about. In another letter, which Daniel can just catch before his wife opens it, Ewa finally demands five million francs for hush money, because Daniel once stole Paul's novel Die Winterreise and passed it off as his work. He learns from Mila that Ewa has returned to Krakow and finds out her address. Here he meets a woman who tells him that Ewa's parents lived in the apartment - Nina and Andrzej, whom Ewa had always taken to be her father, even if in reality an author was supposed to have been Ewa's father.
Daniel travels on to his friend Paul's house, which is now empty and for sale. The manager tells him again about the death of the young writer who came to Poland to research the history of his family, but then committed suicide. Daniel visits the grave of his friend Paul. He also hires a private detective to investigate Mila and Ewa. Back at his family's house on Lake Geneva, reporters lie in wait for him who want to know whether the rumors are true: that Serge Novak is really him and that he, in turn, only adopted his first successful novel from another writer. Daniel reacts aggressively, but shakes off his wife Nicoletta. She only learns by chance that Daniel is being blackmailed and having an affair with Mila. Daniel decides to end the affair with Mila and admit to the press that he is Serge Novak. Mila reacts calculatingly when Daniel announces the end of their relationship at a meeting. When she sees that Nicoletta has been secretly following Daniel, she demonstratively kisses him before leaving. Nicoletta is now separating from Daniel. A little later he reveals his anonymity in front of the press, but leaves the press conference early to give Ewa the suitcase with the required five million francs. Since it was made clear at the press conference that Daniel did not plagiarize the novel, his agent Ginsberg does not understand why Daniel nevertheless accepted the demand for money. Ewa and Mila split the money a little later, but ask Mila Ewa to get out of her life.
A short time later, the private detective reports to Daniel about his research results. According to them, Mila and Ewa are actresses who fled to Switzerland for drug offenses. It turns out that Ewa is actually Mila and Mila Ewa. Daniel withdraws to Paul's villa, which he has bought, and here he completes his new novel Life and Death of Serge Novak . One day Ewa, known to him as Mila, is waiting in front of his door. They sleep together, but Ewa sneaks out of bed at night and searches Daniel's things. She finds an envelope containing the manuscript for Die Winterreise . There is a letter that Paul once wrote to David. In it he confessed to him that he built large parts of his novel on David's life. Since it will be his only novel due to his planned suicide and he has "stolen" the contents from Daniel's life, he leaves it to Daniel to decide how to deal with the only manuscript - whether he will pass it off as his work or Paul's. Ewa is shocked. In the envelope she also finds the results of the private detective's research. She slowly returns to Daniel, who is waiting for her with the gun to his temple. She can't stop him from shooting himself in front of her eyes. The police soon confirmed Daniel's suicide. When Ewa is asked by a police officer if she can identify Daniel on an old class photo, it seems as if the family picture of her parents actually showed Daniel, as the handwritten name notes on the back of the class photo assign Daniel Paul and Paul Daniel. She bursts into tears and says that she can't show him in the photo. Later she goes to the cemetery where Daniel and Paul's graves are next to each other. She places the manuscript of Daniel's latest work on the life and death of Serge Novak on Paul's grave, where the leaves are soon blown away by the wind.
production
Price of Desire was filmed in Geneva and Krakow, among others. The film was released on February 27, 2004 in Italian cinemas and was shown on May 15, 2004 as part of the Semaine Internationale de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival . In Germany, the film did not come to the cinemas, but was shown for the first time on February 22, 2006 on Erste on German television.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel | Daniel Auteuil | Bodo Wolf |
| David Ginsberg | Michael Lonsdale | Roland Hemmo |
| Nicoletta | Greta Scacchi | Evelyn Marron |
criticism
For film-dienst , Preis des Lustens was a smooth, yet “largely atmospheric erotic thriller that tries to get to the bottom of the question of identity and authenticity.” Cinema called the film an “elegantly photographed identity puzzle” and an “atmospheric one …, A little chilled… implementation of an enigmatic story about reality and fiction ”, in which the main actor Daniel Auteuil shines.
Kino-Zeit emphasized the “complex…, stringent… and yet again and again surprisingly structured… dramaturgy” of the film as well as the impressive performance of the ensemble, which Daniel Auteuil leads in a prime role as a “mysterious, multi-layered and melancholy personality”.
Awards
At the Avignon Film Festival , Ludovico Einaudi received the UCMF Award for Best Film Music for Price of Desire .
Web links
- Price of desire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Price of Desire. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Price of Desire. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ See price of demand on kino-zeit.de