Red and black (film)

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Movie
German title Red and black
Original title Le Rouge et le Noir
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1954
length 185 (abridged version 113) minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Claude Autant-Lara
script Claude Autant-Lara,
Jean Aurenche ,
Pierre Bost
production Henri Deutschmeister ,
Gianni Hecht Lucari
music René Cloërec
camera Michel Kelber
cut Madeleine Gug
occupation
synchronization

Red and Black (original title: Le Rouge et le Noir ) is an Italian - French film adaptation of the 1830 novel by Stendhal with Gérard Philipe and Danielle Darrieux from 1954.

action

Julien Sorel was on trial in France around 1830. He confesses to an attempted murder of his former lover Madame de Rénal and guiltily longs for his death sentence. While he waits for the verdict to be announced, he looks back on the events that prompted him to commit his act:

The intelligent Julien grew up in a simple family as the son of a carpenter. At a young age he developed a strong need for social advancement. First he wanted to become a clergyman, which is why he learned the Bible by heart and took lessons from the local priest, the Abbé Chélan. With his help he finally got a job as a tutor for the children of Monsieur de Rénal. He is very wealthy and also married to a beautiful woman. Driven by ambition, Julien seduces Madame de Rénal and hopes for new opportunities for advancement.

The maid Elisa, who is unhappily in love with Julien, discovers the affair between Julien and Madame de Rénal and informs the horned husband about it in an anonymous letter. When Madame de Rénal parted ways with him, Julien wanted to go to the seminary. Since this did not meet his expectations, however, he found a job in Paris as private secretary to the Marquis de la Mole, through which he gained access to the elegant salons of high society. This time it is Mathilde, the daughter of his employer, with whom he is dating. Although Julien is not a nobleman, the Marquis agrees that his daughter and Julien are married. He also holds out the prospect of a promising position as an officer for his future son-in-law.

However, when Madame de Rénal sends the Marquis a letter in which she explains Julien's true character as a calculating heartbreaker, the Marquis throws Julien out of his house. Knowing that it was Madame de Rénal who destroyed his lifelong dream, Julien swears vengeance. Back home, he shoots his former lover during the service. Since he refuses to confess after his arrest, he is visited in prison by Madame de Rénal, who has since recovered from her gunshot wound, and the Abbé Chélan - in an effort to bring him back to the lap of the church. Julien eventually realizes that Madame de Rénal is the only person who truly loved him. Full of guilt towards her, he decides to confess. Madame de Rénal dies three days after his execution.

background

Filming took place from March 29 to June 5, 1954. The costumes were designed by Rosine Delamare .

Red and Black premiered in France on October 29, 1954. From October 21, 1955, the film was shown in German cinemas. It came to the GDR cinemas on December 9, 1955. On April 1, 1956, Red and Black was shown for the first time on GDR television on DFF 1 .

Reviews

"Autant-Lara's film adaptation of the famous novel, set against the background of the dispute between the nobility and the church around 1830, has some craftsmanship qualities, but appears very academic," said the lexicon of international film . The "revolutionary [e] pathos" of the literary model was "consistently toned down to the thickly applied colors". Cinema described the film as an "elaborate novel adaptation". The evangelical film observer said that the adaptation distinguished itself “primarily through the modern realism of the description and psychological customization”.

Awards

The film won the French Critics' Prize Méliès in 1955 and the Grand Prix des Étoile de Cristal for Best Film . Leading actor Gérard Philipe won the Finnish Jussi Film Prize in the category of Best Foreign Actor for his performance in the same year .

German versions

In 1955 a German dubbed version was made in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the GDR . Aura Film Synchron GmbH Berlin was responsible for the German version, with Conrad von Molo in charge of the dubbing direction and the script. This version was drastically shortened by the distributor. DEFA was responsible for the unabridged GDR version , while Albert Venohr was the dubbing director based on the dialogue book by Alexander von der Heyde .

role actor Voice actor BRD Voice actor DDR
Julien Sorel Gérard Philipe Dietmar Schönherr Lothar Blumhagen
Madame de Rénal Danielle Darrieux Marianne Kehlau Gisela Reissmann
Mathilde de la Mole Antonella Lualdi Maria Sebaldt Margarete Taudte
Marquis de la Mole Jean Mercure Hans Hessling Wolfgang Langhoff
Monsieur de Rénal Jean Martinelli Curt Ackermann -
Abbé Pirard Antoine Balpêtré Werner Lieven -
Elisa Anna-Maria Sandri Renate Danz -
Abbé Chélan André Brunot Otto Stoeckel -
Norbert de La Mole Mirko Ellis Horst Niendorf -
Marquise de la Mole Suzanne Nivette Ursula War -
Comte Altamira Pierre Jourdan Ernst von Klipstein -
President of the Tribunal Jacques Varennes Alfred Haase -
M. de Croisenois Georges Descrières Herbert Stass -
Father Sorel Alexandre Rignault Eduard Wandrey -
Lieutenant Liéven Gérard Séty Wolfgang Preiss -

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Red and Black. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. cinema.de ( Memento from September 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Protestant film observer . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Critique No. 885/1955.
  4. ↑ Red and Black. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento from September 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )