Scream, If you can

This article is about a French film from 1959. For a similarly titled American horror film from 2001, see Scream If You Can .

Movie
German title	Scream, If you can
Original title	Les cousins
Country of production	France
original language	French , German
Publishing year	1959
length	108 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Claude Chabrol
script	Claude Chabrol Paul Gégauff
production	Claude Chabrol
music	Paul Misraki
camera	Henri Decaë
cut	Jacques Gaillard
occupation
Gérard Blain : Charles Jean-Claude Brialy : Paul Juliette Mayniel : Florence Guy Decomble : Bookseller Geneviève Cluny : Geneviève Michèle Méritz : Yvonne Corrado Guarducci : Italian Count Stéphane Audran : Françoise Paul Bisciglia : Marc Jeanne Pérez : cleaning lady Françoise Martel : Martine

Scream if you can (Original title: Les Cousins ) is a French feature film by Claude Chabrol from 1959. The director pushed the establishment of the Nouvelle Vague further and experienced his international breakthrough.

action

Charles moves to Paris from the French provinces to study there. There he lives with his cousin Paul, who shows him the customs of the bourgeois, decadent students. Shortly afterwards Charles falls in love with Florence, but she decides for Paul. Florence now moves into Paul's apartment, whereupon Charles becomes jealous, but tries to disguise this with fanatical study for an upcoming exam.

On the day of the exam, Paul wins through confidence, not expertise. In contrast, despite the good preparation, Charles fails due to nervousness. Out of anger, he wants to kill his cousin by shooting him in his sleep. He loads a revolver with only one cartridge and turns the drum, similar to Russian roulette , but no shot is released. The next morning, Paul plays with the revolver and accidentally kills Charles. This is the first time Paul develops compassion for other people.

Reviews

The film was a hit with critics. In the newspaper Die Welt, for example, the film was praised as follows: "This film achieves that ideal in the dreaming brain that a sequence of images drunk purely from the eyes is transformed into pure happiness in us". In the industry journal Variety it was said that despite its occasional pretentiousness, the film was captivating thanks to precise plot development, good technical implementation and the view of innocence destroyed by the profane.

Awards

• Berlin International Film Festival 1959 : Golden Bear as best film

synchronization

In the German synchronization, the figure of a Jew was changed to a Hungarian and the Gestapo to the Hungarian state police.

Web links

• Scream if you can in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Shout out when you can in the online movie database
• Scream if you can at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ quoted from The Early Ripe . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1960, pp. 44 ( online ).
2. ↑ See Les Cousins . In: Variety , 1959.
3. ↑ F.-B. Habel: Cut up films. Censorship in the cinema , 2003, p. 92.