Tess (film)

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Movie
German title Tess
Original title Tess
Country of production France / Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1979
length 164 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Roman Polanski
script Gérard Brach ,
John Brownjohn ,
Roman Polański
production Claude Berri
music Philippe Sarde
camera Ghislain Cloquet ,
Geoffrey Unsworth
cut Alastair McIntyre ,
Tom Priestley
occupation
synchronization

Tess is a French - British film drama by Roman Polański from 1979. It is a film adaptation of the novel Tess von den d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman (Original title: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented ) by Thomas Hardy from 1891. Nastassja Kinski played the main role .

action

The film is set in southern England in the 19th century, in the Victorian era . Impoverished Jack Durbeyfield sends his daughter to the wealthy d'Urbervilles when he hears that his family is related to them. She gets a job. After a night of dancing, she is raped by Alec d'Urberville and his lover. Tess is expecting a child and flees back to her family. The child is baptized by Tess himself shortly before his death because Tess' father refuses the priest access. Tess becomes a maid. She falls in love with the pastor's son Angel and tries to inform him of her past by letter before the wedding. But the letter does not reach him. When she tells Angel, newlyweds, her past, he rejects her and goes overseas. Tess becomes a day laborer and meets Alec again. When Angel returns from Brazil after a serious illness, he finds Tess and Alec living together in a boarding house. Humiliated by Alec, Tess eventually murders him and escapes with Angel. She is arrested in Stonehenge and executed in the capital of Wessex.

background

Polański made this film because his wife Sharon Tate gave him the original novel shortly before her death, stating that it would make a great film. At the beginning of the film, the dedication “to Sharon” appears. Polański chose Nastassja Kinski for the lead role .

The film was shot in France , mainly in Normandy (Cotentin, la Hague , Omonville-la-Rogue , Éculleville , Sainte-Croix-Hague , le Vast , Bricquebec and Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou ), then in Brittany ( Locronan , le Leslay ) and Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( Condette ).

The film's cameraman, Oscar winner Geoffrey Unsworth, died of a heart attack during the third month of filming. The film was completed by Ghislain Cloquet; both then received the Oscar for it.

synchronization

The German synchronization was commissioned by the Berliner Synchron , after a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Ottokar Runze .

role actor German speakers
Tess Durbeyfield Nastassja Kinski Nastassja Kinski
Angel Clare Peter Firth Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Alec d'Urberville Leigh Lawson Randolf Kronberg
John Durbeyfield John Collin Gottfried Kramer
Mrs. Durbeyfield Rosemary Martin Ursula War
Vicar of Marlott Richard Pearson Wolfgang Spier
Mercy Chant Arielle Dombasle Edith Elsholtz

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : Polanski varies his old theme of the defenselessness of innocence in a depraved world with strict adherence to the original and remarkable creative restraint. With all the sought-after aesthetics, symbolic encryption and exaggeration into the timeless, the film never loses the necessary signals to characterize the social conditions of the time. Even if the lofty concern occasionally fails, a serious, credible and sensitive work of particular aesthetic appeal.
  • Chicago Sun-Times: Roger Ebert praises the portrayal of Nastassja Kinski , who, due to her youth , freshness and naivety, is the right choice for the lead role. Ebert compares the plot of the film with that of a soap opera .
  • Prisma Online: "Tess" is the epically broad and romantic film adaptation of the novel "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" by Thomas Hardy, published in 1891. The director Roman Polanski tells in his own way the life story of the innocent peasant girl Tess, who is broken by the hypocrisy and exploitation of Victorian society. Through the connection of picturesque images and a broad, sad story, the film presents itself as a passionate journey of a tragic fate. This mood is supported by the successful portrayal of the main characters, especially the young Nastassja Kinski. Roman Polanski's approach to this material is very personal: “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” was one of the favorite novels of his wife Sharon Tate , who was brutally murdered in 1969 and to whom he dedicated his film.

Awards

The film won three Academy Awards in 1981 : for production design , cinematography and costume design ( Anthony Powell ). He was also nominated for an Oscar in three other categories, including directing and film music.

Nastassja Kinski and the film for Best Picture won the Golden Globe Award in 1981 ; the film was nominated for a Golden Globe in two other categories. Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth won the BAFTA Award in 1982 , and the film was nominated in two other categories for the same award.

The film won in 1980 the film award César into three categories: Best Picture , Best Director and Best Cinematography . One of the three César nominations was for Nastassja Kinski. Ghislain Cloquet and Geoffrey Unsworth won the 1980 New York Film Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tess. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tess. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 30, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Roger Ebert : Tess. In: RogerEbert.com. 1980, accessed January 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Tess. In: prisma.de . Accessed January 30, 2018 .