The Human Voice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Human Voice |
| Original title | The Human Voice |
| Country of production | USA , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 50 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ted Kotcheff |
| script |
Jean Cocteau , Clive Exton |
| production |
Jacqueline Babbin , Lars Schmidt , David Susskind |
| occupation | |
The Human Voice is a 1966 English drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff .
action
Ingrid Bergman played in one of her few roles in television productions in this film a nameless middle-aged woman who goes through a psychological crisis situation after breaking up with her lover. The French playwright Jean Cocteau , who wrote the screenplay, lets her act in the form of an extended monologue in which she tries to hold on to or win back the lover through several phone calls. The woman speaks to her former lover, who has left her for another woman and is now calling her to get her to hand over his things. The suspicion grows more and more that the man is calling her from the house of his younger lover, whom he would like to marry soon. The film is a studio production as a one-person piece in which Ingrid Bergman shows all the diversity of her acting skills in an impressive way.
background
The piece was originally written in 1930 and premiered as a one-act play on February 17, 1930 at the Comédie-Française in Paris as La Voix Humaine . The main role was played by the actress Berthe Bovy , the background music was implemented by Francis Poulenc . This role was originally designed for Ludmilla Pitoëff .
The Human Voice is a television production recorded at Wembley Studios in London . The monologues of the drama, translated from French into English by Maximilian Ilyin, appeared on a long-playing record on Caedmon Records as early as 1960.
Web links
- The Human Voice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Human Voice. on filmaffinity.com
- ABC Stage 67: “The Human Voice” (ABC, 5/4/67). on irishtheatremagazine.ie (Review, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ COCTEAU, J .: Human Voice (The) (Studio Production, 1966). In: naxosvideolibrary.com. Retrieved August 30, 2015 .
- ^ The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau with Ingrid Bergman. In: falseart.com. August 1, 2013, accessed August 30, 2015 .
- ↑ La voix humaine - Performance - 1930. In: bnf.fr. data.bnf.fr, accessed on August 30, 2015 .
- ↑ La Voix humaine, précédée de La Dame de Monte-Carlo de Jean Cocteau mise en scene par Marc Paquien. (No longer available online.) In: comedie-francaise.fr. www.comedie-francaise.fr, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on August 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Inside Wembley Studios - Part 1 - Studios - Transdiffusion. In: transdiffusion.org. Retrieved August 30, 2015 .
- ^ Ingrid Bergman - The Human Voice. In: discogs.com. Discogs, accessed August 30, 2015 .
