Miss Jean Brodie's best years

Movie
German title	The best years of Miss Jean Brodie
Original title	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1969
length	116 minutes
Rod
Director	Ronald Neame
script	Jay Presson Allen
production	James Cresson Robert Fryer
music	Rod McKuen
camera	Ted Moore
cut	Norman Savage
occupation
Maggie Smith : Jean Brodie Robert Stephens : Teddy Lloyd Pamela Franklin : Sandy Gordon Jackson : Gordon Lowther Celia Johnson : Miss Mackay Diane Grayson : Jenny Jane Carr : Mary McGregor Shirley Steedman : Monica Lavinia Lang : Emily Carstairs Antoinette Biggerstaff : Helen McPhee Margo Cunningham : Miss Campbell Isla Cameron : Miss McKenzie Rona Anderson : Miss Lockhart Ann Way : Miss Gaunt Molly Weir : Miss Allison Kerr Helena Gloag : Miss Kerr Heather Seymour : Clara

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (English original title The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ) is a film drama by the director Ronald Neame . The film is based on the theater adaptation of Muriel Spark 's novel of the same name .

action

Jean Brodie, a teacher at a school in Edinburgh in the 1930s, influenced the four girls Sandy, Monica, Jenny and Mary with her unconventional teaching methods. Since she cannot break away from her ex-lover Teddy Lloyd and rejects the marriage proposal of the music teacher Gordon Lowther, the latter marries another teacher. Brodie's manipulations lead to an affair between Lloyd and Sandy and the death of Mary over the years. So Sandy rebels against Jean Brodie and she loses her job.

Awards (selection)

For portraying Jean Brodie, Maggie Smith received an Oscar for Best Actress in 1970 . In the category of Best Song was Rod McKuen nominated for an Oscar. In the same year he was able to win a Golden Globe .

Actresses Maggie Smith and Celia Johnson each won a British Academy Film Award . Pamela Franklin was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review .

criticism

The lexicon of international films wrote: “The intended confrontation between progressive and outdated educational methods suffers from verbosity and a rather superficial examination of the topic. Actually, however, the film is excellent. ”The Protestant film observer complains that the story about the teacher fails because of her complex neurotic character and her fascist ideas, but then notes positively that Maggie Smith's psychogram is excellently expressed through an acting will.

Web links

• The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The best years of Miss Jean Brodie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 358/1970.