The Purple Rose of Cairo

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Movie
German title The Purple Rose of Cairo
Original title The Purple Rose of Cairo
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Woody Allen
script Woody Allen
production Robert Greenhut
music Dick Hyman
camera Gordon Willis
cut Susan E. Morse
occupation

The Purple Rose of Cairo is the 13th film that Woody Allen has directed. The comedy film , made in 1985 , is set in America at the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s and tells the story of the waitress Cecilia.

action

New Jersey during the Great Depression: The sensitive waitress Cecilia is unhappy with her life and her marriage to the crude, primitive worker Monk. She takes refuge in the fantasy world of the cinema. Her favorite film is The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which actor Gil Shepherd plays the adventurer Tom Baxter. The film character Baxter breaks through the fourth wall one day and speaks directly to the terrified Cecilia. Baxter leaves the screen and stands in front of Cecilia. They both fall in love. The incident has consequences, however: the remaining characters in the film cannot finish the film and are now trapped on the screen. The film producer of the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo" sends the real actor Gil Shepherd to New Jersey to solve the problem. Shepherd visits the affected cinema and meets Cecilia. She now stands between the two men and has to decide who she wants to spend her life with. The film character Baxter is perfect in almost every respect (but waits for the usual fade-out after a passionate kiss), Shepherd is more of a man with rough edges. She chooses Shepherd and wants to stay with him. Baxter then returns to the screen. It then turns out that Shepherd used Cecilia only to get Baxter back on the movie wall. Shepherd leaves the shaken Cecilia in New Jersey. She has now lost her apartment, husband and job. She takes refuge in the cinema again and sees Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing cheek to cheek ("Cheek-to-Cheek") in the movie Top Hat .

criticism

“A clever and sensitive tragic comedy, excellently staged and performed. The film combines the love story with an intelligent reflection on appearance and reality, illusion and reality. As a multi-layered discourse about the possibilities of love, life, film and dream, the complex game of confusion is a declaration of love for the cinema, its stars and viewers. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Others

  • Woody Allen called the film one of the three favorite films of his own work in several interviews.
  • Mia Farrow's film sister was played by her real-life sister, Stephanie Farrow.
  • "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is the first film in which Woody Allen's regular actress Dianne Wiest appears.
  • "The Purple Rose of Cairo" was staged in 2009 at the Vienna Volkstheater as a play in translation and stage adaptation by Gil Mehmert.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film review in the Lexicon of International Film. Retrieved January 22, 2012 .