Therese Raquin (1915)

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Movie
German title Therese Raquin / Therese
Original title Teresa Raquin
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1915
length approx. 34 (fragment) minutes
Rod
Director Nino Martoglio
script based on the novel Thérèse Raquin (1867) by Émile Zola
production Morgana film
camera Lorenzo Romagnoli
occupation

Therese Raquin is a 1915 Italian silent film drama starring Maria Carmi in the title role.

action

Therese (in Italian. Original: Teresa) Raquin runs a business together with her stepmother, her husband Camillo works as a civil servant. The young woman was massively pushed into this marriage, which is more and more dispassionate and monotonous. Therese then begins to cheat on her husband with his best friend Lorenzo. This one has everything that Camillo lacks. In this relationship determined by sexual permissiveness, both lovers experience a happiness that is felt to be intense and strong. Eventually the relationship begins to gain an irreversible depth, and so both forge the plan to get Camille out of the way, who seems to be standing in the way of a common future, in order to finally live their relationship openly to the outside world.

On a Sunday, the three of them go on a boat excursion on the river. Therese and Lorenzo push Camille into the water and drown him. In front of the police, they pretend to be shocked and horrified to make the murder that was planned as cold as an accident look like an accident. Initially, no one comes across them, neither the police nor the family suspect anything. After a year Therese and Lorenzo marry. But since both crimes the worm in this relationship is, and the passion gives way to everyday fears. The couple are also plagued by nightmares and severe remorse. Soon her fears and the onset of paranoia take on compulsive features. Hallucinations determine their everyday existence, and Therese and Lorenzo make their lives hell for each other. There is mutual accusation and even violence. At the end of the emotional and psychological decline, there is mutual suicide.

Production notes

Therese Raquin , shot in the second half of 1914, was premiered in January 1915. In Austria-Hungary, the strip started in 1915, after Italy declared war on the Central Powers. Whether Carmi's film “Therese”, shown in the Mozart Hall in Berlin in November 1915, is identical to this film cannot be determined with absolute certainty.

criticism

“This film is one of the most outstanding works of film art, both in terms of presentation and direction. Maria Carmi offers the most perfection that one can imagine and the actors in the other main roles have captured the poet in an almost astonishing way. The shocking novel is perhaps even more shocking in the film than in the book, without looking for particularly blatant, indeed purely external means for this purpose, which might have damaged the literary value of the work. "

- Cinematographic review of July 11, 1915. p. 32

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