Toni (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Toni |
| Original title | Toni |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1935 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Renoir |
| script | Jean Renoir |
| production | Marcel Pagnol |
| music | Paul Bozzi |
| camera | Claude Renoir |
| cut |
Suzanne de Troeye Marguerite Renoir |
| occupation | |
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Toni is a French fiction film directed by Jean Renoir in 1935 in black and white. The script comes from the director. It is based on a documentation by Jacques Levert . The leading roles are cast with the amateur actors Charles Blavette, Celia Montalván and Édouard Delmont. In France, the film first came out on February 22, 1935; in Germany it had its premiere on September 15, 1969 on the second German television.
action
Among the many who arrived as guest workers at a small train station in southern France in 1935 was the Italian Toni. He finds work in a quarry and an apartment with Marie, who soon becomes his lover. There are arguments between the two when Toni falls in love with Josepha. The marriage did not take place because Josepha let himself be seduced by the foreman Albert. Toni Marie is now getting married, but leaves her after attempting suicide and goes to the mountains to watch Josepha's house.
Meanwhile, Albert's brutality has ruined Josepha's family. Josepha wants to go abroad - together with her cousin - but is caught by Albert when she tries to steal a large amount of money from him. In the course of the dispute, Josepha kills her husband. Toni wants to help her and arrange everything so that it looks like a suicide. When Toni is surprised by the police, he takes on the murder. He can still flee, but is shot a little later by the farmers who are hunting the foreigner. Josepha's confession comes too late.
criticism
The Lexicon of International Films draws the following conclusion: “An unpathetic early film by Jean Renoir depicting the exploitation of workers and xenophobia in France in the 1930s. Coherent in milieu and character drawing. "
The Evangelical movie watchers went to the German TV premiere in 1969 in his summary criticism primarily on the historical significance of the work a "film historically important film of Jean Renoir, who is now standing 75th - influenced by the Russians and Bunuel, Las Hurdes' - a A love drama set in the working class and among guest workers based on a true story by the Italian Toni and his 'amour fou'. 'Toni' is one of the first films of poetic realism that paved the way for directors like Carné and Prevert and was not without its influence on neorealism. "
Web links
- Toni in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A few comments at filmmuseum.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 434/1969, pp. 428 to 429
- ↑ Lexicon of International Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3851