Cloudy water

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Movie
German title Cloudy water / Those who fish in cloudiness
Original title La Rabouilleuse
Country of production France , GDR
original language French
Publishing year 1960
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Louis Daquin
script Louis Daquin
Klaus Wischnewski (collaboration)
production DEFA
Société nouvelle Pathé Cinéma (Paris)
music Hanns Eisler
camera Eugen Klagemann
Philippe Brun
cut Ursula Rudzki
Claude Nicole
occupation

Trübe Wasser (GDR title) or Die im Trüben fischen (West German title) is a feature film by French director Louis Daquin from 1960. The film, which was made as a co-production between the GDR and France, is a film adaptation of the novel La Rabouilleuse (German title: Bachelor Economy ) by Honoré de Balzac .

action

Paris 1821. During the restoration period, after the defeat of the emperor, the former Napoleonic officer Philipe Bridau had no more tasks. He can only survive through gifts from his mother. Because of his poverty, he can no longer hold his lover, the artist Mariette, either. She would rather marry a count. He makes one last attempt by stealing from his brother and his aunt Descoings, who in turn misses out on a very high lottery win. He increases the stolen sum through winnings at the gaming table, but his mistress no longer wants him because she can marry a count.

Now Philipe is only interested in the increase of money. He wants his uncle Rouget's millions, the sole heir to his grandfather's fortune, who disinherited Philipe's mother. But his lover Flore, who has been a housekeeper in the house since she was 12, is already looking for that. Flore loves young Max, who is also just after the money. Philipe Bridau kills Max in a duel, ensures that the already sick uncle dies a little faster and marries Flore, who has inherited the money. Then he makes sure that Flore succumbs to the alcohol and lets her go to waste in the hospital. Now free again, he marries a noblewoman, which doubles his fortune. He is at the top and is investing his wealth in government bonds. In 1830 the government of Charles X fell, Philipe's papers were suddenly worthless, and he himself was at the bottom where he came from.

production

Cloudy water was shot in black and white. The film premiered on April 8, 1960 in France under the title Les arrivistes ; the GDR premiere took place on May 13, 1960 in the Babylon cinema in Berlin . The first broadcast in the DFF program took place on December 1, 1960. From June 16, 1961, the film was shown under the title Fishing in the Trüben in German cinemas.

criticism

For HUE (Hans Ulrich Eylau) from the Berliner Zeitung , Trübe Wasser remains a captivating, spirited and brightly colored contemporary image from France in the first years of the Restoration, whose captivating closeness to life is as much a part of the direction as the excellent work by Eugen Klagemann on the camera thank is. The vitality of the presentation is effectively underlined by the unconventional music of Hanns Eisler, which counterpoints the plot. Horst Knietzsch found in New Germany that the excellent acting achievements are not always able to console the inner weaknesses of the film. The lexicon of international films wrote that it is the story of a man who cannot come to terms with historical changes and who is endowed with references to the present of the 1950s. The restrained staging and Eisler's morality-like music keep the audience at a critical distance from the main character.

literature

  • Cloudy water In: F.-B. Habel: The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , p. 630.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "World literature in film" in the Berliner Zeitung of May 18, 1960, p. 7
  2. ↑ "Cloudy Water" in Neues Deutschland from May 26, 1960, p. 4
  3. ↑ Cloudy water. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used