Triumphal arch (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Triumphal arch |
| Original title | Arch of Triumph |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language |
English German |
| Publishing year | 1948 |
| length | 120 (133 in the restored version) minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lewis Milestone |
| script | Lewis Milestone Harry Brown Irwin Shaw |
| production | David Lewis |
| music | Louis Gruenberg |
| camera | Russell Metty |
| cut | Duncan Mansfield |
| occupation | |
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Triumphal Arch (OT: Arch of Triumph ) is an American film noir of 1948 with Ingrid Bergman , Charles Boyer and Charles Laughton in the lead roles. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone , who also played a key role in the script. It is based on the novel Arch of Triumph from 1945 by Erich Maria Remarque, which was pre-published in the English-American language in the New York magazine Collier's Weekly .
Under the title In the Shadow of the Triumphal Arch , the story was remade for British television in 1985 by Waris Hussein with Anthony Hopkins , Lesley-Anne Down and Donald Pleasence in the leading roles.
action
Dr. Ravic is an Austrian resistance fighter who escaped from a Nazi concentration camp. He lives as an illegal refugee in Paris and goes into hiding there in 1938. When the beautiful singer Joan Madou wants to commit suicide, he stops her and gets her a job as a singer in a bar. Both fall in love, but are separated when Ravic is arrested as an illegal immigrant. In order to be economically secure, Joan becomes the lover of the rich Alex. Ravic escapes custody and discovers the Haake Gestapo policeman in Paris . He is disguised as a tourist and explores Paris for a possible German occupation. He is also looking for information about German exiles. Ravic manages to murder the man undetected. Von Haake had tortured him in the concentration camp and murdered Ravic's fiancée. Ravic meets Joan again. However, she cannot and does not want to choose between the two men, which leads to the jealous Alex killing her.
background
The film was originally four hours long, but was then shortened to two hours. Irwin Shaw initially worked on the script for five months. When a love story was about to be inserted, he announced. Lewis Milestone then rewrote the script with Harry Brown . Ingrid Bergman's salary was 175,000 dollars plus 25 percent of net revenue.
Joseph Breen , the chairman of the MPAA , which monitored compliance with the production code , intervened in the scenes of violence in particular. The sequence in which Ravic kills von Haake included that he first stowed the victim in a trunk and then stripped the corpse, buried it and burned the clothes; these details have been deleted. Breen also criticized the fact that the murder went unpunished. However, since this was an integral part of the plot, it remained unchanged.
The budget amounted to 5 million US dollars .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films was not very enthusiastic: “The melodramatic film adaptation of the novel by Erich Maria Remarque is carried by a fatalistic worldview. Despite the excellent performance of the actors, the film remains flat in the dramatization of the plot and without a convincing time-critical concept. "
literature
- Peter Dbod: Arch of Triumph. US feature film in Noir Style by Lewis Milestone (1948) based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque (1945) . In: Thomas F. Schneider (ed.), Erich-Maria-Remarque-Jahrbuch , Vol. 26, Osnabrück 2016, ISBN 978-3-8471-0652-4 , pp. 72–128.
Web links
- Arch in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Triumphal Arch in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas F. Brady: Hollywood Deals. Prospects Brighten for United Artists, Budget Runs Wild and Other Matters . The New York Times (1923-Current file) New York, February 1, 1948, p. X5.
- ↑ Triumphal Arch. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 21, 2017 .