Indomitable Angélique

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Movie
German title Indomitable Angélique
Original title Indomptable Angélique
Country of production France , Italy , Germany
original language French
Publishing year 1967
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bernard Borderie
script Bernard Borderie
Pascal Jardin
Francis Cosne
production Francis Cosne
François Chavane
Ilse Kubaschewski
music Michel Magne
camera Henri Persin
cut Christian Gaudin
occupation

Indomitable Angélique is a feature film by director Bernard Borderie from 1967. It was made as a Franco-German-Italian co-production. The film is the fourth part of the film series based on the novel Angélique by Anne Golon .

action

Angélique learned from King Louis XIV that her first husband Jeoffrey de Peyrac was still alive and not burned at the stake. She goes with Master Savary to the south of France against the will of the king. There she blackmails the Duke de Vivonne to take her with him on his ship, otherwise she would tell that Vivonne's sister Madame de Montespan has connections to occult circles.

Off Sardinia, the ship is attacked by the Rescator, a pirate who captures all of the French king's ships. Angélique does not know that the masked pirate is actually Jeoffrey and jumps into the water to escape. Master Savary is saved by the Rescator and reveals to him shortly before he dies that Angélique was on the hijacked ship.

Meanwhile, Angélique is picked up by d'Escrainville, a nobleman who was exiled for a woman and now wants to take revenge on all women. He rapes Angélique and locks her on his ship to be convicted pirates. A man from d'Escrainville's crew suggests selling Angélique as a slave because she would bring a large sum. Meanwhile, Jeoffrey comes on board and offers d'Escrainville to buy Angélique out. But since he hates Jeoffrey, he claims to have never seen Angélique. Instead, he later takes her to a slave market, where Angélique is auctioned for a large sum. She surrenders to her fate. However, the buyer is a messenger from Jeoffrey and brings her to him at his castle. There both are finally reunited. But d'Escrainville takes revenge, sets fire to Jeoffrey's ship and kidnaps Angélique.

background

The film only tells the first part of the novel Untamable Angélique . While Angélique's imprisonment in the harem and the subsequent escape are told in the book, the film only shows the search for Jeoffrey de Peyrac. The continuation of the plot of the novel is only shown in Angélique and the Sultan , the next part of the film series. In contrast to the film, the Rescator in the novel does not immediately reveal himself as Jeoffrey, but only in volume 6 Angélique and your love .

The costumes were designed by Rosine Delamare , the equipment is by Robert Giordani . The film was released in French cinemas on October 22, 1967, and the film started in Germany on December 15, 1967.

After being published on VHS video, the films in the Angélique series have been available in the original French version since 2007 and in German in a five-part DVD / Blu-Ray box since 2012.

In 2013, a new film was made under the title Angélique , based on the first four volumes of the new publication from 2008. The Turkish films Anjelik Osmanli saraylarinda (1967) and Anjelik ve Deli Ibrahim (1968) were made based on the novels by Anne Golon .

Reviews

“The scriptwriters' imagination was indomitable in this fourth part of the series. But consideration for historical authenticity might be asking too much. Conclusion: driftwood on the sea of ​​passion "

“Even the fourth part of the unremarkable film adaptation of the novel does not bring any deepening of the subject matter, but an accumulated depiction of brutal and sometimes hideous actions. Worthless and superfluous in every respect for young people and adults. "

- Protestant film observer , review No. 557/1967

Other films in the series

literature

  • Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 185.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Indomitable Angélique . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 38 318-a V).
  2. ↑ Cinema release at Filmportal.de
  3. cf. cinema.de