And Jimmy went to the rainbow (1971)
And Jimmy went to the rainbow is a 1971 film based on the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel . Alain Noury , Doris Kunstmann , Horst Tappert and Ruth Leuwerik played the main roles under the direction of Alfred Vohrer .
Carlo Rola shot a remake for television in 2008 .
action
The action takes place in 1969: the Argentine chemist Rafaelo Aranda is poisoned in Vienna by the apparently completely unknown bookseller Valerie Steinfeld. Steinfeld penalized immediately thereafter suicide . The chemist's son, Manuel Aranda, wants to find out the background to the murder. However, he finds out that his father developed chemical weapons of mass destruction and offered them for sale in the USA , the Soviet Union and France . The secret services of the three great powers are therefore trying to prevent Manuel Aranda from publishing his research. Aranda survived a first murder without even noticing.
Manuel Aranda learns that the bookseller Valerie Steinfeld led a ludicrous paternity trial during the National Socialist era . Her “half-Jewish” son Heinz was to be protected from persecution through the paternity of a “ German-blooded ” person. Over time, the suspicion arises that the perpetrator Valerie Steinfeld and the victim Rafaelo Aranda may have had something to do with each other during the Nazi era.
With the help of Irene Waldegg, Valerie's niece, Manuel Aranda finds out more facts about his father's past. But Valerie Steinfeld also had a secret that not even Irene Waldegg knew.
Production and Background
The film was shot from November 2, 1970 to December 29, 1970 in Vienna and Munich. The interior shots were taken in the Rosenhügel film studios . It premiered on March 12, 1971 in Hamburg at Kino-Center 1.
The until then little-known leading actor Alain Noury gained a lot of sympathy through the film, but never made the big breakthrough. The then 25-year-old actress Judy Winter had to be "aged" by the make-up artist to over 50 years for part of her role.
In 2008 a remake was made for ZDF with Heino Ferch in the role of the doctor Manuel Aranda and Dennenesch Zoudé in the role of Irene Waldegg. As in the 1971 film adaptation, Judy Winter played Nora Hill. However, the location of the action has been moved to Berlin in 1996. The part of the novel that was set in the Third Reich was greatly shortened and the love story between the main characters was brought to the fore. ZDF broadcast the film on September 24, 2008.
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote: "Elaborately and effectively staged bestseller film adaptation, which misuses the problems of the present and the past as the background for an ultimately bombastic and implausible mixture of crime, agent film and punk."
Awards
- Predicate "valuable" the Film Review Board
- Golden screen 1972 (for more than 3 million visitors)
- Feature film premium from the Federal Ministry of the Interior: 200,000 DM
literature
- Johannes Mario Simmel : And Jimmy went to the rainbow. Novel . World Edition - 25 authors from 60 years (Volume 10). A. Springer, Berlin 2009, 719 pages, ISBN 978-3-941711-09-9
- Ricarda Strobel , Klaus Schmitt: And Jimmy went to the rainbow . Scientists-Verlag (film transcripts), Rottenburg-Oberndorf 1986, ISBN 3-89153-008-0
- Ricarda Strobel, Werner Faulstich : Innovation and Scheme. Media aesthetic studies on the bestsellers "James Bond", "Airport", "And Jimmy went to the rainbow", "Love Story" and "The Godfather" . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02741-X
Web links
- And Jimmy went to the rainbow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- And Jimmy went to the rainbow at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ 133 min. For cinema projection (24 images / second), 128 min. For television playback (25 images / second), film length: 3643 meters
- ↑ And Jimmy went to the rainbow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .