Uranus (film)

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Movie
German title Uranus
Original title Uranus
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1990
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Claude Berri
script Claude Berri,
Arlette Langmann
production Pierre Grunstein
music Jean-Claude Petit
camera Renato Berta
cut Hervé de Luze
occupation
synchronization

Uranus is a French film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Marcel Aymé by Claude Berri from 1990.

action

Spring 1945 shortly before the end of the war: the small French town of Blémont was reduced to rubble by bombs. After the Germans surrendered, various political groups competed for power. Gaullists , supporters of the Vichy government and resistance fighters seem irreconcilably opposed to each other. The engineer Archambaud is forced to share his apartment with the staunch communist Gaigneux, his wife, his two children and the teacher Watrin. When the wanted Nazi colloquist Loin asks him for help and he takes him in, the situation becomes increasingly explosive.

Léopold, the innkeeper, knows his guests very well and gets caught between the fronts. He takes refuge in drunkenness and in his passion for the poet Jean Racine . He is denounced by the communists. From now on he is just drunk and writes his pub poetry. When he trumpeted his knowledge, he was shot dead by the corrupt policeman who hangs his flag in the wind.

In reality, the fronts do not run between right and left, but between above and below. Finally, Gaigneux finds the Nazi fellow traveler, who had an affair with the wife of his host, and leads him across the shooting range.

background

The film was shot in Maringues , Puy-de-Dôme department . This town is located in the heart of France, in the Auvergne region .

In a review of a book about the “dark years” of France (1940–1944) in which the film takes place, Lothar Baier quotes the literary source: “The hypocrites already numbered millions. In all parts of France, in all the villages, in the big and the small towns, he saw these two-faced people teeming. ”And continues:“ This is what it says in the 1948 novel Uranus by Marcel Aymé, a writer who based on his biography was predestined to smell traces of hypocrisy more sensitively than others: before 1944 he had participated in his own way and wrote for the anti-Semitic battle paper Je suis partout , whose editor-in-chief Robert Brasillach was singled out as the main literary traitor during the liberation and punished with death . “Even more than Marcel Aymé, Claude Berri, who comes from Jewish parents, has a fine sense of hypocrisy, which runs like a red thread through the film.

Reviews

"Designed as a farce with a satirical view of a community of hypocrites and zealots, malevolent people and cleaners, the film remains largely positional and feeds primarily on the bulging characters with all too human humanity," wrote the lexicon of international films . Among the actors, Gérard Depardieu stands out “with an exclusively physical presence, while the others get sidelined as an actor”.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said Berri shows "in a convincing way how the lower instincts rule the French small town".

Awards

Uranus ran at the 1991 Berlinale in the competition for the Golden Bear .

César 1991

Nominated:

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role actor Voice actor
Gaigneux Michel Blanc Michael Rüth
Léopold Gérard Depardieu Manfred Lehmann
Archambaud Jean-Pierre Marielle Klaus Guth
Watrin Philippe Noiret Lambert Hamel
Jourdan Fabrice Luchini Ulrich Frank

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Maringues on damelolo.canalblog.com
  2. ↑ Lothar Baier: Millions of Hypocrites. In: The time. December 17, 1993. Retrieved January 24, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Jérôme Segal: From Claude Langmann to Claude Berri ... and back! (PDF; 119 kB) In: The Jewish Film Festival. November 17, 2007, accessed January 24, 2009 .
  4. ↑ Uranus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Roger Ebert : Uranus . In: Chicago Sun-Times , October 11, 1991.
  6. ↑ See berlinale.de
  7. ↑ Uranus. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 3, 2018 .