What?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | What? |
| Original title | Che? |
| Country of production | Italy , France , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1972 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12, previously 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roman Polanski |
| script |
Gérard Brach Roman Polański |
| production | Carlo Ponti |
| music | Claudio Gizzi |
| camera |
Marcello Gatti Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| cut | Alastair McIntyre |
| occupation | |
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What? (Original title: Che? ) Is an Italian - French - German comedy by Roman Polański from 1972, which parodies the sex films of the 1970s. It is also a social satire . The action takes place in a coastal town in Italy and tells the story of a young American woman who finds refuge in a villa with strange guests. There she starts a relationship with a retired pimp.
action
On a trip to Italy, the pretty Nancy goes with three Italians who try to rape her. Nancy escapes and uses a small cable car to save herself in an exclusive villa. When Nancy arrives in the middle of the night, everyone is asleep. The house servant is woken up by the watchdog and receives Nancy without further ado and without asking. He shows her her room straight away, even though she wasn't expected.
The people who live here show strange behavior and are mostly extremely sex-obsessed. Nancy receives offers from many lustful residents to dine with them. She gratefully accepts every offer and is surprised again and again. For example, once she comes to eat, she finds a couple having sex - for the fourth or fifth time that day, as the couple themselves claim and continue to do. It is not questioned that every time she falls asleep, an item of clothing disappears. In the end, Nancy meets the old, terminally ill landlord. On his deathbed he asks her to do him some outrageously absurd favors. For example, he asks Nancy to show her breast and vagina. She hesitates at first, but complies with the request. In the end he dies. Nancy runs away in shock. She escapes naked onto the back of a truck loaded with pigs, which drives away and thus closes the film.
synchronization
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Nancy | Sydne Rome | Marion Hartmann |
| Alex | Marcello Mastroianni | Michael Cramer |
| Joseph Noblart | Hugh Griffith | Klaus W. Krause |
| Mosquito | Roman Polanski | Tommi Piper |
| Catone | Henning Schlueter | Henning Schlueter |
| servant | Pietro Tordi | Erik Jelde |
| Housekeeping | Nerina Montagnani | Franziska Liebing |
| German | Mogens von Gadow | Mogens von Gadow |
| German | Dieter Hallervorden | Horst Sachtleben |
| Giovanni | Romolo Valli | Paul Bürks |
Remarks
The film has many parallels to Alice in Wonderland and the theater of the absurd . Director Roman Polański has a brief guest appearance in the role of the resident Mosquito . There is also a brief appearance by Dieter Hallervorden as a German.
Reviews
“Roman Polanski describes bourgeois decadence that is poorly kept alive by sexual interests. An episodic social satire in a brilliant production; mostly provocative and vicious. "
Web links
- What? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What? In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on August 11, 2019 .
- ↑ What? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .