White Nights (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | White Nights |
| Original title | Le notti bianche |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luchino Visconti |
| script |
Suso Cecchi D'Amico Luchino Visconti |
| production | Franco Cristaldi |
| music | Nino Rota |
| camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut | Mario Serandrei |
| occupation | |
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White Nights (original title: Le notti bianche ) is an Italian feature film from 1957. The film was based on the short novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky .
action
Natalia is a young woman full of contrasts, sometimes cheering sky high, sometimes saddened to death. It is precisely these opposites that magically attract Mario. He falls in love with the charming woman, but she only sees him as a friend with whom one can exchange ideas. So she tells Mario that she loves her lodger, but that he has left the city. She doesn't know when he'll be back, but when he comes back she'll meet him at a certain bridge in town. Natalia then regularly goes to this bridge in the hope of meeting her lover again. So far, however, in vain. Mario tries to dissuade Natalia from loving her lover. He tries to persuade her to be with him instead. After a long period of reflection and dwindling hope of seeing her again, Natalia agrees. But on this very day the lodger returns. With little regard for Mario, Natalia leaves him and returns to her lover.
background
The original story by Dostoevsky takes place in St. Petersburg in 1850 . Visconti transfers the story to contemporary Italy.
Reviews
“The production, which was realized exclusively in the studio, was an 'exercise in artificiality' for the neorealist Visconti, who used to specialize in 'location shooting', and is captivating through the ingenious fusion of theatrical aesthetics and film language into a cheerful, melancholy dream play.
The title refers to the white nights of St. Petersburg, the time of the summer solstice, when it never gets really dark at night. In the film, the meaning has been modified to the extent that there was snow last night and it is therefore white .
Awards
The film entered the competition at the Venice International Film Festival in 1957 and won the Silver Lion.
literature
- Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski : White Nights. A love story (original title: Belye noči ). German by Hermann Röhl . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig 2002, 109 pages, ISBN 3-458-34534-5
Web links
- White Nights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ White nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .