When the festival begins ...
When the festival begins ... is a French period film by Bertrand Tavernier from 1975. It deals with the Pontcallec conspiracy .
action
France in 1719: The country is ruled by the liberal Philippe d'Orléans , who is the heir to the throne, Louis XV. represents. Philippe has seen several heirs to the throne die and knows that he has become an old man himself. He likes to spend his time in the brothel and organizes parties to which the guests appear in disguise and which always degenerate into orgies. One of his confidants is Guillaume Dubois, a clergyman of dubious reputation who, despite his temperament and a certain contempt for God, would like to become archbishop.
Away from the court, there is famine , especially in Brittany . The petty aristocratic Marquis de Pontcallec is planning an uprising against the monarch and wants the Republic of Brittany to be proclaimed. Although Philippe is rather amused by him, he has him arrested and taken to Louisiana as a slave laborer . Pontcallec manages to escape back to Brittany, which Dubois especially likes. He forges an alliance with the English against Spain, which is supposed to give him the post of archbishop. Pontcallec, in turn, is supported by the Spaniards in his uprising. The Spaniards don't know that Pontcallec doesn't have hundreds behind them, only a handful of fighters.
Philippe has chosen a new lover: his 14-year-old goddaughter Séverine is to come out of the monastery and move into one of his castles. Dubois, in turn, continues to pursue Pontcallec and has him arrested. He is to be executed for high treason. Philippe is against it, since the punishment cannot be explained by the crime in any way, but Dubois blackmails him to give up his office as clergyman if the execution is delayed. Philippe signs the execution warrant. When his close relative, the Count de Horn, was charged with murder a little later, Philippe enforced the execution of the high nobility by the wheel. After Pontcallec's execution, Philippe learned that Dubois had withheld numerous letters in which Séverine asked for Pontcallec's pardon. After his execution, she has now decided not to come to Philippe, but to become a nun.
Philippe feels bad and thinks he is seriously ill, which seems to require amputation of his left arm. He wants Dubois to do it, whom he now openly despises and accuses of loving blood. On the way to the doctor Chirac, the carriage runs over a farmer's child. Philippe is shaken, gives his big sister money and invites her to the castle. When Philippe and Dubois drove on in another carriage, the farmer's wife and other farmers set the carriage on fire with hatred.
production
When the festival begins ... was the second feature film that Bertrand Tavernier directed entirely. He also wrote the script together with Jean Aurenche. The basis was, among others, the books Une fille du Régent by Alexandre Dumas from 1845 and the Mémoires by Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon , which were published in 1830.
Tavernier occupied after his directorial debut, The Clockmaker of St. Paul again Philippe Noiret and Jean Rochefort in the leading roles; The film is also considered the first in a series of works in which Tavernier dealt with "intermediate phases" of French history, historical "gaps" that are usually rarely shown (later works included The Judge and the Murderer and The Passion of Beatrice ).
The film was among others and on from 16 September 1974 Castle Courances , Château de Champs-sur-Marne , castle Aunoy, castle Ardenai, Château de Guermantes , Château de Champs-sur-Marne, Vaux-le-Vicomte turned and castle Kérouzéré. Other locations were Fontevrault Abbey , the Beaufort-en-Vallée Chapel, Le Mans , Fleury-en-Bière and Kerfons, and Tonquedec Castle near Kerfons. The costumes were created by Jacqueline Moreau , the film structures are by Pierre Guffroy .
For the soundtrack of When the festival begins ... music of Philippe d'Orléans was mainly used, including the Air du Regent , and the piece O Douleur! from the opera Penthée . You can also hear the traditional Gwerz Marv Pont Kallec , sung by Gilles Servat and arranged by Antoine Duhamel .
The film was released in French cinemas on March 26, 1975.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe d'Orléans | Philippe Noiret | Lambert Hamel |
| Guillaume Dubois | Jean Rochefort | Fred Maire |
| Marquis de Pontcallec | Jean-Pierre Marielle | Klaus Guth |
| Marshal de Villeroy | Alfred Adam | Thomas Reiner |
| Father Gratellard | Jacques Hilling | Herbert Weicker |
Awards
The Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma honored When the Festival Begins ... in 1976 as Best Film . When the Césars were first awarded in 1976 , When the Festival Begins ... was the most successful film: It won the award in the categories of Best Director , Best Supporting Actor (Jean Rochefort), Best Screenplay and Best Production Design and was also in the categories of Best Film , Best Supporting Actress (Christine Pascal) and Best Film Music (Philippe d'Orléans, Antoine Duhamel) nominated for further Césars.
Web links
- When the festival begins ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- When the party starts ... on allocine.fr
- When the party starts ... at cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hollow Moments: “Que la fete commence” and the 1970s . In: Naomi Greene: Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1999, p. 102.
- ↑ Hollow Moments: “Que la fete commence” and the 1970s . In: Naomi Greene: Landscapes of Loss: The National Past in Postwar French Cinema . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1999, p. 101.
- ↑ When the party starts ... at cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr
- ↑ When the festival begins ... in the German dubbing index