Time to live, time to die
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Time to live, time to die |
| Original title | Tempo di uccidere |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Giuliano Montaldo |
| script | Giuliano Montaldo, Furio Scarpelli |
| production | Guido De Laurentiis |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Blasco Giurato |
| cut | Alfredo Muschietti |
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Time to live, time to die (Original title: Tempo di uccidere ) is an Italian film drama from 1989. It is based on the novel Tempo di uccidere by Ennio Flaiano from 1947.
action
1936 in Italian-occupied Ethiopia : Lieutenant Silvestri has severe toothache, so he tries to get to the next military camp. After a breakdown with the truck, he continues on foot. In the forest he recognizes a young woman bathing. He approaches her, which the woman allows after some hesitation. You spend the night there. While trying to shoot an approaching hyena , the young woman is hit by a ricochet. She dies and Silvestri buries the body under stones. Silvestri is finally treated by the military doctor.
During a drinking bout, the major explains that the women's white turbans indicate leprosy . Silvestri recognizes discoloration on his hand and panics. He tries to find out about symptoms at a leprosy doctor, but does not let him examine him. He wants to flee on a ship, but does not have the appropriate papers. An illegal trip as a stowaway seems too expensive to him. On the way back to the camp, he steals a large amount of money from the major. Silvestri wants to die in the Ethiopian village when the native Joannes tells him that the young woman Mariam was not sick. Silvestri admits that he shot her. At the end of the war, Silvestri was able to return home safely.
criticism
“Symbolically charged guilt-and-atonement drama by the Italian director Giuliano Montaldo (' Die in Dirt ') based on a novel by Ennio Flaiano. Nicholas Cage in the lead role may be rated as a casting coup, who was shortly before his big breakthrough with David Lynch's ' Wild at Heart ' after the success with ' Peggy Sue got married ' and ' Moonstruck ' . Here he embodies the guilty soldier Enrico, who seeks forgiveness for his sins - and gets it. Less something for friends of hard war action. "
Web links
- Time to live, time to die in the Internet Movie Database (English)