Between Madrid and Paris
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Between Madrid and Paris |
| Original title | The Sun Also Rises |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 130 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henry King |
| script | Peter's Quarter |
| production | Darryl F. Zanuck |
| music | Hugo Friedhofer |
| camera | Leo Tover |
| cut | William Mace |
| occupation | |
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Between Madrid and Paris (original title: The Sun Also Rises ) is an American film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel Fiesta (1926) from the year 1957. Directed by Henry King are Tyrone Power , Ava Gardner , Mel Ferrer and Errol Flynn in to see the main roles.
action
After serving in the First World War , the American Jake Barnes decides to stay in Europe and work as a reporter in Paris . At the same time, like many of his generation, he is looking for entertaining entertainment to have fun, but also to compensate for the impotence he has suffered from since the war. One day he meets the very beautiful Lady Brett Ashley in a dance hall, who looked after him as a nurse during the war. Both fall in love, but at first they lose sight of each other again.
Jake travels to Pamplona with his friend Bill Gorton to take part in the annual bull run . Once there, he meets Brett again in a bullring. She is in the company of Robert Cohn and Mike Campbell, both of whom are also in love with Brett. Jealousy resulted in more and more tension between the three men. Meanwhile, Brett has an affair with the celebrated bullfighter Pedro Romero, with whom she finally runs away. But for fear of endangering Pedro's career, Brett ends the relationship. When she calls Jake over to her in Madrid and confesses that she only got involved with Pedro in order to forget him, she asks him to go away with her. They leave the Spanish capital together.
background
As early as the early 1950s, director Howard Hawks wanted to film Ernest Hemingway's novel Fiesta (1926) and suggested Ann Harding and Montgomery Clift for the leading roles. However, Hawks sold the film rights to Darryl F. Zanuck , the head of production at 20th Century Fox , who ended up hiring Henry King to direct the project. The latter had already successfully filmed a Hemingway novel with Snow on Kilimanjaro in 1952 . Filming then took place in Pamplona , Paris , Biarritz and Mexico , for which a budget of five million dollars was provided by 20th Century Fox. As it turned out, between Madrid and Paris, despite a high budget and star cast, was less well received by critics and audiences, who found the film too lengthy and the actors too old for their respective roles.
The film was released in Germany on October 25, 1957. On May 10, 1975, it was first broadcast on German television by ZDF. It was released on DVD in 2008.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films said that Ernest Hemingway's novel, "a cynical-melancholy memorial of the 'lost generation'", will be "reduced to an emotional melodrama" in the screen adaptation. “Private fates remain unrelated to politics,” criticized the lexicon. However, "the milieu descriptions (especially the spectacular bullfights)" were successful. You have “strength and brilliance”. At the time, Variety found that leading actor Tyrone Power was "wooden" and "never really believable". Ava Gardner, on the other hand, delivers "a far more likeable and believable performance". But it is mainly Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert who have shown "first-class depictions of their characters".
Hal Erickson of the All Movie Guide described Zwischen Madrid und Paris in retrospect as a "for the time [...] quite frank and faithful adaptation" of the Hemingway novel. However, it tends "like many large-scale productions of the era [...] to become superficial and bored in places". Outstanding among the cast is Errol Flynn. He had "provided the best representation of the film [...], although one could also think that he rather plays himself in the role of the pleasure-addicted, drinking and burned-out Mike Campbell".
German version
The German dubbed version was created in 1957.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jacob "Jake" Barnes | Tyrone Power | Curt Ackermann |
| Lady Brett Ashley | Ava Gardner | Edith Schneider |
| Robert Cohn | Mel Ferrer | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Mike Campbell | Errol Flynn | Heinz Engelmann |
| Bill Gorton | Eddie Albert | Arno Assmann |
| Count Mippipopolous | Gregory Ratoff | Walther Suessenguth |
| Georgette Aubin | Juliette Gréco | Ethel Reschke |
| Zizi | Marcel Dalio | Gerd Martienzen |
| Military doctor | Henry Daniell | Siegfried Schürenberg |
| Harris | Bob Cunningham | Wolf Martini |
| Pedro Romero | Robert Evans | Herbert Stass |
Web links
- Between Madrid and Paris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Sun Also Rises at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Between Madrid and Paris in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. omovie.com
- ↑ Between Madrid and Paris. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 4, 2019 .
- ↑ “Power is on the wooden side, his character never wholly believable. Gardner turns in a far more sympathetic and credible performance. [...] Errol Flynn and Eddie Albert turn in top flight characterizations as drunken members of the gambling expatriates. " See Review: 'The Sun Also Rises' . In: Variety , 1957.
- ↑ “For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. [...] like many big pictures of the era, it tended to be hollow and draggy at times. The film's best performance is delivered by Errol Flynn, though it can be argued that, in taking on the role of the hedonistic, hard-drinking, burned-out Mike Campbell, he was merely playing himself. " Hal Erickson , cf. omovie.com
- ↑ cf. synchrondatenbank.de