One Hundred and One Nights

Hundred and One Nights, also known as 101 Night - Dreams of M. Cinema ( Original: Les Cent et Une Nuits de Simon Cinéma ), is a star-studded, French comedy film directed by Agnès Varda from the year 1995.

Action

Monsieur Cinéma, a grumpy old man and a legend in film history wants to let his hundredth birthday no less than the entire history of cinema in his mind to reminisce. To his dwindling memory for a helping hand, he committed Camille, a young film student who visit him daily and to tell episodes from the history of film. Camille agrees, given the respectable wage, they should receive, and is kidnapped by Monsieur Cinéma in a world of it after a short time can not escape. Not only that, Marcello Mastroianni every now and then comes along a game of chess, including Gérard Depardieu, Jean -Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Hanna Schygulla, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, Robert De Niro and many other stars from time to look it over.

Fascinated Camille tells her friend Mica, a budding director, of her new work. Mica sniffs at the chance to pull the old man money for his first film production out of his pocket. To this end, an acquaintance of Monsieur Vincent Cinemas grandson play that went years ago to India. The friend is when Vincent was once rich heritage and then share the money with Camille and Mica. " Vincent " finally agrees and Monsieur Cinéma actually believes his long-lost and only descendants again.

However, when an Elizabeth Taylor Double Monsieur Cinéma to move to leave his legacy of their AIDS Foundation come, Micas bursts plan. Then Camille travels with Monsieur Cinéma to the Cannes Film Festival and then to Hollywood, where Monsieur Cinéma is upbeat.

Background

One Hundred and One Night was directed by the French director Agnès Varda as a tribute to the centenary of the cinema with guest appearances of many stars of the European and American cinema. In Germany the film was first shown in February 1995 at the Berlinale. On September 14, 1995, he came to German cinemas.

Reviews

" A film like a sparkler, which threatens to stifle the quotations and allusion mountain with all the charms the viewer's imagination. "

"The French Autorenfilmerin Agnès Varda created an idiosyncratic tribute to the 100th anniversary of cinema. She shows a very personal but highly humorous and ironic insight into the film history. Above all, the cast list includes almost everything in the international film business rank and name. "

Awards

One hundred and one night was in competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in 1995 in part, but lost Bertrand Tavernier's The Decoy (L' APPAT ).

German version

The German synchronous processing was 1995.

France 1995 in film Screenplay Jean-Paul Belmondo Horst Sachtleben Peer Schmidt
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