The Green Ray

The green beam (also The Green Ray) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne. The novel was first published in 1882 by the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel under the French title Le Rayon vert -. The first German -language edition was published in 1885 under the title The green beam. The English title of the novel is The Green Ray.

Action

The green beam is a pure love story. It tells the story of the young Helen Campbell, who is brought up by her two uncles Sib Melvill and Sam Melvill. When she is to be married off by this, she said she would not marry until they have seen the green beam: the last spark of green light at sunset, which can be only very rarely observed on clear days by the sea. According to an old legend, can one who has seen the green light, in matters of love are not mistaken.

So break the Uncle Sam and Sib on with her niece and they select candidates for marriage, the pragmatic, unromantic Aristoblus Ursiclos to search the green lights. But so far they drive also, always comes something in between, once clouds move on, other times runs a sailing ship from the sun at the last moment over. On the journey closes them at the young Olivier Sinclair. Finally, the travel company in the Hebrides luck, but during the rest of the group admired the green beam, Helena has eyes only for Olivier.

Rating

The novel, set in Scotland, comes along without any utopian elements. The secondary characters Sib Melvill and Sam Melvill and the scholar Aristoblus Ursiclos are typical of Jules Verne eccentric. Otherwise, the work is not typical of Jules Verne.

Filming

Was filmed in 1987 by the work of French director Eric Rohmer in a modernized version.

Background

The physical background is actually sometimes occurring at sunrise or sunset at sea green flash.