The Story of Adele H.
- Isabelle Adjani: Adèle Hugo / Adèle Lewly
- Bruce Robinson: Lt. Albert Pinson
- Sylvia Marriott: Mrs. Saunders
- Joseph Blatchley: Mr. Whistler
- Ivry Gitlis: hypnotist
- Louise Bourdet: Victor Hugo's servant
- Cecil De Sausmarez: Mr. Lenoir
The history of Adèle H. (Original Title: L' Histoire d' Adèle H. ) is an award-winning French film drama directed by François Truffaut from 1975 The plot is based on the diary of the youngest daughter of Victor Hugo, who played in the film by Isabelle Adjani. will.
Action
Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the French writer Victor Hugo, is destroyed after the accidental death of her older sister Léopoldine the ground. Her father lives in exile on the island of Guernsey where Adèle immortalized in the British officer Lt. Albert Pinson love. She follows him in 1863 to Halifax, Canada, where she served as Miss Lewly receives property under a false name in the family Saunders. Although Albert rejects, Adèle wrote to her family that she had married him. Her father urges then to return home.
Compared with the father of Albert's real fiancée Adèle also tells that Albert was her husband, which leads to the break between Albert and his fiancee. Adèle follows Albert up to Barbados, where he will be stationed next. Because of their obsessive and unrequited love for Albert Adèle increasingly losing touch with reality. In dilapidated clothes she walks aimlessly through the streets and can even unrecognizable Albert. A local takes care of her and makes sure that Adèle return to their homeland. In Paris she can instruct her father in a sanatorium, where she dies in mental derangement, 1915 at the age of 85 years.
Background
Originally Jeanne Moreau should play the role of Adèle Hugo. Then Catherine Deneuve was talking, which was temporarily allied with director François Truffaut. It finally took seven years before the project began to roll and Truffaut decided for Isabelle Adjani as his leading lady. The film was shot from January 8 to March 21, 1975 on location in Barbados, in Senegal and on the Channel Island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo had a house.
The film premiered on October 8, 1975 in France and shown four days later at the New York Film Festival. The then 20-year old Adjani received, among other things, an Oscar nomination for her performance and was at that time the youngest, who was ever nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Actress. In Germany Truffaut's film was shown in 1978 in the cinemas. On 1 December 1984, shown The history of Adèle H. DFF 1 for the first time on television in the GDR. In 2003, the drama film was released on DVD.
Reviews
" François Truffaut reconstructs the inner drama with a lot of discretion and interprets psychological contexts and historical circumstances merely to ," wrote the lexicon of international film. The result was in the process " a moving story that convinces human and cinematic ."
Prism described the film as " exciting psychogram ", the " far away from conventional love stories the failed attempt at self-realization" nachzeichne. Actress Isabelle Adjani have played " the suffering of the young woman and her decline with compelling championship". It reflects " her face [ ... ] all the nuances of an internalized great love that has been lost to nothing, insignificant lieutenant and begins to live a delusional life of its own ." Also be " Nestor Almendros ' atmospheric density images [ ... ] the acting performance equal ". Cinema moved simply concludes: " weighty drama of a unilateral amour fou. "
Awards
- A nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress ( Isabelle Adjani )
- Three nominations for the César in the categories of Best Actress ( Isabelle Adjani ), Best Director (François Truffaut ) and Best Art Direction (Jean -Pierre Kohut - Svelko )
- David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Isabelle Adjani as
- Special Critics Award for François Truffaut, Golden India Catalina for Isabelle Adjani and another nomination for Best Film at Cartagena Film Festival
- Prix Méliès the Association Française de la Critique de Cinéma
- Two National Board of Review Award for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Actress Isabelle Adjani
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress Isabelle Adjani
- Two New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Actress ( Isabelle Adjani ) and Best Screenplay
- Bambi for Isabelle Adjani