Regie:
Helmut KäutnerCamera:
Heinz PehlkeMuziek:
Bernhard EichhornActeurs:
Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Bum Krüger, Boy Gobert, Hans Hermann Schaufuss, Edith Heerdegen, Helmut Käutner, Joseph Offenbach, Mara Lane, Eva Vaitl (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
By the Mid-50s, the axis Bonn-Paris had successfully been established as the defining political force of the slowly uniting Europe. Accordingly, German cinema was looking closely at the erstwhile Erbfeind (= hereditary foe) turned best friend by the tides of the ages, resulting in several films where the locals played French – as if to try and feel what it means to be that particular other; usually, this ended in splendid caricatures and whimsical fantasies – rare is the hint of feelings more darkly. In this general spirit of playfulness, Monpti opens with a cheeky meta-film-joke: Horst "Hotte" Buchholz and Romy Schneider are introduced speaking French for they play a French couple in love (of course) – only to start speaking German the moment the omniscient narrator explains the movie miracle of dubbing; things is: the moment the film claims that foreigner were made understandable for German-only speakers, it's un boche and une autrichienne using their own voices. Topsy-turvy, hurly-burly everything goes – but then, what else to expect from a film whose title is a corruption of mon petit (pronounced MONpti and not monP'ti by just-about every German-speaker...), and which imagines a Paris to end all visions of Paris: totally stylized, idealized, etherealized the way only a German melancholic could on the basis of a theatre piece by a Hungarian cosmopolitan of the old Hapsburg school? Dreams are their reality... (OM) (Midnight Sun Film Festival)
(meer)Acteurs
Romy Schneider
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Die schöne Lügnerin (1959)
Het oud geweer (1975)
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Horst Buchholz
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
La vita è bella (1997)
De ogen van de getuige (1959)
Bum Krüger
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)
Donzoko (1957)
Monpti (1957)
Boy Gobert
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Kamikaze 1989 (1982)
Monpti (1957)
Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
Hans Hermann Schaufuss
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der große König (1942)
Der Stern von Afrika (1957)
Monpti (1957)
Edith Heerdegen
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Monpti (1957)
Helmut Käutner
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Große Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944)
Karl May (1974)
Monpti (1957)
Joseph Offenbach
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)
Die toten Augen von London (1961)
Robinson soll nicht sterben (1957)
Mara Lane
Oostenrijk
Beste films:
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Monpti (1957)
American Night (2021)
Otto Brüggemann
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Die vertauschte Braut (1934)
Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
Monpti (1957)
Bobby Todd
Duitse Rijk
Beste films:
Die toten Augen von London (1961)
Monpti (1957)
Madame Sans-Gęne (1961)
Olive Moorefield
USA
Beste films:
Monpti (1957)