Boulevard der Dämmerung

Originaltitel: Sunset Blvd.

1950
16
1 Std. 50 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,4/10

244.706

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.003

452

Trailer for the classic film Sunset Blvd., starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, and Erich von Stroheim

trailer wiedergeben3:14

3 Videos

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Film Noir Psychological Drama Showbiz Drama Tragedy Drama

Ein heruntergekommener Drehbuchautor schreibt für einen früheren Stummfilmstar, der von der Leinwand Hollywoods verschwunden ist, ein Drehbuch.Ein heruntergekommener Drehbuchautor schreibt für einen früheren Stummfilmstar, der von der Leinwand Hollywoods verschwunden ist, ein Drehbuch.Ein heruntergekommener Drehbuchautor schreibt für einen früheren Stummfilmstar, der von der Leinwand Hollywoods verschwunden ist, ein Drehbuch.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,4/10

244.706

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

2.003

452

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Am besten bewerteter Film #63

3 Oscars gewonnen
- 19 Gewinne & 20 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Unlike the character she played, Gloria Swanson had accepted the fact that the movies didn't want her anymore and had moved to New York, where she worked on radio and, later, television. Although she had long before ruled out the possibility of a movie comeback, she was nevertheless highly intrigued when she got the offer to play the lead.

Patzer
When Max is telling Joe about directing Madam's first pictures, there is a bad dub of the word "sixteen". After the Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle trial and the subsequent establishment of the Hays Office to enforce the new Production Code, the producers were concerned that the original age of 14 would be considered child porn and had the line changed in post.

Zitate
Joe Gillis: Wait a minute, haven't I seen you before? I know your face.
Norma Desmond: Get out! Or shall I call my servant?
Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small.

Crazy Credits
The Paramount logo appears as a transparency over the opening shot. The words "Sunset Blvd." are shown stenciled on the curb of that street.

Verbindungen
Edited into Les Amoureux du cinéma (1987)

Soundtracks
The Paramount-Don't-Want-Me Blues
(1950) (uncredited)
Written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Performed by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans at Artie's party

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9/10

Another Billy Wilder masterpiece

I have yet to see a Billy Wilder film that I haven't loved, and Sunset Boulevard is definitely one of those films. It's interesting to watch the film during different times in one's life when I was a child watching this film, I thought the story was good and that Norma Desmond (Swanson) was a pretty scary lady. In my teens/college years, I appreciated it as a certified classic and for its commentary on Hollywood. Now, in my late 20's and early 30's I found it to have a different impact on me I was saddened by Desmond's mental illness, and when she makes her final descent down her staircase and utters her famous line as the camera pans the faces of the people around her, so full of pity, and the care her butler/ex-husband takes to make sure she's happy for maybe the last time in her life made more of an impact on me than any other time in the 20-odd times I've seen this film. There are only a small handful of central characters in Sunset Boulevard and they are so richly written that this film will remain timeless. There are not a lot of `dated' themes in this film the circle of life that is Hollywood isn't going to be much more evolved in 2050 than it was in 1950. If you haven't seen this film, watch it because there is something for just about anyone in this film.

--Shelly