Das Arrangement

Originaltitel: The Arrangement

1969
16
2 Std. 5 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

3448

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Home Video Trailer from Warner Home Video

trailer wiedergeben2:56

1 Video

99+ Fotos

Drama Romance

Ein Werbefachmann versucht nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch, sein zerrüttetes Leben wieder aufzubauen.Ein Werbefachmann versucht nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch, sein zerrüttetes Leben wieder aufzubauen.Ein Werbefachmann versucht nach einem Nervenzusammenbruch, sein zerrüttetes Leben wieder aufzubauen.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,3/10

3448

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Gewinn & 3 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Critics were overwhelmingly negative when the film came out, and it was the consensus that Elia Kazan should never have filmed his own best-selling novel, which was panned by most literary critics as trash when it was published in 1967. It was widely known that the lead role had been turned down by Marlon Brando, who had garnered three Academy Award nominations and was awarded one Oscar under Kazan's direction at the beginning of his film career and was the heart and soul of some of Kazan's best work as a movie director. By the late 1960s, after a string of flops, most critics felt Brando was through as a movie star and that he desperately needed Kazan to turn his career around, both as an artist and as a box-office star. When the film came out, Kirk Douglas' lead performance was roundly panned, and most critics felt that even Brando at his best couldn't save what was, in essence, a melodramatic potboiler. The failure of "The Arrangement" was the end of Kazan's own career as an A-list director.

Patzer
When Eddie's father eats the piece of white bread, the number of bites and placement of the bread on the tray or his belly changes between shots.

Zitate
Gwen: The screwing I'm getting is not worth the screwing I'm getting.

Crazy Credits
Except for the title, company logo and "A Film Written and Directed by Elia Kazan," all the remaining credits are at the end, which was still uncommon in those days.

Verbindungen
Edited into Elia Kazan, vom Outsider zum Oscarpreisträger (2018)

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

an interesting film, but not one of kazan's best..

A sort of precursor to American Beauty and other modern fillms about dissatisfaction, Kazan's The Arrangment is an interesting attempt to characterize a man's deconstruction. Kirk Douglas plays Eddie, an advertising executive coming to terms with his job, his family, and his life's direction. Kazan experiments with montage, split narrative, and time span as he tells the story of a man looking for something new in life. The result is a compelling and relevant story about modern happiness that is broken apart by bizarre construction and confusing shot arrangement. Kazan has some interesting ideas here, but not all of them work. His split-consciousness portrayal of Eddie is sometimes confusing and distracting, as is the switch between past and present. Douglas is good as the lead; I don't see why Kazan would have chosen Brando in retrospect as I don't think it would have made much of a difference. Overall, a film worth seeing if you're a Kazan-freak, but otherwise stick with Streetcar, Eden, or Waterfront..