Die Geschichte der Adele H. (1975)

Für 1 Oscar nominiert
- 11 Gewinne & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Isabelle Adjani

Adèle Hugo

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

Ruben Dorey

Mr. Saunders

Clive Gillingham

Keaton

Roger Martin

Doctor Murdock

M. White

Colonel White
(as Mr White)

Madame Louise

Madame Baa

Jean-Pierre Leursse

Black penpusher

Geoffroy Crook

George, servant at Johnstone's
(Nicht genannt)

Chantal Durpoix

Young whore
(Nicht genannt)

Raymond Falla

Judge Johnstone
(Nicht genannt)

David Foote

David, a young boy
(Nicht genannt)

Jacques Frejabue

Cabinetmaker
(Nicht genannt)

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Wissenswertes
Initially planned as a grand-scale spectacular drama with Jeanne Moreau to play the lead, then Catherine Deneuve (then having an affair with François Truffaut) was considered for the role. The film took 7 years to be made, and finally Truffaut decided on Isabelle Adjani whom he noticed on a TV broadcast of the Comédie Française.

Patzer
The hypnotist has a plant in the audience pretending to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which was not set up until a decade after the story's setting of 1863

Zitate
Adèle Hugo: I'm your wife. Forever. We'll stay together until we die.

Verbindungen
Featured in 48th Annual Academy Awards (1976)

A genuine horror film of the spirit---the filmmaking is excellent and a bit of a thematic departure for Truffaut as there is little to no leavening humour in this film. In most of his works there is at least a touch of ironic drollness but this film is basically serious-minded all the way through with devastating results.

"Haunting" is the best way to describe Adjani's work in this, one of her first film appearances. Her best moments are wordless; in her eyes is the essense of spiritual dissipation and emotional emaciation. Before our eyes, she is devoured by love, and not in the conventional sense. Without the film ever leaving the secular world, Adele Hugo descends to Hell and Truffaut finds the horror of her journey in the most mundane settings and gestures. A movie that stays with you.

A lacerating but very rewarding experience!