Cinematek : Fritz Lang, dessins d’un film

Cinematek : Fritz Lang, dessins d’un film

31/01 @ 20h00

Fritz Lang, dessins d’un film
Année : 1989
Durée : 7'
Langues : Sans dialogue
Réalisation : Jacques Faton, Philippe de Pierpont

Janvier 1941, Fritz Lang prépare minutieusement le tournage de son prochain film « Man Hunt ». Dessinant plan par plan une bonne partie de l’histoire, Fritz Lang crée véritablement son film sur papier. En filmant et sonorisant librement les documents, nous avons voulu mettre en lumière un des moments du processus créatif de cette oeuvre.

Man Hunt
Fritz Lang, USA 1941, Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders ⁄ NB ⁄ 100' ⁄ ST: FR - NL

Hitler and Goebbels were great admirers of Fritz Lang's films, most especially Metropolis. When the Nazis came to power they banned his first two sound movies, but then invited him to run the German film industry. A Jewish liberal, Lang fled into exile and seven years later directed this Hollywood version of Geoffrey Household's novel Rogue Male, the first of his four anti-Nazi movies. It begins with Captain Alan Thorndike, a celebrated British big-game hunter (Walter Pidgeon) holding Hitler in the cross hairs of his gunsight from a hill above Berchtesgaden in July 1939. The audience is similarly transfixed for the next 90 minutes. Thorndike doesn't fire the shot, is captured, tortured and escapes back to a very Hollywoodian England where the hunter becomes the prey.

Cinematek
Atelier Graphoui
Philip French for The Guardian

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