Marianne de ma jeunesse (1955)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Writers:

Julien Duvivier (writer)
Peter von Mendelssohn (novel)

Release Date:

18 March 1955 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Marianne Hold	...	Marianne
Pierre Vaneck	...	Vincent Loringer
Gil Vidal	...	Manfred
Jean Yonnel	...	Le chevalier
Jean Galland	...	Capitaine von Brower
Michael Ande	...	Petit Félix
Claude Aragon	...	Jan
Gérard Fallec	...	Alexis
Ady Berber	...	Le valet
Friedrich Domin	...	Le professeur
Isabelle Pia	...	Lise

Also Known As:

Marianne (West Germany)
Marianne of My Youth (USA)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

France | West Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:12 | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Bavaria-Ateliers, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany

Company:

Filmsonor

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Le pacte des loups (2001)

Visually, often evocative and sensitive

Style, setting, lighting, and mood are the strong points of this coming of age film, replete with youthful exuberance, faith, yearning and near fairy-tale trappings. However, once you get beyond mood and atmosphere, the film, upon reflection, is quite pedestrian in its plot and dialogue. I first saw this film when I was 12 years old, and it made a major impression on me. I've never seen it screened anywhere else (and I've had serious arguments with very knowledgeable buffs about whether or not it actually existed), and, honestly, I don't know if I ever want to see it again and risk losing that sense of youthful wonder.