A HETEDEK SZOBAFrance - Italie - Hongrie - Pologne / France - Italy - Hungary - Poland1995 / 35 mm / Couleur / 110 min. 23 août à 11:00 L1.23.1 | |
| Réal./Dir.: Márta Mészáros. Scén./Script: Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki, Roberta Mazzoni. Phot.: Piotr Sobocinski. Mont./Ed.: Ugo de Rossi. Mus.: Moni Ovadia. Son/Sound: Marek Wronko. Int./Cast: Maia Morgenstern, Elide Melli, Adriana Asti, Jan Nowicki, Hanna Polony, Giovanni Capalbo, Ileana Carini. Prod.: Francesco Panphili, Morgan Film Srl, Via E. Pimentel, 2-00195 Rome, Italie, tél.: 06 321 0900, fax: 06 321 1347. Ventes/Sales: Sacis, Via Teulada 66, 00195 Rome, Italie, tél.: 39 6 374981, fax: 39 6 3701343.
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| LA SEPTIÈME CHAMBRE
Nous sommes en 1933. Edith Stein enseigne la philosophie à l'Université de Münster. Célèbre aussi bien en Allemagne qu'à l'étranger, cette femme remarquable est hautement estimée de ses élèves. Mais aussitôt que se font sentir les premiers signes de la pensée nazie, ses origines juives et ses idées philosophiques et morales deviennent la raillerie d'une partie des étudiants. | THE SEVENTH ROOM
Edith Stein teaches philosophy at the University of Münster in 1933. She is famous in Germany and abroad and highly respected by her students. During the rise of Nazism, her Jewish origins as well as her philosophical and moral principles are subject to ridicule by some of her students. The Rector of the university suspends her classes and Stein decides to become a Carmelite, as she had long dreamed of doing. Upon her suspension Edith goes home to her family. Her sister is leaving for Palestine and tries to persuade their mother to go, but the old lady is determined to stay in her native Germany. Stein informs them that she is going to become a Carmelite and they feel that she has betrayed her people at a particularly vulnerable time. At the convent, Stein avoids theological research in favor of a simple life of contemplation. She pursues her spiritual quest through the seven rooms of her mystical inner castle. When she reaches the seventh chamber, she discovers her own self at the time of death. When the Jews are rounded up for extermination, Stein's presence in the convent endangers the entire community so she gives herself up. On her journey to death, Stein is stripped of whatever she still possesses and the image she sees in the gas chamber is the same one she saw in the seventh room. She meets death with serenity. |
| Márta Mészáros est née en 1931, à Budapest. En 1936, elle émigre avec sa famille en Union Soviétique où elle fait ses études secondaires. Elle rentre en Hongrie en 1946, et obtient à Moscou son diplôme de metteur en scène de cinéma. Dès 1958, de retour à Budapest, elle réalise des films de vulgarisation scientifique et des documentaires. Ses longs métrages sont: CATI (1968), MARIE (1969), PLEUREZ PAS, JOLIES FILLES (1970), DÉBARRAS (1973), ADOPTION (1975, Grand Prix du Festival de Berlin), NEUF MOIS (1976), ELLES DEUX (1977), COMME À LA MAISON (1978), EN COURS DE ROUTE (1979), LES HÉRITIÈRES (1980), UNE MÈRE, UNE FILLE... (1981), JOURNAL INTIME (1982, Prix spécial du jury au Festival de Cannes), LE PAYS DE MIRAGE (1983), JOURNAL À MES AMOURS (1986, Ours d'argent au Festival de Berlin), BYE BYE CHAPERON ROUGE (1988) et DIARY FOR MY FATHER AND MOTHER (1990).
| Born in Budapest in 1931, Márta Mészáros emigrated with her family to the Soviet Union in 1936. After graduating from the Moscow Academy of Cinematographic Art she returned to Hungary in 1958 where she began working at the Budapest Newsreel Studio, making documentaries on popular science, art and other subjects. She directed her first feature film, THE GIRL, in 1968 and has since become one of Hungary's most prolific, and honored, cineastes. Among her feature films are: DON'T CRY, PRETTY GIRLS (1970), RIDDANCE (1973), ADOPTION (1975, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival), NINE MONTHS (1976), THE TWO OF THEM (1977), ON THE MOVE (1979), MOTHER AND DAUGHTER (1981), DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN (1982, Special Jury Prize at Cannes), DIARY FOR MY LOVES (1986, Silver Bear, Berlin), BYE BYE RED RIDING HOOD (1988) and DIARY FOR MY FATHER AND MOTHER (1990).
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