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Mord aus Leidenschaft

Originaltitel: Cause célèbre
  • Fernsehfilm
  • 1987
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 49 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,8/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Helen Mirren and Harry Andrews in Mord aus Leidenschaft (1987)
DramaKriminalität

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuWhen a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.When a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.When a woman's husband is murdered by her lover, both are tried for murder. The prosecution claims that she is the mastermind behind the crime, but she has an ace up her sleeve.

  • Regie
    • John Gorrie
  • Drehbuch
    • Terence Rattigan
    • Ken Taylor
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Helen Mirren
    • Harry Andrews
    • David Suchet
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,8/10
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    • Regie
      • John Gorrie
    • Drehbuch
      • Terence Rattigan
      • Ken Taylor
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Helen Mirren
      • Harry Andrews
      • David Suchet
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    Helen Mirren
    Helen Mirren
    • Alma Rattenbury
    Harry Andrews
    Harry Andrews
    • Francis Rattenbury
    David Suchet
    David Suchet
    • T.J. O'Connor K.C.
    David Morrissey
    David Morrissey
    • George Bowman
    Norma West
    Norma West
    • Irene Riggs
    Geoffrey Bayldon
    Geoffrey Bayldon
    • Mr. Justice Humphreys
    Clive Swift
    Clive Swift
    • R.P. Croom Johnson K.C.
    Oliver Ford Davies
    Oliver Ford Davies
    • J.D. Casswell
    Gillian Martell
    • Joan Webster
    Edmund Pegge
    Edmund Pegge
    • Constable Bagwell
    David Simeon
    • Inspector Carter
    Neil Jeffery
    • Christopher
    Joe Anderson
    Joe Anderson
    • Little John
    Adam Blackwood
    • Ewan Montagu
    Alan Rowe
    • E. Marshall Harvey
    Timothy Kightley
    • Lewis Manning
    Wendy Williams
    • Edith Davenport
    Paul Greenhalgh
    Paul Greenhalgh
    • Clerk of the court
    • Regie
      • John Gorrie
    • Drehbuch
      • Terence Rattigan
      • Ken Taylor
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    8JamesHitchcock

    Acute Psychological Study and Gripping Courtroom Thriller

    The Yorkshire-born architect Francis Rattenbury (1867- 1935) is something of a national hero in Canada where, in the 1890s and 1900s, he designed a number of iconic buildings, including the Parliament Buildings of British Columbia, which he designed at the age of only 25. In Britain, however, he is best remembered as the victim in a sensational murder case. On 23rd March 1935 he was discovered in the sitting room of his home in Bournemouth with severe head injuries, having suffered a series of blows with a carpenter's mallet. He died a few days later. His much younger wife Alma confessed to the crime, but did so falsely in the vain hope of shielding the real killer, her teenage lover George Stoner.

    Alma and Stoner were both arrested and put on trial for the killing. The problem facing Alma's defence team was not her false confession, which she later withdrew and which the police had never taken seriously, but the widespread public hostility to their client. Public opinion, encouraged by hysterical reporting in the national press, was firmly of the view that she had encouraged and incited Stoner to carry out the crime. This narrative was eagerly adopted by Stoner's defence team, who believed that their only hope of saving him from the gallows was to paint him as the victim of an evil older seductress. (At the time of the killing, Rattenbury was 67, Alma in her late thirties and Stoner 18, young enough to be given the death penalty under the law as it then stood).

    These events were later dramatised by Terence Rattigan in his stage play "Cause Celebre", which formed the basis for this film, made by Anglia Television, part of the ITV network. (Rattigan had earlier written another play based on a real-life court case, "The Winslow Boy", which was also filmed), It follows the events of the Rattenbury case fairly closely, although Alma's young lover is here renamed "George Bowman"; the real George Stoner was still alive in 1987. Scenes showing the progress of the affair between Alma and George and the killing of Rattenbury are intercut with scenes showing events in the courtroom.

    There are two particularly fine performances from Helen Mirren as Alma, trapped in a passionless marriage to a much older man, and from Harry Andrews as Francis, grumpy and irascible but not altogether unsympathetic. Andrews would have been 76 in 1987, nearly a decade older than the real Francis Rattenbury. (This was his last film before his death in 1989). David Morrissey plays George as the sort of rather gauche and charmless young man who has never had a girlfriend of his own age, who feels an intense passion for an attractive older woman but who is unable to cope when, unexpectedly, he finds that his feelings are returned. One thing that, because of his youth and inexperience, he is unable to understand is that sexual attraction and affection are not the same thing. Francis and Alma's marriage may be passionless but it is not necessarily loveless. Alma loves her elderly husband as a sort of father-figure, but George mistakes her affection for him as evidence of a continuing sexual relationship, provoking his fatal fit of jealousy. Another good performance comes from David Suchet as Alma's defence lawyer Terence O'Connor, a humane man trying his best to save his client from the gallows even though she seems indifferent as to whether she lives or dies.

    Had this been made as a feature film, it would probably be celebrated today as part of the great revival of the British cinema in the eighties, along with the likes of "Chariots of Fire", "Gandhi", "The Mission" and "Shirley Valentine". TV movies, however, tend to fall back into obscurity after they have been shown once, with a possible repeat a few years later, and so it has proved with "Cause Celebre". The film is today little known, although it does occasionally turn up on television, largely on the specialist movie channel "Talking Pictures" (which deserves credit for trying to keep alive films neglected by the major networks). And this is a film which deserves to be better known, both as an acute psychological study of a love-triangle and as a gripping courtroom thriller. 8/10.
    9muteperiod

    Rare treat of early Pre-Poirot Suchet & Pre-Prime Suspect Mirren

    Mirren is excellent, Suchet in a minor role is excellent, and wait until you hear his spoken English for a terrific contrast with his Poirot...helps you appreciate his acting ability. This 1987 t.v. movie is presented in one part, but there is an obvious editing break right at the halfway mark for it to have perhaps been originally shown in two parts. It opens outdoors on a 1030's London street. One immediately notes, and appreciates, that it was filmed using video. The entire movie is filmed on video tape and it avoids the jarring effect so common in earlier t.v. mini-series and movies which were filmed on the set using video and the outdoor scenes were made on film. Production is quite satisfactory with details of the interior designs of the house, and of the house itself, all period correct. The house is very appropriate for a once-successful middle class architect. Decorative pieces through the house add interest and are very appropriate. However, filmed on video, one is always aware we are watching a set. Still the set has a most satisfying mix of arts and crafts with art deco. The acting is very good all around, as are the costumes, sets, and photography, all adding a texture to this drama based on a true story. Good direction does service to the fine script which does not present the story in a dry straight forward narrative. I do fault the script in being so lacking in details of the young man's home life. We know he lives 30 minutes away on a bicycle, needs a job at during hard times, is 18 and tall, making him look older than he is, few friends, can drive, and his father is very strict. That is about it. We never see a member of his family or any scene of him at his home. The script is rich with subtleties, and who actually did what is answered when Mirren is question during the trial, in a subtle way. If Poirot was there he would be repeating it at the end explaining who did the dastardly deed indeed! However, it is up to you, (as this is not an Agatha Christie formula story), to figure out who did what. You are never clearly told. The answer I assure you is there. If you like Prime Suspect for Mirren, or Poirot for either Suchet or just the period art deco apartment interior, or both, I highly recommend Cause Celebre. Video: 1:33, few minor smear defects from original use of video, otherwise, sound and image is fine. No English subtitles, which I found needing occasionally.
    theowinthrop

    A Sad Judicial Tragedy

    Terence Rattigan liked to do plays based on actual crimes. He is best known for THE WINSLOW BOY, based on the 1911 Archer-Shee Case involving the social ruin of a naval cadet and his family when the cadet is accused of stealing postal money orders from his fellow cadets. It was twice filmed (both times quite well). CAUSE CELEBRE is based on the 1935 Alma Rattenbury - George Stonor murder case. Alma was a somewhat talented woman (she composed popular songs) who married Francis Rattenbury, an architect (his various public and private buildings in Vancouver are still part of the city's skyline). Francis was older than Alma, and she began an affair with Stonor, a handyman they hired. One night Stonor shot Francis, and he died in a couple of days. Stonor was arrested, and then so was Alma. It sort of resembles the Thompson-Bywater tragedy in 1922, but Alma was shown to have had nothing to do with the shooting. Stonor, however, was found guilty and condemned to death. Alma could not stand the loss of her young lover. She went down to a river near her home, and stabbed herself to death. Ironically, due to his age, Stonor's sentence was reduced to life imprisonment. Eventually he was released. However, in the 1980s (he was still alive) he was arrested on a morals charge. The play of course only deals with the events in 1935.
    9Buddybaba

    Another brilliant performance by Helen Mirren

    It never ceases to amaze me how one actor can so involve you in their characterization as to make you forget the person and remember the part. Helen Mirren is one of the greatest actors alive today. This is now available on video through Lance Entertainment. Watch it and you will be amazed. A great script interpreted by great actors. What more can you want from a film?
    nancinger

    i loved this story

    As usual, Helen Mirren has it all wrapped up. I knew it would be great when she goes from smiling to weeping in the course of 10 seconds at the piano scene near the beginning of the film. Amazing how she does that. THis character seemed lighter than most of the characters she plays--but underneath you know that she is suffering and drowning in her despair from the very beginning. You think that the woman is hopelessly flawed because of her seemingly superficial need for money and status, and for her interest in a much younger man. Then you realize she is playing such a complicated character that you can't even imagine how she did it. Helen mirren. Amazing.

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      The story is based on the true story of the murder of Francis Rattenbury, and is faithful to the facts. However George's surname had to be changed as the real person (George Percy Stoner) was alive when the play was written and when the television adaptation was produced.
    • Patzer
      When Helen Mirren takes the train ride at the end of the film, the train is composed of British Railways compartment stock built in the late 1950s. More than 20 years too modern for the supposed date.
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      Francis Rattenbury: Why the hell I ever let you drag me down to this god-forsaken hole, I don't know.

      Alma Rattenbury: You know why, darling - we wanted the fresh air...

      Francis Rattenbury: And that's just about all we're going to have to live on.

    • Verbindungen
      References Bengali (1935)
    • Soundtracks
      Roses of Picardy
      (uncredited)

      Music by Haydn Wood

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 22. März 1996 (Deutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Cause célèbre
    • Produktionsfirma
      • Anglia Television
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      • 1 Std. 49 Min.(109 min)
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