La Paura

La Paura

Infobox Film
name = La Paura


image_size =
caption = A Belgian poster for the film
director = Roberto Rossellini
producer = Herman Millakowsky
writer = Roberto Rossellini
Sergio Amidei
Franz von Treuberg
narrator =
starring = Ingrid Bergman
Mathias Wieman
Renate Mannhardt
Kurt Kreuger
music = Renzo Rossellini
cinematography = Carlo Carlini
Heinz Schnackertz
editing = Jolanda Benvenuti
Walter Boos
distributor = flagicon|Italy Minerva Film SpA
released = flagicon|Germany November 5 1954
flagicon|Italy February 18 1955
runtime = flagicon|Germany 83 min
flagicon|Italy 75 min
country = Germany
Italy
language = German
English
budget =
website =
amg_id = 1:91147
imdb_id = 0047336

"La Paura" (English: "Angst"/"Fear") is a 1954 German and Italian drama film directed by Roberto Rossellini and starring his wife Ingrid Bergman. It is based on the Stefan Zweig novel "Angst". It was filmed in Munich and was shot simultaneously in German and English. The film was the last collaborative effort between Rossellini and Bergman. Rossellini created it because he wanted to explore the reconstruction of Germany from both a material and moral standpoint ten years after making his previous German film "Germany Year Zero". [cite web |url=http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/film_exhibitions.php?id=2283 |title=Film Exhibitions: 2006: Roberto Rossellini |accessdate=2008-05-04 |work=The Museum of Modern Art ] The film is noirish with aspects reminiscent of Hitchcock and German expressionism.

ummary

Irene Wagner (Bergman), the wife of the prominent German scientist Professor Albert Wagner (Wieman), had been having an affair with Erich Baumann (Kreuger). She does not disclose this to her husband, hoping to preserve his innocence and their "perfect marriage". This fills her with anxiety and guilt. However, Johann Schultze (Mannhardt), Erich's jealous ex-girlfriend, learns about the affair and begins to blackmail Irene, turning Irene's psychological torture into a harsh reality. When Irene finds out that the extortion plot is truly an experiment in fear, she is driven into a homicidal/suicidal rage. The story is told in flashback by Irene after her death.

Reception

The film did not do well when it was released in Italy and Germany. Consequently, the Italian distributor edited the film and re-released it as "Non credo più all'amore". In this edited version, a fishing scene is shortened and an explanatory narration is added to two silent scenes. In addition, the ending was changed from a scene showing Bergman attempting suicide to a scene showing her family in the countryside, after Bergman had left her husband, living on for the sake of her children.

The daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, Isabella Rossellini, is working on buying the rights to this film and others made by her father and featuring her mother. The films will then be edited and rereleased on DVD. This is a long term project.

Footnotes

External links

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* [http://www.cinemathequeontario.ca/filmdetail.aspx?filmId=150&archives=1&season=Fall2006 Cinematheque Ontario Review from the 2006 Rossellini Retrospective]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE0DD1339E732A2575BC1A96E9C946890D6CF 1979 New York Times film review by Vincent Canby]


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