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Ehre der Ritter

HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, Spanien 2006, 107 min

Nach dem Roman „El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha“ von Miguel de Cervantes.

Synopsis

EHRE DER RITTER reduziert Miguel de Cervantes' „Don Quijote“ auf das Wesentliche: Quijote und Sancho auf Reisen. Sie galoppieren durch das Land auf der Suche nach Abenteuern. Auf ihrem Weg philosophieren sie über Spiritualität, Ritterlichkeit und das tägliche Leben. Ihre Freundschaft vertieft sich. 

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Sprache: Katalanisch, Untertitel: Deutsch, Englisch

Pressestimmen

Der hagere, ältere Ritter und sein Gefolgsmann, der dicke, wortkarge Sancho Pansa, pflegen einen fast zärtlichen Umgang miteinander; und wer sich auf die Freuden der langen, von Handlung frei geräumten Einstellungen einlässt, der sieht ihnen gerne zu: wie sie durch die Wiesen Kataloniens streichen, wie sie Nüsse mit Steinen knacken, wie sie ein Bad an einer Wasserstelle nehmen, wie sie am Abend Schutz am Rande eines Wäldchens suchen. Wenn die Sonne untergeht, dämmert auch der auf Digitalvideo gedrehte Film, und die Konturen verschwimmen. Die Tonspur - das Zirpen der Grillen, die Schritte im hohen Gras, das Quietschen der Ritterrüstung, das Schnauben von Pferd und Esel und die Geräusche des Windes - ist außergewöhnlich vielschichtig. Einmal fährt der Wind durch einen Olivenhain. Don Quichotte zückt sein Schwert, und in einer langen wunderschönen Szene kämpft er - gegen die Zweige der Olivenbäume, gegen den Wind und gegen die Flügel der abwesenden Windmühlen. – Cristina Nord, Viennale

Serra’s masterful distillation on Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote draws on the classic tale to create a mesmerising work conjured out of the raw landscapes and the unaffected performances of the nonprofessional cast. Enriched with Serra’s fascination with the past, the film draws equally on myths, landscapes and traditions of Europe as well as work of artists and writers such as Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Federico García Lorca, Pepín Bello. The film vividly captures a hermetic world and the camaraderie between the two principle characters. Filmed in atmospheric long takes that allow us to join Don Quixote and Sancho on their journey, their honour maintained in stark contrast to their increasingly futile adventure. Although no end is in sight their journey is coloured by their defiant nobility and filled with wonder at being in the world. – Tate Modern

Honour of the Knights is easily the most striking Spanish film of 2006. Albert Serra is original, without making a secret of whom and what inspired him. Clear and to the point - both through homages in his film and in accompanying text and interviews - he states what he wants to achieve. This serene, painterly film debut reminds us of the films of Ozu, Olmi, Bresson and Pasolini, but also of the ideas and approach of Godard, Rocha and Paradzhanov (occasionally explicitly), without being disruptive or irritating. On the contrary, the gentle human approach that makes this film so moving brings us closer to heaven… – International Film Festival Rotterdam

Preise und Festivals

- Cannes Film Festival - Directors' Fortnight 2006
- 7th Seoul Film Festival 2006
- 54º Festival Intenacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2006
- 25th Vancouver International Film Festival 2006
- VIENNALE - Vienna International Film Festival 2006 - FIPRESCI Award
- BFI 2006, The Times London Film Festival
- 30th MOSTRA Internacional de Cinema Saô Paulo 2006
- 24th Torino Film Festival 2006 - Lancia Award for the Best Film, Special Jury Prize for Lluís Carbó & Lluís Serrat
- ENTREVUES 2006, 21ème Festival du Film, Belfort - Gran Prix for the Best Film and Janine Bazin Award for the two leading actors performance
- Spanish Cinema Now 2006, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Nova York
- Semana del Cine Catalán 2006, Casablanca - Best Film in VO and Best New Director Award
- 44º Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón 2006
- Palm Springs Internacional Film Festival 2007
- 36e Internacional Film Festival Rotterdam 2007
- Göteborg International Film Festival 2007
- FICCO 2007, Festival Internacional de Cine de Mexico
- 22º Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata 2007
- VIVA 2007, 13th Spanish & Latin Film Festival, Manchester
- 31st Hong-Kong Internacional Film Festival 2007
- NATFILM Copenhagen 2007
- BAFICI 2007, Buenos Aires Independent International Film Festival
- CINE LATINO 2007, Filmtage Tübingen
- Shanghai International Film Festival 2007
- Los Angeles Film Festival 2007
- Seoul Digital Film Festival 2007
- Auckland Film Festival 2007
- Wellington Film Festival 2007
- Melbourne Film Festival 2007
- The Film and Art Festival in Kazimierz 2007
- Bos`Art Film Festival 2007
- Split Filmfest 2007 - Special Award
- UNDERDOX Film Festival 2007, Munich 
- 14th Valdivia International Film Festival 2007 
- Thessaloniki Film Festival 2007
- Festival Internacional de Cine de Cuenca 2007 - Best Actor for Lluís Carbó and Best Cinematography
- SPOT 2008 Taipei Film House
- Festivalíssimo 2008, Festival de Filmes Ibéro-Latinoaméricains de Montreal
- Ljubljana International Film Festival 2008
- Batik 2009 Perugia Film Festival
- Milano Film Festival 2016 

Weitere Texte

PRESENTATION

The film Honor de cavalleria is a free adaptation of Don Quixote. The shoot took both the artistic and technical team on a journey (cinematographically, but also in real life) that had a great deal in common with the journey taken by the novel’s two protagonists. For the two characters, theirs is a solitary, anonymous, desperate life yet, at the same time, their journey takes them through the heroic world of chivalry. In the case of the crew, theirs was the journey from the film’s initial conception, from how they dreamed it would be to the film that was ultimately made. The similarities between these two journeys represent the principal theme of the film. On an artistic level, therefore, this film is not the “narration of an adventure but the adventure of a narration”.
Honor de cavalleria is an aesthetic and conceptual synthesis of the most pure influences (including Lancelot du Lac, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Francesco, Giullare di Dio, Ozu, Sokurov), the innovative, eccentric cinema of the 60’s (Paradjanov, Godard), and the personal mythology of the author.
Lluís Carbó and Lluís Serrat play the two protagonists. They bring out the poetry, simplicity and beauty of the intimate relationship between the two characters. Their performances mark a return to the noble tradition of non-psychological acting. Shot entirely on location in natural surroundings, no man-made construction appears in the film.

PRODUCTION NOTES

Honor de cavalleria was shot during the months of September and October 2005. The film was shot on location in natural surroundings, mainly in the Alt Empordà area (St. Climent Sescebes, St. Miquel de Colera, Albanyà, St. Pere de Rodes, Espolla), but also in the Pla de l’Estany (Foncoberta) and the Garrotxa (Santa Pau) in the province of Girona.
The editor is Àngel Martín, with original music by Ferran Font and sound mix by Ricard Cassals.
Honor de cavalleria has been selected to participate in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 2006 Cannes Festival, where it will compete for the Cámera d’Or. It is due to open in commercial cinemas in Spain on the 12th May.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES

“The plot of Don Quixote, reduced to its fundamentals, is this: Quixote and Sancho, travelling. The desire to see images of the two of them is the reason why the project was born, but no more than that. The essence is actually in the details of the performances and the symbolic significance of the sum of apparently mundane occurrences. Yasujiro Ozu is a crucial influence on this manner of working and reaching an understanding of the beauty of cinema. To underline this approach it was necessary both to avoid a vulgar modernization of the story and to keep from choosing the most popular passages of the book. The only scenes taken from the novel are short and marginal to the plot but very powerful poetically. The rest of the scenes in the film are invented or freely adapted from other sources (Chrétien de Troyes’ The Knight of the Excursion Cart, Tirant lo Blanc, historical studies of chivalry by Martí de Riquer…). They portray the intimacy and fascination of a reality that exists purely in the mind, the only reality of importance in a film about Quixote. The tension between this mental reality and the actual daily life of the two protagonists is the recurrent theme of the film. It dominates the film to the extent that it takes the place of narrative development. The mystery and poetry of the film, which often recalls the ‘static and latent’ beauty of classical painting, stems from this, together with the original way in which this tension is translated into images.
This almost mystical atmosphere is also due, in part, to the hyper realistic and original performances of the two actors, Lluís Carbó and Lluís Serrat. Both are unknown, non-professional actors, like the actors in the films of Bresson, Emanno Olmi and (most of) Pasolini. These three directors, together with Godard, Ozu and Dovzhenko, are the inspiration behind the cinematic imagery that nourishes the film. Explicit homage is paid to them at various points in the script.”

Albert Serra

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Setfotos von den Dreharbeiten zu EHRE DER RITTER. "Honor de cavalleria was shot during the months of September and October 2005. The film was shot on location in natural surroundings, mainly in the Alt Empordà area (St. Climent Sescebes, St. Miquel de Colera, Albanyà, St. Pere de Rodes, Espolla), but also in the Pla de l’Estany (Foncoberta) and the Garrotxa (Santa Pau) in the province of Girona." Albert Serra

Credits

Buch und Regie
Albert Serra
Mit
Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat
Kamera
Christophe Farnarier, Eduard Grau
Schnitt
Àngel Martín, Albert Serra
Art Director
Jimmy Gimferrer
Ton
Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
Musik
Ferran Font, Cristian Vogel
Sound Mix
Ricard Cassals
Executive Producer
Montse Triola, Lluís Miñarro, Adolfo Blanco
Producer
Albert Serra, Montse Triola
Produziert von
Andergraun Films,  Eddie Saeta, Notro Films

Kinoverleih-Infos

Verleihkopien
DCP (2K, 25 fps, 5.1)
Blu-ray Disc
Bildformat
35mm, 1.85:1
Sprache
Katalanisch
Untertitel
Deutsch, Englisch
Werbematerial
Digitales Bildmaterial
Lizenzgebiet
D, A, CH
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