Open AccessJohann Moritz ou « l’homme sans identité »
Author(s) -
Ionel Bușe,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2021.41.25
Subject(s) - knight , art , humanities , drama , art history , identity (music) , philosophy , literature , physics , astronomy , aesthetics
"My article concerns the analysis of the several “identities” of Johann Moritz (alias Anthony Quinn) in the film directed by Henri Verneuil, The Twenty-Fifth Hour (a French-Italian-Yugoslavian coproduction), produced by Carlo Ponti, and adapted after a book published by the exiled Romanian novelist Virgil Gheorghiu in Paris in 1949. Johann Moritz or the “man of Fontana” is the “man of La Mancha”, but unlike Cervantes’s mad knight who wants to rid the world of monsters, he is a pacifist dreamer, embodying the drama of identity dissolution, under the pressure of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century."