FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Billy Wilder - Sabrina 

Billy Wilder, a cynic and Philioph with a joke! A genius who undoubtedly belongs to the great directors (and there's no more than a handful of them!). "The only rule in the movies is, there are no rules" - afterwards he worked, who started his career here in Berlin. Wilder was the first to win three Oscars for a movie. 21 nominations, six of them won! If you look through the lists of the 100 biggest movies, Wilder leads the list of comedies. His comedies never got old or museum-like! Wilder's comedies still look as fresh today as they did the day they were shown! His name was Samuel Wilder and he was born in an Austrian village. But his career began in Berlin, when he had to leave in '33 (almost his whole family died in a concentration camp). His world career is not self-evident: "I knew 100 words when I got off the boat". But his feeling for construction and his knack for characters made it easy for him to assert himself in Hollywood. By the way, he didn't start out as a full-fledged comedy director. Wilder staged rather gloomy works until he changed in 1954. Since Sabrina he has exclusively made comedies. Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. A film packed with Hollywood legends! And with both dry and cynical humour, which Wilder makes bearable through his artistic staging as Romantic Comedy. Bogart plays a hard-hearted tycoon, Holden the useless brother. Hepburn embodies the daughter of the chauffeur. Who knows what happens next? Holden plays a bit with the love-sick girl, who finally tries to kill herself with car exhaust fumes. They send her to France to take Sabrina's mind off things. After her return she is transformed: From the outside a European lady - but still the daughter of the chauffeur. Holden can't believe his eyes, but Sabrina will break Bogart's hard heart... Wilders figure constellation is not only romantic and funny, but also corrosive. Bogart, like a robot that burns for nothing, doesn't afford any personal feelings and wears a strange melon (but you only have to fold down the edge and have - BOGART!). Decisive; his age. Bogart seems like a funeral director who never had a youth. Holden, on the other hand, a ridiculous figure, who is expected to suffer terrible pain by Wilder, as he (the son of a glassmaker dynasty) sits down in a martini glass. Otherwise he is supposed to have a favourable effect on a company merger through his marriage and is allowed to hunt around in Caprios. Bogart meanwhile books Holden's lifestyle. A Cinderella story that appeals to the good in man, a satire that overcomes "class" barriers, but also emotional barriers. An encounter of the numbness of the new world with the humanism of the old.