Julien Boisselier ... Charles Gaessler
Hélène de Fougerolles ... Alice
Marianne Basler ... Sonia Brugère
Frédéric van den Driessche ... Jean-Pierre Nemur
Olivier Perrier ... Monsieur Pernot
Véronique Mattana ... Madame Colinet
François Florent ... Yvan
Jean-Pierre Gos ... Karim
Antonio Troilo ... Georgio
Antoinette Martin ... Mère Alice
Pierre Arbel ... Père Alice
Caroline Gasser ... Mère Charles
Daniel Vouillamoz ... Père Charles
Sibylle Blanc ... Prostituée
Roberto Bestazzoni ... Serveur restaurant
Цветы для Элджернона» (англ. Flowers for Algernon) научно-фантастический рассказ Дэниела Киза (софт сайнс-фикшн). Первоначально издан в апрельском номере Журнала фэнтези и научной фантастики за 1959 год. Премия Хьюго за лучший короткий НФ рассказ (1960). В дальнейшем Киз дописал рассказ до полноценной новеллы (под тем же названием), получившей Премию Небьюла за лучшую новеллу в 1966 году.
Дэниел Киз (р. 1927) служил в торговом флоте, получил диплом бакалавра психологии, работал редактором литературного журнала, модным фотографом, университетским преподавателем. Его роман Цветы для Элджернона (1966) стал многомиллионным бестселлером, переведен на два десятка языков, включен в учебную программу высшей школы, послужил основой для оскароносного фильма Чарли (1968), нескольких телевизионных и театральных постановок (в том числе во Франции, Польше, Японии) и даже мюзикла. Творчество Киза исключительно популярно среди японцев до такой степени, что некоторые его книги выходили сначала в Японии, а только потом в США, а некоторые до сих пор доступны только в японских вариантах.
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The book "Algernon" by Daniel Keyes is one of the best and surprising science-fiction book I have ever read. The only one in any case that ever shed my tears. It's more about "anticipation", as we say in french, than sci-fi. Nothing to do with X-Files; even the antithesis of 4400 and other new age stuff far from reality. Much more basic, but much more realistic, nothing gore or chilling, no action. Pure emotion and reflexion. It's all about human intelligence, the suffering, the distress of being intelligent or not. This movie can not bring totally into life the Keyes' style, but it's a brilliant interpretation. The main actor (J. Boisselier) is impressive.
Charly
JAV, 1968 m. (meninis, anglų k.).
Režisierius Ralph Nelson
Scenarijus Stirling Silliphant pagal Daniel Keyes romaną Algernon
Muzika Ravi Shankar
Operatorius Arthur J. Ornitz
Vaidina
Cliff Robertson ... Charly Gordon
Claire Bloom ... Alice Kinian
Lilia Skala ... Dr. Anna Straus
Leon Janney ... Dr. Richard Nemur
Ruth White ... Mrs. Apple
ENG
Dėmesio!!! Viso 10 gabaliukų. Pateiktas tik pirmas
From the classic Daniel Keyes novel "Flowers for Algernon" comes this moving and unforgettable adaptation. Featuring an Academy Award winning performance (best actor) by Cliff Robertson and a "shrewd, talented" score (Variety) by Ravi Shankar, this timeless tearjerker is "definitely one to see". When a mentally retarded man named Charly (Robertson) undergoes experimental brain surgery, he is miraculously freed from the prison of his own mind. As his IQ soars to genius proportions, Charly's eyes are opened to a world he's never truly seen. But when the effects of his operation inexplicably begin to fade, Charly must find a way to halt his regression before his own mind destroys his life, his newfound romance (Claire Bloom) and the man he's become.
Flowers for Algernon is a famous novel by Daniel Keyes. In this novel a man develops higher intelligence. The book follows his evolution from his low level, through his experiences of coming to understand the world around him. Here are a few quotes from the novel.
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eye are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other."
- The Republic, Preface
"all my life I wantid to be smart and not dumb and my mom always tolld me to try and lern just like Miss Kinnian tells me but its very hard to be smart and even when I lern something in Miss Kinnians class at the school I ferget alot."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I dint know mice were so smart."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Some times somebody will say hey lookit Frank, or Joe or even Gimpy. He really pulled a Charlie Gordon that time. I don't know why they say it but they always laff and I laff too."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I beet Algernon. I dint even know I beet him until Burt Selden told me. Then the second time I lost because I got so excited. But after that I beet him 8 more times. I must be getting smart to beat a smart mouse like Algernon. But I dont feel smarter." PR 8, pg. 22
"She says Im a fine person and Ill show them all. I asked her why. She said never mind but I shouldnt feel bad if I find out everybody isnt nice like I think."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"One thing? I, like: about, Dear Miss Kinnian: (thats, the way? it goes; in a business, letter (if I ever go! into business?) is that, she: always gives me' a reason" when - I ask. She"s a gen'ius! I cou'd be smart like-her, Punctuation , is? fun!"
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I never knew before that Joe and Frank and the others liked to have me around just to make fun of me. Now I know what they mean wen they say 'to pull a Charlie Gordon.' I'm ashamed."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Now I want you to look at this card, Charlie. What might this be? What do you see on this card? People see all kinds of things in these inkblots. Tell me what it makes you think of."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I was seeing them clearly for the first time - not gods or even heroes, but just two men worried about getting something out of their work."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"It had been all right as long as they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Our relationship is becoming increasingly strained. I resent Nemur's constant references to me as a laboratory specimen. He makes me feel that before the experiment was not really a human being."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"What did you expect? Did you think I'd remain a docile pup, wagging my tail and licking the foot that kicks me? I no longer have to take the kind of crap that people have been handing me all my life."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"It may sound like ingratitude, but that is one of the things I hate here - the attitude that I am a guinea pig. Nemur's constant references to having made me what I am, or that someday there will be others like me who will become real human beings. How can I make him understand that he did not create me?"
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"They had pretended to be geniuses. But they were just ordinary men working blindly, pretending to be able to bring light into the darkness. Why is it that everyone lies? No one I know is what he appears to be."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"Nothing in our minds is ever really gone. The operation had covered him over with a veneer of education and culture, but emotionally he was there--watching and waiting."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I'm not your friend. I'm your enemy. I'm not going to give up my intelligence without a struggle. I can't go back down into that cave. There's no place for me to go now, Charlie. So you've got to stay away."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"I passed your floor on the way up, and now I'm passing it on the way down, and I don't think I'll be taking this elevator again."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
"P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard."
- Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
диплом бакалавра психологии, работал редактором литературного журнала, модным фотографом, университетским преподавателем. Его роман Цветы для Элджернона (1966) стал многомиллионным бестселлером, переведен на два десятка языков, включен в учебную программу высшей школы, послужил основой для оскароносного фильма Чарли (1968), нескольких телевизионных и театральных постановок (в том числе во Франции, Польше, Японии) и даже мюзикла. Творчество Киза исключительно популярно среди японцев до такой степени, что некоторые его книги выходили сначала в Японии, а только потом в США, а некоторые до сих пор доступны только в японских вариантах. 
