The sleeper

This article is about Woody Allen's film. For the film with the alternative title The Sleeper, see Uncle Paul, the great plum ; for the television film see crime scene: The Sleeper .

Movie
German title	The sleeper
Original title	Sleeper
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1973
length	87 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Woody Allen
script	Woody Allen Marshall Brickman
production	Jack Grossberg
camera	David M. Walsh
cut	O. Nicholas Brown Ron Kalish Ralph Rosenblum
occupation
Woody Allen: Miles Monroe Diane Keaton : Luna Schlosser John Beck : Erno Windt Mary Gregory : Dr. Melik Don Keefer : Dr. Tryon John McLiam : Dr. Aragon Bartlett Robinson : Dr. Orva Chris Forbes : Rainer Krebs Mews Small : Dr. Nero (as Marya Small) Peter Hobbs : Dr. dean Susan Miller : Ellen Pogrebin Lou Picetti : MC Jessica Rains : Woman in the Mirror Brian Avery : Herald Cohen Spencer Milligan : Jeb Hrmthmg Stanley Ross : Sears Swiggles
synchronization

The Sleeper (Original title: Sleeper ) is an American science fiction film parody from 1973 by and with Woody Allen .

action

Miles Monroe, jazz musician and owner of the vegetarian restaurant “To the happy carrot” on Broadway in the 1970s, is put into an artificial deep sleep after a failed gastric ulcer operation . 200 years later, it is brought back to life by a team of scientists. The world has changed a lot since then. Technology has advanced enormously, but saturated fats have been analyzed as healthy, sex is only possible with the help of gadgets, and a dictatorial leader controls the fortunes of the state - a world in which Miles Monroe finds his way around. The scientists belong to the opposition and want to use Miles for their own purposes. Suddenly the police appear and take the scientists prisoner. Miles can escape. He disguises himself as a robot butler in order to remain undetected. He gets to know Luna and reveals himself to her as a person. First she betrays him to the police. However, when the police also want to liquidate her, she takes Miles' side. Both flee and fall in love. Miles is arrested, brainwashed and part of the system. He is later freed by rebels. The rebels subject him to trauma therapy. Luna has meanwhile also been turned around and wants to support the revolution. Miles, after all, still fulfills the purpose for which the scientists awakened him: to help the revolution win. Disguised as a doctor, he learns that the dictator has in truth already died. Only his nose could be kept alive artificially. A new dictator is to be cloned from this. Miles prevents the dictator from being cloned by running his nose flat with a steamroller. In the end, Miles and Luna reassure each other of their love and Miles prophesies that the new government will not get any better than the old one.

background

The Sleeper was released on December 17, 1973 in the United States and on April 25, 1974 in the Federal Republic of Germany .

• In 1974 the film won the Hugo Award in the "Best Dramatic Presentation" category.
• A McDonald’s restaurant can be seen in the background of a scene .
• Voice actor Peter Schiff , who lends his voice to a talking computer, had previously been the supercomputer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick's classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey spoken; Douglas Rain spoke the computer in the original sound of both films .
• One of the houses, the Sleeper House , is located in the US state of Colorado , about 40 kilometers from Denver , at an altitude of 2,600 meters on a slope of the Gennessee Mountains . The house is listed as a Deaton Sculptured House on the National Register of Historic Places .

criticism

"Woody Allen's satirical comedy is intelligent, funny and accurate in the first third, but falls off in the second part."

- Lexicon of international film

• In 2000 the readers of Total Film magazine voted for the best comedy of all time in 30th place.
• In 2000, the American Film Institute voted 80th out of the top 100 comedies.

synchronization

actor	speaker	role
Woody Allen	Wolfgang Draeger	Miles Monroe
Diane Keaton	Brigitte Grothum	Luna locksmith
Marya Small	Edith Hancke	Dr. Nero
(Douglas Rain)	Peter Schiff	computer

Web links

• The sleeper in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Sleeper in the Internet Movie Database .
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Sleeper in the Lexicon of International Films .
3. ↑ Best Dramatic Presentation: for productions outside the print media, i.e. theater, film, television productions, radio plays, computer games or musical works, with a minimum duration of 90 minutes.
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ The Sleeper (1973). German dubbing index , accessed on June 9, 2020 .