The woman in Black
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| German title | The woman in Black |
| Original title | The Woman in Black |
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| Country of production | United Kingdom , Sweden , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 (cinema), 16 (DVD) JMK 14 |
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| Director | James Watkins |
| script | Jane Goldman |
| production |
Simon Oakes , Richard Jackson , Brian Oliver |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Tim Maurice-Jones |
| cut | Jon Harris |
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The Woman in Black (Original title: The Woman in Black ) is a 2012 published horror film studio Hammer Film Productions and directed by James Watkins . The screenplay is by Jane Goldman and is based on the novel by Susan Hill from 1983. The North American theatrical release was on February 3, 2012 and a week later it was shown in the UK. The cinema release in Germany and Austria took place on March 29, 2012.
action
Great Britain in the age of Edward VII (1901–1914): the young lawyer Arthur Kipps has been eaten away by grief since the death of his wife, who died giving birth to their son. He is hired by his law firm to manage the estate of the late Alice Drablow. To do this, he has to process the papers in their abandoned mansion, the Eel Marsh House . Since the widower is now considered dispensable in his office, he accepts this unpopular assignment. He takes the train to the remote coastal village of Crythin Gifford, and his now four-year-old son and his nanny are due to follow suit four days later.
When he arrives in the village, the villagers are hostile and hostile towards him and want to get him to leave quickly. Few, like the wealthy Sam Daily, are friendly towards him. The manor house is located on a hill in the mudflats and can only be reached at low tide. While Kipps went through the papers in the Eel Marsh House, he saw the woman in black several times and witnessed further depressing events. When he reports this in front of a visibly desperate officer at the local police station, two little boys bring their sister to the station. She drank lye and dies before his eyes.
With further investigation, Kipps gradually discovers the secret of the Drablow family. Alice had her mentally unstable sister Jennet incapacitated at the time, adopted her son Nathaniel and prevented any further contact between mother and child. The boy was later killed in an accident in the marshes , where his body could not be recovered. Jennet then committed suicide by hanging herself in the nursery. In a suicide note, she vowed never to forgive for letting her child die. Since then she has been seen repeatedly in and around the Eel Marsh House as a woman dressed in black.
When Kipps has to watch a girl burn herself to death while the woman in black is standing in the room, he realizes that many children in the village have already been victims of the revenge of the ghost of Jennet. Every time someone sees her, be it in the villa or even fleetingly in the marshes or on the street, she seduces children of the village into cruelly killing themselves. Sam Daily's son also died this way years ago when the Woman in Black forced him to drown himself in the sea. But unlike the villagers, Daily initially continues to consider the woman in black to be a superstition . Only when he hears the voice of his dead son himself in the house does he change his mind.
Kipps and Daily retrieve the body of Jennet's son from the marshes and place him in his mother's coffin, in the hope that this will calm her mind. But when Kipps receives his son Joseph at the train station, the woman in black tempts Joseph to step onto the tracks just before the train arrives in London. Kipps jumps onto the tracks to save his son, but they both die. Daily stares through the window of the train in horror and sees the ghosts of the killed children and the woman in black. Kipps and Joseph are reunited with Kipp's deceased wife in the afterlife.
synchronization
The German synchronization was carried out by Christa Kistner Synchronproduktion GmbH. Dialogue direction was directed by Stefan Fredrich, who also wrote the dialogue book.
| actor | Voice actor | role |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Radcliffe | Nico Sablik | Arthur Kipps |
| Ciarán Hinds | Bernd Rumpf | Samuel Daily |
| Janet McTeer | Elizabeth Daily | |
| Sophie Stuckey | Stella Kipps | |
| Misha Handley | Joseph Kipps | |
| Liz White | Debora refuses | Jennet Humfrye |
| Shaun Dooley | Olaf Reichmann | Mr. Fisher |
| Mary Stockley | Christin Marquitan | Mrs. Fisher |
| Jessica Raine | Anja Rybiczka | Nanny |
| David Burke | Rudiger Evers | Constable Collins |
| Roger Allam | Helmut Gauss | Mr. Bentley |
| Tim McMullan | Peter Reinhardt | Mr. Jerome |
background
The film is based on Susan Hills' 1983 novella The Woman in Black . The work was filmed for television in 1989. It was also adapted for the theater and broadcast as a radio play. The feature film was first announced in 2009, with Jane Goldman as screenwriter and James Watkins as director, who had experience in the genre with Eden Lake . Originally intended as a 3D film, this plan was later abandoned. Daniel Radcliffe as the lead actor was announced in July 2010. In order to better empathize with the role of a father, his godchild Misha Handley plays his son in the film. In a conversation with the German horror magazine VIRUS in Munich, Radcliffe named his preference for the actor Peter Cushing as one of the reasons for choosing this role.
Filming finally began in September 2010 and continued until December, when the film was then in post-production by June 2011. The recordings for the village of Crythin Gifford took place in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in the village of Halton Gill. Street signs and satellite dishes were removed for the shooting. The real existing villa was only used for exterior shots. Interior shots were taken in the studio and partly in the Layer Marney Tower . For the road to the island, the approach to Osea Island in Essex was used , which is actually only usable at low tide .
reception
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. On the movie review page Rotten Tomatoes , the proportion of positive reviews is 65 percent.
“The film is powerful because director James Watkins knows it is not a character study. The haunted house is the star. "
“Slow but nasty. Old haunted house school meets an atmospheric setting, skilful shocks and a free-playing Daniel Radcliffe. Old school is celebrated here, with long tracking shots across the dreary, foggy and perfectly selected marshland, with creaking floorboards, dark corridors, surreal suicides and again and again with a black-clad, ash-skinned spirit of vengeance, thanks to which Watkins creates some really bloodcurdling moments. "
“'The Woman in Black' doesn't bow to the pressure of constantly generating high voltage. And that doesn't matter because the film also functions as a dark melodrama about the loss of a loved one. Arthur is connected to the black woman through his pain, but so many children are dying in the village too that the parents do not even want to get used to them. Really no figure is spared these fears of loss. And in the end there isn't even a difference between the living and the dead. "
Gross profit
The budget for the film was around $ 15 million, with box office receipts as of May 3, 2012 totaling around $ 126 million. This makes The Woman in Black the most successful British horror film of the last 20 years.
Film versions
For the theatrical release in Great Britain, the film was shortened by six seconds in order to be able to achieve a lower rating. In addition, some sound effects have been reduced in volume. In German cinemas, the film was also shown in this shortened version with a release from the age of 12. However, the release on DVD and Blu-ray took place in an uncut version from the age of 16.
continuation
In April 2012 it was announced that the production studio Hammer Films had been pursuing plans for a sequel to the horror film for some time. Jon Croker, who previously worked as a writer- editor , was to write the script, with Susan Hill advising him. Tom Harper had been the director of the film since mid-October 2012 .
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death came to UK theaters on January 1, 2015. In Germany, the film had its theatrical release on February 19, 2015.
Web links
- The Woman in Black at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Woman in Black atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Concorde Filmverleih press release (PDF; 587 kB)
- Predicate valuable: expert opinion by the German Film and Media Assessment
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for The Woman in Black . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, March 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 566-a K).
- ^ Certificate of release for The Woman in Black . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, July 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 566 V).
- ↑ Age rating for The Woman in Black . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The woman in black in the German dubbing files
- ↑ http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/34390/3d-version-the-woman-black-coming-hammer
- ↑ VIRUS, edition 46, 03/2012, page 28
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596365/locations
- ↑ Rating by Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Roger Ebert : The Woman in Black. In: rogerebert.com. February 1, 2012, accessed on February 25, 2012 (English): “The movie […] is effective, because director James Watkins knows it isn't a character study. His haunted house is the star. "
- ↑ VIRUS, edition 46, 03/2012, page 27
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: The woman in black. March 19, 2013, accessed April 6, 2012 .
- ↑ http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051846?refCatId=13
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=womaninblack.htm
- ↑ The Woman in Black on the British Board of Film Classification
- ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/news.php?ID=3721