Stephen King's It
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Stephen King's It |
| Original title | Stephen King's It |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 192 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tommy Lee Wallace |
| script |
Lawrence D. Cohen Tommy Lee Wallace |
| production | Mark Bacino |
| music | Richard Bellis |
| camera | Richard Leiterman |
| cut |
Robert F. Shugrue David Blangsted |
| occupation | |
Grown up
Youthful
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It is a two-part television - horror film from the year 1990 , which on the novel It by Stephen King based.
action
The seven main characters - Bill Denbrough, Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Stan Uris, Richie Tozier, and Eddie Kaspbrak - were twelve when they met in Derry City in 1960. Bill stutters , Mike is black , Ben is overweight, Beverly is poor and is being abused by her father , Stan is Jewish , Richie is hyperactive wearing glasses, Eddie is short and is considered sickly by his mother. None of them are accepted by other children. That's why they band together and call themselves the Losers' Club . They are particularly troubled by Henry Bowers, a 14-year-old boy who likes to beat up younger children and slowly goes mad in the process.
Children disappear or are murdered in Derry, one of the victims is Bill's younger brother Georgie. The children take reports and a photo album of Mike, that happens every 30 years in Derry calamity that from a time mentioned in the sewer goes home end of Derry creature. It can take the form of the most frightening imagination of the person it is attacking. Occurs mostly it but in the guise of clowns on Pennywise. Henry and his whipping friends follow the club members into the sewer. Henry's friends, and apparently Henry himself, are killed by Es .
The club members violate It and leave the sewers believing they have killed It . They lose sight of each other. Bill becomes a successful writer , Ben becomes an architect , Beverly fashion designer, Richie comedian, Stan management consultant and Eddie runs a successful chauffeur-driven company. Except for Mike, all of them forget their childhood; Mike stayed in Derry and didn't rise as high as the others as head of the city library there.
It appears to have reappeared in 1990 . When four more murders happened in a short time and Mike found a photo of Bill's younger brother Georgie next to the victim in the fourth murder, he called the remaining club members to call them together to destroy Es . Stan commits suicide after Mike called by cutting his wrists in a bathtub. The remaining club members come to Derry, but are tormented by fragmentary childhood memories. As it turns out, Henry is still alive. He assumed the blame for the 1960 Derry murders, is considered insane, and is being held in an appropriate facility. There studied It Henry in the form of a former friend on who perished in the sewer, moving Henry to break it and take revenge on 'Club losers' because it can not cope on its own with the group.
The living members of the club meet in a hotel in the evening, drink and celebrate their reunion. They want to kill it the next day. However, Mike is attacked by Henry in his room. Ben and Eddie come to the rescue and Henry is killed. Mike has to go to the hospital. After the incident, the friends want to give up, but Bill asks them to stand by him like 30 years before. Together they seek in the sewers after it . There Bill's younger brother Georgie reappears in the paper boat that once led him into the clutches of Pennywise, and leads the remaining five club members deeper into the sewers.
In front of a small wooden door that leads to It , Eddie explains that he has never loved anyone as much as the group of club members. Strengthened, the five enter a cave in which the victims of Es hang in cobwebs from the ceiling. It appears as a giant spider. The group conquered it definitively by Beverly shoots an old earring made of silver in the belly of the creature, and it weakens, the group that it upset and can rip out his heart. Eddie dies in this. Bill can free his wife, who has been kidnapped and held captive. Mike recovers in the hospital, Richie becomes a successful actor. Ben and Beverly get married a week later and subsequently become parents.
synchronization
The film was set to music in the Alster Studios in Hamburg . Rüdiger Schulzki wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Pennywise | Tim Curry | Gerhard Marcel |
| Bill Denbrough (teen) | Jonathan Brandis | Tammo ruff |
| Bill Denbrough (adult) | Richard Thomas | Hans-Georg Panczak |
| Beverly Marsh (teen) | Emily Perkins | Samira Chanfir |
| Beverly Marsh (adult) | Annette O'Toole | Angela Stresemann |
| Ben Hanscom (teen) | Brandon Crane | |
| Ben Hanscom (adult) | John Knight | Rüdiger Joswig |
| Eddie Kaspbrak (teen) | Adam Faraizl | |
| Eddie Kaspbrak (adult) | Dennis Christopher | Gernot Endemann |
| Richie Tozier (teen) | Seth Green | Jens Wawrczeck |
| Richie Tozier (adult) | Harry Anderson | Andreas von der Meden |
| Stan Uris (teen) | Ben Heller | |
| Stan Uris (adult) | Richard Masur | Holger Mahlich |
| Mike Hanlon (teen) | Marlon Taylor | |
| Mike Hanlon (adult) | Tim Reid | Peter Lakenmacher |
| Henry Bowers (teen) | Jarred Blancard | Christian Stark |
| Henry Bowers (adult) | Michael Cole | Rüdiger Schulzki |
criticism
“A remarkable (television) film adaptation of a horror novel by Stephen King, which cleverly creates a threatening atmosphere and dispenses with unnecessary bloody effects. Exciting entertainment for friends of the genre. "
Awards (selection)
The film's two editors received the 1991 Eddie Award from the American Cinema Editors . Richard Bellis received an Emmy for his music .
Remake
Part 1 of the remake with Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise hit US cinemas on September 8, 2017. The German theatrical release was on September 28, 2017. The second part was in the cinemas on September 5, 2019.
literature
- Stephen King : It. Roman (Original title: It ). German by Alexandra von Reinhardt , edited and partly newly translated by Joachim Körber . Unabridged edition. Ullstein, Berlin 2005, 1214 pp., ISBN 978-3-548-26308-3 or ISBN 3-548-26308-9
Web links
- It in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- It atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Stephen Kings It in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephen King's It. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on April 5, 2018 .
- ↑ Stephen King's It. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 28, 2016 .