The Cell

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Movie
German title The Cell
Original title The Cell
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length Theatrical Version: 103 minutes
Director’s Cut : 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (Theatrical Version)
FSK 18 (Director's Cut)
Rod
Director Tarsem Singh
script Mark Protosevich
production Julio Caro ,
Eric McLeod
music Howard Shore
camera Paul Laufer
cut Robert Duffy ,
Paul Rubell
occupation
synchronization
chronology

Successor  →
The Cell 2

The Cell is a SciFi - Thriller by Tarsem Singh from the year 2000 with Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D'Onofrio in the lead roles. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Make-up in 2001. The film opened in German cinemas on November 23, 2000.

action

The psychologist Catherine uses an experimental therapy technique to penetrate the subconscious of her coma patients to help them wake up again. Your current patient is a young boy who has been in a schizophrenic coma for a while. However, the therapy proceeds without any significant progress. The technology consists of an electronic network of the brain activity of the psychologist and the patient, which gives them access to their thoughts and memories.

In the middle of their attempts to gain access to the boy, they confront FBI agents with an explosive request. She is supposed to immerse herself in the thoughts of the insane serial killer Carl, who is also in a coma after a seizure, in order to find out the hiding place of his last victim. According to the FBI's findings, the woman was abducted and is being held captive in a chamber that is automatically flooded with water after about 40 hours.

Catherine delves deep into the killer’s sick mind during her journey. She does not succeed in finding out where the kidnapped woman was hidden in this way. However, she learns a lot of details about the family background of Carl's personality, in particular about the relationship with his father, which is heavily influenced by violent and emotional abuse. But in doing so, Catherine is so seized by the personality of the murderer that she gets lost in his thoughts and memories and cannot find her way out on her own. FBI agent Peter Novak follows her as a last resort. He is captured and tortured there, but can finally convince her again that she is not in reality. In addition, he discovers clues to the whereabouts of the kidnapped woman in Carl's mental images and can take the necessary steps to rescue her just in time. At the last second, the woman is released from her glass case. Meanwhile, Catherine enters Carl's subconscious one last time.

German dubbed version

The German dubbing was done at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich .

actor German speaker role
Jennifer Lopez Natascha Schaff Catherine Deane
Vincent D'Onofrio Oliver Mink Carl Rudolph Stargher
Vince Vaughn Alexander Brem FBI agent Peter Novak
Gerry Becker Erich Ludwig Dr. Barry Cooperman
Marianne Jean-Baptiste Sandra Schwittau Dr. Miriam Kent
Jake Weber Oliver Stritzel FBI Special Agent Gordon Ramsey
Dylan Baker Walter von Hauff Henry West
Jake Thomas Max fields young Carl Stargher
Lauri Johnson Inge Solbrig Mrs. Hickson
Gareth Williams Gudo Hoegel Stargher's father
James Gammon Alexander Allerson Teddy Lee

Reviews

Brad Hamilton compared the film in the New York Post with the film The Silence of the Lambs and praised the portrayal of Jennifer Lopez. Along with director Tarsem Singh, she was also featured in Time magazine , where the film was also described as captivating .

Rüdiger Rapke described the film in TV Movie 24/2000 as a bizarre feast for the senses . In film-dienst 24/2000 reference was made to the influences of experimental films and famous directors such as Andrei Tarkowski .

Awards

  • The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Make-up .
  • He received four nominations for the Saturn Award , for Best Science Fiction Film , Best Costume , Best Make-up, and Jennifer Lopez for Best Actress .
  • Lopez won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Actress - Science Fiction . Vince Vaughn (Best Actor - Science Fiction) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Best Supporting Actor - Science Fiction) received nothing.
  • Jennifer Lopez also won the MTV Movie Award in the Best Dressed category . In the categories of Best Female Achievement for Lopez and Best Villain for D'Onofrio, there was only one nomination.
  • Jake Thomas was nominated for the Young Artist Award in the category Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Under .
  • The stunt woman Jill Brown received the Taurus Awards 2001 in the category Best Stunt in Height for her work on the film .

continuation

On June 16, 2009, the film The Cell 2 was released directly on DVD in the USA . Apart from the basic idea and the title, this has nothing in common with the first part.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Cell . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 86 353-b V / DVD / UMD).
  2. ↑ a b The Cell. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 14, 2014 .