And the marmot greets you every day

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Movie
German title And the marmot greets you every day
Original title Groundhog Day
Country of production United States of America
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Harold Ramis
script Danny Rubin ,
Harold Ramis
production Trevor Albert ,
Harold Ramis
music George Fenton
camera John Bailey
cut Pembroke J. Herring
occupation
synchronization

Groundhog Day (Original title: Groundhog Day ) is an American comedy film from the year 1993 . Bill Murray plays an arrogant, egocentric and cynical weather announcer who is stuck in a time warp and relives the same day over and over again until he can continue his life as a purified man. Directed by Harold Ramis .

action

Phil Connors is a Pittsburgh TV weather announcer who dreads reporting on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania for the fourth year running . Together with Rita, his new production manager, and a cameraman, he drives to Punxsutawney the day before, February 1st. Phil arrives in a bad mood; the next morning his mood has not improved. He sees his job as a waste of time and wants to leave as soon as possible. But because the highway is blocked by a surprisingly approaching snow storm, the film crew is forced to drive back to Punxsutawney to spend the night there.

From then on, the same day, marmot day, begins and continues for Phil again and again: every morning at 6 a.m. he is woken up by a clock radio playing the song I Got You Babe by Sonny and Cher , after which the radio announcers announce the marmot day on, Phil meets his landlady, another guest, later on a corner with his former schoolmate Ned, who wants to sell him an insurance, listlessly does his presentation of the marmot day for his filming team and so on. Nobody except him notices that Groundhog Day repeats itself over and over again, and there is no attempt to explain the effect. Over time, it turns out that Phil has an influence on details over the course of these days. Phil is initially incredulous and doubts his sanity, but over time he begins to use his knowledge of the coming events for himself.

Eventually he becomes tired and begins to despair. He commits suicide in many ways, but even doing so cannot end the phenomenon of the endlessly repeating day - he always wakes up again at six in his hotel room. He confides in Rita, and one of her pieces of advice helps him to find other goals step by step in his stuck life: Phil begins to spend his days meaningfully and to educate himself. Phil has to win Rita's trust anew every day because he has fallen in love with her. When he tries to get closer, he does so in such a way that he usually fails at a certain point. Phil becomes a benefactor to others and can make almost everyone in town a better day. Ultimately, he cannot save a decrepit homeless man from death in any of his attempts, but beautify his last hours.

In doing so, Phil succeeds in gradually transforming himself into a better, more selfless person by using the repetition of time. He learns to play the piano and how to carve ice sculptures , develops more empathy and lastly gave a moving speech about winter and marmot day in his TV report. He also saves the lives of two people. All of this makes him a popular man in the city. Finally the time warp ends when Rita falls in love with him. They both wake up on February 3rd and decide to spend their future lives together in Punxsutawney.

background

Groundhog Day, 2005

The theme of the time loop, in which the protagonist finds himself again and again, is inspired both by the novel Replay (German: Replay - The second game ) by science fiction author Ken Grimwood from 1986, as well as by motifs from the Flying Dutchman and theological constructs such as limbus or purgatory as a place of purification.

Since 1887, North America is (that on the feast of February 2 in some cities Presentation of the Lord ) each year to the Groundhog Day ( Groundhog Day ) committed, is in Punxsutawney for the longest time. If the animal wakes up that day and casts a shadow, it is to remain wintry for six more weeks; if - depending on the weather - no shadow is visible, then spring is near. Although the film was not shot in Punxsutawney at all, the number of visitors on Groundhog Day increased fourfold after the film was released.

Filming

Woodstock Opera House, Punxsutawney's hotel in the film
Woodstock, in the film, Phil meets his former schoolmate Ned on this corner
The now privately used house at 344 Fremont Street on the corner of Madison Street was the guesthouse in the film, where Phil's day started over and over again

The shooting did not take place in Punxsutawney, but in Woodstock (Illinois) , around 970 kilometers away , near Chicago . The different choice of location was mainly due to the fact that the festival in Punxsutawney is not held in the city, but in a clearing about one kilometer outside. Woodstock seemed to "just make the right impression" to the producers of the film. The director Harold Ramis can be seen in a brief appearance as a neurologist , who explains to Phil the x-rays of his head, on which no pathological changes can be seen.

Filming lasted from January to April 1992. The exterior shots were mainly shot in the historic city center around central Woodstock Square. The guesthouse where Phil Connors stayed is an apartment building a few hundred yards from downtown on the south end of Madison Street. Some scenes were shot when it was pretty cold outside. People from town brought heating equipment to the film crew.

After the success of the film, the city itself now celebrates Marmot Day every year. The residents of Woodstock have meanwhile also got their own groundhog called "Woodstock Willie" analogous to the original Punxsutawney Phil ; In addition, guided tours to the locations of the film are offered.

Film music

(in the order of the film run)

German version

The German dubbing was created in 1993 under the dialogue direction of Arne Elsholtz by the dubbing company Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich . Elsholtz also wrote the dialogue book .

role actor Voice actor
Phil Connors, weather announcer Bill Murray Arne Elsholtz
Rita, Phil's producer Andie MacDowell Ulrike Möckel
Larry, cameraman Chris Elliott Axel Malzacher
Ned Ryerson, Phil's old friend Stephen Tobolowsky Ivar Combrinck
Buster Green, Chairman of Groundhog Day Brian Doyle-Murray Walter Reichelt
Mrs. Lanchester, landlady Angela Paton Inge Solbrig
Nancy Taylor, Phil's date at the restaurant Marita Geraghty Simone Brahmann
Gus, fellow passenger with Phil Rick Ducommun Ekkehardt Belle
neurologist Harold Ramis Fritz von Hardenberg
Kenny, Phil's assistant Willie Garson Frank Röth

In 2014, the broadcaster Arte had a German-language audio description produced for its television broadcast . The image descriptions are spoken by Daniela Mohr.

criticism

“An extraordinary work of morally oriented literature is, for example, the seemingly insignificant comedy And Groundhog Day. It presents us with a character who has to be taken out of normal life so that he can discover that he is living his life apart from himself. "

- Transparency Now

"If I had to cite a favorite movie, then I would probably And Groundhog Day specify. This is a comedy, a fantasy film, a romance and a moral fable in which a cynical man is released from the limitations that mark his life. "

- Apex

“A comedy based on a highly original idea that disregards the tragic component, but offers numerous nice gags. Excellent performance largely compensates for the rather mediocre staging. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Bill Murray foot outline

British Comedy Awards 1993

  • British Comedy Award for Best Comedy

MTV Movie Awards 1993

  • MTV Movie Award for Best Actor in a Comedy for Bill Murray

Saturn Award 1994

BAFTA Awards 1994

BMI Film & TV Awards 1994

Hugo Awards 1994

  • Hugo in the Best Dramatic Performance category

London Critics Circle Film Awards 1994

National Film Preservation Board 2006

Adaptations

The material of the film inspired artists to make adaptations in which elements or the narrative thread are imitated. See also in the article time loop .

Others

  • In the film, it is already light on Groundhog Day at 6am. In fact, the sun does not rise in Punxsutawney on February 2nd until 7:20 am, so it should still be quite dark.
  • The piano piece that Phil learns during the time loops is an excerpt from Rachmaninov's rhapsody on a theme by Paganini , which, according to the credits, was taken from the film Somewhere in Time (1980, A fatal dream ).
  • The film grossed about $ 70.9 million in the United States while production costs were only $ 14.6 million.
  • The quote "Winter slumbering in the open air [...]", which Phil recalls to the man in the hall of the guesthouse, comes from the poem Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge .
  • The French text that Phil recites in the restaurant comes from the song La bourrée du célibataire by Jacques Brel and means: “The girl I will love will be like an excellent wine that tastes a little better every morning. "
  • The film title And daily greetings from the marmot has established itself in German as a general expression for a recurring, unpleasant situation.
  • Groundhog Day is mentioned in the song Smile by pop singer Katy Perry , which was released in July 2020 .

literature

  • Michaela Krützen : The beginning of the film. What the beginning of a film reveals about its end . In: Der Deutschunterricht , Vol. 57, 2005, Issue 3, pp. 79–84 (detailed analysis of the film) .

Web links

Wiktionary: and the groundhog greets you every day  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Commons : Groundhog Day  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb Soundtracks for Groundhog Day (English).
  2. ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , p. 371.
  3. ↑ And the marmot greets you every day in the German synchronous file ; accessed on July 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ And every day the marmot greets you in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  5. ↑ End credits of the audio version.
  6. ^ Groundhog Day: Breakthrough to the True Self. transparencynow.com, accessed February 1, 2011 .
  7. ^ Bill Rendall: Groundhog Day - Movie Review. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 12, 2011 ; accessed on February 1, 2011 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apex.net.au
  8. ^ Lexicon of International Films. Rowohlt, 1995, ISBN 3-499-16357-8 , p. 5940.
  9. ↑ Groundhog Day (English).
  10. ↑ Quotation in the film imdb.com accessed on January 25, 2011; Poem Work without Hope on Wikisource .
  11. ^ Trivia about the film on The Internet Movie Database ; accessed on January 30, 2011 (English).
  12. ↑ FC St. Pauli: And the marmot greets you every day… . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 25, 2011.