1984 (1984)

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Movie
German title 1984
Original title Nineteen Eighty-Four
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Michael Radford
script Michael Radford
production Simon Perry
music Dominic Muldowney
Eurythmics
camera Roger Deakins
cut Tom Priestley
occupation

1984 is a film adaptation of the eponymous dystopia by George Orwell . It was filmed in "Orwell Year" 1984 by Michael Radford with John Hurt in the lead role. This film version was praised for its fidelity to the original, which also went back to Orwell's heirs, who disagreed with the freer film version from 1956 . The role of O'Brien was Richard Burton's last film role to which the film is dedicated.

action

London is the capital of the Empire of Oceania, which is constantly at war with the powers East Asia or Eurasia. The empire is ruled by the party , led by the Big Brother , around whom an omnipresent personality cult is practiced. All citizens are on their loyalty to the system monitored . Winston Smith is an Outer Party member and works for the Department of Truth , which twists news and information in favor of the party as dictated by the government. One day he began to doubt the system and wrote a diary. In doing so, he is committing a thought crime . He secretly meets with party member Julia. Both team up with party functionary O'Brien, a member of the Inner Party and alleged opposition member. He hands Winston the forbidden book by Emmanuel Goldstein, who is generally seen as an arch traitor and mastermind of every system-critical thought. The book tells him about the true nature of ocean society and war. When Smith and Julia are betrayed by the landlord of the room they are secretly meeting in, it turns out that O'Brien is actually a spy who is supposed to track down critics of the system. Even Goldstein's book turns out to be thought-criminal bait, in part written by O'Brien himself. Winston initially resists torture by the Thought Police; only when he is exposed to his worst fear - that of rats - does he betray Julia and take the " double-thinking ", the psychological technique of believing all new lies of the party and of forgetting every memory that contradicts them, whether truth or previous lie , completely on. He is released and vegetates in the Café Kastanie. The encounter with Julia there doesn't seem to affect him in the slightest and he is overjoyed about an incoming report regarding a war success and admits that he loves Big Brother , which is once again the success of the brainwashing by O'Brien and the system shows.

background

production

The film was shot between April and July 1984 on location in London and at Shepperton Studios , Surrey . For the high-contrast, coarse-grained effect of the film images, the process of bleaching was used.

Film music

The music for the film comes from the British band Eurythmics ; it was released as an album under the title 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) . By Dominic Muldowney in addition to the title track comes Oceania, Tis for Thee the pieces The Hiking Song and The Washerwoman's Song .

Trivia

Richard Burton did not live to see the premiere of the film on October 10, 1984. He died on August 5th. The German theatrical release was on November 9, 1984.

Reviews

“Faithful remake of the novel by George Orwell, which, with the shock effects of the original, unfolds the vision of a totalitarian surveillance state , but at the same time conjures up the aesthetics and attitude to life of English post-war society in the year the novel was written (1948). - Worth seeing."

- Lexicon of international film

“The 1984 of the film seems like a year in which you arrive through the time tunnel, an alternate reality created from old radio tubes and broken office furniture. There are no props that cannot be bought in the junkyard, but the optical result is eerie: Orwell's hero, Winston Smith, lives in a world of gloomy and oppressive inhumanity, bombed-out factories, bugged bedrooms, the simplest of pleasures weaned people . [... The film] looks, feels, smells and tastes almost like Orwell's bald and angry vision. "

- Roger Ebert .

Awards

The film was nominated for a British Academy Film Award in the category Best Production Design in 1985, but could not prevail against Roland Joffé's Oscar- nominated The Killing Fields - Screaming Land .

At the 1985 Evening Standard British Film Awards received the 1984 awards for Best Picture and Best Actor (John Hurt).

John Hurt was named Best Actor at Fantasporto , a prize for fantasy films. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture. Hurt was also honored with Richard Burton at the Spanish Valladolid International Film Festival .

The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the title “particularly valuable”.

In 1984 it received the Golden Tulip at the International Istanbul Film Festival .

Other adaptations

In 1953, the American television station CBS , and in 1954, the British BBC television adaptations of the book.

In 1956 the novel was made into a film by Michael Anderson under the title Nineteen Eighty-Four .

In 1984 a commercial ( 1984 ) was also produced on the same subject to promote the Macintosh computer , directed by Ridley Scott . In this spot a woman destroys the power of “Big Brother”. George Orwell's heirs and the novel's television rights holders sued Apple for copyright infringement. As a result, Apple stopped showing the spot.

In 2005 the opera was premiered in 1984 by Lorin Maazel at the Royal Opera House . It was directed by Robert Lepage .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 1984 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 54 967 V).
  2. ↑ 1984 in the Internet Movie Database .
  3. ↑ 1984. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed October 3, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Roger Ebert : 1984. In: rogerebert.suntimes.com . February 1, 1985, accessed March 13, 2008 .