The X Files - Beyond Truth
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| German title | The X Files - Beyond Truth |
| Original title | The X-Files: I Want to Believe |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 105 minutes |
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FSK 16 JMK 14 |
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| Director | Chris Carter |
| script | Chris Carter Frank Spotnitz |
| production | Chris Carter Frank Spotnitz |
| music | Mark Snow |
| camera | Bill Roe |
| cut | Richard A. Harris |
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The X-Files - I Want to Believe (Original title: The X-Files: I Want to Believe ) is a US-American - Canadian mystery - thriller from the year 2008 . Directed by Chris Carter , who also produced the film and wrote the screenplay with Frank Spotnitz , using some characters from the TV series The X-Files - The FBI's Weird Cases . The German theatrical release was July 24, 2008, the US theatrical release the day after on July 25, 2008.
action
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are former FBI agents who used to deal with inexplicable phenomena. They have since quit duty. Dana Scully works as a doctor treating a boy with Sandhoff's disease . FBI agent Mosely Drummy shows up one day and convinces Scully to help him find Mulder. He promises an amnesty for Mulder, who is still on the FBI's wanted list, if the FBI helped them investigate the disappearance of a number of young women, including an FBI agent, in the state of Virginia . Scully visits the bearded Mulder, who lives in a secluded house and collects clippings about the paranormal, and convinces him to join the investigation.
A minister convicted of child sexual abuse , Father Joe, suffers from visions related to the events. Mulder and Scully become members of the team investigating the cases. Father Joe's clues lead to the discovery of a severed man's arm. Another woman is pushed off the road by snowplow driver Janke Dacyshyn and then kidnapped. Father Joe continues to help the team find the woman or FBI agent. They discover a mass grave with dead people and body parts on a snowfield. The tracks lead to Dacyshyn, who works as an organ transporter, and his husband Franz Tomczeszyn. Tomczeszyn was one of Father Joe's victims of abuse, so Father Joe believes this is the link to the kidnapped FBI agent. When the house is searched, Dacyshyn escapes, but kills FBI agent Whitney. They also find the severed head of the kidnapped FBI agent in the pocket that Dacyshyn dropped while trying to escape, so they accept her death - although Father Joe continues to say she is alive.
When Scully questions Father Joe about his religious visions, he collapses and has a seizure. At the same time Tomczeszyn collapses. Father Joe has advanced lung cancer . Mulder is investigating the Dacyshyn compound. He interrupts Dacyshyn's team as they prepare to separate the kidnapped young woman's head in order to transplant Tomczeszyn's head from the FBI agent's decapitated body to the other body. Mulder is overwhelmed and drugged in the process. Scully manages to locate Mulder with the help of ex-FBI boss Walter Skinner. You can overpower Dacyshyn and free Mulder and the young woman.
Reviews
"Although the film suffers from dramaturgical lengths in the first half, it is ultimately convincing as a delightful reminiscence, which mainly derives its effect from everyday earthly madness."
The Standard judged that the film was somewhat reminiscent of “younger splatter horror à la Saw or Hostel” , but without being similarly brutal. On the other hand, he “does not stand out enough from conventional US serial killer thrillers” , since specific X-Files elements are only weakly developed and therefore “out of place” . The Süddeutsche Zeitung criticized the film more strongly : “The question of serial wear and tear, the incurable thrill exhaustion, has shaped“ The X-Files - Beyond the Truth ”from the beginning.” One “soon had the feeling that nothing really went together: The The characters' past denies their present […] and Mulder and Scully know as little as ever what to do with each other - even if they are now completely unmotivated between melancholy loneliness and affectionate cuddling scenes. " The plot only brings one another monster of the week, without referring to a larger story arc, this arouses "the suspicion that" out there "has always been only one thing: nothing."
backgrounds
Preparation for production of the film began in 2001; the release was first scheduled for 2004. There were delays, but the media reported the intent of those involved to make the film.
The film was shot in Vancouver and various other locations in British Columbia . Its production cost was an estimated $ 35 million. The film started in the cinemas of some countries such as Australia , Germany and Switzerland on July 24, 2008. The cinema start u. a. in the USA and Austria followed on July 25, 2008.
The characters of FBI investigators Fox Mulder and Dana Scully , from the TV series The X-Files: The FBI's Creepy Cases , were also used in the feature film X-Files: The 1998 Film , in which they - as in the series - by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson were embodied.
David Duchovny's German standard voice Benjamin Völz , who has always been heard as Mulder , has been replaced by Johannes Berenz . The change took place because the film distributor Völz's fee presentation of 20,000 euros was not justified. After several better-known speakers showed solidarity with him and also demanded the same amount, Berenz finally took over the part for a tenth of the demand.
Web links
- The X-Files - I Want to Believe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The X Files - Beyond the Truth in the German dubbing index
- The X-Files - I Want to Believe at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The X-Files - I Want to Believe at Metacritic (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions theatrical version - Director's Cut , RTL from 12 - FSK 16 from the X-Files - Beyond the truth at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Release Notes for the X-Files - Beyond Truth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 595 K).
- Jump up ↑ Age rating for X-Files - Beyond Truth . Youth Media Commission .
- Jump up ↑ The X Files - Beyond Truth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://derstandard.at/1216325516509 straight-through | url = http: //derstandard.at/1216325516509 | date = 2018-08 | archivebot = 2018-08-22 16:42:57 InternetArchiveBot}} (Link not available)
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Monster of the Week . Süddeutsche Zeitung . July 24, 2008. Archived from the original on September 12, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
- ↑ Carter sheds light on X-FILES 2 ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from April 11, 2002, accessed on July 10, 2008
- ↑ Duchovny expects second 'X-Files' movie in USA Today April 8, 2004, accessed July 10, 2008
- ↑ Filming locations for The X-Files: I Want to Believe , accessed July 10, 2008
- ^ Box office / business for The X-Files: I Want to Believe , accessed July 10, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for The X-Files: I Want to Believe , accessed July 10, 2008
- ↑ Boris Walfort: The X Files - Beyond the Truth - The Truth About Mulder's New Voice . www.treknews.de. July 20, 2008. Archived from the original on May 16, 2009. 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. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
