Behind the spotlight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Behind the spotlight |
| Original title | All that jazz |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bob Fosse |
| script |
Robert Alan Aurthur , Bob Fosse |
| production | Robert Alan Aurthur |
| music | Ralph Burns |
| camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut | Alan Heim |
| occupation | |
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Behind the Spotlight is a 1979 American feature film that looks behind the scenes of musical productions .
action
The choreographer Joe Gideon is a successful director and choreographer on Broadway , just preparing a new show. His ex-wife Audrey Paris, with whom he has a close professional relationship and responsibility for their daughter Michelle, also plays in this show. His lover is also a dancer. Gideon is exhausted from professional and private stress and conflicts with his wives that arise from his notorious infidelity and the feeling that he is not enough. In his day and night dreams death appears to him in the person of the beautiful Angelique. Only to her does he open up and tell of his past, the meaning of his art and the nonsense of death. The workaholic eventually has a heart attack. After receiving an anesthetic in the hospital, it seems like he's staging a show featuring the women of his life. The operation succeeds, but shortly afterwards he has another heart attack that leads to death.
background
The film Behind the Spotlight is on the one hand a film with fascinating choreographies by the exceptional artist Bob Fosse, which gives precise insights into the rehearsals on Broadway, and on the other hand an irritating self-portrait. Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon is Bob Fosse. Ann Reinking, Fosse's longtime lover, plays Kate Jagger. Fosse himself suffered a heart attack during rehearsals. He processed these experiences in this film. The only difference: he lets his Joe Gideon die. However, years later, shortly before the premiere of a Broadway show, Bob Fosse also suffered his second heart attack, from which he died in 1987. The original name of the film is All that Jazz . This stands for the term all the stuff in English .
Reviews
“Musical about the death of a famous Broadway director and choreographer. Perfectly staged, in parts with a stirring rhythm and overflowing with aesthetic effects: great Hollywood cinema. "
Awards
- Oscar 1980
- Best Production Design - Philip Rosenberg, Tony Walton, Edward Stewart, Gary J. Brink
- Best costumes - Albert Wolsky
- Best editing - Alan Heim
- Best Music - Ralph Burns
- Nomination: Best Film - Robert Alan Aurthur
- Nomination: Best Actor - Roy Scheider
- Nomination: Best Director - Bob Fosse
- Nomination: Best Screenplay - Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse
- Nomination: Best Cinematography - Giuseppe Rotunno
At the International Film Festival in Cannes 1980 , the film won together with Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha the Palme d'Or .
In 2001 he was accepted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress .
Web links
- All That Jazz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Behind the spotlight at rotten tomatoes (English)
- freeze frame
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/and-all-that-jazz
- ↑ Behind the spotlight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 25, 2017 .