All we had to give (movie)

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Movie
German title Everything we had to give
Original title Never Let Me Go
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
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Director Mark Romanek
script Alex Garland
production Alex Garland
Andrew Macdonald
Kazuo Ishiguro
Allon Reich
music Rachel Portman
camera Adam Kimmel
cut Barney Pilling
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synchronization
Mark Romanek , Kazuo Ishiguro and other actors in the film at the 2010 London Film Festival

All we had to give is a 2010 British film by director Mark Romanek . The main roles are cast with Carey Mulligan , Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield . The film is based on the novel Everything We Had to Give by author and Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro . It premiered on September 3, 2010 at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado , USA. It was released in German cinemas on April 14, 2011.

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The story is told by Kathy in a flashback: Ruth, Tommy and they are together as children in the 1970s in Hailsham , a seemingly normal boarding school . They have lived there with many other peers since they can remember. Regular medical examinations are a matter of course, and great importance is attached to ensuring that students are healthy and unharmed. They enjoy the fact that particularly good works made in art class are exhibited in a gallery. Kathy and Ruth are best friends, Tommy more the teased outsider. Kathy feels sorry for Tommy and keeps him company when he's alone, or shows him off in class so he doesn't get laughed at. Ruth doesn't understand the connection between Kathy and Tommy and is jealous . For her part, she seeks Tommy's closeness, and so it happens that he becomes estranged from Kathy and is more and more with Ruth.

At the age of about eighteen, the three young people leave Hailsham and live in what are known as cottages . Here they are no longer supervised and have contact with the outside world and with other young people. They now know that they are clones and that they are destined to donate their organs . They stay in the cottages until their first donation. Here the three also get to know Rodney and Chrissie. They hear from them that it is possible for a couple who really love each other to postpone their first donation by three years. Ruth and Tommy, who are now lovers, are still close friends with Kathy, who finds it difficult to see them together. So the young woman decides to apply to be a supervisor for donors and then leaves the cottage.

Years later, Kathy sees Ruth again in the hospital. Ruth is separated from Tommy and has donated for the second time. The two women go to see Tommy, who has also made his second donation. Ruth apologizes to Tommy and Kathy for keeping them apart for years. She gives them the gallery owner's address so that Tommy and Kathy can get a reprieve together. Ruth dies during her third donation.

Kathy and Tommy are now getting closer. Tommy hopes that the gallery owner will recognize from the pictures painted in Hailsham whether a couple really loves each other. His work was never selected for the gallery at school, so he has painted a lot in the past few years. When the two visit the lady, they learn that the delay is only a rumor. The gallery was first used to research whether the clones have a soul and then to show the outside world that clones have feelings and are human. This ends the flashback.

Kathy becomes Tommy's carer and accompanies him on his third donation, in which he dies. Shortly afterwards, Kathy also receives her notification of the first donation.

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role Actress Voice actor
Kathy Izzy Meikle-Small (young)

Carey Mulligan (old)

Soraya Richter (young)

Maria Koschny (old)

Ruth Ella Purnell (young)

Keira Knightley (old)

Shirin Westenfelder (young)

Giuliana Jakobeit (old)

Tommy Charlie Rowe (young)

Andrew Garfield (old)

Alexander Landmann (young)

Leonhard Mahlich (old)

Miss Emily Charlotte Rampling Krista Posch
Miss Geraldine Kate Bowes Renna Almut Zydra
Miss Lucy Sally Hawkins Tanja Geke
Rodney Domhnall Gleeson Konrad Bösherz
Chrissie Andrea Riseborough Anne Helm
Amanda Hannah Sharp Paulina-Sara Ociepka
Arthur Oliver Parsons Timon Straka
Keffers David stars Reinhard Scheunemann
Nurse Monica Dolan Silke Matthias
Laura Christina Carrafiell Katharina Ritter
Madame Nathalie Richard Katharina Koschny

criticism

“How a tragic triangular story develops between the moving protagonists is staged by director Mark Romanek ( One Hour Photo ) with a surprisingly stylish feel for kitsch-free emotional cinema. The scenario of second-class humanoids, who are ignored by society and live towards their fixed end in a strangely unregulated community, offers the opportunity to play through all emotional facets of being human under laboratory conditions, so to speak. In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, it seems plausible why rebellion and a thirst for freedom are not part of Kathy & Co. Unfortunately not in the film. "

- cinema.de

“And it is precisely because of his calm, slowed-down, undramatic pace that 'Everything we had to give' unfolds an unbelievable emotional force that has an effect long after the cinema has gone. Seldom has a film been so incredibly sad ... and so incredibly beautiful. "

- br-online.de

"Sophisticated narrative cinema that gets under your skin"

- German film and media rating: rating "particularly valuable"

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for everything that we had to give . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 224 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for everything we had to give . Youth Media Commission , accessed on 12 September 2015 .
  3. ↑ Everything we had to give cinema.de - criticism
  4. ↑ Everything we had to give ( Memento from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) br-online.de - criticism
  5. ↑ Report of the German Film and Media Assessment