Accused (1988)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Accused |
| Original title | The Accused |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonathan Kaplan |
| script | Tom Topor |
| production |
Stanley R. Jaffe Sherry Lansing |
| music | Brad Fiedel |
| camera | Ralf D. Bode |
| cut |
O. Nicholas Brown Gerald B. Greenberg |
| occupation | |
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Accused (original title: The Accused ) is an US-American - Canadian film drama from the year 1988 , which is based on real events. The director was Jonathan Kaplan , the screenwriter Tom Topor .
Jodie Foster received the Oscar and Golden Globe awards for the lead role . The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke, while the dialogue book and the dialogue direction were created by Lutz Riedel.
action
The script of the film based on the true case of Cheryl Araujo that on March 6, 1983 in the Big Dan's Bar in New Bedford (Massachusetts) the victim of a gang rape (Engl. Gang rape ) was.
A young woman is the victim of public gang rape in a bar, and nobody does anything about it. First, the prosecutor tries to bring the rapists to court herself, but then accepts a defense proposal to make a deal. This states that the accused are sentenced to two and a half to five years' imprisonment not for rape but for dangerous bodily harm.
Because of her guilty conscience that she gets by accepting the deal, as people are now attacking the victim because of what happened and treating her as a whore, the prosecutor Kathryn Murphy then tries to obtain a conviction from the audience of the crime, which not only did nothing about it, but also incited the rapists. The matter becomes difficult because the victim, the young worker Sarah Tobias, has a bad repute . The prosecutor refuses a deal because she wants the victim to be able to tell her story on the witness stand.
Eventually she also finds a witness who confirms all of this in court. After very long deliberations with the jury and various interruptions due to questions about some statements, the prosecution achieved its goal of convicting the perpetrators of the crime. The three rapists also have to go to prison for rape, which gives Sarah her inner peace. Even so, the film says, the problem of rape still exists and implicitly urges the viewer to look at this problem more seriously.
Trivia
The scenes are considered realistic; some sources report traumatic experiences of the actors involved , especially while filming the rape scene. Kelly McGillis herself was raped by two men in 1982.
For the French film version, which was distributed under the title Les Accusés , Jodie Foster spoke all of the dialogues by Sarah Tobias herself.
Reviews
The lexicon of international film praised the "effectively staged, excellently played court drama with a serious concern that can provide some food for thought through both the dramaturgy and the moral argumentation".
Cinema described the film as a “brilliant contribution to more justice”.
Awards (selection)
- In 1989, Jodie Foster won the Academy Award for Best Actress .
- In 1989, Jodie Foster won a Golden Globe for best actress in a drama .
- In 1989, Jodie Foster won the National Board of Review for Best Actress.
The film also ran in the competition at the Berlinale 1989 , but received nothing in the award ceremony.
literature
- Louis Chunovic: Jodie Foster: a portrait. VGS Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2416-0 , pp. 118-123.
Web links
- Accused in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Indicted at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Indicted at Metacritic (English)
- Indicted in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angeklagt (1988) German synchronous card index . Accessed February 9, 2018.
- ↑ Indicted. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Cinema