A river rises from the middle (film)

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Movie
German title A river rises from the middle
Original title A River Runs Through It
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Robert Redford
script Richard Friedenberg
production Robert Redford
Patrick Markey
music Mark Isham
camera Philippe Rousselot
cut Robert Estrin
Lynzee Klingman
occupation
synchronization

A River Runs Through It is a American film directed by Robert Redford in the year 1992 . It was based on the novel of the same name by Norman Maclean from 1976.

action

Missoula , Montana , in the early 20th century. The two brothers Paul and Norman are fundamentally different in character, but both are united in their love of fly fishing . Paul is a fun-loving nature boy who is connected to his home country, Norman is a rather calm and closed intellectual. They inherited their love for fly fishing from their father, a Presbyterian minister who demands discipline but is still loving. Norman leaves home to study literature at the elite Dartmouth University. The daredevil Paul stays in Montana, where he works as a local reporter after graduating from college .

In the summer of 1926, after successfully completing university, Norman returned to his homeland, which he had not attended for six years. During an Independence Day dance , he met the beautiful Jessie Burns, with whom he met from now on. Norman even tries to get along with Jessie's unfriendly brother Neal and, on Jessie's advice, invites him to fly fishing. But since the drunk Neal sleeps naked in the sun with a woman and gets sunburn as a result, the trip turns into a disaster and Jessie turns away from Norman for a short time. Norman eventually gets a position as a literature professor in Chicago , he reconciles and becomes engaged to Jessie.

Paul, on the other hand, is getting more and more caught up in alcoholism and gambling addiction , which brings him into conflict with the police on several occasions. He meets with the Indian Mabel, but this relationship is not socially accepted. Norman suspects that his brother's problems are becoming more and more obvious, but he refuses any help and looks good. On a trip together with her father, Paul kills a large fish, which he masterfully pulls out of the stream after a long struggle. But even the spirituality that fly fishing emanates for the two brothers cannot prevent the tragedy: Shortly after his catch, Paul is beaten to death one night, apparently because of his gambling debts. A little later, Norman and Jessie leave Montana for Chicago.

This story is told by the elderly Norman, whose friends and acquaintances of his youth are now almost all dead, but who is still fishing on the river of his family and thus feels close to them and the world as a whole.

production

The Redeemer Lutheran Church in Livingston, shown in the film as the Presbyterian Church

Robert Redford first read the 1976, critically acclaimed novel A River Runs Through It by retired literature professor Norman Maclean in the early 1980s. He wanted to make a film out of the material immediately after reading it, but was initially unsure because Norman Maclean had not disclosed the film rights despite several lucrative offers from Hollywood. Redford and Maclean got along well, however, and there were several meetings at which they discussed a film adaptation. The work of Richard Friedenberg and Robert Redford on the script dragged on for several years. Redford named as a difficulty that Maclean's novel worked less through active action, but more through the beauty of his language and the depth of his thoughts.

Robert Redford's film stays close to the content of Maclean's short novel. The most notable difference: The novel is set in the summer of 1937, when Maclean was over 30 years old and had been married to Jessie for a long time, while the film is set in 1926. Most of the characters in the novel and film are autobiographical, Jessie was like that Burns was married to Norman Maclean from 1931 until her death in 1968 and his father was also a Presbytian pastor. The historical Paul Maclean was also a newspaper reporter and the three years younger brother of Norman Maclean. Paul Maclean was killed in Chicago in May 1938 after struggling with alcoholism and gambling debt.

The shooting took place in the summer of 1991, about a year after Norman Maclean's death, whose family was involved in the film in an advisory capacity. The church scenes showing the Reverend Maclean's sermons were filmed at the Evangelical Lutheran Redeemer Lutheran Church in the town of Livingston , Montana .

Reviews

The film service describes a river that springs from the center as "carefully staged without any gimmicky" and as a "beneficial departure from the majority of Hollywood productions", which "in its internalized narrative style would exactly match the spirit of the autobiographical model".

Cinema described the film as a “meditative, poetic-philosophical saga” and as a “contemplative family portrait” and said that “the Oscar-winning camera indulged in metaphors through the wonderful mountains of Montana”.

Awards

Golden Globes 1992
Oscars 1993
1993 Grammy Awards
  • Best Film Soundtrack: Nomination for Mark Isham
American Society of Cinematographers , 1993
  • Best camera nomination for Philippe Rousselot
Casting Society of America, USA 1993
  • Best casting : nomination for Elisabeth Leustig
Kinema Junpo Awards 1994
  • Best Foreign Film for Robert Redford
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 1992
  • Best Music : Nomination for Mark Isham
USC Scripter Award 1993
  • Award for Norman Maclean and Richard Friedenberg
Young Artist Awards 1993
  • Best Actor Under 10 : Joseph Gordon-Levitt

synchronization

The German version was created in 1992 at Deutsche Synchron, directed by Michael Richter.

role actor German Dubbing voice
Norman Maclean Craig Sheffer Ingo Albrecht
Paul Maclean Brad Pitt Bernd Vollbrecht
Reverend Maclean Tom Skerritt Hartmut Reck
Mrs. Maclean Brenda Blethyn Brita summer
Jessie Burns Emily Lloyd Schaukje Könning
Neal Burns Stephen Shellen Hubertus Bengsch
Mabel Nicole Burdette Judith Brandt
Rawhide, Neal's affair Susan Traylor Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Chub, one of Maclean's friends Michael Cudlitz Sven Hasper
Old Norman (narrator) Robert Redford (voice) / Arnold Richardson (body) Friedrich W. Building School

literature

  • Norman Maclean : A river springs from the middle. Roman (Original title: A River Runs Through It ). With thirteen woodcuts by Barry Moser. German by Bernd Samland . Unabridged edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, 233 pages, ISBN 3-596-14531-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Redford in his preface to: Norman Maclean: A river rises from the middle. Fischer Verlag, 2018.
  2. ^ Livingston, Montana and the Paradise Valley
  3. ↑ A river rises in the middle of the film service. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  4. ^ A review of Cinema
  5. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | A river rises from the middle. Retrieved April 6, 2018 .