Burke & Hare
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Burke & Hare |
| Original title | Burke & Hare |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Landis |
| script |
Piers Ashworth , Nick Moorcroft |
| production | Barnaby Thompson |
| music | Joby Talbot |
| camera | John Mathieson |
| cut | Mark Everson |
| occupation | |
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Burke & Hare is a British comedy of director John Landis from the year 2010. The film is loosely based on the true story of the West Port murders . These were perpetrated in Edinburgh in 1827 and 1828 by William Burke and William Hare .
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1828 in Edinburgh: The city is regarded as the center for teaching anatomy . Everyone wants to study here. The two local institutions for anatomy, headed by Doctor Knox and Professor Monro , compete for scientific knowledge. Fresh corpses are regularly required for this as well as for teaching . After a change in the law, Professor Monro is entitled to the bodies of all those executed , so that Doctor Knox is forced to obtain his "material" elsewhere.
William Burke and William Hare, two Irish immigrants with a previously poor knack for business, learn that Doctor Knox is willing to pay a high price for fresh corpses. This happens exactly at the moment when a tenant of the Pension Hares dies and they think about how to dispose of the body. You do business with Knox and then make an effort to deliver supplies. Grave robbery fails due to the zeal of the local police and so the two reluctantly switch to murder . In doing so, they develop burking .
They make excellent earnings, they change clothes and venture into better company. Here Burke meets the former prostitute and dancer Ginny. She is looking for a financier to direct a theater performance of Macbeth . He falls for her immediately and promises her his help. In addition, the gangster Danny McTavish wants a piece of the cake and extorts protection money from Burke and Hare. As if that weren't enough, the king called for a contest among the doctors and Knox needed more corpses than usual. He had the heliograph Nièpce take photographs of the prepared corpses in order to record anatomical structures, and hoped to outdo Monro. Knox knows exactly how Burke and Hare got hold of the bodies.
Hare and McTavish's right hand man Fergus team up against McTavish and kill him. He is said to be the last victim of Burke and Hare, because Hare's wife Lucky has the idea of opening a funeral home to get corpses. McTavish lands on Doctor Knox's dissection table and is recognized by the students, whereupon the police are called in. She is also very interested in the photographs, which clearly identify the missing persons from the last few months. Knox eventually leads Captain McLintoch to Burke and Hare. At the time of their arrest, both are together with their loved ones, so all four are arrested. Lord Harrington, the prosecutor's office, tells the captain that no one wants a trial as this would damage the image of Edinburgh and its anatomical institutes. Captain McLintoch grants freedom to others as long as one confesses to the murders and receives the sentence. Burke, who had more scruples than Hare and already thinks he will go to hell, wants to do one last good deed by sacrificing himself. The condition is one night alone with Ginny, which gives him this.
Burke is hanged and lands on Monro's dissection table. After a brief grief, Ginny continues her career as an actress. It is implied that she is not overly talented. Knox emigrates to America and Hare and Lucky open their funeral home.
Cameo
Ray Harryhausen , a pioneer in animation technology, has a cameo appearance in Burke & Hare , as does British film director Michael Winner and cameraman Robert Paynter .
Publications
The film opened in UK cinemas on October 29, 2010. In Germany , the film was released on DVD on May 10, 2011 . It was also shown at the 2011 Fantasy Filmfest Nights .
Reviews
“The director understands the burlesque staged in the famous Ealing studios in the tradition of black humor classics such as Ladykillers (directed by Alexander Mackendrick; 1955) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (German: nobility obliges ; directed by Robert Hamer; 1949). The bitter and evil farce that relies more on physical comedy than on sophistication is lacking in its ambiguity. "
“The wandering filmmaker puts almost every punch line in the sand, stages miles past the biting epoch portrait of his scriptwriters Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft and lets his talented cast ensemble spin freely. Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis and their colleagues play so expressively through the sets, as if they were populating a silent film. The story of the serial killers Burke and Hare is definitely worth telling - but with Landis it has come across a narrator who has long since passed his zenith. "
"Raven-black morbid comedy with current references and excellent actors, whose combination of horror, gore and romance sometimes unfolds a delightful satirical bite, but also slips into embarrassment."
Web links
- Burke & Hare in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Burke & Hare at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Burke & Hare at Metacritic (English)
- Burke & Hare in the online film database
- Burke & Hare in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Burke & Hare . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 695 V).
- ^ Peter Gutierrez: Film Comment Selects 2011 Reviews: Burke & Hare and Insidious . March 5, 2011. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Info: The archive link has been 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 18, 2015.
- ↑ Philip French: Burke & Hare - review . October 31, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ↑ Review on kino-zeit.de.Retrieved on April 16, 2011
- ^ Review on Filmstarts.de.Retrieved April 16, 2011
- ↑ Burke & Hare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
