Byzantium (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Byzantium |
| Original title | Byzantium |
| Country of production |
Ireland , United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| script | Moira Buffini |
| production |
Sam Englebardt , William D. Johnson , Elizabeth Karlsen , Alan Moloney , Stephen Woolley |
| music | Javier Navarrete |
| camera | Sean Bobbitt |
| cut | Tony Lawson |
| occupation | |
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Byzantium is a US-American - British - Irish vampire movie from the year 2012 . It is based on the play A Vampire Story by British playwright Moira Buffini , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. The production was directed by Neil Jordan , who had previously staged an interview with a vampire .
The film premiered in the UK on February 22, 2013 at the Glasgow Film Festival , the US premiere was on April 25 of the same year at the Tribeca Film Festival , and the Irish three days later at the Irish Film Institute. The film was released in theaters on May 31, 2013 in the UK and Ireland and on June 28 in the US. The production was not shown in cinemas in Germany, but was released on DVD on December 27, 2013 .
action
In 2010, an old man, Robert Fowlds, found a piece of paper that had been labeled by the teenager Eleanor Webb. She wrote down her entire life story and threw the individual pages out of the window, where they were carried away by the wind. Robert quickly realizes that she is a vampire in, which is why he tracks her down and invites her to his home. He tells her that he is ready to die because of his old age, which is why she kills him by sucking the blood from his body. Eleanor's mother, Clara, is seen by the vampire Werner, who is a member of the Brethren association, while working in a strip club . She flees when he sees him, he catches up with her and asks her to tell him the whereabouts of Eleanor. She then beheads him with a garrot wire, burns his body and leaves the city with her daughter.
Eleanor and Clara find refuge in a dilapidated hotel , the Byzantium, in a coastal area. The owner is Noel, who shortly before was Clara's suitor . He feels lonely and has inherited the business, which once flourished but has since been poorly attended and run down. Eleanor plays piano sonata No. 3 in the hotel restaurant and thus attracts the attention of the young waiter Frank, with whom she starts a conversation and gets along well immediately. Meanwhile, Eleanor turns the Byzantium into a makeshift brothel , Noel doesn't contradict, as he's happy to finally have some company. Meanwhile, Eleanor goes to the local college with Frank . Have the students write an essay about their lives as a term paper. Eleanor decides to describe her past again, and gives Frank what she has written to read it. He is a bit surprised by what he reads, which is why he shows the text to his teacher Kevin.
The action then jumps into the past of Eleanor and Clara: In the time of Napoleon , the young Clara, who earns her living collecting mussels, meets two officers of the Royal Navy , Captain Ruthven and Ensign Darvell on the beach . The latter gives her a pearl and is friendly to her, while Ruthven asks her somewhat imperiously to come with him, which Darvell displeases. Ruthven takes her to a brothel, rapes her and forces her to become a prostitute . Over the years, he visits her several times during her work and abuses her. Eleanor is born in 1804. Clara drops them off at the local orphanage and secretly visits them every night. A few years later, Clara is seriously ill with tuberculosis and is visited by Darvell, who has since become a vampire, in the brothel. He gives Ruthven a map that leads to an island where the terminally ill can be transformed into vampires. Clara injures Ruthven with a shot in the leg, steals the card and goes to the island. There she is brought to Brethren by Darvell, a secret vampire association that ensures that vampirism remains a secret.
The members of Brethren, all male nobles, are initially outraged because Clara is a prostitute from a poor background. They still allow her to become a member, on condition that she abides by the Code of Conduct and does not interfere in association matters. Shortly afterwards, she returns home and wants to visit Eleanor, who is being raped by Ruthven in the attic of the orphanage in revenge on her mother. Eleanor stabs him with her fingernails, but comes too late because Eleanor has contracted syphilis from him and threatens to die a slow, agonizing death. Desperate, Clara brings Eleanor to the island and turns her into a vampire, even though doing so is against the association's rules. When the Brethren members find out, they hunt them down from now on.
In the present, Eleanor falls in love with Frank, who has been struggling with leukemia for a long time . She wants to turn him into a vampire so that she can be with him. Her mother wants to kill Kevin because she knows about her daughter's notes. Before she drinks his blood, he reveals to her that Frank also knows about her past. That's why she returns to the hotel, where she wants to get Frank out of the way. She locks Eleanor in the elevator, with Noel killing him when he accidentally falls down the elevator shaft. Meanwhile, Darvell and Savella, the Brethren leader, pretend to be police officers and learn from Kevin's colleague Morag where Clara is. They drive with Morag to the hotel and take Eleanor to an abandoned fairground to kill her there. However, Clara comes to the rescue in time, whom Frank has spared. Savella kills Morag and then has a long fight with Clara, he finally overpowers her. Savella gives Darvell his sword, which still comes from the conquest of Constantinople , and tells him to behead Clara with it. Darvell cannot bring himself to the fore, having been in love with Clara for a long time, and instead kills Savella. Clara hands her daughter the money she received from her suitors at the hotel and tells her that they will now go their separate ways. Clara and Darvell leave together while Eleanor takes Frank to the island where he becomes a vampire.
synchronization
The film was dubbed at TaurusMedia based on a dialog book by Henning Stegelmann, directed by Solveig Duda .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Eleanor Webb | Saoirse Ronan | Stella Sommerfeld |
| Clara Webb | Gemma Arterton | Caroline Combrinck |
| Ensign Darvell | Sam Riley | Johannes Raspe |
| Captain Ruthven | Jonny Lee Miller | Ole Pfennig |
| Frank | Caleb Landry Jones | Tim Schwarzmaier |
| Kevin | Tom Hollander | Axel Malzacher |
| Gareth | Warren Brown | Hubertus von Lerchenfeld |
| Savella | Uri Gavriel | Michael Brennicke |
| Robert Fowlds | Barry Cassin | Erich Ludwig |
reception
The film achieved a rating of 6.5 out of ten stars in the Internet Movie Database based on 38,872 votes. At Rotten Tomatoes , the production achieved a critical rating of 66 percent based on 118 reviews and an audience rating of 51 percent based on 11,652 votes. On Metacritic , the average score was 68 out of 100 points.
Daniel Sander writes at Spiegel Online that the most exciting moments in the film are the scenes in which Clara steps into action. However, the film mainly focuses on Eleanor, who is prudish. She is also a very passive figure, since she only complains about her mother, attends a creative writing course and, which is also untrustworthy, falls in love with a young person suffering from leukemia. Sander speculated that the focus on the "failed teen romance " should "keep Twilight fans happy". This is a shame, as the film had a "cozy, dark, scary atmosphere" and this fact also distracts from the much more interesting idea that the plot is actually about two women who are ready "for eternity for their independence from to fight an unjust patriarchy ”. Since the protagonists are "blood-sucking feminists" who are strongest when fighting together, Byzantium stands for everything that Twilight did not stand for, which is why the film deserves a chance for this alone.
Saoirse Ronan was for her performances in Byzantium , souls and How I Live Now at the award ceremony of the London Film Critics' Circle Film Award in the category Best British Newcomer nominated.
Web links
- Byzantium in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Byzantium . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 594 V).
- ↑ More Guests Announced For Glasgow Film Festival 2018. In: Glasgow Film Festival.org. February 14, 2018, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Jennifer Mills: See 'Byzantium' Neil Jordan's Return To the Vampire Film. In: Tribecafilm.com. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ^ Louise Hogan: In the director's chair: injured Jordan refuses to miss 'Byzantium' premiere. In: Irish Independent . April 29, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ^ Byzantium. In: Box Office Mojo . August 8, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ German synchronous index | Movies | Byzantium. Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ^ Byzantium (2013). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved October 24, 2019 .
- ^ Byzantium Reviews - Metacritic. In: Metacritic . June 24, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Daniel Sander: Ladies in Red. In: Spiegel Online . December 26, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Stuart Kemp: '12 Years a Slave 'Leads London Critics' Circle Film Awards Nominations. In: The Hollywood Reporter . December 17, 2013, accessed October 24, 2019 .
