Calling Hedy Lamarr
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Calling Hedy Lamarr |
| Original title | Calling Hedy Lamarr |
| Country of production | Austria , Great Britain , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 72 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK not checked |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georg Misch |
| script | Georg Misch |
| production | Mischief Films ( Ralph Wieser , Georg Misch ), Gunter Hanfgarn, Martin Rosenbaum, Anthony Loder |
| music | Jim Howard |
| camera | Jon Sayers |
Calling Hedy Lamarr is a 2004 documentary by Austrian filmmaker Georg Misch about Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, alias Hedy Lamarr .
Synopsis
Calling Hedy Lamarr is not a portrait film , but a documentary film about the “goddess of the screen ” from Vienna , who was also praised as the most beautiful woman in the world in the 1940s, and her groundbreaking invention , about a mother, an emancipated woman and the failed.
The film tells her life as a mix of modern myths , constructed legends and true stories, looking at the Hollywood - Diva primarily from the perspective of her son Anthony Loder, a fairly successful telephone dealer from Los Angeles who desperately as producer of a feature film about the life tried his mother. In his research he comes across contradicting statements and fantastic theories .
The film
Since nobody knows the whole story of Hedy Lamarr, it was reconstructed in the documentary from fragments of the memories of various protagonists . The different facets of her complex life are told by a multitude of characters .
The telephone is an important leitmotif of the film, as on the one hand Hedy Lamarr's invention is an integral part of all cordless telephones and cell phones , and on the other hand, after she had withdrawn from the public eye, she spent literally two decades on the phone, which at that time was almost was their only means of communication with the world, with friends, and even with their own children. She is said to have often spent six to seven hours a day talking on the phone.
In the film, the interviews with the actors are conducted in the form of telephone calls. The locations for these phone calls range from Anthony Loder's telephone shop, through the apartments of individual conversation partners, to public telephone booths or cell phone calls outdoors. Calling Hedy Lamarr is composed of these sequences for a virtual telephone conversation between all participants. This conversation, which as such never took place, tells the story of Hedy Lamarr as a unit - contradicting statements, fantastic theories, truth and lies are very close to one another. In addition, Hedy Lamarr himself speaks as the telephone voice and takes part in the constructed dialogue . This is based on several telephone calls that her son, Anthony Loder, recorded in the last years of his mother's life. Fragments of dialogue in image and sound from her more than 30 films (e.g. The Strange Woman , Dishonored , The Female Animal ) describe part of the cinematic dialogue.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Calling Hedy Lamarr in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- more information about the documentary on Mischief Films