Closing the ring
| Movie | |
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| German title | Closing the ring |
| Original title | Closing the ring |
| Country of production | UK , Canada , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 113 minutes |
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| Director | Richard Attenborough |
| script | Peter Woodward |
| production | Richard Attenborough, Jo Gilbert |
| music | Jeff Danna |
| camera | Roger Pratt |
| cut | Lesley Walker |
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Closing the Ring (reference Title: Closing the Ring - Secret of the past ) is a British-Canadian-American film drama by Richard Attenborough in the year 2007 , in which Shirley MacLaine , Christopher Plummer , Mischa Barton and Neve Campbell are occupied in the lead roles .
action
Jimmy Reilly found a ring in Northern Ireland in 1991 with a couple's names engraved on it. It turns out that this ring belonged to Teddy Gordon, a crew member of a Boeing B-17 bomber that crashed near Belfast in 1943 . As he later learns, the then 19-year-old Gordon and his friends Jack and Chuck advertised in Kentucky in 1941 for the favor of the young and charming Ethel Ann, who decided on Gordon. The three were busy building a house that Gordon wanted to move into with Ethel. Before the friends went to the Air Force , where they soon had to fly missions in war zones, Gordon and Ethel married in secret. Since they only had one ring, Ethel wanted Gordon to wear it, he should protect it. Gordon made Jack and Chuck promise before their dangerous flight missions that one of them would marry Ethel if he did not survive the war missions. Actually, the choice fell on Jack, but he stepped back from Chuck because he knew how much his friend Ethel loved Ann.
In fact, the plane crash that Gordon feared occurred, in which he was found seriously injured by the then very young local Michael Quinlan, who had come to the crash site. Gordon asked him to deliver a ring to his wife, Ethel Ann, who lived in the United States and to convey to her that she would be free to choose if she fell in love again and not on her promise to love him forever and to be loyal to him is bound. Just as Gordon was about to give him the ring, the crashed machine exploded, the ring was lost and Gordon was finally killed. Despite hours of intensive searching, Quinlan was unable to find the gem. So it came about that Ethel Ann never reached these last words of the man she loved so much, and she later married Chuck and had a daughter with him who was named Marie.
Not just since Jack's death, Ethel Ann has increasingly changed and withdrawn more and more into herself. Even her daughter Marie hardly has any access to her mother, who gives her no answers to her questions. Then Jimmy Reilly appears, who has meanwhile determined who the ring is for. The story that Ethel Ann then tells Jimmy and Marie gives Marie an idea of how cruel her mother's life was and why she always had the feeling that her mother had no love for her father, Chuck.
Ethel Ann insists on going to Belfast and the crash site with Jimmy to find out more about how her husband Teddy died. There she meets the man who was supposed to give her the ring. And now, after so many years, Michael Quinlan sends her the last words of her dying husband and tells her how much it has burdened him over the years that he has not been able to convey the ring and the last wish of the dying man to her.
Now Jack finally finds the courage to tell Ethel that he has loved her for half an eternity. Now at last Ethel Ann can cry the redeeming tears she has held back for nearly fifty years. A long hug between Jack and Ethel Ann could be the beginning of a future together.
production
Production notes
The film of Prospero / Scion film / Spinster was produced in Belfast , Toronto and Dundas ( Ontario rotated). Its production amounted to an estimated 23.5 million US dollars .
Soundtrack
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Moonlight Serenade , music: Glenn Miller , text: Mitchell Parish ,
performed by Glenn Miller and orchestra -
Pennsylvania 6-5000 , music and lyrics: Carl Sigman & Jerry Gray ,
performed by Glenn Miller and orchestra -
Smooth Talk , composed by Ib Glindemann ,
performed by The Carlin Sessions Band -
Moonlight Promenade , composed by Ib Glindemann,
performed by the Carlin Sessions Band - The Brooklyn Bounce , composed by Alan Moorhouse
- Washington Post , composed by Robert Earley
- Swinging It Up , composed by E. Copley
- GI Swing , composed by Richard Myhill
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Lost Without Your Love , written by Chris C. Porter, arranged by Paul Honey,
sung by Amy Pearson
publication
The film was first shown on September 14, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was screened at the London Film Festival on October 21, 2007, and ran on December 28, 2007 in Ireland. It ran for the first time in 2008 in Australia, Spain, Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan and Turkey. It was released on DVD in Russia in September 2008, as was in Singapore. It had its television premiere in Hungary at the end of November 2008. In the USA, the film was shown in selected cinemas from January 9, 2009. It was released in Israel in January 2009, in Portugal in April 2009 and in Greece in May 2009. It premiered on DVD in May 2009 in Finland, Denmark and Sweden. It was also published in France and Poland. The worldwide and poster title is Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring .
The German dubbing was done by the dubbing company Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH, Berlin, dialogue book and dialogue director: Heike Schroetter .
In Germany the film was only released on DVD, provider: Concorde / Eurovideo. The DVD premiere was on September 17, 2008 under the title: Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past . On November 19, 2015 Concorde Video released another DVD with a German soundtrack with a playing time of 151 minutes. On July 5, 2009, it was first broadcast on television by Tele 5 .
Reviews
The editors of tvinfo.de found the film a "soulful drama without being kitschy". It also said: "Epic romance about loss and dissolution, love and reconciliation and the ability to find happiness."
The lexicon of international films stated: “A love story stretching over five decades that binds three men, friends and former US air force pilots, to one woman. A film about the power of love, which wants to appeal to great emotions and which one cannot deny a certain kindness, but which suffers from its complicated narrative technique and ultimately only offers dignified entertainment with nostalgic flair. "
The critic of the film magazine Cinema was of the opinion that it was "a leisurely staged kitepos by Gandhi director Richard Attenborough, a stiff, sentimental and tiring journey through time" and drew the conclusion: "Good actors in an old-fashioned stirring piece."
kino.de stated Richard Attenborough that with his first directorial work since Gray Owl in 1999 he was returning to “the kind of grandiose filmmaking” with which he had become “famous”. It went on: “His third film set during the Second World War after ' The Bridge of Arnhem ' and ' In Love and War ' tells with the epic breath of David Lean of a 50-year love story that can also score with great viewing values ] as with their magnificent cast, especially Shirley MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. "
Awards
Closing the Ring was nominated for the IFTA Award at the Irish Film and Television Awards 2008 in the categories "Best Picture" (Jo Gilbert and Richard Attenborough) and "Best Design in a Production" (Tom McCullagh).
Web links
- Closing the Ring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Closing the Ring at Turner Classic Movies (English)
- Closing the Ring film poster in the IMDb
Individual evidence
- ^ Filming locations for Closing the Ring in the IMDb, accessed on May 21, 2007.
- ↑ Box office / business for Closing the Ring in the IMDb, accessed on May 21, 2007.
- ↑ Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on May 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past DVD case
- ↑ Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past at tvinfo.de, accessed on May 15, 2017.
- ^ Closing the Ring. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 15, 2017 .
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↑ Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past at cinema.de
(with trailer in German and 9 film photos), accessed on May 15, 2017. - ↑ Closing the Ring - Secret of the Past at kino.de, accessed on May 15, 2017.
