Cloud Atlas (film)

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Movie
German title Cloud Atlas
Original title Cloud Atlas
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Country of production Germany ,
United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 172 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director The Wachowskis ,
Tom Tykwer
script The Wachowskis,
Tom Tykwer
production Grant Hill
Stefan Arndt
The Wachowskis,
Tom Tykwer
music Tom Tykwer
Johnny Klimek
Reinhold Heil
camera Frank Griebe
John Great
cut Alexander Berner
occupation
synchronization

Cloud Atlas is a literary adaptation from the year 2012 by David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas . The film was directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer , who also wrote the screenplay together. At the time of its creation, the film was considered to be one of the most expensive independent films produced to date and by far the most expensive German film . It premiered on September 8, 2012 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown in US cinemas on October 26, 2012 and in German cinemas on November 15, 2012. Film releases in numerous other countries followed by March 2013. The audience success remained comparatively low.

action

The film deals with the fates of six different people that occurred over a period of several hundred years. The individual stories are partly connected by common characters, partly only by hints and memories. The six individual stories are told “interlocked” in the film, so that the narrative thread and time level in cuts constantly change, often abruptly and surprisingly.

Filming location Torrent de Pareis
  • 1849: The American lawyer Adam Ewing travels to the Pacific , where he is confronted with the oppression of the Maori and Moriori . On one of his explorations he befriends the doctor Henry Goose. Goose treats Ewing, who has collapsed from weakness. Goose's diagnosis that Ewing suffers from the “Polynesian worm” ensures that Ewing is accommodated in the cargo hold of the ship for fear of possible contamination. During the return journey the ever weakened Ewing the Moriori Autua, which helps as a stowaway on the run from abuse as a slave hid in the hold. Autua discovers that Goose is indeed sneaking poisoning to steal from him. Together they defeat Goose. From this Ewing recognizes that dark-skinned people are not callous subhumans and that slavery based on this race theory is therefore an inhuman principle. He and his wife openly oppose his father-in-law, who was successful in the slave trade, and join the abolitionist movement.
    Filming location Edinburgh - Scott Monument
  • 1936: The young homosexual composer Robert Frobisher describes in letters to his lover Rufus Sixsmith his work as an artistic assistant for the old composer Vyvyan Ayrs, of whom he thinks a lot, but whose artistic career is in decline. An artistic symbiosis develops between the two. In Ayrs' villa Frobisher finds Ewing's diary and is captivated by it; however, the second half of it is missing. The working relationship between Ayrs and Frobisher breaks off when the aging composer regards an ingenious, unfinished creation of his assistant, the "Cloud Atlas Sextet ", as a product of their cooperation and claims authorship. He puts Frobisher under pressure by threatening to reveal his sexual orientation and thereby destroy his artistic reputation. When Ayrs tries to prevent Frobisher's departure, Frobisher shoots him. Ayrs starts a smear campaign against Frobisher, who completes his cloud atlas sextet in solitude and then kills himself. He explains his reasons for this to Sixsmith in a final letter. Sixsmith arrives in Frobisher's hotel room a few seconds after his death.
  • 1973: Up-and-coming journalist Luisa Rey is stuck in an elevator in San Francisco with the aging Rufus Sixsmith from the 1936 story, who now works as a nuclear physicist . A birthmark on Rey's left shoulder reminds Sixsmith of Frobisher, whereupon he promises her information for an explosive story. Shortly before the agreed meeting, Sixsmith is murdered by a contract killer. Rey finds a pile of old letters under his body and takes them back. Then, using Sixsmith's hints, she follows the conditions at his previous job and finds out that a defective nuclear reactor is being deliberately continued to operate there in order to provoke a nuclear accident and thus influence national energy policy in the interests of the group. She barely survived a murder attempt on herself and then tried, with the support of a former comrade of her father's war, to escape the killer who was set on her and who was finally killed in revenge by a Mexican businesswoman. From Sixsmith's niece Megan, whose address she got from the letters found, Rey receives copies of the wanted documents about the defective nuclear reactor and publishes the scandal as her first big story. In return, Megan receives the letters from Frobisher to Sixsmith.
  • 2012: The initially unsalable autobiography of the violent offender Dermot Hoggins becomes a bestseller after the author spectacularly overthrew his sharpest critic in a spontaneous fit of anger at a social meeting . This causes the equally violent brothers of the imprisoned author to extort a large sum from his publisher Timothy Cavendish. Since the sales until then were only sufficient to cover Cavendish's earlier losses, he cannot meet the demand and turns to his wealthy brother Denholme, who has been estranged from him for years. On the train ride there, he reads a manuscript of a friend of Luisa Rey's and secretly tracks down his childhood sweetheart Ursula, but leaves again without making contact. Denholme recommends Cavendish to use “Haus Aurora” as a shelter, which initially looks like a hotel, but is actually a tyrannical prison for deported seniors run by Denholme. Denholme is taking revenge for a past affair between his wife and Cavendish. Cavendish manages to escape from the home with like-minded people. He later found himself in “exile” with Ursula, where he wrote his memoirs.
  • 2144: The female "duplicate" Sonmi ~ 451 lives in Neo- Seoul, Korea . In the ruling corporate democracy, she was created as a waitress in a fast-food restaurant like numerous identical-looking colleagues. Duplicates are considered inventory, they only live in the restaurant. You are promised that as a reward for an obedient working life after twelve years of service, you will enter the paradise of Elysium . But if they break the rules, they are killed immediately. The rebel Hae-Joo Chang wins Sonmi's trust and smuggles her out of the restaurant. She studies the world that is alien to her, falls in love with Hae-Joo Chang and gains new knowledge. She is arrested while watching an old film about Cavendish's story, which impresses her, but is rescued by Hae-Joo Chang shortly before her execution. When she learns that after the end of their service, duplicates are industrially slaughtered instead of the promised Elysium and processed into new duplicate food, she joins the rebels, a traditional utterance by Cavendish becomes her leitmotif. Sonmi writes an appeal for humanity and for respectful interaction with one another. While their appeal is being broadcast, government soldiers attack the broadcast station in Hawaii and kill all rebels, including Hae-Joo Chang. Sonmi is arrested and interviewed by a neutral archivist about her unprecedented behavior prior to her execution so that her story is preserved.
  • 106. Winter after the sinking (according to credits 2321) : The goatherd Zachry, who lives in a primitive way with his tribe, befriends Meronym, a member of the technologized people of the "Prescients". The Prescients guard and use highly developed technical devices, but are doomed in the dying world due to the prevailing radiation and are looking for a way out.
Tom Hanks at the screening of the film in Toronto
Zachry's tribe is repeatedly attacked by the cannibal "Kona". After Meronym rescues Zachry's sick niece, in return, Zachry is willing to lead Meronym to the top of a sacred mountain. This is where the communication station is hidden, from which Sonmi once sent her message. In the buildings you will find numerous references to Sonmi, who is worshiped as a goddess by Zachry's tribe; the bodies of the rebels who were killed in the storm are still there in a mummified state. With the communication system, Meronym wants to send a call for help to the extra-planetary colonies, in the hope that they have survived the fall of civilization - there has long been no contact with them. Zachry always has to resist the whisperings of the devil figure Old Georgie , who incites him against Meronym and demands of him to kill her. When they leave the communications station, they see from a distance that Zachry's village is on fire. Meronym, who has a firearm, saves Zachry and his niece, who survived in hiding, from the Kona, and the three escape to the Prescients ship.
In the last (as well as in the opening) scene of the film, old Zachry tells his grandchildren and Meronyms the story of their rescue. You are on an Earth-like planet with two moons. When asked about the earth, he shows the children a “blue shimmer” in the sky.

Links across the time epochs

Each plot is completed within the six time episodes shown. However, the reincarnation thought gives the film additional depth, which is expressed through recurring encounters and interactions of the incarnated souls in the various epochs. Developments of the souls are also recognizable. In addition, objects / objects or historical records find their way over time. With regard to the relationships and interactions of the “beings”, it would be difficult at this point to work with the respective fictitious personal names of the film, since a higher-level key is required for identification. As a makeshift approach, the actors' abbreviations are used below. Mentioning the names of the actors in full could lead to other misunderstandings.

  • BeWh = Ben Whishaw (Robert Frobisher)
  • BrLe = Brody Lee (Javier Gomez)
  • DaGy = David Gyasi (Autua)
  • DoBa = Doona Bae (Sonmi 451)
  • HaBe = Halle Berry (Luisa Rey)
  • HuGr = Hugh Grant (Lloyd Hooks)
  • HuWe = Hugo Weaving (Old Georgie)
  • JaDA = James D'Arcy (Archivist Park)
  • JiBr = Jim Broadbent (Timothy Cavendish)
  • JiSt = Jim Sturgess (Adam Ewing)
  • KeDa = Keith David (Joe Napier)
  • SuSa = Susan Sarandon (Abbess)
  • ToHa = Tom Hanks (most striking person in the film: Zachry)
  • ZhXu = Zhou Xun (Yoona 939)

Characters, relationships and interactions of beings

  • With JiSt and DoBa it is noticeable that they repeatedly become a couple (1849, 1973 [parents of Megan], 2144 and 2321) and devote themselves several times to the fight against oppression (slave trade, system in Neo-Seoul).
  • DoBa kills the professional killer HuWe in 1973 because of a racist statement; HuWe was her father and slave trader in 1849, by whom she felt oppressed.
  • HuWe is "evil" or a dodgy / strict personality (slave trader, conductor, professional killer, bossy nurse, rebel hunter, demon) across all epochs.
  • HuGr is also a negative being (advocate of slavery, unscrupulous nuclear lobbyist, vengeful brother, sexual exploiter (Neo-Seoul), leader of a warlike tribe).
  • In the case of the basically male incarnated beings JiBr and BeWh, an authority gradient is recorded twice (captain / cabin boy and composer / assistant). In 2012 BeWh incarnated as a woman (Georgette) and had an affair with JiBr (Timothy Cavendish).
  • In the 1936 epoch, HuWe, the German conductor Kesselring, brought his Jewish lover (HaBe) to safety in England at JiBr from the National Socialists. Both marry despite the large age difference. When Kesselring visits, it becomes clear that there are still feelings between him and his former lover. In 2012 HuWe is a tormentor of JiBr as a nurse.
  • HaBe and ToHa felt an attraction at different times: 1973 and 2321.

Other incidents

  • The nursing home Aurora, in which JiBr was detained against his will in 2012, is the same house in which he tried to prevent his assistant BeWh from leaving in 1936.
  • In 1936 JiBr had a dream in which he perceived the cloud atlas sextet as background music in the restaurant "Papa Song".
  • In 1973 HaBe reads as Luisa Rey the letters from Robert Frobisher (BeWh) from 1936, in which he reports on his affair with Jocasta Ayrs (HaBe). In 1973 she met him a short time later as a record seller.
  • As a record seller in 1973, BeWh was deeply impressed by his (which he does not know) own composition from 1936.
  • ToHa wore a necklace with a button as a pendant in 2321. He is almost strangled with it in battle with a Kona warrior. He stole the button from his patient JiSt's jacket in 1849.
  • The records of the statements of Sonmi ~ 451 (DoBa), recorded by the Archivist Park (JaDA), are considered holy scriptures in 2321. Archivist Park (JaDA) becomes the first supporter of Sonmi ~ 451 after JaDA was described as an unbeliever in 1973 by his then niece Megan.
  • The manuscript of the novel by BrLe, based on the events of 1973, is read by publisher JiBr on the train ride to Scotland in 2012.
  • In 1936, BeWh is fascinated by the book that JiSt wrote about his ship voyage in 1849 - BeWh was a cabin boy involved in this voyage. In 1936, the book enjoyed just as little respect at JiBr as its passenger at the time and author of the book JiSt at JiBr as the captain of the ship.
  • ToHa kills the Kona leader HuGr in 2321, who was responsible for the 1973 nuclear scandal and who may have been the client for the resulting murders (including ToHa).

The birthmark

In each of the stories, the central character has a comet-shaped birthmark on his body. In the 1973 story, this is crucial because it reminds Sixsmith of Frobisher and spontaneously inspires him to trust Luisa Rey, a stranger to him.

History (year) carrier Body part
1849 Adam Ewing chest
1936 Robert Frobisher Pelvis right behind
1973 Luisa Rey left shoulder in front
2012 Timothy Cavendish left shin
2144 Sonmi ~ 451 neck
2321 Zachry Back of the head

“Sayings” as content carriers

In order to describe the content of the film, it is not enough just to look at the different times. In the course of the “life stories”, anchors are set in the form of sayings by the protagonists, which have an overarching effect on the storylines. This means that another level of content is transported. In all stories the motive of the conflict to overcome the oppression by power, violence and social convention is repeated.

Sample quotes:

  • No matter what you do, it will never be more than a single drop in an infinite ocean! What is an ocean if not a multitude of drops?
  • Our lives are not ours! From cradle to grave we are connected with others, past and present and with every crime and act of kindness we create our future.
  • You can exercise power over other people as long as you give them something. But if you take everything from a person, then you have lost your power over him.
  • Freedom is the simple-minded mantra of our civilization. But only those who have been stripped of it have any idea what it means.
  • My uncle was a scientist, but he still believed that love was real! Kind of a natural phenomenon. He believed that love could outlast death.
  • The weak wander in the throat of the strong.

Differences from the novel

There are various differences in the film:

  • In the book, Ewing does not end up meeting his wife Tilda; he is in Hawaii for recreation.
  • In the book, the story of Frobisher takes place in Belgium, not Great Britain. Frobisher does not shoot himself in Edinburgh , as in the film , but in Bruges .
  • Frobisher doesn't shoot Ayrs in the book.
  • Ayrs' daughter Eva is completely missing in the film.
  • In the film and in the book, the showdown around the report between Luisa Rey and Bill Smoke is designed differently. For example, Napier does not die in the film.
  • In the film, Napier and Lester Rey know each other from the army and Korea. Both are cops in the book.
  • In the film, Cavendish does not return to London , but remains “in exile” in Scotland. For this he gets together with his childhood sweetheart Ursula, which is not the case in the book.
  • In the book, the entire union, the resistance movement around Hae-Joo Chang, was an invention of unity. This remains unexplained in the film, the only thing that is learned is that the Union has been defeated.
  • In the film, Zachry is a lot older. So in the book, it was his father, not his brother-in-law, who was killed by the Kona.
  • In the book, Zachry is temporarily enslaved by the Kona.
  • In the film, Zachry's niece is saved, in the book only Zachry himself and Meronym manage to escape.
  • In the book, Meronym and Zachry - who is still a teenager - do not fall in love, and neither do they leave earth.

Cast and dubbing

Almost all of the main actors can be seen in the different segments of the film in changing roles. Some of the actors portray characters with extremely different characters, different skin colors or different sexes. The German synchronization of the film was done by Berliner Synchron AG in Berlin .

actor South Pacific, 1849 Cambridge and Edinburgh, UK, 1936 San Francisco, 1973 UK, 2012 Neo-Seoul, Korea, 2144 Big Isle, 106th Winter After The Fall (2321) Voice actor
Tom Hanks Dr. Henry Goose Hotel manager Isaac Sachs Dermot Hoggins Cavendish's cast Zachry Joachim Tennstedt
Halle Berry Native woman Jocasta Ayrs Luisa Rey Party guest ovid Meronym Melanie Pukass
Jim Broadbent Captain Molyneux Vyvyan Ayrs Timothy Cavendish Street musician Prescient 2 Frank-Otto Schenk
Hugo Weaving Haskell Moore Tadeusz Kesselring Bill Smoke Nurse Noakes Mephi Old Georgie Oliver Stritzel
Jim Sturgess Adam Ewing Poor hotel guest Megan's father Highlander Hae-Joo Chang Zachry's brother-in-law Adam Nico Mamone
Doona Bae Tilda Ewing Megan's mother,
Mexican wife 		Sonmi ~ 451,
Sonmi ~ 351,
prostitute 		Zachry's sister Giuliana Jakobeit
Ben Whishaw Cabin boy Robert Frobisher Record seller Georgette Hae-Ju Zheng Tribal man Tobias Nath
James D'Arcy Young Rufus Sixsmith Old Rufus Sixsmith Nurse James Archivist Park Norman Matt ,
Wolfgang Condrus a
Zhou Xun Hotel manager Talbot Yoona ~ 939 rose Natascha Geisler
Keith David Kupaka Joe Napier An-Kor Apis Prescient Tilo Schmitz
David Gyasi Autua Lester Rey Duophysite Daniel Fehlow
Susan Sarandon Madame Horrox Older Ursula Yosouf Suleiman abbess Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Hugh Grant Reverend Giles Horrox Hotel employee Lloyd Hooks Denholme Cavendish Seer Rhee Leader of the Kona Patrick Winczewski
Brody Lee Javier Gomez Jonas Zachry's older nephew
aWolfgang Condrus only dubbed James D'Arcy in the role of older Rufus Sixsmith

Other contributors in supporting roles

Film music

production

Lana Wachowski at the screening of the film in Toronto

The Wachowskis talked in the spring of 2005 during the filming of James McTeigue V for Vendetta in Film Studio Babelsberg on. It was there that Lana Wachowski became aware of Mitchell's book, which the film's leading actress, Natalie Portman , was reading at the time. After her brother had read the book too, they planned to adapt the work as a feature film. In 2006 they contacted Tykwer and convinced him to make the film together. After completing other projects, they met in Costa Rica in February 2009 to write the script for the film. They did not categorically rule out the failure of the project. In August of the same year they met David Mitchell in Cork , Ireland , who gave his approval for the film.

The shooting took place from September to December 2011 in the Babelsberg studio. Previous outdoor shots were taken on Mallorca , Scotland , Saxon Switzerland and the Aviation Museum Finowfurt . Stefan Arndt produced the project, with the production company Cloud Atlas Production GmbH in co-production with X-Films Creative Pool GmbH responsible for the implementation in Germany. Most of the VFX post production was also carried out in Germany. Among others from ARRI VFX, Black Mountain VFX Studios, exozet effects, Lola VFX, Rise FX , Scanline and Trixter.

The production costs amounted to around 100 million dollars, with the film being funded in the millions by the German Film Fund , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW . The production is considered to be by far the most expensive German film at the time of its creation (until then, Das Parfum - The story of a murderer ).

Publication and Success

A five-minute trailer and a brief introduction by the directors to the making of the film were released on July 26, 2012. The approximately two and a half minute cinema trailer followed on September 6, 2012, followed by the film premiere two days later at the Toronto International Film Festival .

In contrast to the usual productions of large Hollywood studios, which often start within a few days in many countries around the world, the worldwide theatrical releases of Cloud Atlas were spread over a period of about half a year. On October 26, 2012, the film was shown in US and Canadian cinemas, among others. Warner Bros. is responsible for distribution there , and with their share in the financing of the film they also secured distribution rights in Great Britain, Japan, Australia, France and Spain. There the theatrical release only followed in February or March 2013. Focus Features took over the world distribution . Also in the market of the People's Republic of China , which is considered to be important, the film did not start until February 2013. The co-producer Dreams of the Dragon Pictures there created an editing version shortened by 39 minutes in accordance with the regulations of the censorship authority.

In the United States and Canada, the film grossed $ 9.6 million in cinemas on the opening weekend in 2008, taking it second in the rankings. After three months a box office result of about 27 million US dollars was achieved. The result in North America was widely seen as a flop .

More than US $ 103 million was added from over 40 other markets around the world where Cloud Atlas was gradually being launched, including more than US $ 27 million from China. The third largest grossing result after the USA and China was achieved in Russia with over 17 million US dollars. In Germany the film started on November 15, 2012 in the distribution of X-Verleih and exceeded the number of one million viewers on the weekend before Christmas. The total income in Germany was over 12.6 million US dollars.

In total, the film grossed 130 million US dollars at box offices around the world, which meant that it was unable to balance the estimated production budget of 100 million euros and the additional costs for marketing and distribution in the cinema exploitation window.

On the evening of August 6, 2014, the film was shown on Das Erste for the first time on free-to-air German television.

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. According to the Rotten Tomatoes film website , 66% of 246 film reviews examined are positive. The critical consensus is:

"Its sprawling, ambitious blend of thought-provoking narrative and eye-catching visuals will prove too unwieldy for some, but the sheer size and scope of Cloud Atlas are all but impossible to ignore"

"The expansive, ambitious mix of thought-provoking narrative and exciting imagery will be too cumbersome for some, but the sheer size and breadth of Cloud Atlas is almost impossible to miss."

- Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus

The film critic Alex Billington named the work the film of the year and awarded 10 out of 10 points:

“It's the movie of the year. A bold, ambitious, grand storytelling accomplishment that I dare say is a true cinematic revelation. "

“It's the movie of the year. A bold, ambitious, magnificent achievement in the art of storytelling, which I dare say is a truly cinematic revelation. "

- Alex Billington

Slant Magazine's critic Calum Marsh, on the other hand, called Cloud Atlas a film in which "nothing works":

"Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski wanted to make a movie unlike any other, and they certainly did: Cloud Atlas is a unique and totally unparalleled disaster."

"Tom Tykwer and Andy and Lana Wachowski wanted to make a film unlike anyone else, and they certainly achieved that: Cloud Atlas is a unique and completely unprecedented disaster."

- Calum Marsh

The lexicon of international films rated the film as a “kaleidoscope with lots of stories” and a “visually powerful adventure film”:

“The opulent journey through time and space, epochs and fashions, worlds of thought and worldviews condenses into a visually powerful metaphysical adventure film, which tells of the ups and downs of human civilization, of violence, power and abuse of power and the free will of people, their willingness to celebrate courage, friendship and trust. The intelligent and entertaining game with transformations and masks cleverly combines cinematic genres and juggles with historical seafaring drama, 1970s thriller, culturally critical farce, art film and dystopian science fiction opera. "

- Lexicon of International Films

For Markus Lippold on n-tv , the film is a "strong piece of cinema magic":

“'Cloud Atlas' is a strong piece of cinema magic that knows how to convince with enchanting pictures, exciting moments and a lot of stars in sometimes strange roles, even if the complex plot could have used a little more context here and there and sometimes relies too much on pathos . "

- Markus Lippold

Georg Seeßlen von der Zeit refers to the contradiction between a desirable “cinematic megalomania” and the implementation of the novel as a film:

“ Cloud Atlas is undoubtedly the performance exhibition of a cinema that no longer tells stories in pictures, but ' morphs ' ideas through pictures and action . Sometimes a wave carries us from one story to another, sometimes the music takes the lead, sometimes dialogues have to span time and space. […] What is of course an insightful and enlightening moral attitude in Mitchell turns into a somewhat tangled mixture of esotericism , Sunday school and half-digested philosophical fragments […] The pleasure of cinematic megalomania breaks down in the thoughtlessness of the script (and possibly also on a visual concept that combines grandiose, synthetic space here and there with Halloween children's festival design). "

- Georg Seeßlen

Dietmar Dath from the FAZ goes into the stylistic diversity and the numerous allusions and quotes within the film:

"Help before drowning in images and sounds is offered by the director [...] in a friendly manner - on the one hand in the form of retarding moments (a conversation in the elevator, scanning the landscape) and on the other hand by breaking out into the rushed (the shooting between two professionals in the line from 1973 wakes the Desire to see the whole thriller from which she seems to be quoted; the film contains quite a few perfect trailers of virtual works). [...] Anyone who knows and loves films will think of many while 'Cloud Atlas' happens, from the atomic drama Silkwood (1983) to the science fiction classic The Time Machine (1960), and it is alluded to directly , for example on Soylent Green (1973) - the passage can also be found in the book (which is deeply cinephile, but worked very differently from the film) ... "

- Dietmar Dath

Hannah Pilarczyk goes into the epic claim and its implementation on Spiegel Online and asks whether the effort was worth it:

“… 'Cloud Atlas' is so inflated in its ambition, so hooked on its ideas and so pompous in its appearance that Tom Tykwer's work with Andy and Lana Wachowski should have failed grandly. Ultimately, however, its vulnerability is what makes the film so interesting. […] The make-up and costume excesses are embarrassing, if not insulting, in most moments. ... But as ambivalent as the casting policy for 'Cloud Atlas' is: surprisingly, it works narrative. Because the more space the masks, wigs and prostheses take up, the stronger the veil becomes, the more openly the humanity of the figures is visible at the same time. [...] Nevertheless, the question remains whether the kinematic effort was worth it. [… In the end you are…] happy that the makers mastered their self-imposed challenge and that they remained loyal to them until the end. But you don't feel the urge to see something like that again soon. "

- Hannah Pilarczyk

Awards

Stefan Arndt was awarded the Producer's Prize at the Bavarian Film Prize 2012. Before that he received the German Director Prize Metropolis for best producer. The composers Tom Tykwer , Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil were nominated for the Golden Globe 2013 in the category Best Film Music. At the 2013 Academy Awards , Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the Best Visual Effects category, but was ultimately not nominated. In the same year, nine nominations for the German Film Award followed , including in the categories of best film and best director. Cloud Atlas was only considered in the technical categories and won five German film awards (camera, editing, costume design, production design and make-up design). It also won the 2013 Curt Siodmak Prize for best science fiction film.

Web links

Commons : Cloud Atlas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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