The house at the lake

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Movie
German title The house at the lake
Original title The Lake House
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Alejandro Agresti
script David Auburn
production Doug Davison , Roy Lee
music Rachel Portman , Paul M. van Brugge
camera Alar Kivilo
cut Alejandro Brodersohn , Lynzee Klingman
occupation
synchronization

Das Haus am See (Original title: The Lake House ) is a romantic film drama from 2006 by director Alejandro Agresti . The main roles were played by Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves .

The film is a remake of the South Korean feature film Das Haus am Meer - Il Mare from 2000.

action

Dr. Kate Forster leaves a lake house where she has lived for some time and moves to Chicago , where she takes a position as a doctor. She leaves a message for her new tenant in her mailbox. Alex Wyler, whose father once built the house, finds this message and from then on exchanges messages with Kate via the house's mailbox.

It turns out that Alex lives in the past in 2004, but Kate lives in 2006. On her birthday in 2006, Kate sits alone in a bar. She remembers a man who attended her birthday party two years earlier. It is shown how Alex accidentally met Kate's boyfriend at the time and was invited to the party. He already knows what Kate looks like, but she only knows him from the letters. Alex and Kate sit on the porch of the house and talk about Jane Austen's novel Persuasion , in which lovers are separated and cannot find each other. They dance and kiss.

Kate blames Alex in the next letter for not telling her who he is. He replies that she would have thought he was crazy.

Simon Wyler, Alex's father and a famous architect, is hospitalized with a heart attack. Kate notes in his hospital record that he died shortly afterwards. She regrets that she cannot be with Alex to comfort him. Kate sends Alex the book his father wrote, which had not yet been published in Alex's time, to give him comfort during this difficult time.

Kate and Alex fall in love and arrange a meeting, but Alex doesn't come. Alex can't understand why he hasn't shown in two years and wants to meet Kate a second time. But she thinks that there is no point and that the two are not meant to meet. She asks Alex not to try to contact her in the future. However, he does not want to lose her and continues to write her letters, but receives no replies.

In 2006 Alex was out with his brother Henry, and when his brother told him it was Valentine's Day in 2006, Alex remembers a letter from Kate. In it, she writes how she witnessed an accident on Valentine's Day 2006 in which a man was killed. He drives to the lake house to find out exactly where the accident took place.

Meanwhile, Kate is in the office of Alex's brother in 2008 to have a house furnished by him. In his office she finds a drawing of a house hanging on the wall that looks like the house by the lake. She asks the brother who drew it. He replies that it was his brother Alex, but that he died in an accident exactly two years ago. Kate realizes that Alex was the man who was killed in an accident right before her eyes on Valentine's Day 2006. She hurries to the only communication device with the past, the mailbox, which is at the house on the lake. She writes to Alex that he was the man who died before her eyes and that he shouldn't try to contact her that day. He should wait two more years for her and come to the lake on Valentine's Day 2008. Alex reads the letter in 2006 and in the next scene it comes to Kate in 2008. The two embrace and kiss.

background

  • The eponymous house on the lake was built especially for the film on Maple Lake in Illinois and demolished again after filming.
  • The book by Dostoyevsky that Kate talks about with her mother is Crime and Punishment (German book title: Schuld und Sühne ).
  • Kate 's favorite book is Jane Austen's Persuasion .
  • The film clips shown with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman come from the film Notorious by Alfred Hitchcock.
  • In one scene, Alex's father says " I thought your Kerouac days were behind you, " referring to the writer Jack Kerouac .
  • Director Alejandro Agresti has a cameo in the film . He plays Kate's seatmate on the train using the oral spray.
  • The restaurant where Kate and Alex want to meet is called "Il Mare", which is also the international title of the original South Korean version of the film. In Germany, the film was sold under the title Das Haus am Meer - Il Mare , the original South Korean title is Siworae (in Korean script : 시월애).
  • Filming began on March 14, 2005 and ended on May 29, 2005.
  • The cost of production was estimated to be $ 40 million. The film grossed around US $ 52 million in cinemas in the United States and around US $ 62 million in other countries.
  • The cinema release in the USA and Canada was on June 16, 2006, in Germany on July 6, 2006.

synchronization

The German synchronous processing was done by RC Production Rasema Cibic, Berlin . Marina Köhler was responsible for the script and dubbing .

role actor Voice actor
Alex Wyler Keanu Reeves Benjamin Völz
Kate Forster Sandra Bullock Bettina White
Simon Wyler Christopher Plummer Lothar Blumhagen
Anna Klyczynski Shohreh Aghdashloo Gertie Honeck
Henry Wyler Ebon Moss-Bachrach Norman Matt
Kate's mother Willeke van Ammelrooy Regine Albrecht
Morgan Dylan Walsh Olaf Reichmann
Mona Lynn Collins Nana Spier
Mulher Mike Bacarella Hartmut Neugebauer

Reviews

James Berardinelli compared the script on ReelViews to a Swiss cheese. He wrote that the ending was "conventional".

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on June 16, 2006 that the plot was based on paradoxes.

“A wonderfully melancholy story about love and the strange paths that it sometimes goes. The perfect film for those who are longing or in love. "

- Frank Neumann - moviereporter.de :

“Remake of a Korean mystery film whose enigmatic potential has been neglected in favor of common psychological patterns. The melancholy romance in its restrained staging is well aware of the projection character of the fictional relationship, but does not compete with the sentimental construction of the story. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Das Haus am See . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2006 (PDF; test number: 106 538 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Das Haus am See . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ The Lake House. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Das Haus am See in the German synchronous file; Retrieved November 30, 2008.
  5. ↑ James Berardinelli: on The Lake House .
  6. ↑ Roger Ebert: about The Lake House .
  7. ↑ moviereporter.de .
  8. ↑ The house on the lake. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used