The interview
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The interview |
| Original title | interview |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Theo van Gogh |
| script |
Hans Teeuwen , Theodor Holman |
| production | Theo van Gogh, Gijs van de Westelaken |
| music | Rainer Hensel |
| camera | Thomas Kist |
| cut | Léon Verkade |
| occupation | |
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The Interview , also known as Interview - Nocturnal Confessions , is a 2003 Dutch drama film directed by Theo van Gogh . The filmmaker's penultimate film was remade in 2007 under the title Interview, directed by Steve Buscemi .
action
The journalist Pierre Peters is obliged to conduct an interview with the soap actress Katja Schuurman (who plays herself in the film). Peters is frustrated, as a political journalist and former war correspondent, he has nothing but contempt for the TV star. The interview appointment also prevents him from reporting, which is much more relevant to him, about the resignation of the Dutch government, which is taking place at the same time.
Conversely, the actress, who has become known primarily through external qualities, dislikes the reporter. She was expecting a bored culture editor to deal with his standard questions about fame and love life. For her part, she now encounters Pierre, who she sees as arrogant and who doesn't even know her TV roles, cynical and aggressive. The conversation could end quickly, but it turns into a verbal battle in the room between two highly intelligent media people. Both of them use all means of lying, deception, and pretending to justify their own role in media society. In their mutual attacks and intimate confessions, truth and lies can no longer be distinguished, any more than real feeling and its pretense. The two people get extremely close and at the same time become relentless enemies.
background
Although the characters shown have the same surname or first name as the actors and the location was Katja Schuurman's own apartment, this is a fictional work.
Van Gogh planned to adapt the work for the US and Indian markets, although the film only had about 8,000 visitors. For the US adaptation, Madonna was intended to play the lead role . After van Gogh's death, producers Gijs van de Westelaken and Bruce Weiss fulfilled this wish at least in part by remaking three of Van Gogh's films in the USA. In addition to the Buscemi film Interview (2007), a remake of Blind Date with Stanley Tucci was made in 2008 . A new version from 06 should complete the series.
The figure of the Bosnian war correspondent Pierre and the resignation from the cabinet that Pierre missed as a reporter point to one of the greatest political traumas in the Netherlands: During the Bosnian War, it was Dutch UN soldiers who carried out the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica had to stand by and watch. An investigation report in 2002 accused the political and military leadership of having "inadvertently supported ethnic cleansing" by the Dutch army. As a result, the Dutch government resigned in 2002. At the same time, the Netherlands developed into one of the largest producers of TV entertainment in the 1990s, mainly through the company endemol . Katja Schuurman represents this other formative side of Dutch society in the 1990s, both as a figure and an actress.
Stage version
The stage version of van Gogh's The interview was premiered on May 28, 2003 at the Tuschinski Theater in Amsterdam; the German version was premiered on February 17, 2006 in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm .
Reviews
"Clever moral study, brusque and sharp," judged TV Spielfilm . The lexicon of international films described the film as a "drama that cleverly mixes the boundaries between reality and fiction, including the cast of the female lead with a real soap star".
Web links
- The interview in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ See kfs1.de
- ↑ The interview on thespiskarren.de
- ^ Review on tvspielfilm.de
- ↑ The interview. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2017 .