The conclave
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The conclave |
| Original title | The Conclave |
| Country of production | Germany , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Schrewe |
| script | Paul Donovan |
| production | Paul Donovan, Sytze Van Der Laan |
| music | Ari Wise |
| camera | Mathias Neumann |
| cut | Thorben Bieger |
| occupation | |
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The Conclave is a German-Canadian historical drama by director Christoph Schrewe from 2006 , which tells the story of the Conclave of 1458 . The film premiered on September 7, 2006 at the Hamburg Film Festival. The German theatrical release was on November 1, 2007.
action
The film tells the story of the Conclave of 1458 from the perspective of the young Spaniard and Cardinal Vice Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia . His uncle, Pope Kalixt III. , is dying. In the city of Rome there is unrest and resentment about everything Spanish, especially the Borgia . Rodrigo Borgia is fetched by his lover Vanozza and informed of the death of his uncle. Together with his brother, Captain Pedro Luis Borgia, he is now in mortal danger, as the Orsini family in particular wants to regain their lost privileges by fighting the Borgia family.
While his brother fled Rome, Rodrigo Borgia made it to the conclave: the meeting of the cardinals to elect the new Pope from among their ranks . The two most promising candidates are the calculating Frenchman Guillaume d'Estouteville and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini from Siena. In the following, the politicizing and maneuvering of the candidates for votes is shown, which above all reveals the character of all cardinals. In the meantime, Pedro Luis Borgia was murdered by a knight on behalf of Cardinal Orsini.
After the papal election has stalled, it is Rodrigo Borgia who takes the decisive step and helps Piccolomini with a majority of votes to the papacy. In the end, Rodrigo Borgia, who was initially irreligious and not to be taken seriously, earned a certain respect from the other cardinals. He returns to his beloved.
production
The film was from 10 January to 10 February, 2005 Halifax , Canada with a budget of 3 million US dollars rotated. The production was carried out by Studio Hamburg International Production GmbH (SHIP) and Alexander Sextus Ltd. (Halifax) in co-production with Téléfilm Canada and ARD Degeto . The initial cinema film distribution was carried out by Novapool Production GmbH .
The film rights for German television were acquired by ARD , the rights for British and Canadian television went to CHUM Ltd., Canada. It was first broadcast on German television on April 12, 2009 on ARD.
Sytze van der Laan, the producer of Studio Hamburg, says about the development of the German-Canadian collaboration : “We had worked on our own Borgia project and then found out that my friend and colleague Paul Donovan was working on his own project himself. We decided to pool our resources. He had the scripts and I loved them. "
Christoph Schrewe made his debut as a movie director with The Conclave after several television films.
Reviews
“Perhaps the Catholic Church is also trying to take advantage of this contemporary sex appeal by supporting screenings of the film. The remarkable thing about The Conclave is not the surface stimuli, but the portrayals of the old church princes and their persistent tug-of-war for the highest position in the name of the Lord. "
"The staging at television game level relies on the charm of the keyhole perspective and conveys too little of the historical background of the characters and the circumstances of the time."
"The historical drama tries to deliver a moral picture of the time and knows how to put the event in a broad, historical context. [...] But it also makes Rodrigo a romantic hero who returns to his lover after work is done, even though the one in the In the meantime also had a visit from an Orsini. That doesn't quite fit the historical figure of Rodrigo Borgia. One can even say that Schrewe makes the buck into the gardener here. After all, the later as Pope Alexander VI. (through massive election manipulation) to the epitome of papal decadence, greed for power and immorality. Rodrigo's lack of restraint is representative of the bad reputation of the entire Borgia clan. "
Web links
- The conclave in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The conclave at filmportal.de
- The conclave. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 3, 2017 .
- Stephan Karkowsky: Interview with Christoph Schrewe about the staging of the conclave. dradio , March 13, 2013, accessed on August 31, 2013 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Conclave. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 3, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Production Report featured in German Films Quarterly 03/2005. german films , accessed on August 31, 2013 .
- ↑ Studio Hamburg International Production and CHUM present THE CONCLAVE at Mipcom 2005. Studio Hamburg , accessed on August 31, 2013 .
- ^ OFDb: The Conclave. OFDb , accessed August 31, 2013 .
- ↑ The Conclave. kino.de , September 24, 2007, accessed on August 31, 2013 .
- ↑ http://www.critic.de/film/das-konklave-1068/
- ↑ The Conclave. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Harald Witz: Film Review: The Conclave. moviemaze.de, accessed on August 31, 2013 .