The Other (2008)

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Movie
German title The other
Original title The Other Man
Country of production USA
UK
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard Eyre
script Charles Wood
Richard Eyre
production Frank Doelger
Michael Dreyer
music Stephen Warbeck
camera Haris Zambarloukos
cut Tariq Anwar
occupation

Der Andere (Original title: The Other Man ) is an American film by Richard Eyre from 2008 based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink . The film opened in German cinemas on July 1, 2010.

action

Peter is a software designer and owns a successful company. His wife Lisa is a shoe designer. From Peter's point of view, they have a happy marriage. Lisa is often in Italy for work. However, she only reports briefly about the trips.

Lisa dies of cancer. Peter finds a message from an unknown caller in her mailbox and becomes suspicious. He discovers a password-protected folder in her laptop, the password of which he cannot find out at first, but after Lisa's death he received a slip of paper from her, which after a while turns out to be revealing the password he was looking for. The folder contains photos of Lisa and another man as lovers. Peter is beside himself with anger and sadness. He argues with his daughter Abigail.

Peter finds out the identity of the other man named Ralph and where he lives in Italy and travels there with murder intentions. He made his acquaintance and played chess with him in a bistro. He finds out that although Ralph has an address in a splendid house, he is only the caretaker there. His lust for murder evaporates.

Peter uses Lisa's email account to invite Ralph to a meal in a hotel on Lake Como - at the very place where Lisa and Ralph lived together and where the photos were taken. Ralph assumes this invitation is from Lisa. He tells Peter about it and complains that he has no money to go there and afterwards to have a party with Lisa in London. Peter willingly gives him money. When Ralph arrives at the hotel on Lake Como as agreed, Lisa is not sitting at the table as expected, but Peter, who now explains to him that Lisa was his wife and that she has died. Ralph invites Lisa's friends and colleagues to a party in London. Peter, his daughter and her boyfriend also arrive late. Both Ralph and Peter make toasts to Lisa. After the party, Peter's relationship with his daughter has relaxed and Peter also accepts her boyfriend.

background

The film was shot in London , Cambridgeshire and Middlesex in England . Further recordings were made in Italy in Milan and on Lake Como . Filming began on February 14, 2008. The budget of the film amounted to about 15 million US dollars . On September 7, 2008, the film celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival . This was followed by other screenings at various film festivals , including on February 5, 2009 at the European Film Market . In the US, the film opened in cinemas on September 25, 2009. It was shown in German cinemas from July 1, 2010. On November 26, 2010, the film was released in Germany by Koch Media on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with an FSK-12 rating.

Originally, the role of Lisa was to be played by Juliette Binoche , but this role was ultimately given to Laura Linney .

synchronization

actor speaker role
Laura Linney Katrin Fröhlich Lisa
Liam Neeson Bernd Rumpf Peter
Antonio Banderas Bernd Vollbrecht Ralph

reception

The lexicon of international films judges that the film is a “chamber play-like jealousy drama based on a short story by Bernhard Schlink, which is lost in redundancies and unbelievable emotional statements. Despite interesting approaches, the triangular relationship described remains without tension. "

Ulf Lepelmeier from Filmstarts is of the opinion that the film is “a crude mixture of psychological thriller and drama [...] that hardly gives its well-known cast room to develop”. It is about an “unhappily constructed thriller”, the story of which is “threadbare dramatized” so that it was “robbed of its emotional depth”. “With the constantly aggressive atmosphere, the withdrawn end no longer seems conclusive, the characters have to change their attitude towards each other too abruptly. The dark illustrations and the dramatic background music work towards an arc of tension that does not result from Schlink's original. "Lepelmeier's conclusion is:" Due to the unnecessarily nested narrative structure and the withholding of key information, he inflates an originally intimate, withdrawn story about trust and jealousy and forgiveness to a reasonably suspenseful thriller drama, which is hardly carried away and its final twist, which is actually not one, buys too dearly. "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the other . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 295 K).
  2. ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  3. ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  4. ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  5. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Background information
  6. ↑ The other. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The other. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Film starts : film review, Ulf Lepelmeier

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