The inspector (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The inspector |
| Original title | The Inspector (GBR) Lisa (USA) |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Dunne |
| script | Nelson Gidding |
| production | Mark Robson |
| music | Malcolm Arnold |
| camera | Arthur Ibbetson |
| cut | Ernest Walter |
| occupation | |
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The Inspector is a 1961 British-American drama directed by Philip Dunne . The main roles are played by Stephen Boyd in the title role and Dolores Hart . The film is based on the novel of the same name (1960) by Jan de Hartog .
action
Netherlands, 1946. The young Lisa Held survived the Auschwitz extermination camp the previous year and is now considered a Displaced Person . She just wants to get out of Europe, where she had suffered the worst. Your destination is the place of longing for many stranded and surviving European Jews: the British Mandate Palestine , the historic settlement area of the Jews. In this situation it falls into the hands of a certain Thorens, of all people, who was a Nazi fellow traveler like him in the books until 1945. He offers her to smuggle her out to Palestine, whereupon Lisa confides in him. Little does she suspect that Thorens has gone among the modern slave and girl traffickers who ship white young women to South America. At the last moment, Lisa is saved by the Dutch police officer Peter Jongman, who has followed her and Thorens to London because he is suspicious of the Dutchman. Peter is haunted by the memory of his bride. She was once murdered by the Nazis, and Peter has since made terrible blame for not having saved her, even though he had no chance to do so at the time. But now he has the opportunity to find inner redemption by letting Lisa give Lisa the help that Peter's bride once needed.
A violent argument quickly ensues between Peter and Thorens, in which the policeman knocks down the former Nazi collaborator. It later turns out that Thorens died, and Peter has to assume that Lisa killed him. In any case, it is safe for now. For Jongman, this rescue of Lisa becomes a kind of catharsis, to which he now devotes himself skin and hair to. Jongman wants to do everything possible so that Lisa reaches her “promised land”, Palestine. Both take a job on a barge that belongs to Captain Brandt. This initially heads for Tangier in Morocco. On the spot they come across the smuggler van der Pink, who arranges a passage to Palestine for both of them. While Lisa is being medically examined, Peter is horrified to discover that Lisa had been abused in the concentration camp for surgical experiments. As a result of this intervention, it is now impossible for Lisa to become a mother. Nevertheless, Jongman has fallen in love with Lisa, but she rejects him because she thinks she can never be a full wife to him. A little later, Peter Jongman learns that he is expected back in London to question him about Thorens' violent death. Knowing that the British immigration authorities are trying to prevent Jews from entering Palestine as much as possible, the Dutchman enters into a deal with the British official Roger Dickens: the English allow Lisa to enter the mandate area, and he stands up for it British police violence. And so it happens: Peter hands Lisa over to the Haganah and surrenders to Dickens and the authorities.
Production notes
The inspector was created from mid-1961 in London (Elstree Studios) and Amsterdam (exterior shots). The world premiere took place on May 24, 1962. The German premiere was on August 3, 1962.
The film construction was done by Elliot Scott and John Graysmark , Anthony Pratt was involved in this production as a draftsman.
The film received a 1963 Golden Globe nomination .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Jongman | Stephen Boyd | Gert Günther Hoffmann |
| Lisa hero | Dolores Hart | Eva Pflug |
| Captain Brandt | Leo McKern | Klaus W. Krause |
| Klaus van der Pink | Hugh Griffith | Klaus Miedel |
| Sergeant Wolters | Donald Pleasence | Erich Fiedler |
| Ayoob | Harry Andrews | Wolfgang Lukschy |
| Roger Dickens | Robert Stephens | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Commissioner Bartels | Geoffrey Keen | Arnold Marquis |
| Kooi | Finlay Currie | Eduard Wandrey |
| Dr. Mitropoulus | Harold Goldblatt | Alfred Balthoff |
Reviews
In Kay Weniger's Das Großes Personenlexikon des Films , the following can be read in Philip Dunne's biography: “Only his last two directing work showed a certain quality that went beyond mediocre. "The Inspector" tells of a Dutch police officer who helped a Jewish woman to flee to Palestine immediately after the war ... "
In the lexicon of international films it says: "The psychologically serious motifs of this story unfortunately only give rise to an unbelievable, sensational novel adaptation."
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide called The Inspector “an exciting film despite gaps in logic. Stylish camera work by Arthur Ibbetson. ”
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as a “travel-loving melodrama with controlled tension and subtle reflections on ideology and race. There are moments of interest, but developed and presented boringly. "
Individual evidence
- ^ The inspector in the German synchronous file
- ^ The large personal lexicon of films, Volume 2, p. 477. Berlin 2001
- ↑ The inspector. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 10, 2019 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin: Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 760
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 515
Web links
- The inspector at the Internet Movie Database (English)