The Man Who Wanted to Change the World (1936)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The man who wanted to change the world |
| Original title | The Man Who Could Work Miracles |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1936 |
| length | 80 minutes |
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| Director | Lothar Mendes |
| script | HG Wells |
| production | Alexander Korda |
| music | Mischa Spoliansky |
| camera | Harold Rosson |
| cut |
William Hornbeck , Philip Charlot |
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The man who wanted to change the world is a black and white film from the year 1936. After the short story could do the man who wonders of HG Wells , who also wrote the screenplay, was directed by Lothar Mendes, a science fiction - Comedy , which was shown for the first time in Germany on January 5, 1963 on ZDF . On a whim, three gods give a common man the power to have his every wish fulfilled.
action
Chosen by three gods, the employee George Fotheringay is allowed to redesign the world according to his ideas. Fotheringay plays more or less malicious pranks on his fellow human beings before he thinks about the power he has been given and tries to do good. He meets different people - capitalists , idealists , conservatives , altruists - and everyone tries to convince him of his view of a perfect world. In order to banish evil from the world, the former little clerk can use practically any means. He changes the laws of nature and finally, to prove his power, he stops the earth. Since this can only end in a catastrophe, his power will be taken again. He ends up back in the pub where it all began, and neither he nor the people around him can remember what happened.
criticism
“First-class film fantasy,” writes the New York Herald Tribune and Kine Weekly attests to the film that it was brilliantly conceived, acted and staged and possessed spectacular slapstick . The film service believes that the man who wanted to change the world is consistently “thought-provoking” and “worth seeing”, despite the “tons of trick surprises”.
literature
- HG Wells was able to accomplish the man who wonders (OT: The Man Who Could Work Miracles ), in ibid .: star of destruction - Classical science fiction stories (OT: Best Stories of HG Wells ). Heyne, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-453-30444-6
Web links
- The man who wanted to change the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)