The stuff the heroes are made of

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Movie
German title The stuff the heroes are made of
Original title The right stuff
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1983
length 184 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Philip Kaufman
script Philip Kaufman
production Irwin Winkler ,
Robert Chartoff
music Bill Conti
camera Caleb Deschanel
cut Glenn Farr ,
Lisa Fruchtman ,
Tom Rolf ,
Stephen A. Rotter ,
Douglas Stewart
occupation

The Right Stuff is a US feature film from the year 1983 . It is based on the novel The Heroes of the Nation (The Right Stuff) by Tom Wolfe .

content

The film tells the history of American aviation and space from the beginning of supersonic flight by the end of the Mercury program , which the beginning of the American conquest of outer space should represent. The film gives an impression of the pioneering spirit of the time, of the lives of pilots and space travelers and their families and of the risks that were taken and the efforts that were made to achieve the goals set.

Others

Chuck Yeager , played by Sam Shepard in the film , has a cameo as a barman.

criticism

“Pictures and picture rhythms, concise colors, physically present types and surface effects, dialogues, noises and music. Kaufman associates this alone with enlightening criticism and fairytale homage; he combines the parodic with the mythical, the epic with the anecdotal; it even combines moments of the attraction assembly with passages of a more elegiac cut. "

- Norbert Grob : The time

"A film marked by both mocking irony and sincere admiration for these 'heroes of the nation', which thanks to the thrilling depiction of the extreme flights remains exciting until the end."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

The film was in 1984 for eight Oscars nominations and won four Oscars in the following categories:

In 2013 it was accepted into the National Film Registry .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The stuff the heroes are made of. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 15, 2018 . Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Norbert Grob: Critique and Fairy Tales. In: The time. September 28, 1984. Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The stuff the heroes are made of. German film and media rating, accessed December 30, 2017 .