The magic elevator

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Movie
German title The magic elevator
Original title Time at the top
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Jimmy Kaufmann
script Linda Brookover ,
Edward Ormondroyd ,
Alain Silver
production Claudio Castravelli ,
Jean Guy Dupres
music Simon Carpentier
camera François Protat
cut Heidi Haines
occupation

The Magic Lift is a film by Jimmy Kaufmann from the year 1999 in which the 14-year-old Susan Shawson travels via an elevator in a skyscraper in the year 1881 and there meets Victoria Walker and her family. The film is based on a novel by Edward Ormondroyd .

action

The theater enthusiast Susan Shawson lives with her father in a skyscraper in Philadelphia , USA . Her late mother was an actress. In her spare time, she likes to visit her blind neighbor, Mr. Reynolds. One day she finds a strange artifact in his belongings that looks like the number board of an elevator. He asks her to bring this to the basement. In the elevator she discovers that it only differs from Mr. Reynolds' number board by a keyhole. By chance, she finds out some time later that there is a suitable key for the hole on Mr. Reynolds' keyring. Inadvertently it came after entering the key combination 1-8-8-1 in the year 1881.

In 1881 she met Victoria Walker, who lived in a mansion that was once instead of her skyscraper. After Victoria doesn't believe her at first, Susan tells her that then- President James Garfield will die in an assassination attempt. When the newspaper reported his murder the next day , she believed her. Meanwhile, Susan is missing during her time, so her father hires Detective Gagin to find her. For a short time Susan returns, where no one wants to believe her, so she now takes a camera with her into the past.

From Victoria, she learns about the financial problems of the Walker family, as her late father speculated. She also realizes that Victoria's mother resembles her late mother. Victoria's mother is also considering getting engaged to Cyrus Sweeney, who visits the family frequently. Victoria and her brother Robert don't like him, however. When they tell him, with Susan's help, about the family's financial problems, the latter shows his true colors and runs away. Now Susan Victoria wants to help solve the grievances and takes her into the future to research stock prices from around 1881. There they find out that they have to speculate on another stock. They also buy a Polaroid camera . Since Victoria can copy her mother's handwriting well, they travel to the year 1879, when they hand the banker Mr. Branscomb a letter in which the Walkers speculate on exactly the stock. Back in 1881, the family's financial status changed radically.

Then Susan returns to her time, but promises to come back to her new friend Victoria. With the help of her photos and the coins of a coin treasure buried during the civil war , she can convince her father to travel back in time with her. Detective Gagin is now looking for both of them in the present and suspects based on the evidence that they could be in the past, and tells this to the interested writer Edward Ormondroyd , who also lives in the skyscraper. He goes to a museum and is given an old book that contains a picture that shows the old mansion, in front of which Susan and her father are standing with the Walkers, with Susan's father holding a baby in his arms ...

background

The film was shot in Montréal and Rougemont in Québec , Canada .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der magische Elevator (Susan, a teenager on a journey through time) / Time at the Top (1999) (German) on YouTube , November 11, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Time at the Top (1999) - Plot Summary - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Cinema Online: The Magic Elevator. In: cinema.de. November 30, 2016, accessed March 4, 2017 .
  4. ^ Time at the Top: Time at the Top (1999). In: filmaffinity.com. Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English).