We are hell
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | We are hell |
| Original title | Hell in the Pacific |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Boorman |
| script |
Alexander Jacobs Eric Bercovici |
| production |
Reuben Bercovitch Henry G. Saperstein Selig J. Seligman |
| music | Lalo Schifrin |
| camera | Conrad L. Hall |
| cut | Thomas Stanford |
| occupation | |
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Hell we are (Original title: Hell in the Pacific ) is an American feature film from 1968 . The war film by John Boorman with Lee Marvin and Toshirō Mifune in the leading roles shows the struggle for survival of two warring soldiers on an uninhabited Pacific island .
action
In the last days of the Second World War , an American and a Japanese soldier independently stranded on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. As members of two warring factions, they are opponents and because of the enemy images that they have in their heads, they make life and survival on the island difficult. They steal the scarce supplies and take each other prisoner. Over time, however, they realize that only through mutual help can they survive together. They decide to build a raft together to escape from the island. In the end, however, both are killed by a bomb explosion.
background
Director John Boorman, leading actor Lee Marvin and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs had already worked together in Boorman's previous film Point Blank . Even Hell are we created for the production company MGM , was shot on Palau in the Pacific. Despite the success of Point Blank , Boorman had less artistic freedom with this film. The company management forced an alternative ending for the original, open ending in which the two men end up drunk and survive, which implies the death of the two in a bomb explosion. The latter version was shown in British cinemas. The Hell We Are turned out to be the first financial flop in Boorman's career.
Hell is We started on December 18, 1968 in American and on September 5, 1969 in German cinemas.
The film shows strong parallels to Shimon Wincelberg's play Kataki, first performed in 1959 . Despite the assurance of those involved in the film that they did not know the piece by name or content, Wincelberg successfully sued for compensation. Both main actors have war experience. Marvin served with the U.S. Marines in the Pacific War and received a Purple Heart . Mifune served in the Imperial Japanese Army .
Reviews
“A non-uniformly staged film that gives away some of the possibilities of the material and only comes to a tangible statement when it illuminates human behavior. Thanks to the two excellent actors, the absurdity of enmity and hatred is nevertheless shown quite impressively. "
“The film knows how to portray the initial opposition and the later coexistence in the art of survival in an interesting way. Except for the abrupt end, with which one evades the question of the further behavior of the war opponents after returning to inhabited regions, a convincingly presented Robinsonade, in its realism more suitable for adults. "
Web links
- Hell are we in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hell we are at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Brian Hoyle: The Cinema of John Boorman , Scarecrow Press, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-8395-6 , pp. 42 ff.
- ^ We are hell in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b We are hell in the lexicon of international film .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 414/1969