The stars look down (movie)
Movie | |
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German title | The stars look down |
Original title | The Stars Look Down |
Country of production | Great Britain |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1939 |
length | 110 minutes |
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Director | Carol Reed |
script |
AJ Cronin A. Coppel J.B. Williams |
production | Isadore Goldsmith |
music | Hans May |
camera |
Mutz Greenbaum Ernest Palmer |
cut | Reginald Beck |
occupation | |
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The Stars Look Down (Original title: The Stars Look Down ) is a British film drama , which in the January 22, 1940 London experienced its first performance. It is the film adaptation of the novel of the same name by AJ Cronin from 1935. The film is about various injustices in a mining company in north-east England. The film, which Cronin himself co-wrote the script, shows Michael Redgrave as Dave Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley, his wife.
background
The novel The Stars Look Down ( The Stars Look Down ) was the first literary world success of AJ Cronin. Just a few years after the book was published, Carol Reed began implementing it on film. Producer Isidore Goldsmith presented the giant for its time budget of 100,000 pounds available. This allowed a coal mine in Workington , Cumberland to serve as the original location for a week . Further filming was carried out at Twickenham Studios in London and at Shepperton Studios . Elaborate replicas of the mine in Workington and the mine workers' settlement provided the necessary local color.
Reviews
"Realistic film adaptation of a socially critical novel by AJ Cronin."
“Carol Reed managed to write an unpathetic, impressive, socially critical report here. The milieu is captured convincingly; Although the people involved represent positions that are determined by their origin and class, they always remain lively, individual people, whose fate is taken personally. "
The New York Times named the film to the list of the 1000 best films of all time .
literature
- AJ Cronin : The stars are looking down. Roman (Original title: The Stars Look Down ). German by Richard Hoffmann and Peter Linnert . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11552-3 .
Web links
- The Stars Look Down in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Article in The New York Times (English)
- The 1000 best movies ever (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The stars look down. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 29, 2017 .
- ^ Reclam's film guide. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1973, p. 534, ISBN 3-15-010205-7