The Untouchables (1976)
Movie | |
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German title | The incorruptible |
Original title | All the President's Men |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1976 |
length | 138 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | Alan J. Pakula |
script | William Goldman |
production |
Walter Coblenz Jon Boorstin Michael Britton |
music | David Shire |
camera | Gordon Willis |
cut | Robert L. Wolfe |
occupation | |
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The Untouchables is an American film directed by Alan J. Pakula from 1976. The film is an adaptation of the book The Watergate Affair (Original title: All the President's Men ) by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward , which is in the film by Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford are embodied.
William Goldman wrote the script after the factual report on the political scandal. Together with Klute (1971) and Witness to a Conspiracy (1974), Die Unbrechlichen forms the “Paranoia Trilogy” in Pakula's work.
action
The film describes the long-term research of journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post since the US presidential election in 1972 . They revealed that in a failed break-in, White House officials planned to wiretap the opposition Democratic Party's campaign office , which eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon . Woodward often meets with a mysterious informant who is only known under the code name Deep Throat , who helps him decisively with his research and whose identity was not known at the time of filming. It was not until May 31, 2005, when US magazine Vanity Fair reported that the secret source was former federal agent of the FBI, Mark Felt .
success
The eight million dollar film grossed 70 million dollars in the United States alone. Among other things, Die Unbrechlichen was nominated for eight Oscars, four Golden Globes and ten British Academy Film Awards and emerged as the winner in four Oscar categories at the 1977 Academy Awards . In late 2010, the film was included in the National Film Registry of the US Library of Congress . The reason: It is the rare example that a book success has been translated into a hit movie and a cultural phenomenon.
German version
The German synchronized editing was created in 1976.
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Bob Woodward | Robert Redford | Rolf Schult |
Carl Bernstein | Dustin Hoffman | Manfred Schott |
Harry M. Rosenfeld | Jack Warden | Edgar Ott |
Ben Bradlee | Jason Robards | Gottfried Kramer |
Howard Simons | Martin Balsam | Martin Hirthe |
Judy Hoback | Jane Alexander | Hallgard Bruckhaus |
"Deep Throat" | Hal Holbrook | Lothar Blumhagen |
Donald Segretti | Robert Walden | Wilfried Herbst |
Martin Dardis | Ned Beatty | Heinz Theo branding |
Hugh Sloan | Stephen Collins | Thomas Danneberg |
Joe, FBI agent | Jess Osuna | Joachim Cadenbach |
- Harry M. Rosenfeld (* 1929) and Howard Simons (1929–1989) were, like Benjamin "Ben" Bradlee (* 1921), chiefs or senior editors at The Washington Post .
- Judy Hoback worked as a bookkeeper for the committee to re-elect President Nixon .
- Martin Dardis , Florida, a prosecutor or general attorney
- Deep Throat : It wasn't known until 2005 that Mark Felt was the major informant in the Watergate affair.
Reviews
“Two American journalists who stubbornly and against strong resistance follow an initially vague lead, uncover a plot in the highest government circles. Detective film against the backdrop of the authentic Watergate scandal that led to the fall of Nixon in 1974. Exciting, [...] played excellently. [...] a political thriller of high quality and density. "
"It is the model case of a successful documentary game [...]."
- The time 1976: Pakula surprisingly succeeds in making an exciting film from well-known details and renouncing any dramatization, which says a lot about the American self-image and understanding of the press. Pakula's handicap: All too often his film degenerates into telephone orgies that don't leave much room for the talent of its stars.
Awards (excerpt)
Awards
- Best Adapted Screenplay: William Goldman
- Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards
- Best note: Arthur Piantadosi , Les Fresholtz , Rick Alexander, James E. Webb
- Best Production Design: George Jenkins, George Gaines
Nominations
- Best film: Walter Coblenz
- Best Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Best Supporting Actress: Jane Alexander
- Best editing: Robert L. Wolfe
- Best Adapted Screenplay: William Goldman
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Best movie
- Best Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards
literature
- Carl Bernstein , Bob Woodward : The Watergate Affair. (Original title: All the President's Men ). German by Karl Otto von Czernicki . With a foreword by Dieter Gütt . Full paperback edition. Droemer-Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1974, ISBN 3-426-00362-7 , 416 pp.
- Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein: An American Nightmare. The last days of the Nixon era. Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-610-08485-5 .
Web links
- The Untouchables in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions of the German theatrical version and the DVD version of Die Unbrechlichen at Schnittberichte.com
- The Untouchables atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the incorruptible . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2006 (PDF; test number: 48 401 V / DVD).
- ↑ Thomas Bräutigam: Lexicon of film and television synchronization. More than 2000 films and series with their German voice actors etc. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-289-X , pp. 369–370
- ↑ The incorruptible. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The incorruptible. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Hellmut Haffner: Hollywood is getting aggressive. Entertainment films that make people think . In: German General Sunday Gazette . No. 13/1977 , March 21, 1977, Kulturmagazin, p. 18 .
- Jump up ↑ Chaplin, Children, Buffalo Bill . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/1976