The time after midnight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The time after midnight |
| Original title | After hours |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Scorsese |
| script | Martin Scorsese Joseph Minion |
| production | Amy Robinson Griffin Dunne Robert F. Colesberry |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Michael Ballhaus |
| cut | Thelma Schoonmaker |
| occupation | |
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The time after midnight (Original title: After Hours ) is an American comedy film , in the style of black humor , from 1985 by Martin Scorsese . The film's producer, Griffin Dunne also stars in the lead
action
The programmer Paul Hackett ( Griffin Dunne ) meets Marcy Franklin ( Rosanna Arquette ) in a café . They talk about their mutual interest in Henry Miller . Marcy tells Paul that she will then visit a friend, the sculptor Kiki Bridges ( Linda Fiorentino ), and gives him her phone number. Paul calls there a little later and arranges a visit to the sculptor's studio that same night. On the way, Paul's 20-dollar bill is blown out of the window by a gust of wind so that he can no longer pay for the taxi. This is the first in a long line of mishaps that, through no fault of Paul, are slowly turning into a nightmare. In the studio Paul meets the sculptor Kiki and also Marcy. Paul and Marcy seem to be getting closer and closer, but after Paul finds photos of disfiguring burn scars in Marcy's room and after a disturbing conversation, Paul quickly leaves the studio. Paul wants to take the subway home but doesn't have enough money anymore. He goes to a bar because it is starting to rain heavily and so he gives up his plan to walk home. The bar owner Tom Schorr ( John Heard ) wants to help Paul out with some change, but has forgotten his till key at home. They exchange their apartment keys so that Paul can get the cash register key from Tom's apartment. There, Tom's neighbors register him as a suspicious person, as there are many break-ins in the neighborhood. Through various entanglements, Paul comes back to Kiki's studio, where Marcy has since committed suicide. It later emerges that Marcy was Tom's girlfriend. As a result of further involvement, Paul is pursued by a vigilante who thinks he is a burglar. On the run, Paul ends up in the Club Berlin nightclub . There Paul meets June ( Verna Bloom ), who is also a sculptor. To help him, June Paul HVAC t a - the sculpture with Paul inside the image is similar to The Scream by Edvard Munch . Eventually the sculpture is stolen by burglars and taken away in a delivery van. While driving, the sculpture falls out of the car onto the street and breaks. Paul frees himself from the plaster rubble and, while the sun rises, finds himself right at the entrance of the office building where he works. He dusts himself off and goes to work.
production
The film was based on a script by Joseph Minion . The first title Lies referred to a monologue of the same name by radio presenter Joe Frank from 1982, the Minion "inspired" the story. Scorsese and the producers were offered the script under the title Surrender Dorothy .
Joe Frank later sued the producers because the plot and dialogues of the script, especially in the first 30 minutes, were to a large extent a plagiarism of his Lies monologue. Frank was not named in the credits, but was reportedly paid an unknown amount.
synchronization
The dubbing of the film was done by Interopa Film GmbH in Potsdam . After a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Ronald Nitschke .
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Hackett | Griffin Dunne | Wolfgang Müller |
| Marcy Franklin | Rosanna Arquette | Katja Nottke |
| Julie | Teri Garr | Margot Rothweiler |
| Tom Schorr | John Heard | Engelbert von Nordhausen |
| Gail | Catherine O'Hara | Karin Buchholz |
| Kiki Bridges | Linda Fiorentino | Heike Schroetter |
| June | Verna Bloom | Barbara Adolph |
| Pepe | Thomas Chong | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Neil | Cheech Marin | Ronald Nitschke |
| horst | Will Patton | Norbert Langer |
Reviews
"In the guise of a light-footed comedy, a nightmarish journey through the urban subculture is revealed, in which comedy and threat, redemption and fear are balanced in a virtuoso production."
Awards
- International Cannes Film Festival 1986 : Director award for Martin Scorsese
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- The time after midnight at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vincent Canby : 'After Hours' from Martin Scorsese . In: The New York Times , September 13, 1985. Retrieved December 10, 2009.
- ↑ The Scandalous Origins of Martin Scorsese's After Hours | Andrew Hearst . Panopticist.com. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Hearst: The Scandalous Origins of Martin Scorsese's After Hours . English. Online at panopticist.com on May 27, 2008, accessed December 10, 2009.
- ↑ Susan Emerling: Public radio's bad dream ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . English. Online at salon.com from March 7, 2000.
- ↑ The time after midnight. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on May 10, 2020 .
- ↑ The time after midnight. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 10, 2017 .
