A tree grows in Brooklyn
| Movie | |
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| German title | A tree grows in Brooklyn |
| Original title | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 128 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elia Kazan |
| script |
Frank Davis Anita Loos Tess Slesinger Betty Smith |
| production | Louis D. Lighton |
| music | Alfred Newman |
| camera | Leon Shamroy |
| cut | Dorothy Spencer |
| occupation | |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (English A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ) is the title of a Pulitzer Prize- nominated novel by Betty Smith from 1943 and the film adaptation of this novel as the first work by director Elia Kazan in 1945. The film adaptation was awarded with an Oscar for James Dunn for Best Supporting Actor (in the role of Johnny Nolan ) and a Juvenile Award (in the history of film only twelve honorary Oscar for youthful actors) for Peggy Ann Garner (in the role of Francie Nolan ). In Germany, the TV premiere was on Christmas Eve on December 24, 1974. In 2010 the film was included in the National Film Registry .
The story describes the life of a family in Brooklyn at the beginning of the 20th century . Both in the novel and in the film, the different characters are drawn very pointedly: the realistic mother Katie Nolan , who does not expect much from life , the dreamy, visionary and loving father Johnny Nolan , who often loves alcohol , the ambitious daughter Francie (the actual main character ), who preserves her ideals and goals in the harsh environment, her younger brother Neeley (a typical, sometimes somewhat rough ten-year-old with his heart in the right place) and Katie Nolan's fun-loving sister Sissy .
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Johnny Nolan works as a singing waiter, but can barely support his family with his odd jobs, which is why Katie Nolan contributes to the maintenance with cleaning jobs and the children with various activities such as collecting scrap. Katie and Johnny Nolan tend to be strangers to each other, whereas there is a warm relationship between Johnny Nolan and his daughter Francie. At Christmas time, after an intense, harmonious conversation with Francis, Johnny Nolan tries to get a job, but falls ill in the cold streets of Brooklyn and dies. With tenacity and an unconquerable courage to face life, the Nolan family manages to keep going.
Reviews
"Elia Kazan's first film characterized by a humane spirit, epic, broadly staged, convincing in terms of milieu and character, and well played."
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Both the novel and the film give an extraordinarily dense and authentic mood picture of poor people's life in Brooklyn in the first decades of the 20th century.
In the film adaptation, the scene in which Francis Nolan stands crying after the death of her father on the roof of the apartment house occupied by the family - the silhouette of New York in the background - speaks to God and asks him that one day she will be a mother Can be boys in which their father lives on.
Web links
- A tree grows in Brooklyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A tree grows in Brooklyn. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 1, 2017 .