A year in hell
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| German title | A year in hell |
| Original title | The Year of Living Dangerously |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Peter Weir |
| script |
CJ Chef Peter Weir David Williamson |
| production | Jim McElroy |
| music | Maurice Jarre |
| camera | Russell Boyd |
| cut | William M. Anderson |
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The Year of Living Dangerously ( The Year of Living Dangerously ) is an Australian film drama by Peter Weir from the year 1982. The plot is based on a novel by CJ Koch , who was also one of the screenwriters. Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver played the leading roles .
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The reporter Guy Hamilton works for an Australian news agency. He came to Jakarta in the mid-1960s , where President Sukarno was pursuing a tough course of confrontation with the West and trying to distinguish himself as the leader of the third world. It's his first assignment abroad and Guy's determined to prove himself. But he suffers from the bad image of his predecessor on the post and is cut by both his reporter colleagues and the Indonesian government. Then Guy meets the short photographer Billy Kwan, also Australian and with Chinese ancestors. Billy offers Guy a deal: With the help of his excellent contacts, he provides Guy with stories. In return, Guy employs Billy exclusively as a photographer. Billy Guy got an interview with the leader of the Indonesian Communist Party, Aidit , which caused a lot of attention abroad.
Through the mediation of Billy, Hamilton met the British embassy employee Jill Bryant. Although she will be leaving the country in a few weeks, the two begin a love affair.
Guy notices that Billy is keeping a file on him and at times thinks he is a spy. Jill reassures Guy that Billy is keeping files on all the people who mean something to him.
Jill warns Guy that a ship loaded with weapons for the communists is on its way to Indonesia and that civil war is imminent. Jill wants Guy to leave the country, but Guy uses the information professionally and looks for the port where the delivery could arrive. The disappointed Jill ends the relationship. The warning from Guy's assistant, Kumar, himself a member of the Communist Party, that Guy's name is on the Communist death list, cannot prevent him from further research.
Billy Kwan, formerly a great admirer of Sukarno, has turned away from him and is protesting against his policies in a hotel with a poster. But before Sukarno reaches the hotel, security guards remove the poster and throw Billy out of the window. He dies in Guy's arms.
When the civil war begins, Guy gets caught between the lines and is seriously injured by government soldiers, so that he almost goes blind. In Billy's bungalow he waits almost immobile for the outcome of the civil war. When he learns that the communists have lost, he decides not to work and makes his way through the largely closed city to the airport, where he finally meets Jill again.
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- Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on January 21, 1983 that the film was a good, romantic melodrama. Canby praised the direction, the images and the actors; especially Mel Gibson.
- Christopher Null praised the portrayal of Linda Hunt on www.filmcritic.com.
- Prisma-online.de wrote that the film was played and photographed excellently .
- Lexicon of international film : Melodramatic tension story that cares less about the historical background, but rather reflects on the hope of self-knowledge of the individual and of a whole people. Cinematic dense and convincing, full of cross-references between inner and outer narrative level.
Awards
Linda Hunt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for portraying Billy Kwan . She is the first woman to receive this award for playing a male role. In 1984 she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award , and in 1983 she won the Australian Film Institute Award , the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award , the New York Film Critics Circle Award, and the National Board of Review Award ; 1984 the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award .
The film was nominated for the Australian Film Institute Award in twelve other categories, including Mel Gibson, Peter Weir and Maurice Jarre. Peter Weir was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1983 Cannes International Film Festival . The screenwriters were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award in 1984. The film won one of the Spanish Premio del Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos in 1984.
background
The plot deals with events surrounding the September 30th Movement . This film was banned from being broadcast in Indonesia until 2000. Filming took place in Australia and the Philippines .
Web links
- The Year of Living Dangerously in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Year of Living Dangerously at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- A year in hell on www.prisma-online.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for One Year in Hell . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 53 836 V / DVD).
- ↑ a b year of at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed November 7, 2014
- ↑ a b [1] at Metacritic , accessed on November 7, 2014
- ↑ The Year of Living Dangerously in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ The New York Times ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.filmcritic.com ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2008 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.
- ↑ A year in hell. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
