A lovely nanny

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Movie
German title A lovely nanny
Original title Nanny McPhee
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Kirk Jones
script Emma Thompson
production Liza Chasin
music Patrick Doyle
camera Henry Braham
cut Jason Wheeler
Nick Moore
occupation
synchronization
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A magical nanny - bang into a new adventure

A Magical Nanny (original title: Nanny McPhee ) is a British fantasy film from 2005 by the producer duo Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner . The director was Kirk Jones . Lead actress Emma Thompson also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the stories of the magical nurse Nanny Matilda ( Nurse Matilda ) by Christianna Brand . Colin Firth plays the father of seven children, completely overwhelmed after the death of his wife.

In 2010 another film about the magical nanny was released, entitled A Magical Nanny - Bang In A New Adventure , in which the nanny takes care of another family.

action

Around 1870 the Brown family lived in the south of England with three employees. Cedric, a taxidermist , is completely overwhelmed with the upbringing and care of his seven children after the death of his wife. Even the now seventeenth nanny is helplessly exposed to the pranks and the naughtiness of the children, so that Cedric has to look for a new nanny again. However, the employment agency can no longer do anything for him; Brown is desperate.

In the evening a mysterious woman knocks on the door of the Browns estate. She introduces herself as Nanny McPhee and asks to be admitted. At the same time, the children are about to take over the kitchen and devastate everything. When Nanny McPhee enters, they are as usual cheeky and naughty, but miraculously the inscrutable woman makes them tidy the kitchen again and follow her request to go to bed. However, the children quickly fall back into their old behavior pattern, but are tricked by the new nanny. She also tells them on the way: "If you need me but don't want to, then I have to stay, but if you want me but no longer need me, then I have to go."

With magical support, Nanny McPhee gradually teaches the children manners . Her father Cedric is very satisfied and has one less problem, but he has financial worries. His wealthy aunt, Lady Adelaide, has been giving him grants to keep the family going for years, and threatens to stop these payments if Cedric does not remarry by the end of the month. He realizes that the family would be ruined without his aunt's payments and so he goes in search of a suitable wife. The selection is shockingly small, and so in the end all he has is Mrs. Quickly, a middle-aged acquaintance surrounded by colorful kitsch. The children are horrified and try everything possible with their usual tricks to scare off the woman who is unbearable in their eyes. When she actually takes flight, Cedric tells his children about the family's hopeless situation. Lo and behold, the children are now doing everything to make Mrs. Quickly change her mind and try to accept them.

A wedding will be arranged soon. When Cedric Brown and Mrs. Quickly stand in front of the altar, the children, with the consent of the nanny and their father, simulate a bee attack that leads to a cake fight . Mrs. Quickly pulls away angrily. Aunt Adelaide who is present also wants to leave, but is stopped by Simon, the eldest of the seven siblings. Simon suggests that his father and Evangeline marry. Since Evangeline is the Browns' former kitchen maid, Lady Adelaide, who took the girl to herself in the belief that she was the eldest of the Brown children and had given her an appropriate upbringing, almost faints. However, Simon insists that once a word has been given, it is to be kept, and the lady sees that too. Since there has always been more than just sympathy at play between Cedric and Evangeline, the marriage is concluded, so that the future of the Browns is secured, and with a woman at her father's side who the children also like and accept.

Nanny McPhee, however, who, when she came to Brown's house, had the unattractive appearance of a witch and had a magic stick, loses attributes that can be ascribed to a witch with every success she can record in bringing up children. At first two disfiguring warts, then her thick bulbous nose and finally also the disfiguring oversized tooth, so that in the end a pretty young woman emerges. Now that her work with the Browns has been completed, she must now go according to the motto that she had already given the children on their arrival.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done in the Interopa Film studios in Berlin . Sven Hasper was responsible for the dialogue script and the dubbing .

role actor Voice actor
Nanny McPhee Emma Thompson Monica Bielenstein
Cedric Brown Colin Firth Tom Vogt
Evangeline Kelly Macdonald Dascha Lehmann
Simon Brown Thomas Sangster Christian Pointer
Torah Brown Eliza Bennett Julia Sander
Lily Brown Jennifer Rae Daykin Soraya judge
Eric Brown Raphaël Coleman Julius Hasper
Sebastien Brown Sam Honywood Lino Hirthe
Christianna Brown Holly Gibbs Emily Hasper
Great Aunt Adelaide Angela Lansbury Dagmar Altrichter
Mrs. Quickly Celia Imrie Liane Rudolph
Mrs. Blatherwick Imelda Staunton Regine Albrecht
Letitia Elizabeth Berrington Christin Marquitan
Mr. Wheen Derek Jacobi Frank Ciazynski
Mr. Jowles Patrick Barlow Norbert Gescher

Background information

  • The critic Melanie Moon was quoted in a statement about the film with the sentence "The new Mary Poppins " (The new Mary Poppins).
  • Only the silhouette of Nanny McPhee can be seen on film posters and the covers of DVD and Blu-Ray discs , never herself.
  • The five lessons Nanny McPhee teaches children are:
    • To go to bed when they are told
    • To get up when they are told
    • To get dressed when they are told
    • To listen - this is the lesson Nanny McPhee teaches the father.
    • Do just what you're told (To do as they are told)

In the film, the sounds Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .

The film A Magical Nanny - Bang on Fall in a New Adventure is not a continuation of this story, but is about another family who in turn supports Emma Thompson in the role of Nanny McPhee, and who about seventy years later during the Second World War is set.

In the German version, a scene at the end of the film is difficult to understand because the context is derived from a play on words that only makes sense in the English original. The children are told by Mrs. Quickly to behave, so "to behave" in English. When the children start simulating a bee attack at the end of the film during the wedding, this is the result of Mrs. Quickly's dialectic pronunciation, who in the original English commands the children to “beehive” - ie “beehive”.

Production notes and publication

It is a Universal Studios film . The film was shot in Dorset , Shingle Mere Meadow ( Buckinghamshire ) as well as London and Pinewood Studios near Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire, all United Kingdom .

The film premiered in the UK on October 21, 2005, as well as in Ireland. In 2006 it was screened in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and France at the L'Alpe d'Huez International Comedy Film Festival (January 21, 2006) and the Gerardmer Film Festival (January 26, 2006). In Germany, Austria and Switzerland it started in 2006 as well as the following countries: Canada, Denmark, USA, South Korea, Argentina, Chile, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Peru, Norway, Panama, Poland, Sweden, in the United States Arab Emirates, Iceland, Turkey, Venezuela, Kenya, Israel, Serbia, Singapore, Romania, Croatia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, the Philippines, the Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Spain , Kuwait, Portugal, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Indonesia, Greece, Hong Kong, Thailand, Nigeria, South Africa, Japan, Taiwan, Ecuador, India, Cyprus and Egypt. It has also been shown in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria.

  • A magical nanny (DVD), released with a German soundtrack on November 2, 2006 by Universal
  • A magical nanny and a magical nanny - bang and fall in a new adventure (Blu-ray), released with a German soundtrack on September 26, 2013 by Universal
  • Nanny McPhee Soundtrack (Audio CD)

Reviews

Most of the critics gave the film a largely positive rating. The film service , for example, spoke of “disrespectful jokes” in a “lovingly over-the-top fairy tale world” in which “more serious undertones about a lack of communication between adults and children also come into play”. The acting performance of Emma Thompson was particularly emphasized , for example by Stella Papamichael on the BBC: "[...] Thompson is a [...] babysitter a pleasure." Thompson's "indescribable grace and sympathy " is however "not so in this film." obviously as usual, ”wrote Ray Bennett of the Hollywood Reporter . Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times asked himself whether children will like the film: "I think children will enjoy seeing how others have to learn rules without having to internalize those rules themselves."

The appearance of the film was also praised, while some weaknesses in the narrative style were noted. A magical nanny is a film whose "twisted visual imagination is more consistent than its shaky and uneven narrative," wrote Stephen Holden of the New York Times . But the film has "a touch of Roald Dahl's dark style , which weakens the sugary somewhat," said Leslie Felperin in the journal Variety . That's how Jo Berry from Empire Magazine saw it and said that the film was “frothy and fun  - wonderfully dark”.

Deutschlandradio Kultur judged in its film review: “'Oscar' winner Emma Thompson [...] wrote the wonderfully over-the-top screenplay, also took on the main / title character and convinces as an idiosyncratic and comical nanny, without being too intrusive with the pedagogical finger fiddling. Quite the opposite: games, fun and feelings can let off steam in a pleasant and unobtrusive way. A nice family film, in which Colin Firth [...] as a sympathetic cue-giving daddy also participates in a friendly and clumsy way. "

Honors

Heartland Film Festival 2006

  • Received the Truly Moving Sound Award

New York Festivals 2006

  • Awarded the Silver Medal: Introductions and Lead-in titles

Women Film Critics Circle Awards 2006

  • WFCC Award in the category "Best Family Film"

Satellite Awards 2006

  • nominated:
    • Best youth DVD

Young Artist Awards 2007

  • nominated:
    • “Best young leading actor in a feature film”: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
    • “Best Young Ensemble”, nominees: Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Eliza Bennett, Raphaël Coleman, Jennifer Rae Daykin, Holly Gibbs, Samuel Honywood
    • "Best Family Feature Film"

literature

  • Christianna Brand : Nanny Matilda (Original title: Nurse Matilda ). German by Beatrice Howeg . With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone . Bloomsbury children's and youth books, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-5017-0 , 117 pp.
  • Christianna Brand: Nanny Matilda goes to town (Original title: Nurse Matilda Goes To Town ). German by Beatrice Howeg. With illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Bloomsbury children's and youth books, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8270-5057-X , 116 pp.
  • Christianna Brand: Nurse Matilda Goes To Hospital. Bloomsbury Publishing, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-7685-3 , 128 pages (no German translation yet).
  • Christina Brand: Nanny McPhee. The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Bloomsbury, New York et al. a. 2005, ISBN 1-58234-671-2 , 382 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for A Magical Nanny . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 447 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for a magical nanny . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ A magical nanny in the German dubbing index ; Retrieved March 8, 2008.
  4. ↑ Hailed as “The New Mary Poppins”. In: scifislacker.com, accessed April 1, 2020.
  5. ↑ Holger Twele: A magical nanny. Study Guide. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater e. V. 2008 ( kinderkinobuero.de [PDF; 473 kB; accessed April 1, 2020]).
  6. ↑ A magical nanny. DVD from Universal.
  7. ↑ Both “Magical Nanny” films. Blu-ray from Universal.
  8. ↑ film service . 3/2006 ( A magical nanny. - Felicitas Kleiner: Long review. In: filmdienst.de, accessed on April 1, 2020 [beginning of article freely available]).
  9. ^ Stella Papamichael: Nanny McPhee (2005). Movie review. In: BBC . October 18, 2005, accessed April 1, 2020.
  10. ^ Ray Bennett: Nanny McPhee ( Memento December 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Movie review. In: The Hollywood Reporter . October 18, 2005, accessed April 1, 2020.
  11. ^ Roger Ebert: Nanny McPhee. Movie review. In: Chicago Sun-Times . January 27, 2006, accessed April 1, 2020.
  12. ↑ Stephen Holden: Using Her Own Kind of Magic to Keep the Children in Line. Movie review. In: New York Times . January 27, 2006, accessed April 1, 2020.
  13. ^ Leslie Felperin: Nanny McPhee Review ( July 1, 2009 memento in the Internet Archive ). Movie review. In: Variety . October 26, 2005 (English).
  14. ^ Jo Berry: Nanny McPhee (TBC) ( Memento November 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Movie review. In: Empire Magazine (English).
  15. ^ Hans-Ulrich Pönack : Films of the week. “Walk the line” and “A magical nanny”. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . February 1, 2006. Retrieved October 24, 2013.