Angels in america
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Angels in america |
| Original title | Angels in America |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | (6 episodes with) 352 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| script | Tony Kushner |
| production | Celia D. Costas |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Stephen Goldblatt |
| cut |
John Bloom , Antonia Van Drimmelen |
| occupation | |
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Angels in America is a 2003 television miniseries directed by Oscar winner Mike Nichols . The film series is based on an award-winning play by Tony Kushner , who also wrote the scripts. He received the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best play for his controversial work .
action
The story draws a bitterly ironic balance sheet of US society in the 1980s. The main themes are the Reagan era and the rise of AIDS .
The plot runs mainly in three different storylines. First, that of Prior Walter, who has AIDS . His friend Louis leaves him because he cannot cope with the situation. Second, that of attorney Joe Pitt, who is married to Harper but is secretly looking for his gay acquaintances. Third, that of lawyer Roy Cohn, who is also infected with HIV . He is a representative of the corrupt legal system in the USA.
Many other people appear in the stories: the mother of Pitt, who sells her house in Salt Lake City and travels to New York when she learns of her son's homosexuality, and Belize, nurse to Roy Cohn and best friend to Prior, and the angels that keep popping up
In the linking of the individual storylines, the piece and the film deal with religious fanaticism, the emerging AIDS hysteria, discrimination of various kinds and interpersonal behavioral patterns in general.
synchronization
The series was set to music at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron . Axel Malzacher wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Roy Cohn | Al Pacino | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz
Hannah Porter Pitt Angel of Australia |
Meryl Streep | Dagmar Dempe |
| Angel of america
Sister emily homeless people |
Emma Thompson | Marietta Meade |
| Harper Amaty Pitt | Mary-Louise Parker | Katrin Fröhlich |
| Norman Arriaga
Mr. Lies Angel of Europe |
Jeffrey Wright | Oliver Field |
| Henry | James Cromwell | Joachim Höppner |
| Joseph Porter Pitt | Patrick Wilson | Manou Lubowski |
| Prior Walter
Man in the park |
Justin Kirk | Philipp Moog |
Reviews (TV series)
"[A] milestone in the history of television - Art (but that gives it!) [...] We look not only at people in very concrete life and suffering states, we see [...] all right [...] to the inner state of a nation. [... The drama] may develop a little too much sadness and a little too little anger. "
“Kushner's brilliance can hardly be denied. […] Nichols' version has not watered down the message, but watching it alone in the living room on the television reduces the whole thing to the sum of its parts. What is missing is the theater's sense of community. To get the most out of the movie, watch it with friends. 'Angels in America' calls for celebration. "
Awards (TV series)
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Meryl Streep
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Al Pacino
further nominations:
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Mary-Louise Parker
- Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Emma Thompson
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Justin Kirk
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries: Jeffrey Wright
- Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Al Pacino
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Jeffrey Wright
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Meryl Streep
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Mary-Louise Parker
further nominations:
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Ben Shenkman
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Patrick Wilson
- Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Al Pacino
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Meryl Streep
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Jeffrey Wright
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Mary-Louise Parker
- Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
- Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie
- Outstanding miniseries
- Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Non-Prosthetic)
further nominations:
- Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie
- Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie: Emma Thompson
- Outstanding Main Title Design
- Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Ben Shenkman
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Justin Kirk
- Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie: Patrick Wilson
literature
- Deborah R. Geis, Steven F. Kruger: Approaching the Millennium. Essays on Angels in America. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 1997
- Lasse Kekki: From Gay to Queer. Gay Male Identity in Selected Fiction by David Leavitt and in Tony Kushner's Play "Angels in America I-II". Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2003
- Ingar Solty : Tony Kushner's American Angel of History. In: Das Argument 265, Volume 48, 2/2006, pp. 209–225
Web links
- Angels in America at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official homepage at HBO
- Film review for the German TV broadcast Whitsun 2005 on ARD
- German-language film analysis (PDF file; 260 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Series | Angels in america. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
- ↑ Georg Seeßlen : Angels in America. In: epd film . Retrieved on July 26, 2008 (from Filmzentrale).
- ^ Nancy Franklin: America, Lost and Found. In: The New Yorker . December 8, 2003, accessed on July 26, 2008 : “[…] Kushner's brilliance isn't easily denied. [...] Nichols's version hasn't watered down the message, but watching it on TV alone in your living room reduces the work to the sum of its parts. What's missing is the sense of community that you experience in a theater. To get the most out of the film, watch it with friends; "Angels in America" calls for celebration. "
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2007 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.
