Five came back

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Television broadcast
German title Five came back
Original title Five came back
Country of production United States
original language English
year 2017
length approx. 59-69 minutes
Episodes 3 in 1 season
Theme music Thomas Newman
Director Laurent Bouzereau
production
music Jeremy Turner
Initial release March 31, 2017 on Netflix

First publication in German		 March 31, 2017 on Netflix
synchronization

Five Came Back is an American documentary series based on the 2014 book Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by journalist Mark Harris . The three-part series was released on March 31, 2017 on Netflix , among others .

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The documentary focuses on five directors - John Ford , William Wyler , John Huston , Frank Capra and George Stevens - whose war relevant works and their frontline work during WWII from filmmakers Paul Greengrass , Steven Spielberg , Francis Ford Coppola , Guillermo del Toro and Lawrence Kasdan can be analyzed or commented on.

Each of the filmmakers discusses the impact of the war on one of the five previous directors: Steven Spielberg (Wyler), Francis Ford Coppola (Huston), Guillermo del Toro (Capra), Paul Greengrass (Ford) and Lawrence Kasdan (Stevens).

Netflix also streams the 13 documentaries featured in the film:

production

The filmmakers studied more than 100 hours of newsreel and archive material as well as more than 40 documentaries and educational films made by the five directors during the war. They also reviewed 50 directors' studio films and over 30 hours of raw footage from their war films. Director Laurent Bouzereau, who has extensive experience documenting films and directors, presented the idea of ​​interviewing five current directors for the project.

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The German dubbing was done by VSI Berlin , directed by Zoë Beck , who also wrote the dialogue books.

person job German documentary speaker
Steven Spielberg Film director and film producer Viktor Neumann
Francis Ford Coppola Film director, screenwriter and film producer Hans-Eckart Eckhardt
Guillermo del Toro Film director, screenwriter and film producer Nils Nelleßen
Paul Greengrass Film director and author Rainer Doering
Lawrence Kasdan Screenwriter and film director Hans Hohlbein
Meryl Streep (voice) Actress, narrator in the documentary Marianne Gross

Awards

Meryl Streep, who acts as narrator, was recognized for her performance with the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator.

The composer Jeremy Turner was nominated for an Emmy Award - for outstanding musical composition.

Episodes

No.
( total ) 		No.
( St. ) 		German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 1 The mission begins "The Mission Begins" March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Laurent Bouzereau Mark Harris
The series explores the backgrounds of the five directors at the beginning of World War II and their motives in support of the war effort. John Ford's Battle of Midway was directly approved by President Franklin D. Roosevelt while Frank Capra fights to make Why We Fight .
1 2 At the frontline "Combat Zones" March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Laurent Bouzereau Mark Harris
The directors learn that their conception of the films is not always acceptable to the US government. Wyler is shocked by the racism against African American soldiers and refuses to make a film about recruiting black soldiers. Meanwhile, the racist portrayal of the Japanese versus the human portrayal of the Germans in the films worries the War Department, which at the time was planning to redistribute the Japanese-American population from internment camps to American cities.
1 3 The price of victory "The Price of Victory" March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Laurent Bouzereau Mark Harris
The five directors return to Hollywood after the war but are haunted forever by what they have seen. Ford goes drinking after filming the D-Day carnage . Stevens is completely unprepared for the horrors of Dachau (concentration camp) and realizes for himself that he is no longer just there to film propaganda, but to collect evidence of crimes against humanity . Wyler, who lost his hearing during the war, fears his career is over. In the film Let There Be Light, Huston reports on soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder , which the US government at the time refused to let the public know.

reception

Five Came Back was largely received critically. It has a 97% approval rating based on 37 reviews on rating aggregator Rotten Tomatoes . Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the series 3.5 of 4 stars and wrote: " Five Came Back is nirvana for movie lovers and a real eye-catcher for those who are not familiar with this issue ." David Sims of The Atlantic praised the relevance of the series today, noting that it should have taken longer: " Harris' book recognized that Hollywood often shapes our perception of reality more than we know, and that the recruitment of these directors by the US The military is closely linked. The film industry with sometimes dangerous assumptions of truth and realism. Five Came Back is ultimately a compelling study of propaganda - its purpose, effectiveness, and drawbacks. All of these are things worth doing in 2017 to be considered, as it was many decades ago. "

John Anderson wrote in the Wall Street Journal , “ Overall, the series is very similar to its story: mythical, adventurous, romantic. And real. ” Brian Tallerico, who wrote for RogerEbert.com, called it a “ must see ” and a “ dream of the cinephiles and historians will come true "

In the New York Times , Ben Kenigsberg writes: " Five Came Back is first and foremost an invitation to see more: it's hard to see without thinking about Wyler's Mrs. Miniver or Ford's They Were Expendable . It's further evidence If necessary, these men wouldn't just make propaganda, they would make art that would endure. "

Slashfilm's Kristin Hunt asked why the series didn't address Ford's anti-Semitism or Capra's admiration for Benito Mussolini , but was generally positive: “ Five Came Back is a testament to the power of cinema and the moral implications that go with it. Was all this propaganda permissible ? The documentary is sometimes afraid to really deal with this question ”. Peter Debruge, Variety's lead film critic , was less enthusiastic and criticized the series for leaving out the rich original research in Harris' book for the thoughts of five current Hollywood directors, the purpose of which he felt was only a publicity stunt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mark Harris' Five Came Back is coming to Netflix as a docu-series . Retrieved February 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ How 5 Directors Returned from World War II to Make Their Best Movies (en) . In: IndieWire , April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  3. ↑ Exclusive: See the Trailer for Netflix's New Documentary About World War II and Hollywood . Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ Author Mark Harris on Turning 'Five Came Back' Into a Netflix Documentary . In: Variety , March 13, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  5. ↑ 2017 Emmy Nominations .
  6. ↑ Five Came Back: Miniseries (en) , Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed May 22, 2018. 
  7. ↑ 'Five Came Back' Review: WWII Doc Is a Peerless Hollywood History Lesson . In: Rolling Stone , March 30, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  8. ^ 'Five Came Back' and the Frightening Power of Propaganda . In: The Atlantic , April 3, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  9. ↑ 'Five Came Back' Review: When Directors Went to War . In: Wall Street Journal , March 30, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  10. ↑ Five Came Back Movie Review & Film Summary (2017) | Roger Ebert (en) , rogerebert.com. April 3, 2017. Accessed April 9, 2017. 
  11. ↑ Review: 'Five Came Back,' and Inspired the Likes of Spielberg . In: The New York Times , March 30, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017. 
  12. ^ What to Watch After Five Came Back . In: Slashfilm , April 6, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017. 
  13. ↑ Film Review: 'Five Came Back' . In: Variety , April 1, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017.