Flags of Our Fathers
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| German title | Flags of Our Fathers |
| Original title | Flags of Our Fathers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 132 minutes |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| script |
William Broyles Jr. , Paul Haggis |
| production | Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg |
| music | Clint Eastwood |
| camera | Tom Stern |
| cut | Joel Cox |
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Flags of Our Fathers is an American feature film released in 2006 and directed, produced and composed by Clint Eastwood , based on the book Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima by James Bradley and Ron Powers. The screenplay was written by Paul Haggis , best known for his Oscar-nominated screenplay of Million Dollar Baby . Flags of Our Fathers tells next to the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of Americans the history of image Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima , one of the most famous war photographs ever. The counterpart to the film is the film Letters from Iwo Jima , which was released a few weeks later and also directed by Eastwood , which depicts the battle from the perspective of the Japanese troops .
action
The film is about the Battle of Iwojima , which took place in the Pacific in 1945 and killed around 18,000 Japanese and around 7,000 Americans in just one month . It tells the story from the perspective of James Bradley, whose father was one of six soldiers, the American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in World War II hoisted had. It was only after his father's death in 1994 that the son became aware of the scope of his father's heroism .
The film begins with a few glances at the aged "heroes" of Iwo Jima. Here you can find out about the background to the war at that time. The pictures change to the preparations for this mission in 1944. Many of the young soldiers see the whole thing as an adventure until then. This looseness disappears very quickly when they are relocated to the war zone and storm the volcanic island of Iwo Jima and its black beach. What at first looks like a simple operation turns out to be more difficult than expected due to the well-buried Japanese opponents. After the first skirmishes, a group of soldiers is supposed to hoist the American flag on Mount Suribachi . A few hours after this has happened, a politician present wants to have this flag as a souvenir. A commander of the Marines noticed this and was outraged by this request, but sent the courier Rene Gagnon to the mountain to save the original flag and exchange it for another flag. At the same time, photo reporter Joe Rosenthal sets out to capture a picture. So he arrives just in time to capture the hoisting of the replacement flag on a photo .
In the United States, this photo, which is featured in most newspapers, is causing Americans to rethink their minds because by the time the photo was published they were tired of the war and the government was running out of funds. The "heroes" of Iwo Jima are supposed to be brought to the United States in order to advertise the war and / or purchase war bonds among the population there on a large advertising tour . Behind the scenes, however, it is seething tremendously, because most of the original soldiers are now dead. The "substitute" Rene Gagnon is celebrated as one of the heroes. Then there is John "Doc" Bradley and the Indian Ira Hayes , who is reluctant to return to the United States.
These three soldiers are now instrumentalized as heroes in their homeland, but with the exception of Gagnon, the comrades are more and more skeptical about the hustle and bustle. So you can find out in various flashbacks what actually happened on Iwo Jima. Especially Ira Hayes, who “wants America as a hero, but not as an American” ( Roger Ebert ), is making the whole thing more and more troublesome, so that he takes up alcohol more and more and shows up drunk at important events. The fact that the real soldiers who hoisted the first flag are not mentioned also raises more and more doubts, especially with paramedic Bradley.
After becoming unsustainable, Hayes is sent back to the front lines. Bradley and Gagnon ended the propaganda tour for two. In the further course of the film it is described how these three comrades experience their future. This happens mainly through flashbacks, which in turn start from the stories of the aged men. So you learn that both Bradley and Hayes contact the parents of the fallen soldiers.
background
One of the most famous pictures of the Second World War , in which six American soldiers hoist a flag on Mount Suribachi, was taken during this battle. This photograph, taken by Joe Rosenthal , entitled " Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima " was the template for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial . Clint Eastwood has made a second film with the same subject under the title Letters from Iwo Jima , which describes the events from a Japanese perspective. This film started almost two months later in German cinemas.
Clint Eastwood himself said of his film:
"'Flags' exposes the heroism that is made - how to declare people to be heroes who find themselves only defending themselves."
James Bradley said: "I wanted to find the answer to this question: Why did my father never talk about Iwo Jima?"
Reviews
“'Flags Of Our Fathers' is not the masterpiece we were hoping for, it lacks a solid overall concept for the first film. At first, the impression remains that Eastwood would have better packed both aspects into a really big epic or even chosen a documentary as an approach. 'Flags Of Our Fathers' suffers from its own ambition to want too much. "
“What is great and admirable about this film is how Eastwood manages to balance the grand historical panorama and the individual fates. [...] In this way, the film remains at eye level even where its protagonists are in danger of being lost in the fray of battle or in the hustle and bustle of the political staging. "
“Few filmmakers can resist the tickle of the red glow of rockets or the spectacle of dying; Violence is just too exciting. […] But because the script […] jumps around between three unconnected time frames […] and because the flag hoists are taken out of the battlefield before the end of the battle, the violence of their war remains at a feverish level. It is not built up, does not develop and is not dissolved; it frightens and remains terrible. [... Eastwood] makes for us people [...] who [...] are no less human just because they kill. "
"[...] a patriotic film in that it honors those who fought in the Pacific , but it is also patriotic because it questions the official version of the truth."
"Due to the nested narrative structure, the film abolishes the linearity of the war and fighting, questions the historical truth behind supposedly known things and draws the psychogram of a nation."
“After the furious start, Flags of Our Fathers is above all a film about myths and their instrumentalization. At first glance, Eastwood paints a rather bleak picture in this regard. The men who hoisted the flag on Iwo Jima are integrated into a ruthless propaganda machine that does not shrink from the feelings of the mothers of fighters who fell in battle. This critical position is only broken in the final scene. "
Awards and nominations
Clint Eastwood was nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe for Best Director for this film . At the 2007 Academy Awards , the film was nominated in the categories of Best Sound and Best Sound Editing . The film received the Japanese Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2007 .
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency gave the film the rating of “particularly valuable”.
publication
The film opened in US cinemas on October 20, 2006, in Switzerland on December 28, 2006 and in Germany on January 18, 2007. In the United States, Flags of Our Fathers was given the much stricter "R" age rating by the MPAA .
According to the Box Office Mojo database , the production budget for the coproduction by DreamWorks Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures was $ 90 million and total worldwide revenues were approximately $ 66 million as of March 25, 2008. IMDb claims the film would only have cost $ 55 million.
The film was released on DVD in Germany on June 22, 2007 . The only extra on the single DVD is an introduction by Clint Eastwood. In addition, a box set consisting of three DVDs is available together with the Letters from Iwo Jima pendant , which contains numerous features about the film on a bonus DVD.
The Blu-ray version of the film, released at the same time as the DVD, contains the introduction of the single DVD and a large part of the bonus material from the bonus DVD from the DVD box set. The features of the HD DVD are identical to the Blu-ray version and appeared at the same time.
Voice actor
The voice actors for the German version:
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literature
- James Bradley, Ron Powers, Franka Reinhart, Helmut Dierlamm: Our fathers' flags . Heyne Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-453-50020-2 .
Web links
- official page
- Flags of Our Fathers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flags of Our Fathers at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Flags of Our Fathers at Metacritic (English)
- Flags of Our Fathers in the online movie database
- Flags of Our Fathers. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 24, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Flags of Our Fathers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 839 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Flags of Our Fathers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh and Fritz Göttler: Interview with Clint Eastwood - In the heart of the island hell. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 17, 2007, accessed March 24, 2008 .
- ↑ FILMSTARTS.de: Flags Of Our Fathers ( Memento from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Manohla Dargis : A Ghastly Conflagration, a Tormented Aftermath. In: The New York Times . October 20, 2006, accessed on March 24, 2008 : “Few filmmakers can resist the thrill of the rocket's red glare and the spectacle of death; the violence is simply too exciting. […] But because the screenplay […] oscillates among three separate time frames […] and because the flag raisers were pulled off the field before fighting ended, the violence of their war remains at a frenzied pitch. It doesn't build, evolve, recede; it terrifies and keeps terrifying. [… Eastwood] gives us men […] who are […] no less human because they kill. "
- ↑ Richard Roeper: Grand old 'Flags'. (No longer available online.) In: Sun-Times. October 20, 2006, archived from the original on February 24, 2009 ; Retrieved on March 25, 2008 (English): "[...] a patriotic film in that it honors those who fought in the Pacific, but it is also patriotic because it questions the official version of the truth." Info: The archive link was created automatically used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ Flags of Our Fathers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ critic.de: Film criticism
- ↑ Flags of Our Fathers on fbw-filmbeval.com
- ↑ Flags of Our Fathers (2006) - Release Dates
- ↑ Flags of Our Fathers. In: Box Office Mojo. Box Office Mojo, LLC., Accessed March 25, 2008 .
- ↑ This and That for Flags of Our Fathers (2006). IMDb.com, Inc., archived from the original on October 16, 2006 ; accessed on March 25, 2008 (English).
- ↑ Cinefacts.de: Flags of Our Fathers - film on DVD
- ↑ Cinefacts.de: Flags of Our Fathers - Blu-Ray
- ↑ Cinefacts.de: Flags of Our Fathers - HD-DVD
- ↑ Flags of Our Fathers. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on September 24, 2017 .
