Following

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Movie
German title Following
Original title Following
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 70 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christopher Nolan
script Christopher Nolan
production Christopher Nolan,
Jeremy Theobald ,
Emma Thomas
music David Julyan
camera Christopher Nolan
cut Gareth Heal ,
Christopher Nolan
occupation
synchronization

Following is a low-budget British feature film from 1998 by filmmaker Christopher Nolan . Following was Nolan's first feature film, in which, in addition to directing, he was also responsible for the camera and the script .

action

The unsuccessful writer Bill pursues strangers in London in order to watch them. One day he follows the burglar Cobb, who notices this and confronts him with it. Together they then go on raids through London, whereby the theft of foreign objects is of secondary importance - Cobb in particular seems to be about spying on the characters of their victims and making them insecure by making targeted changes in their apartments. The two break into a woman's apartment together. Bill looks at the photos in the woman's apartment and is fascinated by her. In the following days he follows her and contacts her in a bar. There she makes him aware of her ex-boyfriend, a dangerous and powerful man in the London underworld. Bill falls for the woman and she gets involved in a love affair with him. Among other things, she tells him how she witnessed a brutal murder that her ex-boyfriend committed in her apartment. At the same time, however, she is - without Bill's knowledge - close friends with Cobb, who engages her in advance with a supposed plan. Accordingly, she should help Cobb to make Bill appear as the perpetrator in one of Cobb's crimes, as he pretends to have fear of being about to be arrested by the police.

The woman tells the unsuspecting Bill that she is being blackmailed with naked pictures by her dangerous ex-boyfriend. He agrees to steal the man's pictures from the safe (he has the combination for opening it from the woman). However, he is surprised and injures a stranger. As it turns out, the captured images are not particularly explicit either, but relatively normal photos. When Bill wants to confront his lover about this, she tells him about the Cobbs plan. Bill then decides to go to the police and tell them the story. At the end of the film it turns out that Cobb has deceived both Bill and the woman and was hired by the underground gangster to kill the woman as a witness to the said murder. He does this with the same hammer that Bill used in his previous act, but unlike him, he does not leave any traces. When Bill presents himself to the police, it becomes clear that Cobb has laid all evidence for the murder of the woman from the start in such a way that only Bill can be considered as the sole responsible perpetrator with the police. In the last scene of the film, Cobb, who has fulfilled his mission without arousing suspicion, disappears into a crowd.

criticism

“Film noir variation with a tight atmosphere on a low budget. Somewhat exaggerated in the thriller elements, the debut film impressively heralds the director's talent for complex confusion. "

- Lexicon of international film

backgrounds

Following is Christopher Nolan's first feature film. Almost all actors are family members or friends of the director. The production cost was approximately $ 6,000 . In the US, the film grossed approximately $ 43,000. As in Nolan's later films Memento and Prestige - The Masters of Magic , the scenes in the film do not play in chronological order in the original version.

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Bill Jeremy Theobald Julien Haggége
Blond woman Lucy Russell Melanie Pukass
Cobb Alex Haw Hans-Werner Bussinger
Police officer John Nolan Frank Schröder

Awards

Trivia

  • The cop's actor is Christopher Nolan's uncle, John Nolan.
  • The blonde's apartment is usually Christopher Nolan's parents' apartment.
  • The parents' house was really broken into during the filming.
  • The writer's apartment is actually Jeremy Theobald's.
  • The name "Cobb" for a burglar is used again by Nolan in the film Inception .
  • The Batman logo is attached to the outside of the protagonist's door. In 2005, Christopher Nolan directed his first Batman film, Batman Begins .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Following. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 31, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Following in the German dubbing index