Gallipoli (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gallipoli |
| Original title | Gallipoli |
| Country of production | Australia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Weir |
| script | David Williamson |
| production |
Robert Stigwood , Patricia Lovell |
| music |
Brian May , Jean Michel Jarre , Tommaso Albinoni |
| camera | Russell Boyd |
| cut | William M. Anderson |
| occupation | |
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Gallipoli , also known as Gallipoli , is a 1981 Australian war film directed by Peter Weir , based on the events of the Battle of Gallipoli in August 1915 during the First World War .
action
Archy lives on a ranch in Western Australia and trains as a short distance runner. Frank works for the railroad. Both get to know each other in a running competition. Archy wants to enlist in the army, but he's under 21. The two friends get on a train that goes to Perth , Frank's hometown, where no one knows Archy's age. When the train stops on a siding, the two have to continue on foot through the desert. During the march they talk about the war in Europe. Archy wants to be there and fight. For Franky, the war is a purely British affair. When he arrived in Perth, Frank changed his mind and signed up.
The Australian Army has a training camp outside of Cairo . On the last evening of their training, Frank and Archy attend an officers' ball. The next morning we go to Turkey . The troops land on the Gallipoli peninsula . Another division, in which there are some friends of Frank's, meets Turkish troops and fights them. One of the surviving friends tells Frank what happened.
The next morning, Frank is selected as a messenger runner for the regimental commander Major Barton. Frank learns that the Australians are supposed to distract the Turks from the British landing in Suvla Bay. The Australians attack in three waves and come under heavy fire from the Turks. Despite the great losses, the attack continues. When the telegraph lines break down, Frank is sent a message to Colonel Robinson. When Frank arrives at the Colonel's, he lets his troops attack again. Major Barton decides to send Frank directly to General Gardner with a message. Frank is sent back with the message to stop the attack. In the meantime, the lines are repaired and Barton orders the attack. Only seconds later, Frank reaches the position - Archy dies in the third wave of attacks.
background
The ANZAC troops involved in this operation mourned 4,000 deaths. The purpose of the operation was to mask a landing of 120,000 British soldiers.
400 male riders were needed for the film. Since only 200 signed up for the film, the remaining 200 were represented by women in men's uniforms. The total cost of production was $ 2,854,000 and grossed $ 11,740,000.
Reviews
For the film service , Gallipoli was "[e] in an important film made with seriousness and respectable quality, although one can see the commercial intentions of its two producers". Cinema called the film a "brilliantly photographed and thrillingly played epic" that renounced "the explicit depiction of war atrocities". The Australian director Peter Weir put “the heartbreaking chronicle of a childhood friendship and the (historically controversial) portrait of his compatriots who lost their political innocence in the hail of bullets in Gallipoli”. The conclusion was: "Masterfully staged anti-war epic". From the media science point of view, it was emphasized that the film was about "stirring up patriotic feelings on the one hand and anti-British feelings at the same time". He portrays it "as if the soldiers from Down Under, who were just as strong as they were willing to fight, who were, of course, undisciplined by the British, were ultimately used as strategic cannon fodder by the British against all common sense and humanity."
The film has been criticized by historians. So he gives the impression that the British perceived the Australians on the one hand as soldiers without discipline and on the other hand let them run into the fire for themselves. The Australian writer Les Carlyon pointed to the heavy losses suffered by the British Royal Welch Fusiliers in this battle. Historian RR James stated that there were no sources to prove the alleged indiscipline of the Australians.
Awards
The film received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Foreign Film . Cinematographer Russell Boyd was named Cinematographer of the Year by the Australian Cinematographers Society. The US National Board of Review was one of Gallipoli to the ten best films from 1981 . The Australian Writers' Guild named the film best film of the year with the Awgie Award.
The Australian Film Institute recognized the film in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Mel Gibson), Best Supporting Actor (Bill Hunter), Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Sound. There were other nominations in the categories of Best Actor (Mark Lee), Best Supporting Actor (Bill Kerr), Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created in 1982 at Berliner Synchron GmbH under the dubbing direction of Dietmar Behnke based on the dialogue book by Hans Bernd Ebinger .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Archy | Mark Lee | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner |
| Frank | Mel Gibson | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Jack | Bill Kerr | Toni Herbert |
| Les McCann | Harold Hopkins | Ulrich Gressieker |
| Billy | Robert Grubb | Wolfgang Condrus |
| Barney | Tim McKenzie | Pierre Peters-Arnolds |
| Snowy | David Argue | Uwe Paulsen |
| Major Barton | Bill Hunter | Gerd Holtenau |
| Lt. Gray | Peter Ford | Norbert Gescher |
| Sgt. Sayers | Geoff Parry | Joachim Pukass |
| Col. Robinson | John Morris | Jürgen Thormann |
Web links
- Gallipoli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gallipoli at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the film ( Memento from July 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on murdoch.edu.au (English)
- ^ Gallipoli. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ↑ Günter Helmes : "The attack must be continued, no matter what the cost." A sample of cinematic stagings from the First World War. With references to literary themes. In: Nadine Garling, Diana Schweitzer (eds.): "... and so the war looks through all ends". The Hanseatic City of Lübeck in everyday war life 1914–1918. Lübeck 2016, pp. 219–263, here p. 252. ISBN 978-3-7950-0495-8
- ↑ Les Carlyon: Gallipoli . 2001, pp. 408-409.
- ^ Robert Rhodes James: Gallipoli . 1965, pp. 274-276.
- ↑ See synchrondatenbank.de ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2016 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.
