Gorillas in the fog
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gorillas in the fog |
| Original title | Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Michael Apted |
| script | Anna Hamilton Phelan |
| production | Arnold Glimcher, Terence Clegg |
| music | Maurice Jarre |
| camera | John Seale |
| cut | Stuart Baird |
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Gorillas im Nebel (Original title: Gorillas in the Mist ) is an American film from 1988 based on the true story of the zoologist and behavioral scientist Dian Fossey and her studies of the behavior of gorillas .
The screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan was because of an article by Harold TP Hayes and Fossey's autobiography Gorillas in the Mist . Directed by Michael Apted and starred by Sigourney Weaver , who won a Golden Globe for her performance and received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress .
action
In 1967, the American scientist Dian Fossey came to East Africa to the Virunga massif in the Congo to study the life of the endangered mountain gorillas . She has to leave the country during the Congo crisis . She decides to continue research in Rwanda . There she first has to adapt to the difficult life in the jungle, but her effort pays off because she finally succeeds in winning the trust of a gorilla group. Fossey is committed to protecting the life of the endangered species. Their method of maintaining direct contact with the gorillas is controversial at first, but then attracts the interest of National Geographic , which sends photographer Bob Campbell to Africa to document Fossey's work. He quickly shares Fossey's enthusiasm for animals, and the two become a couple. The relationship breaks up, however, when Bob has to travel to Borneo for professional reasons , but Dian wants to stay with the gorillas. The conflicts with poachers of the Batwa and the national park line coming to a head over the years, as Fossey accesses always drastic measures to protect the gorillas. For example, she tortures the child of a poacher and carries out a mock execution on a captured poacher . She no longer has a normal relationship with her human environment and is soon surrounded only by enemies. One night she is murdered in her hut by an unknown person with a machete . Her body is buried in a gorilla cemetery in Rwanda. Her services to the survival of the gorillas are recognized in the credits.
criticism
The lexicon of international film sums up: Although it succumbs to the fascination of person and task a little too one-sidedly, the film, shot on the spot, drafts the impressive story of a modern scientific adventure.
Hellmuth Karasek wrote in Der Spiegel that the film, although striving for objectivity, " appeals to the ideas and deeds of a woman who, in the broadest sense, sacrificed her life for that of her animal protégés ". Gorillas im Nebel is “ more […] than a filmed biography and less than an ecological pamphlet: It is a cinema film and (thus) a fairy tale, in which current collective feelings of guilt, longings and hopes are reflected. "
Andreas Kilb von der Zeit criticized that Apted complements the story of Dian Fossey with “ sentimentality, picturesque pomp and feminine beauty ”. “ As a result, the film lacks what is perhaps most important: the truth. "
Awards
Golden Globes for 1988, awarded in 1989
- Best Actress (Drama): Sigourney Weaver
- Best score: Maurice Jarre
- further nomination : best film (drama)
Oscars for 1988, awarded in 1989
Nominations
- Best Actress: Sigourney Weaver
- Best film editing
- Best film score
- Best tone
- Best adapted script
Genesis Award
- 1991 as best feature film
German film and media rating FBW
- "Particularly valuable" rating
literature
- Dian Fossey: Gorillas in the Fog. My life with the gentle giants. Full paperback edition. 6th edition. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-426-04808-6 .
Web links
- Gorillas in the Mist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gorillas in the Fog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Hellmuth Karasek: A monkey love . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1989, pp. 142 ( online ).
- ^ Andreas Kilb: Films . In: Die Zeit , No. 7/1989, criticism