Gorky Park
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gorky Park |
| Original title | Gorky Park |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 123 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Apted |
| script | Dennis Potter |
| production | Bob Larson |
| music | James Horner |
| camera | Ralf D. Bode |
| cut | Dennis Virkler |
| occupation | |
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Gorky Park is an American thriller from 1983. The director was Michael Apted , the screenplay was written by Dennis Potter based on the novel Gorky Park (original title: Gorky Park ) by Martin Cruz Smith . The main roles were played by William Hurt , Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy .
action
In Moscow Gorky Park three bodies are found with skinned faces that someone, each with a bullet from a KGB had shot -Waffe. The investigation is conducted by the police officer Arkady Renko, son of a general. He quickly became aware of the American William Kirwill and the Russian Irina. It turns out that Kirwill is the brother of one of the victims and is looking for the killer.
Renko asks Professor Andreev to use the skulls of the victims to reconstruct their faces. Andreev said first that he would not do any work for the militia or for the KGB. Renko appeals to the professor's vanity, and Andreev finally agrees.
Renko meets entrepreneur Jack Osborne through an invitation and notices that Irina is also present. After some investigation, Renko finds out that Irina was friends with the murder victims and firmly believes that they emigrated to the United States. However, Renko and Kirwill discover that behind the murders is Osborne himself, who deals in fur . He wants to smuggle live Russian sables abroad and breed them there. The later murder victims helped him smuggle the sables into Stockholm and were deceived into promising to leave the country. But Osborne needed no more witnesses.
Renko succeeds in getting Osborne in Stockholm. With him is Irina. In a final with KGB agents present, all but Renko and Irina are killed. Renko then returns to Moscow without Irina so that she can live in freedom.
Reviews
“ Gorky Park is an interesting Cold War thriller. The political explosiveness is no longer there, but the tension and the entertainment value are not diminished. A thriller that is worth seeing, albeit not a perfect one, which does not have to be denied a good portion of claim. "
“Thriller about three murders and the illegal export of living sables in the everyday police environment of the Soviet militia. The film adaptation of the bestseller by Martin Cruz Smith is full of naive clichés, the character drawing superficial, without mood and atmosphere. Even as a genre film, brittle and tensionless. "
Awards
Joanna Pacuła was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1984 for her role in Gorky Park , Michael Elphick for the BAFTA Award .
backgrounds
Since Western directors did not yet have permission to shoot in the Soviet Union at the time of filming, other locations had to be found for Moscow ( Walter Hill's action comedy Red Heat was the first US film to be shot on location in 1988.) . The outfitters switched to Glasgow in Scotland and Helsinki in Finland . The sables shown in the film are also not real: Since no sables were available for the recordings, producer Howard W. Koch commissioned a Finnish fur hunter to catch 40 pine marten that look like the valuable fur animals.
In the original, the actors who represent Soviet citizens, with a few exceptions, speak English with a British accent, including the American William Hurt. The American characters speak with an American accent. This serves to audibly differentiate the two groups from one another. In the German dubbing, all characters speak Standard German.
literature
- Martin Cruz Smith : Gorky Park (Original title: Gorky Park ). Stern-Krimi-Bibliothek, Volume 8. German by Wulf Bergner . Bertelsmann, Munich 2006, 442 pp., ISBN 978-3-570-06828-1 or ISBN 3-570-06828-5
- Yuri Trifonow , photos: Wilfried Bauer : Gorkipark: Garden on the Moskva. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1979, 10, pp. 36-56. Informative experience report from an insider. ISSN 0342-8311
Web links
- Gorky Park in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Gorky Park atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Gorky Park in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to Gorky Park . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 54442 / V).
- ↑ a b Review of Gorky Park . In: filmstarts.de
- ^ Gorky Park. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .