God's work & devil's contribution

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Movie
German title God's work & devil's contribution
Original title The Cider House Rules
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Let Hallström
script John Irving (also novel)
production Richard N. Gladstein
music Rachel Portman
camera Oliver Stapleton
cut Lisa Zeno Churgin
occupation
synchronization

The Cider House Rules (Original title: The Cider House Rules ) is a literary adaptation after the novel by John Irving . The main role is played by Tobey Maguire .

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United States , 1939–1945: The young Homer Wells grew up with the respected physician Dr. Wilbur Larch after his mother gave birth to him at Larch's Clinic and St. Cloud's Orphanage. He is adopted twice but keeps returning to St. Cloud's until he's too old to be adopted . Dr. Larch develops a kind of father-son relationship with Homer. As he gets older, Dr. Larch him to the doctor. The clinic gives birth to women who have become pregnant unintentionally. Dr. But Larch also performs abortions , which is illegal at the time. Homer becomes a good doctor and gynecologist but refuses to perform abortions on moral grounds.

One day, the pretty Candy and her boyfriend Wally come to the clinic to have an abortion. The intelligent but inexperienced Homer seizes the opportunity to leave the orphanage and drives the two of them to the coast. There he stayed with Wally's family, where he was the only white man among the otherwise black apple pickers to earn money. He gets on well with Wally, but he soon leaves the plantation to fight as a pilot in World War II . While Wally is away, Candy and Homer get closer.

Homer is happy and ignores the letters in which Dr. Larch asks to come back to the orphanage. The doctor is to be replaced because of his "non-Christian" attitude. Dr. Larch forges diplomas for Homer and wants Homer to be hired as a doctor. But Homer refuses to leave his new home and Candy. He doesn't want to have anything to do with his past anymore and hides his medical training from the other apple pickers.

Eventually he is confronted with his medical training and the question of abortions when the apple picker Rose becomes pregnant. When Homer learns that her own father has made her pregnant, he is ready to help and performs the abortion. When she leaves the plantation one evening, she injures her father with a knife. The father claims that he stabbed himself with the knife because he could not bear his daughter leaving him and dies shortly afterwards.

After Homer learns that Wally will return from the war paralyzed and that Dr. Larch has died, he separates from Candy and goes back to the orphanage to take over the management as a doctor. As Dr. Larch ends the bedtime stories: Sleep well, you Princes of Maine, you Kings of New England .

background

The film was shot on locations in Vermont , Maine , New Hampshire and Massachusetts . The budget of the film is 24 million dollars estimated. The film celebrated its world premiere on September 7, 1999 at the Venice International Film Festival . Various screenings at international film festivals followed. The film opened in US cinemas on January 7, 2000, and on March 16, 2000 in Germany and Switzerland. On the opening weekend, more than 110,000 US dollars were made in the USA. Overall, US revenue was over $ 57.5 million.

Phillip Borsos was originally supposed to direct, but died before shooting began. Michael Winterbottom , also scheduled to direct the film, left the project due to a lack of patience with the sluggish development of the project. Ultimately, Lasse Hallström took over the direction. Since the scope of the novel would have been too big for a feature film, the author John Irving changed the story of the novel in a number of details in the script, which he also wrote. Irving was impressed by the film so that it is a film in the guest role played stationmaster. Irving's son Colin is seen in the role of Major Winslow.

Soundtrack

On January 14, 2000, Sony Music released a soundtrack that includes 18 songs.

No. title
1. Main Titles
2. Homer's Lessons
3. Young Girl's Burial
4th Homer Asks Wally For A Ride
5. Homer Leaves Orphanage
6th The ocean
7th The Cider House
8th. Wally Goes Off To War
9. Lobster dinner
10. Burying fuzzy
11. Homer & Candy On The Dock
12. Rose, Rose Is Pregnant
13. Abortion
14th Pickers Leave
15th Dr. Larch this
16. Homer Returns To The Orphanage
17th Good-Night, You Kings Of New England
18th End credits

Ukulele Lady by Richard A. Whiting and Gus Kahn from 1925 is prominently used. Vaughn DeLeath is the interpreter.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was done at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron in Munich and Berlin .

actor German speaker role
Tobey Maguire Flo Rian Bauer Homer Wells
Michael Caine Jürgen Thormann Dr. Wilbur Larch
Charlize Theron Natascha Geisler Candy Kendall
Delroy Lindo Bert Franzke Arthur Rose
Paul Rudd Philipp Brammer Wally Worthington
Jane Alexander Elisabeth Endriss Sister Edna
Erykah Badu Sandra Schwittau Rose rose
Earle C. Batchelder Tonio von der Meden Dr. Holtz
Evan Dexter Parker Frank Courage Jack
Norma Fine Ursula Traun Mrs. Goodhall
K. Todd Freeman Ole Pfennig Muddy
Heavy D Torsten Münchow Peaches
Lonnie R. Farmer Farmer Tommi Vernon
Patrick Donnelly Hubertus von Lerchenfeld Adoptive father
Paz de la Huerta Katharina Schwarzmaier Mary Agnes
Kieran Culkin - Buster
Kathy Baker - Sister Angela
Kate Nelligan - Olive Worthington
Evan Parke - Jack
Jimmy Flynn - Vernon
Erik Per Sullivan - Fuzzy Stone
Skye McCole Bartusiak - Hazel
Spencer Diamond - Curly
JK Simmons mute Ray Kendall

reception

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“A film adaptation of the novel by John Irving, which purifies the original in favor of an atmospherically dense, evocative story of initiation. Although the discourse on the determinants of human existence, which is much more subtly differentiated in the template, is simplified (especially in the occasionally somewhat sentimental glorification of the problem of abortion), the ambivalence of good and bad is pointedly symbolized as two sides of the same coin. Excellent staged and played, brilliantly photographed. "

- Lexicon of international film

“You would never have thought of Michael Caine (as Larch) or Tobey Maguire (as Homer) while reading - and now you cannot imagine anyone else in these roles. You and the whole film convey the essence of the novel. Conclusion: Almost as great as the book. "

- Karl-Heinz Schäfer at Cinema

“The literary adaptation is conventional in its staging and old-fashioned in its narrative - and that's a good thing. The viewer has time to concentrate on everything: nostalgic images, ostensibly simple-minded minds, meager living conditions and small feelings that are great because they are completely free of pathetic sweetness. "

- Rainer Fellmann in Der Spiegel

Awards

The film, its actors and the film crew have been nominated and awarded numerous film awards.

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literature

  • John Irving: My Movie Business ,. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-257-06238-9 . (Illustrated workshop report on the film adaptation of the novel God's work and the devil's contribution )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  2. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  3. ↑ a b c d Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  4. ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Background information
  5. ↑ a b God's work & the devil's contribution. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 7, 2012 .
  6. ↑ a b rottentomatoes.com at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on November 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b metacritic.com at Metacritic , accessed on November 10, 2014.
  8. ↑ God's work & the devil's contribution in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  9. ↑ God's work & the devil's contribution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. ^ Cinema : film review , Karl-Heinz Schäfer
  11. ↑ “God's work and the devil's contribution”: The heart simply overflows . In: Der Spiegel, March 13, 2000. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  12. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards

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