Greyhound - Battle of the Atlantic

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Movie
German title Greyhound - Battle of the Atlantic
Original title Greyhound
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2020
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director Aaron Schneider
script Tom Hanks
production Gary Goetzman
music Blake Neely
camera Shelly Johnson
cut Mark Czyzewski ,
Sidney Wolinsky
occupation
synchronization

Greyhound - Battle of the Atlantic (Original title: Greyhound ) is a war drama by Aaron Schneider , which celebrated its premiere on July 10, 2020 on Apple TV + . The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by Cecil Scott Forester. It follows the first deployment of a US Navy commander in a convoy attacked by submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942.

action

Shortly after the United States entered World War II, Commander Krause was given command of the state-of-the-art, RADAR- equipped Fletcher-class destroyer USS Keeling , nicknamed Greyhound ; it is his first command. The team is initially skeptical of him. On his first North Atlantic crossing, he leads an international convoy of 37 Allied ships. The convoy is soon followed by packs of wolves from German submarines.

When crossing the Atlantic, all convoys must cross an area without air support, which takes about five days. When they succeed in destroying one of the German submarines, Krause gains the trust of the crew.

Over time, several ships from the convoy are sunk or damaged. Krause and his team gradually succeed in sinking most of the German submarines. However, the USS Keeling itself is easily damaged. In the end, with the help of British reinforcements arriving from the air, the last submarine was also sunk.

Original and historical

The film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by Cecil Scott Forester , which was published in a German translation under the title Konvoi 1943 . Forester worked as a correspondent for the Times in London , during the Spanish Civil War in Spain , and in Prague . During World War II, Forester worked for the Department of Information in Washington, DC

production

Staff, cast and score

Directed by Aaron Schneider , who won an Oscar in 2004 for his short film Two Soldiers . After At the End of the Path - A True Lies Story from 2009, it is the second feature film in which Schneider took a seat on the director's chair. Screenwriter and leading actor Tom Hanks adapted Foresters The Good Shepherd, the first novel for a film. Hanks also took on a leading role as Commander Ernest Krause for the first time since Saving Private Ryan in a feature film about World War II. Elisabeth Shue , Manuel Garcia-Rulfo and Stephen Graham can also be seen in other roles .

Blake Neely composed the film music . The soundtrack album, which includes 18 pieces of music, was released for download on July 10, 2020 by Lakeshore Records.

Filming and equipment

The museum ship USS Kidd in Baton Rouge is one of the National Historic Landmarks

The filming took place in Baton Rouge , Louisiana, where they used the museum ship USS Kidd , which lies on the Mississippi. The ship is the only US destroyer that is still in the state of World War II and is one of the National Historic Landmarks , sites in the USA that have been classified as particularly important. Shelly Johnson acted as cameraman .

Marketing and Publishing

At the beginning of March 2020, Sony presented a first trailer. The film was originally scheduled to hit German cinemas on May 7, 2020. A start date on the following day in the USA was postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic measures. It was later announced that Apple had secured the distribution rights for the film for around 70 million US dollars in order to be able to offer it exclusively on its own video-on-demand service Apple TV + . There is Greyhound available since July 10 2020, more than one hundred countries. With the words "It breaks your heart" Tom Hanks commented on the fact that the film was not shown in theaters because of the measures mentioned. In Germany, the German dubbed version was only published about ten days later.

reception

So far, the film has won over 79 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .

No frills: In the minimalist film "Greyhound", Tom Hanks, as a good shepherd and captain, bears all the weight of a war story.

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Tobias Neumann and the dialogue direction by Dietmar Wunder on behalf of FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH, Berlin.

actor Voice actor role
Tom Hanks Joachim Tennstedt Captain Ernest Krause
Elisabeth Shue Maud Ackermann Evelyn
Stephen Graham Olaf Reichmann Charlie Cole
Rob Morgan Matti Klemm Cleveland
Thomas Kretschmann Dietmar miracle Grey Wolf

Web links

Individual evidence

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