Hogfather - Scary Christmas

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Movie
German title Hogfather - Scary Christmas
Original title Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 189 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Vadim Jean
script Vadim Jean
production Rod Brown
Ian Sharples
music David A. Hughes
camera Gavin Finney
cut Joe McNally
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
The Color of Magic - The Magician's Journey

Hogfather - Schaurige Weihnachten (Original title: Terry Pratchett's Hogfather ) is a two-part television adaptation of Terry Pratchett's novel Schweinsgalopp (Original title: Hogfather ) from 2006. It was the first real-world adaptation of a discworld novel . It was first broadcast on December 17 and 18, 2006 on the British broadcaster Sky1 .

action

The plot of the series is closely based on that of the novel Hogfather from Terry Pratchett's Discworld cycle. The Hogfather (also Snow Father), the discworld equivalent of Santa Claus , disappeared without a trace on New Year's Eve . So that the sun can rise again the next morning, death takes its place and distributes the gifts to children. Susan, Death's granddaughter , tries to find out what happened.

production

The film version was shot with a budget of GBP 6 million by the production company The Mob in London's Three Mills Studios in HDTV format as Sky1's first in-house production.

occupation

Terry Pratchett himself has a cameo as the odd toy maker Joshua Isme (a play on words, in German: Joshua am I ) of his store Toys Is Me (German toys are mine, also an allusion to the US toy chain Toys “R” Us ) is working. This role was not intended in the novel and Terry Patchett is canceled in the credits with Mucked About By ... (German about: messed around by ... ).

The name Michelle Dockerys , who plays Death of the Rats, was featured in the credits as an anagram; Dorckey Hellmice shown.

Both Nigel Planer , who plays Sideney and the auditor's voice, and Tony Robinson , who plays Mr. Crumley, have read many English audiobook editions of the Discworld novels, and both had speaking roles in the Discworld video games .

In Hogfather, Ian Richardson spoke to Albert as death: “ You may think I've already thought of that, but I could not possible comment ”, a reference to a similar statement in his role as Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards series . This was the last role shown on television before his death. David Jason later played Rincewind in the film adaptation of The Color of Magic .

Charisma

The film was broadcast in numerous countries. In 2007 the Australian broadcaster Seven Network broadcast Hogfather on December 23rd and 24th. The French broadcaster M6 broadcast both parts as Les Contes du Disque-Monde (German: Tales of the Disc World ) on Christmas Eve 2007, while the German broadcaster ProSieben and the US American ION broadcast the film on Christmas Day.

Publications

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather was released in Great Britain on April 23, 2007 on DVD-Video Standard as a limited edition . These editions are dedicated to the memory of Ian Richardson, who passed away shortly after the program aired. The limited edition is a double disc set with an individually numbered case and an autograph card from Terry Pratchett. Disk 1 contained the two film parts, the second disk among other bonus material:

  • Missed scenes
  • Bilious (oh god the hangover) introduces himself to Susan and explains himself
  • Death and Albert discover the modified Hogswatch map
  • Further explanation of the role of the old Hogfathers
  • 12 Days of Hogswatch (Death's Guide to Discworld): A series of 12 short Death interviews with Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs and others to explain various aspects of Discworld.
  • The Whole Hog: Making-of Documentary

The German edition was released on December 25, 2007 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc . It essentially contains the content of the English edition in two language versions, German in Dolby Digital 5.1 and English in Dolby Digital 2.0, subtitles are available in German. The dubbing was done by Lavendelfilm in Potsdam, the dialogue book is by Masen Abou-Dakn and the dialogue is directed by Rainer Martens.

The Making of the Hogfather is available on iTunes as a free video podcast .

The film was released on DVD in the United States and was sold exclusively in Borders Book stores from November 18, 2007 to March 3, 2008 . This DVD edition did not contain any extras from the UK Limited Edition DVD, the only extras being an interview with Terry Pratchett and the original trailer.

reception

Hogfather won the Interactivity Award at the British Academy Television Awards 2007 for its use of the interactive possibilities of digital television .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hogfather - Scary Christmas. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Hogfather. In: The Mob Film Co. Archived from the original on August 17, 2007 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 .
  3. ^ Hogfather - Eerie Christmas in the online film database
  4. ↑ Hogfather - Schaurige Weihnachten (2006) on German synchronous card index