Your best hour

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Movie
German title Your best hour
Original title Their finest
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lone Scherfig
script Gaby Chiappe
production Finola Dwyer ,
Elizabeth Karlsen ,
Amanda Posey ,
Stephen Woolley
music Rachel Portman
camera Sebastian Blenkov
cut Lucia Zucchetti
occupation
synchronization

Your best hour (Original title: Their Finest ) is a British film drama directed by Lone Scherfig from 2016.

action

Catrin Cole lives in a wild marriage with Ellis Cole in London, whose last name she has adopted. In 1940, the year of the war, she took up a position at the British Ministry of Information , whose propaganda films are intended to restore courage and hope to the nation after the defeat of the British Army in Europe. Catrin is responsible for giving the films a more feminine touch, so that above all the many mothers and wives whose sons and husbands are at war can identify with the fight against Hitler Germany . Shortly after Catrin's hiring, the young Tom Buckley is tasked with making a film about the heroic rescue of some soldiers from the beach in Dunkirk . Since the story is supposedly based on a true story and is about twin sisters who stole the cutter of their drinking-addicted father in order to save as many soldiers as possible from the mainland, Tom also takes Catrin into his team. However, when Catrin asked the two sisters to describe the actual events behind the heroic deed at Dunkirk, she decided to withhold the truth and use the means at her disposal to campaign for greater equality in the patriarchal society of the 1940s.

production

The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival .

Cast and dubbing

The German-language synchronization of the film was made by Neue Tonfilm Munich . The author of the dialogue book was Marina Rehm, the dialogue director was Solveig Duda , who also played the role of Phyl Moore.

role actor Voice actor
Catrin Cole, secretary, now screenwriter Gemma Arterton Laura Maire
Tom Buckley, screenwriter Sam Claflin Louis Friedemann Thiele
Ambrose Hilliard, aging actor Bill Nighy Frank Glaubrecht
Ellis Cole, artist, supposed husband of Catrin Cole Jack Huston Stefan Günther
Sammy Smith, Ambrose Hilliard's film agent Eddie Marsan Kai Taschner
Sophie Smith, sister of Sammy Smith Helen McCrory Carin C. Tietze
Phyl Moore, observer from the Ministry of Information Rachael Stirling Solveig Duda
Roger Swain, film director in the Ministry of Information Richard E. Grant Hans-Georg Panczak
Raymond Parfitt, senior screenwriter Paul Ritter Philipp Moog
Carl Lundbeck, soldier, “Duty American” in propaganda film Jake Lacy Manuel Straube

Reviews

“Scherfig, who has already demonstrated her knack for English romances with period flair with“ An Education ”, vividly evokes the sense of community of the filmmakers who defied the Blitzkrieg. The dialogues are full of epigrams that mischievously tell of how to cope with the absurdities of everyday war life. The narrative tone is warm and comfortable, but does not close itself to the hardships of the times. "

- Gerhard Midding : epd

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for your best hour . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Andrew Barker: Toronto Film Review: 'Their Finest'. In: Variety . September 11, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Synchronous database : your best hour. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Midding: Critique of your best hour. In: epd-film.de . June 24, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .