Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In 80 days around the world |
| Original title | Around the World in 80 Days |
| Country of production | United States , Italy , Germany , Yugoslavia |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1989 |
| length | 266 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Buzz Kulik |
| script | John Gay |
| production | Renée Valente |
| music | Billy Goldenberg |
| camera | Nic Knowland |
| cut |
David Beatty , Les Green , Peter Parasheles |
| occupation | |
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Around the world in 80 days is a film adaptation of the novel , which was based on the novel Journey around the earth in 80 days by Jules Verne . It is a hugely successful television miniseries that has been translated into over 30 languages.
action
The withdrawn and eccentric Phileas Fogg from London bets gentlemen from the Reform Club that he will be able to circumnavigate the world within 80 days. Together with his servant Passepartout, who is only hired the same day and is French, he embarks on the dangerous and almost impossible journey.
But the agent Wilbur Fix, who thinks Fogg is involved in an attack on the National Bank, is doing everything possible to prevent Fogg from continuing his journey. Passepartout believes Fix was sent by Fogg's betting opponents and should review their trip.
In Dover, England, the two meet Sarah Bernhardt and shoo her off the ship. They take them to France, where there is currently a civil war. There they meet Louis Pasteur . To continue to Rome they use a hot air balloon , as the train service has ceased. You end up there in the Colosseum . The journey as far as India went without any major difficulties. There they watch how worshipers want to sacrifice a princess to the goddess of death Kali . The two prevent this, free her and take her with them on the further journey. Phileas Fogg and Princess Aouda fall in love with each other, even if he is initially unsure of his feelings. They are captured by bandits in Burma , in the course of which Phileas Fogg was almost executed. In China they first get to the Forbidden City and then lose Passepartout, who is annoyed with hunger, while Phileas Fogg's boat goes down in the China Sea . You meet again in Yokohama and travel on together. In America Phileas Fogg then has a duel with Jesse James . The train is also attacked by Indians. In New York they miss their ship because they are thrown from the only ship that leaves Liverpool in time, on orders from Cornelius Vanderbilt . They rent another one, outsmart the captain and burn a large part of his ship after the fuel ran out. In England on the way to London they miss the train because Fix is honoring the arrest warrant and arrive five minutes late and go home disappointed. The next evening, Phileas Fogg proposes to Aouda, which she accepts. They only notice from the newspaper that they have arrived one day early due to the time difference , and Phileas Fogg wins his bet and the heart of a wonderful woman in the end.
In the credits the triple wedding of Fogg and Aouda, Fix and his wife and Passepartout and his wife is celebrated.
synchronization
German versions were produced literally at the same time in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR - the main actors in neither of them have their regular speakers. Pierce Brosnan was dubbed by Lutz Mackensy (ZDF) and Detlef Gieß (DFF - he also spoke the specials on the old DVD, although the ZDF version was released here), Eric Idle by Hans-Jürgen Dittberner (ZDF) and Joachim Siebenschuh (DFF ), Julia Nickson by Susanna Bonaséwicz (ZDF) and Gabriele Streichhahn (DFF). Only Peter Ustinov ( Wolfgang Völz or Horst Lampe ) and John Hillerman ( Wolfram Schaerf or Gerhard Paul ) had familiar voices on ZDF (Schaerf was replaced by Lothar Blumhagen a few years later in the Magnum series , so this effect has now also been lost ). On GDR television, which broadcast the miniseries a few weeks earlier, the first episode about the train robbery and a few scenes in revolutionary Paris were cut (they were perceived as denigrating the French Revolution), while on ZDF in the second episode Arrival at the coast and impressions in Yokohama were cut (these scenes can now be seen again on the new DVD edition).
background
The series was filmed in Great Britain , China , Thailand and Yugoslavia .
criticism
"Entertainment for the whole family carried out by good actors."
DVD release
- Around the world in 80 days . 2 DVD set. Concorde Video 2007.
- Around the world in 80 days . Double DVD (2 sided DVD) with PC game. ems and blueByte from 2000.
Soundtrack
- Billy Goldenberg : Around the World in 80 Days. The soundtrack to the successful series on ZDF . edel, Hamburg 1989, sound carrier no. EDL 2518-2 - Original recording of the film music conducted by the composer
literature
- Jules Verne : Around the World in 80 Days. Novel (original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Sabine Hübner . With all illustrations from the original edition by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett . With an afterword, notes and a time table by Volker Dehs as well as texts by Edgar Allan Poe , Jules Verne and François Oswald on the creation of the novel. Full paperback edition. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv), Munich 2007, 365 pages, ISBN 978-3-423-13545-0 or ISBN 3-423-13545-X .
- Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in 80 days (Original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Gisela Geisler . Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart and Munich 1984, 247 pages - superb bound edition (most complete German edition with all original illustrations by Léon Benett and Alphonse de Neuville).
- Jules Verne: Journey around the earth in eighty days (Original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours ). German by Erich Fivian . With 56 illustrations from the original edition by Léon Benett and Alphonse de Neuville. Diogenes, Zurich 1986, 256 pages, ISBN 3-257-20126-5 - paperback edition.
- Heinrich Pleticha (Eds.), Jules Verne, Volker Dehs , Ronald M. Hahn et al .: Jules Verne Handbook . Deutscher Bücherbund, Stuttgart and Munich 1992.
See also
Web links
- In 80 days around the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)