Jimmy's Hall
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jimmy's Hall |
| Original title | Jimmy's Hall |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , Ireland , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ken Loach |
| script |
Paul Laverty , Donal O'Kelly |
| production | Rebecca O'Brien |
| music | George Fenton |
| camera | Robbie Ryan |
| cut | Jonathan Morris |
| occupation | |
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Jimmy's Hall is a feature film by British director Ken Loach from the year 2014 . The film is set in Ireland in the 1930s and is about the fight of Irish political activist Jimmy Gralton against paternalism and exploitation by the church and large landowners.
action
In 1932 Jimmy Gralton returned to Ireland, where he was born, after ten years in the USA. He had spent the past few years in New York , where he had fled after clashes with the Church and the Irish landowners. Now, ten years after the Irish Civil War , a new government is in power and his mother needs help on the farm.
Although Jimmy didn't really want to challenge his old adversaries again right away, he gives in to the requests of the young people in the village and, together with his former companions, re-opens the hall , a kind of self-organized cultural center where painting, singing, boxing, dancing, reading and discussing becomes.
The growing influence of Jimmy and his ideas quickly provokes resistance from his old opponents. Village pastor Sheridan fears lawlessness and the loss of the church's monopoly on education. Jimmy's and his supporters' help for a displaced tenant turns the landowners against him.
One night the hall goes up in flames, Jimmy is expelled from the country on the pretext of illegal immigration (from the USA) and without a trial. When he is being transported away by the police, the young people of the village will accompany him on bicycles.
Jimmy's Hall is based on the life of James Gralton (1886–1945), who never returned to Ireland after his deportation and who died in New York in 1945.
reception
Jimmy's Hall got a positive rating from 71 percent of reviewers on the Rotten Tomatoes website .
The film is "old-fashioned" and with a "political list", it is accused of by faz.net. "A committed plea for solidarity and joie de vivre" confirms Programmkino.de.
In 2017, a musical based on the film was staged at Dublin's Abbey Theater .
Web links
- Jimmy's Hall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.rottentomatoes.com
- ↑ Only the dance floor trembles before this rebellion. In: FAZ.net . August 13, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014 .
- ↑ www.programmkino.de
- ↑ 'Jimmy's Hall' review: Movement presented as political dissent , irishtimes.com, July 26, 2017, accessed on August 13, 2017