Judith (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Judith |
| Original title | Judith |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Mann |
| script | John Michael Hayes |
| production | Kurt Unger |
| music | Sol Kaplan |
| camera | John Wilcox |
| cut | Peter Taylor |
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Judith is a 1966 British drama film directed by Daniel Mann , based on a story by Lawrence Durrell . The first performance in Germany took place on February 25, 1966.
action
Palestine , shortly before the end of the British mandate in 1948. The Hagana , a Jewish underground organization, finds out that a former German tank commander, General Schiller, is training the Arabs in combat tactics. The Hagana employees cannot find Schiller, but they find out from his Jewish ex-wife Judith. It is smuggled into Palestine and taken into the care of the Hagana leader Aaron Stein in a kibbutz . Schiller had left his wife during the war and took their son with him. Judith was then deported to the Dachau concentration camp , where she had to work in an officer's brothel .
Judith cannot get used to the strict rules of kibbutz life. Nor can she say anything about Schiller's whereabouts. But Stein hopes that Judith can identify her ex-husband. She is supposed to ask the British commander, Major Lawton, for help. Judith travels to Haifa and meets the commander there. She can get him to look for Schiller. Lawton finds out that Schiller was last in Damascus , the Syrian capital .
Judith, Stein and another man are smuggled into Damascus. After days of searching, they find Schiller. When the general is kidnapped, he is shot and wounded by his ex-wife. Schiller is brought to Palestine and interrogated, but he refuses to divulge any information. Schiller is left alone with Judith and asks her forgiveness. When the Arabs attack the kibbutz, Schiller reveals the tactical plans he has taught. He also reveals the whereabouts of her son to Judith. Schiller dies in an Arab bomb attack.
Reviews
“A little differentiated fate of women in the context of simplified contemporary history. In terms of performance, in part excellent. "
“A semi-documentary feature film about an episode during the founding of the state of Israel. Highly recommended."
background
- Leading actress Sophia Loren won an Oscar for this film. She was honored as the best actress in 1962 for ... and yet she lives and was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1991. Peter Finch's Oscar for Best Actor was awarded posthumously in 1977 (for Network ). Finch died shortly before the event.
- Jack Hawkins' trademarks were his depictions of officers and officer veterans.
- Hans Verner, who plays the German general, was born in Düsseldorf. He made his film debut in 1951 in the last film of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy Atoll K .
- Frank Wolff, a native of the United States, was rather underemployed as an actor in his home country. He went to Italy and there was a sought-after actor in spaghetti westerns . His most famous role was that of the farmer McBain in Sergio Leone's Play Me A Song of Death .
- Peter Burton posed in James Bond Chases Dr. No Major Boothroyd. For the next James Bond film, Burton was not available and was replaced by Desmond Llewelyn , who played the character of the inventor Q until his death in 1999.
- The film was the first of a total of five film projects by producer Kurt Unger.
- Like Sophia Loren, film editor Peter Taylor came to the set with an Oscar award. He won his Oscar in 1958 for The Bridge on the River Kwai . Production designer Wilfred Shingleton won an Oscar in 1948 as an outfitter for Mysterious Inheritance , and sound engineer John Cox in 1963 for Lawrence of Arabia . Cox's colleague David Hildyard received two Oscar honors after this film: 1972 for Anatevka and 1973 for Cabaret . Costume designer Yvonne Blake won an Oscar in 1972 for her work on Nicholas and Alexander .
- The later director Nicolas Roeg acted as the second unit director of the film .
Web links
- Judith in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- USA movie poster
- Movie posters, posters and billboards
- Mark Deming in the New York Times (English)