Liberty Heights

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Movie
German title Liberty Heights
Original title Liberty Heights
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1999
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Barry Levinson
script Barry Levinson
production Barry Levinson,
Patrick McCormick ,
Paula Weinstein
music Andrea Morricone
camera Christopher Doyle
cut Stu Linder
occupation

Liberty Heights is an American drama directed by Barry Levinson from 1999 .

action

The action takes place in Baltimore in the 1950s. The brothers Ben and Van Kurtzman come from a Jewish family. Ben is still in high school while Van is already studying. The father of the Nate brothers runs a theater.

Ben meets the African American Sylvia, who goes to school after the school districts have been merged. He falls in love with her and gets closer to her. Sylvia's father, a doctor, forbids further meetings.

On Halloween Day, Ben dresses up as Adolf Hitler , which outrags his parents. Van and his friends attend a party where Van meets a blonde woman he finds attractive. However, there is a fight. The present Trey Tobelseted rams the house with his car. Van and friends appear in court as witnesses when Tray Tobelseted is convicted and learn that his girlfriend is the blonde woman, Dubbie.

The drug dealer Little Melvin blackmailed Nate from whom he asked for protection money. Instead, Nate makes him a partner in the theater.

Sylvia gives Ben two tickets to a James Brown concert that he and one of his friends are attending. You are the only white people in the audience. Van meets Dubbie again.

Nate and his criminal business partner are charged and convicted. Nate attends Ben and Sylvia's graduation ceremony before going to prison. Sylvia goes to college with numerous African American students in the southern United States, while Ben can choose between two universities in the northeast.

The film ends with Ben remembering his youth, Sylvia and her father after years.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 10, 1999 that the film was less about love or racism and more about growing up. He has some weaknesses - for example the character of Little Melvin is too " blurred " - which are not particularly serious.

Kenneth Turan wrote in the Los Angeles Times on November 17, 1999 that the film came " from the heart " of the director and screenwriter Levinson and was his fourth film to be set in Baltimore. It is a " mature, finished " work that is both funny and can be felt deeply. The film is hardly nostalgic but contains a pinch of pain and sorrow.

Cinema magazine wrote that the film was "a touching, often witty moral picture ".

Awards

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

The film was in 2000 for the E Pluribus Unum Award of the American Cinema Foundation nominated. Rebekah Johnson was nominated for the Black Reel Award in 2000.

background

The film was in Baltimore , in Frederick ( Maryland ) and Towson turned (Maryland). It premiered on November 17, 1999 and was screened on May 21, 2000 at the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival . The film grossed approximately $ 3.7 million in US cinemas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by Roger Ebert, accessed on August 22, 2007
  2. ^ Review by Kenneth Turan, accessed August 22, 2007
  3. ^ Cinema, accessed August 22, 2007
  4. ^ Filming locations for Liberty Heights, accessed August 22, 2007
  5. ↑ Liberty Heights premiere dates, accessed August 22, 2007
  6. ^ Box office / business for Liberty Heights, accessed August 22, 2007