Manhunter - Red Dragon
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| German title | Manhunter - Red Dragon (alternatively: Blood Moon) |
| Original title | Manhunter |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Michael Mann |
| script | Michael Mann |
| production |
Dino De Laurentiis , Richard A. Roth |
| music | Michel Rubini |
| camera | Dante Spinotti |
| cut | Dov Hoenig |
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Manhunter - Roter Drache , also known as Blood Moon , is an American thriller from the director Michael Mann from 1986, which is based on the novel Roter Drache (Original title: Red Dragon ) by Thomas Harris and whose remake Roter Drache as prehistory or Prequel of the film The Silence of the Lambs applies.
action
Former FBI - profiler Will Graham lives with his family in Florida . He's trying to get away from his job at the FBI, which nearly cost him his life. His former boss Jack Crawford comes to see him because Will is his last hope as a friend of finding a mad serial killer. This murderer murdered two whole families on nights of the full moon and mutilated their bodies horribly. Crawford assumes that murders can be expected again on the following full moon nights.
The perpetrator, dubbed Tooth Fairy by the press , smashes mirrors and uses broken pieces to put them in the eyes of his victims so that he can see himself in them . When Graham sees the photos of the horribly murdered families, he decides to work as a consultant for the FBI one last time.
Graham agrees to help Crawford and comes up with the idea of seeking advice from cannibal Hannibal Lecktor , who once tried to kill him, so that he can profile the sick spirit of the new serial killer. Lecktor is in solitary confinement in a mental hospital and plays Graham into trying to help him. Lecktor uses this opportunity to get revenge on Graham and uses a clever trick to send a message to the Tooth Fairy asking them to wipe out Graham's family. The viewer learns the identity of the murderer. His name is Francis Dollarhyde and he is characterized by a harelip that robs him of any self-confidence. Dollarhyde works for a film development company in St. Louis, Missouri , which gives him access to many private family films so he can choose his victims.
Graham's attempt to lure the perpetrator from his cover fails catastrophically: A reporter who wrote a condescending article about the tooth fairy is kidnapped by Dollarhyde and brutally murdered. Dollarhyde is in love with his blind colleague, Reba McClane, and to his great surprise, she returns his love. Through the experience of love, Dollarhyde's urge to kill is weakened, but the madness cannot be suppressed for long. When he sees Reba with a work colleague, he thinks she is cheating on him and spontaneously murders him. Graham finds out from the films the murder victims made of themselves that the perpetrator knew detailed information about the homes of the victims. He correctly concludes that the perpetrator has also seen these films and that he must be involved in some way with the film development company.
Graham and his boss fly to St. Louis and, through data synchronization, come to Dollarhyde. He keeps Reba prisoner and wants to prepare for her murder. At the last second, Graham and the other police officers break into the house. There is a firefight and Dollarhyde shoots two police officers. Then Graham succeeds in shooting Dollarhyde. Towards the end of the film, Graham returns to Florida to live with his family.
backgrounds
This first film adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel is not as well known today as the later work Red Dragon from 2002. The reason for this is certainly the portrayal of the serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the remake by Anthony Hopkins , who has been since the success of The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and its sequel Hannibal (2001) is considered the ideal cast for this role.
Brian Cox plays Hannibal Lecktor (whose name change from the original Hannibal Lecter has remained unexplained to this day, as well as the incorrect spelling of Dollarhyde compared to Dolarhyde in Harris' book) and is not as emphasized in Mann's film as in the 2002 version. Besides Cox, Brian Dennehy , John Lithgow , Mandy Patinkin and even director William Friedkin were in discussion for the role of Lecktor.
The house of the Grahams in the film is actually that of the artist Robert Rauschenberg .
Hannibal Lecktor is serving his sentence at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta .
In the finale you can hear a (shortened) version of the psychedelic In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly .
Originally, David Lynch as a director provided.
The shooting with a budget of 15 million US dollars began including in Atlanta (on September 9, 1985 Georgia ), Florida , Chicago ( Illinois ), Santa Cruz ( California ), St. Louis ( Missouri ), Washington, DC and Wilmington ( North Carolina ) in the USA.
The image of the red dragon
William Blake (1757-1827) painted a number of pictures in which he depicted the red dragon (his idea of Satan ); two of which carry the title The Great Red Dragon and the woman clothed with the sun . The first picture, which Harris also describes in the novel, shows the dragon standing over the woman and is imitated by Francis Dollarhyde when he murdered his victims.
The film incorrectly shows the second image, The Great Red Dragon and the Woman, Clothed in the Sun: The Devil Has Descended , which shows the dragon circling over the woman.
synchronization
The film was set to music at Deutsche Synchron in Berlin . Michael Richter was responsible for the script and direction.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Will Graham | William Petersen | Stephan Schwartz |
| Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | Brian Cox | Manfred Lehmann |
| Reba McClane | Joan Allen | Gisela Fritsch |
| Molly Graham | Kim Greist | Karin Buchholz |
| Francis Dollarhyde | Tom Noonan | Hans-Werner Bussinger |
| Jack Crawford | Dennis Farina | Kurt Goldstein |
| Lieutenant Fisk | Frankie Faison | Ben Hecker |
| Zeller | Chris Elliott | Udo Schenk |
| Mrs. Sherman | Patricia Charbonneau | |
| Freddy Lounds | Stephen Lang | Ulrich Gressieker |
reception
“Psychological thriller that tells a suggestive and exciting crime story; It draws its charm primarily from the confrontation of a police apparatus investigating at the highest technical level with a dream world captured with oppressive intensity in which the everyday idyll becomes deceptive. Technically perfect, the film indulges too much in its smooth, ' postmodern ' design. "
“ Blood Moon gave birth to CSI and John Doe and Profiler and Millennium and all of the TV shows and all of the movies that borrowed Harris's subject matter and Mann's hypnotic tone. After that, thrillers […] appropriately fetishistically turned into forensics […] blood moon pointed the way to an era of empathy with the devil ”
"Slender serial killer thriller that makes The Silence of the Lambs look pious."
literature
- Thomas Harris : Red Dragon. The novel about the film . (Original title: Red Dragon ). German by Sepp Leeb . Paperback edition. Heyne, Munich 2002, 454 pages, ISBN 3-453-86158-2 .
Web links
- Manhunter - Red Dragon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manhunter - Red Dragon at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Manhunter - Red Dragon at Metacritic (English)
- Manhunter - Red Dragon in the online movie database
- Manhunter - Red Dragon in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 16 TV - FSK 16 DVD , FSK 16 DVD - FSK 16 TV , Anchor Bay Theatrical Cut - Director's Cut by Blutmond / Manhunter - Roter Drache at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Manhunter - Red Dragon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2013 (PDF; test number: 57 410 V).
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/trivia , accessed on February 10, 2009.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/trivia , accessed on February 10, 2009.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Manhunter - Red Dragon. Retrieved April 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Manhunter - Red Dragon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ David Edelstein: Red Drag. (No longer available online.) In: Slate . October 4, 2002, archived from the original on August 6, 2005 ; Retrieved February 10, 2009 : “Manhunter sired CSI and John Doe and Profiler and Millennium and all the other TV shows and movies that borrowed both Harris' theme and Mann's hypnotic tone. After this, thrillers would […] become positively fetishistic about forensics […] Manhunter ushered in the age of empathy for the devil “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ James Rocchi: -. In: Netflix. Retrieved on February 10, 2009 (English, after Rotten Tomatoes ): "Lean serial-killer thriller makes The Silence of the Lambs look sheepish"
