My Week with Marilyn

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Movie
German title My Week with Marilyn
Original title My Week with Marilyn
My week with Marilyn.svg
Country of production United Kingdom ,
United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Simon Curtis
script Adrian Hodges
production David Parfitt ,
Harvey Weinstein
music Conrad Pope
camera Ben Smithard
cut Adam right
occupation
synchronization

My Week with Marilyn is a feature film by British director Simon Curtis from the year 2011 . The drama deals with the shooting of the comedy film The Prince and the Dancer (1956), in which tensions arose between leading actress Marilyn Monroe (played by Michelle Williams ) and director and leading actor Laurence Olivier ( Kenneth Branagh ). During this time Monroe sought out Anna Freud and, because of her psychological instability, went into short-term therapy. The script is based on the memories of the same name of the filmmaker Colin Clark (1932-2002), who worked as an assistant on Olivier's film and is said to have befriended Monroe. His role was taken on by Eddie Redmayne .

The film, director Curtis' theatrical debut, premiered on October 9, 2011 at the New York Film Festival. The German theatrical release was on April 19, 2012. Leading actress Michelle Williams received the Golden Globe Award for her performance and was nominated for an Oscar together with Kenneth Branagh . The film grossed a total of $ 35 million on an estimated budget of $ 6.4 million.

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England , mid-1950s: young Colin Clark graduated from college and dreams of a career in film. Against his parents' wishes, he tries to find a job with Laurence Olivier's film production company - the renowned actor and filmmaker once offered Clark a job after his studies at a meeting. Despite an initial refusal, Colin appears repeatedly in the office before he can match Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh himself and get the position of an assistant in the upcoming filming of Olivier's film The Prince and the Dancer with Marilyn Monroe .

Colin takes a room in a cheap motel where no one believes that he will soon be working with the Monroe. He rises in favor of Olivier when he rents two houses for Monroe, including successfully one for pretense to distract the paparazzi . When Marilyn arrives at the airport, accompanied by her husband Arthur Miller , her business partner Milton Greene and her acting teacher Paula Strasberg, the English press is omnipresent. The Hollywood star nevertheless answers journalists' questions in a witty and quick-witted manner.

While Colin falls in love with the cloakroom assistant Lucy on the first day of shooting The Prince and the Dancer , tensions arise between Olivier and Marilyn. She often appears late on the film set and at script reviews directs her questions exclusively to Paula Strasberg instead of Olivier. Nevertheless, Marilyn is in the favor of the film team, including the actress Sybil Thorndike , who also appears in the film , who defends Marilyn before Olivier. Meanwhile, Colin discovers numerous pills in Marilyn's locker room before being surprised by the actress herself. Marilyn seeks confirmation from Colin as an actress, which she also receives from him. Then she makes him her confidante on the film set.

While Olivier's wife fears competition with Marilyn, Colin goes out with Lucy and the two of them become intimate. Marilyn no longer appears on the set and instead invites Colin to join her. Both spend the day together in the area, escape the photographer and bathe naked in a lake. There is a kiss between the two before they are tracked down by security personnel. Milton Greene tries unsuccessfully to convince Colin that Marilyn is only playing with the men and leaving her heartbroken. When Marilyn asks for Colin again, he finds her dissolved in their house. She has taken too much medication and discovered notes from her husband Arthur Miller allegedly making fun of her. Miller denies this and travels back to the United States while Colin puts Marilyn to bed and lies down next to her. During the night Marilyn wakes up screaming, grabs her stomach and is terrified of losing an unborn child. A doctor is called without Colin finding out more. As a result, Marilyn returns to the film set, but behaves dismissively towards the young man.

After filming is over, Colin confesses to Lucy that Marilyn broke his heart. Lucy is happy about it because it should have been broken. While Colin is leaving his motel, he meets Marilyn again, who thanks him and says goodbye to him with a kiss.

Cast & dubbing

Michelle Williams and Dougray Scott on the set of My Week with Marilyn

The German version was adopted by Berlin TV + Synchron . Katrin Lehmann wrote and directed the dialogue.

role actor German speaker
Marilyn Monroe Michelle Williams Schaukje Könning
Laurence Olivier Kenneth Branagh Martin Umbach
Colin Clark Eddie Redmayne Konrad Bösherz
Lucy Emma Watson Gabrielle Pietermann
Sybil Thorndike Judi Dench Gisela Fritsch
Paula Strasberg Zoë Wanamaker Beate Gerlach
Arthur Miller Dougray Scott Matti Klemm
Milton Greene Dominic Cooper Robin Kahnmeyer
Vivien Leigh Julia Ormond Christin Marquitan
Owen Morshead Derek Jacobi Rainer Gerlach
Richard Wattis Richard Clifford Hans-Jürgen Dittberner
Roger Smith Philip Jackson Helmut Gauss
Admiral Cotes-Preedy Simon Russell Beale Reinhard Scheunemann

Awards

Michelle Williams, who also interpreted some songs for the film, received several awards for her portrait of Marilyn Monroe. In 2011 she received awards from the Boston, Chicago , Dallas-Fort Worth, Florida, Toronto Film Critics Associations and the Hollywood Film Award. In 2012, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Comedy / Musical as well as nominations for the Oscar , Screen Actors Guild Award and British Academy Film Award (BAFTA Award). Kenneth Branagh won the London Critics' Circle Film Award in 2012 for his portrayal of Laurence Oliver and was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. Judi Dench also received a BAFTA nomination .

Reviews

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The film received mostly good reviews.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for My Week with Marilyn . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 075 K).
  2. ^ Age rating for My Week with Marilyn . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Profile at boxofficemojo.com (English; accessed December 3, 2012).
  4. ↑ My Week with Marilyn. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on April 28, 2012 .
  5. ↑ a b rottentomatoes.com at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on September 28, 2014
  6. ↑ a b metacritic.com at Metacritic , accessed on September 28, 2014
  7. ↑ My Week with Marilyn in the Internet Movie Database (English)