Diary of a scandal

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Movie
German title Diary of a scandal
Original title Notes on a Scandal
Country of production GB
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Richard Eyre
script Patrick Marber
production Robert Fox ,
Andrew Macdonald ,
Redmond Morris ,
Scott Rudin
music Philip Glass
camera Chris Menges
cut John Bloom ,
Antonia Van Drimmelen
occupation
synchronization

Diary of a Scandal (English Notes on a Scandal ) is a British drama directed by Richard Eyre from 2006 . The plot is based on the novel Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller from 2003.

action

Barbara Covett, who is over 60 years old, is a history teacher at St. George's School in London, where she uses old-fashioned, rigorous methods to organize her classes. She is considered tough and not popular, but her peers respect her as a teacher. Outside of school, she leads a rather lonely existence, with no friends and no family of her own. That changes when one day 37-year-old art teacher Sheba Hart is transferred to her school. The pedagogically rather poor new teacher is immediately inspected by Covett, who tries to enrich her dreary everyday life by closely observing her colleague and making first attempts at contact. Covett befriends the unconventional, open-minded colleague and is strongly attracted to her. In a conversation, Sheba later confides in Barbara; she laments the cessation of passion in the relationship with Richard, her 20 years older man, and wishes, the existence as mother of their children, the year 15 of heartache stricken Polly and Ben, her son with Down syndrome to escape, .

During a school performance, Barbara Covett notices her colleague's absence. She looks for her and watches as she has sex with the student Steven Connolly. Barbara Covett later confronts Sheba Hart about it. Sheba does not deny anything and describes how she "slipped into" the affair with the 15-year-old. Barbara promises to keep Sheba silent, but uses her knowledge of the affair as leverage to penetrate deeper into Sheba's private life. At the same time it becomes clear that she hopes for more than friendship from Sheba as thanks for her secrecy. However, the young teacher does not manage to break away from Steven, although she increasingly takes care of Richard, Polly and Ben.

When one day Barbara's decrepit cat is about to be euthanized, Barbara demands that Sheba accompany her. However, Sheba has to refuse to be present at the school play where her son appears as a magician. Barbara, who discovers that Sheba failed to keep her promise to break up with Steven, feels abandoned and hurt by her. When a colleague admits his feelings for Sheba, Barbara indicates to him that Sheba is more likely to like younger men, yes, students - and drops Stevens name. This makes the scandal public, the tabloid press pounces on the story. Barbara is exposed as an accomplice at school and suspended from class because she refuses to agree to early retirement. It is also revealed that, not for the first time, Barbara destroyed a colleague's relationship in a desire to escape her loneliness. Sheba's marriage breaks up when her affair becomes known, she separates from her husband and moves in with Barbara, whose betrayal she does not yet suspect. In Barbara's apartment, however, she finds her diary, in which all the course of events is meticulously documented, exposing Barbara's betrayal. Sheba then leaves her supposed friend's apartment and returns to her family.

Sheba Hart is sentenced to ten months' imprisonment at the end of the film. Barbara, on the other hand, meets Anabelle, a young woman Sheba's age who is reading an article about the verdict in a daily newspaper. Barbara approaches them and tries to find a new friendship in this way.

Reviews

Justin Chang praised the performance of Judi Dench in Variety magazine on December 8, 2006, for engaging viewers to develop compassion for the loneliness of the character played by Dench. The portrayal of Cate Blanchett is described as "absolutely convincing".

Barbara Covett, embodied by Judi Dench, writes Peter Zander in Die Welt , “loves women - but hates herself for it. Has forced himself to suppress her feelings all his life and believes that he can only extort such feelings by force. No so many films about the 'bad lesbian', but about homophobia and how it can bend people. "

Awards

At the 2007 Academy Awards , the film was nominated in the categories of Best Actress ( Judi Dench ), Best Supporting Actress ( Cate Blanchett ), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Score. Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and screenwriter Patrick Marber were nominated for the Golden Globe Award .

The film won the Teddy Ballot Volkswagen Audience Award at the Berlinale in 2007 .

Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett and Philip Glass were nominated for the Satellite Award in 2006. Cate Blanchett won the 2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Award and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award .

background

The film was shot in London and Eastbourne ( East Sussex ). It premiered in selected US cinemas on December 25, 2006. In the widespread release in the United States, the film grossed around 17.5 million US dollars ; outside the United States grossed approximately $ 26.2 million.

Zoë Heller, who, apart from her work as a novelist, leads a column for the Daily Telegraph , wrote a story based on a true case with her second work, Diary of a Seduction . Her book is based on an incident in the mid-1990s when American educator Mary Kay LeTourneau made headlines after she was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for sexual acts with a 13-year-old student.

Trivia

Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench and Anne-Marie Duff played Elisabeth I. Blanchett in Elizabeth (1998), Dench in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Duff in The Virgin Queen (2005).

The long-playing record Steven looks at in Sheba's studio is Kaleidoscope by Siouxsie and the Banshees (1980). The song Dizzy played in this scene is by this band and was first released in 1992.

synchronization

The film was set to music at Interopa Film in Berlin . Alexander Löwe wrote the dialogue book, Frank Schaff directed the dialogue.

role actor Voice actor
Sheba Hart Cate Blanchett Bettina White
Barbara Covett Judi Dench Gisela Fritsch
Ted Mawson Tom Georgeson
Sandy Pabblem Michael Maloney Uwe Büschken
Sue Hodge Joanna Scanlan Almut Zydra
Bill Rumer Shaun Parkes Robert Glatzeder
Linda Emma Kennedy
Gita Syreeta Kumar
Steven Connolly Andrew Simpson Filipe Pirl
Brian Bangs Philip Davis Rudiger Evers
Elaine Clifford Wendy Nottingham Sabine Arnhold
Antonia Robinson Tameka Empson
Davis Leon Skinner Raúl Richter
Richard Hart Bill Nighy Frank Glaubrecht
Polly Hart Juno Temple Lisa May-Mitsching

literature

  • Zoë Heller: Diary of a Seduction. Translated from the English by Rainer Schmidt. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-54235-9 .
  • Zoë Heller: Diary of a scandal. Translated from the English by Rainer Schmidt. Novel to film version. Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-442-46066-2 .

swell

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the diary of a scandal . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2006 (PDF; test number: 108 915 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for the diary of a scandal . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Review by Justin Chang ( Memento from December 14, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Die Welt, February 13, 2007
  5. ↑ Filming locations for Notes on a Scandal
  6. ↑ Start dates for Notes on a Scandal
  7. ↑ Box office / business for Notes on a Scandal
  8. ↑ see diary of a scandal ( memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), BR-Online
  9. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Diary of a scandal. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .

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