Oliver (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Oliver |
| Original title | Oliver! |
| Country of production | England |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 146 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carol Reed |
| script | Vernon Harris |
| production | John Woolf |
| music |
Lionel Bart , Johnny Green |
| camera | Oswald Morris |
| cut | Ralph Kemplen |
| occupation | |
| |
Oliver is the film adaptation of the musical of the same name by Lionel Bart from 1968, which in turn used the well-known novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens as a template. Some actors from the musical played in the film.
content
Oliver, the foundling, leads a bleak life in an orphanage. The children have to work hard and only get gruel to eat. A tour of the orphanage takes place and the half-starved children have to see what is being served to the delegation - roasts, vegetables, side dishes in abundance. The children are now really met with their misery and a test of courage begins. If you pull the longest blade of grass, you have to ask for an additional portion of gruel. Oliver pulls the stalk and asks for an extra helping of food.
The delegation and the head of the home decide to give Oliver away for a cash payment because he had dared to ask for more food. He is "sold" to a funeral director. His journeyman insults and humiliates him, which he accepts without complaint. But when the journeyman complains about Oliver's mother, the boy angrily attacks the journeyman. He is overwhelmed by the undertaker's wife and daughter. The head of the home is called and they discuss Oliver's fate when he accidentally discovers an escape route through a window. Oliver flees to London.
Here he meets The Artful Dodger. He belongs to a gang of thieves that belongs to the petty criminal Fagin. Oliver finds shelter there and is valued by Artful Dodger and Fagin for the first time in his life and is enthusiastic. However, he is far too gullible and naive to suspect that his benefactors might incite him to do wrong. Oliver is promptly caught on his first tour of thieves when the rich Mr. Brownlow is stolen. His innocence is found in court. Mr. Brownlow takes him with him and has his housekeeper look after him.
One day when he is supposed to bring books back, he is kidnapped by Nancy. Shortly afterwards he is supposed to break into a house for Bill Sikes. The break-in fails and Sikes dies in the subsequent escape. Oliver then comes back to Mr. Brownlow, who has since found out that Oliver is his grandson.
Production notes
- The production design is by John Box
- Phyllis Dalton provided the costumes
- The buildings were created by Terence Marsh
- As a makeup artist, George Frost was responsible
- The composer Johnny Green contributed additional music
- Filming locations were Shepperton Studios , Shepperton , Surrey in England .
Awards (selection)
|
further nominations: |
Reviews
“Charles Dickens' novel 'Oliver Twist' in a musical adaptation, which was brilliantly staged, but misses the socio-critical core of the book. The touching conversation ends very sensationally. "
“'Oliver Twist', the socially critical novel […] from 1839, was made into an English musical that, with the help of elaborate equipment and cheerful ways, offers social ills of the 19th century as musical entertainment. Unnecessary."
“The work is typical of the late phase of the once socially committed, sensitive observer Carol Reed: the sense of character drawing, the attention to detail and a feeling for the socially critical explosiveness of Dickens, once conceived as a violent accusation against the social system in 19th century England - Reed had completely lost the romans and was replaced by a technically perfect smoothness à la Hollywood, determined by external vivacity and superficiality. "
Web links
- Oliver in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Oliver ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 5/1969
- ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 6, p. 435. Berlin 2001