Open Range - Wide Country

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Movie
German title Open Range - Wide Country
Original title Open range
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 133 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Kevin Costner
script Craig Storper
production Kevin Costner
Jake Eberts
David Valdes
music Michael Kamen
camera James Muro
cut Michael J. Duthie
Miklos Wright
occupation
synchronization

Open Range is an American western released in 2003 based on the novel The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine . Kevin Costner is the director, producer and leading actor .

action

In 1882 the fences of civilization had not yet reached the western United States . As a freegrazer , Boss Spearman drives his herd of cattle from one free pasture ( "open range" ) to the next. The civil war veteran Charley Waite, the massive and gentle Moses and the young and inexperienced Mexican Button work for him. Together they form a kind of family. The peace ends when Moses rides into the town of Harmonville to buy supplies. The city is bullied by Denton Baxter, the area's biggest rancher and owner of half the city. In Baxter's saloon, Mose is beaten up by Baxter's people and then arrested by the corrupt Marshal Poole for allegedly causing the brawl. When Moses is picked up by Boss and Charley, the marshal waives a fine if they leave the area quickly. Baxter, who is also present, clearly expresses his hatred of freegrazers , whose cattle eat the grass on free pastureland that he uses for his own cattle. He also lets it be known that he has already had other Freegrazers shot.

After the three cowboys are back at their camp, they learn from Button that masked men are with their herd. However, Baxter's men avoid an open fight, so Boss and Charley follow them and overpower them at their night camp. However, other men from Baxter have meanwhile raided their camp, not only shooting Charley's dog, but also Mose and seriously injuring Button. Boss and Charley take the boy to the doctor Barlow, with whose sister Sue Charley falls in love.

Then there is a showdown in the middle of the village, in which Boss and Charley face the rancher and his four men. Three other men are said to stab the cowboys in the back through side streets. The war experienced Charley can take out the murderer of Mose with a lightning-fast headshot. An extensive shootout ensues in which the corrupt marshal fights with four other men on the rancher's side. Initially intimidated by the rancher, the villagers side with the Freegrazers during the fight . After Boss can finally confront Baxter, they practice bloody vigilante justice on Baxter's surviving henchmen.

Charley asks Sue for her hand after the fight, despite all self-doubt. She agrees and says goodbye to him, because he wants to sell the herd with Boss first so that they can buy the local saloon with this money. However, he promises to return.

German dubbed version

The dialogue book of the German dubbing was written by Klaus Bickert , the dubbing was directed by Joachim Tennstedt .

actor German speaker role
Kevin Costner Frank Glaubrecht Charley Waite
Robert Duvall Friedrich Georg Beckhaus Boss Spearman
Annette Bening Traudel Haas Sue Barlow
Sir Michael Gambon Otto Mellies Denton Baxter
Kim Coates Udo Schenk butler
James Russo Ronald Nitschke Marshal Poole
Abraham Benrubi Tilo Schmitz Cunt
Diego Luna Nico Mamone Button
Michael Jeter Rainer Gerlach Percy
Dean McDermott Thomas Nero Wolff Doc Barlow
Peter MacNeill Klaus Sunshine Mack
Cliff Saunders Stefan Krause Ralph
Tim Koetting Bernd Rumpf Bartender Bill

Reviews

“Breathtakingly photographed melancholy late-wisters sympathizing with their conservative heroes, who pay homage to nostalgic virtues and who draw their courage to survive solely from the fact that they have nothing left to lose. Convincingly staged and played, the film uses the genre to reflect on the decline of traditions and values. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Upright cowboys, lush pastureland, campfire romance, evil cattle barons, corrupt sheriffs, shoot-outs à la twelve o'clock noon , on the fringes also a little love: the cliché box for Westerns is quickly jam-packed. What was surprising about Kevin Costner's Open Range - Wide Country isn't that none of it has been left out. But that his film is unobtrusive in the best sense and not an unwanted self-parody. [...] It's wonderfully old-fashioned cinema for the quieter moments in life, a wistful Wild West drama that still smells of freedom and adventure. "

- Cinema

Awards

The film won the Western Heritage Award in 2004 . Annette Bening was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 2004. Diego Luna was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 2004. The film was nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors Award in 2004. Stuntman Chad Camilleri was nominated for Best Overall Stunt By A Stunt Man at the 2004 Taurus Awards .

background

Almost half of the budget of a total of 22 million dollars was deposited by Kevin Costner, Jake Eberts and David Valdes himself. Although the western genre was considered exhausted, the film turned out to be a surprise success with grossing US $ 58 million in the US alone.

The film was shot in the Canadian province of Alberta .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Open Range - wide country . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 606 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Open Range - Weites Land . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b Open Range - Wide Country. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 14, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Open Range - Wide Country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ film review on cinema.de
  6. ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
  7. ↑ Filming locations on imdb.com