Revolution (film)

Movie
German title	revolution
Original title	revolution
Country of production	UK / Norway
original language	English
Publishing year	1985
length	125 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Hugh Hudson
script	Robert Dillon
production	Irwin Winkler
music	John Corigliano
camera	Bernard Lutic
cut	Stuart Baird
occupation
	Al Pacino : Tom Dobb; Donald Sutherland : Sgt. Major Peasy; Nastassja Kinski : Daisy McConnahay; Joan Plowright : Mrs. McConnahay; Dave King : Mr. McConnahay; Steven Berkoff : Sgt. Jones; John Wells : Corty; Annie Lennox : Liberty Woman; Dexter Fletcher : Ned Dobb; Robbie Coltrane : New York Citizen;

Revolution is a 1985 adventure film directed by Hugh Hudson . The leading roles are starring Al Pacino , Donald Sutherland and Nastassja Kinski .

action

Tom Dobb lives as a hunter in the Adirondack region of New York State and sells furs in town. In 1776, his 14-year-old son, Ned, joined the insurgent army to take part in the American War of Independence . Tom wants to take care of his son and also joins the army. The father and son fight together on Brooklyn Heights and the Battle of Yorktown .

While searching for his son, Tom is captured by the British. There he met Daisy McConnahay, daughter of the upper class, who sympathized with the rebels. With this attitude she is in conflict with her parents. The completely uneducated trapper falls in love with the daughter from a good family.

Reviews

Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times that the film was so bad that there had to be an interesting backstory behind it. Al Pacino looks like the Rambo of the 18th century. Canby criticized the script and the cinematography. The historical background of the events is not explained.
Lexicon of international film : “The interesting topic is unfortunately gambled away due to dramaturgical and staging weaknesses. The result is a pure equipment film with little profiled, implausible characters. "
Georg Seeßlen wrote in epd Film : “You can stand as you like on Hudson's very late romanticism, his colonial passions. There is little doubt about his ability to find the most magnificent pictures and narrative characters for this. "
The film has an 8% positive rate on Rotten Tomatoes .

Awards

Nominations

The film won the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for Worst Film.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Production history and reception

The film was shot in England . It cost about 28 million US dollars and brought in US theaters have about $ 347,000. In Germany there were around 14,000 moviegoers.

Web links

Revolution in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Revolution at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

↑ on revolution . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: New York Times , December 25, 1985@1@ 2

^ Revolution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

↑ filmzentrale.com - epd Film , 12/86

↑ on Rotten Tomatoes

↑ 1985 8th Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards . In: Stinkers Bad Movie Awards , Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

[1] revolution . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: New York Times , December 25, 1985@1@ 2

[2] Revolution. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] zentrale.com - epd Film , 12/86

[4] Rotten Tomatoes

[5] 1985 8th Hastings Bad Cinema Society Stinkers Awards . In: Stinkers Bad Movie Awards , Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on October 17, 2006. Retrieved April 2, 2013.