Scarlett (TV series)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Scarlett |
| Original title | Scarlett |
| Country of production | United States |
| year | 1994 |
| length | 356 (total) minutes |
| Episodes | 4th |
| idea | Alexandra Ripley (novel), William Hanley |
| production | John Erman , Doris Kirch, Robert Halmi Sr., Larry Strichman |
| music | John Morris |
| camera | Tony Imi |
| cut |
Malcolm Cooke Keith Palmer John W. Wheeler |
| First broadcast | November 13, 1994 |
| German-language first broadcast |
November 13, 1994 on Sat.1 |
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Scarlett from the year 1994 is the film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Alexandra Ripley as a miniseries . It continues the content of the classic Gone with the Wind from 1939.
action
Atlanta 1873: Scarlett tries to win back her husband Rhett, who separated from her after Melanie's death. After she initially holds out her arms, after the death of old nurse Mammy, she travels to his home in Charleston, where she initially lives with her old aunts.
After Rhett's mother learns that Scarlett is in Charleston, she takes her into her home. There she made the acquaintance of Rhett's siblings and the Charleston Society. She quickly realizes that this society is just as narrow-minded and stuck with the past as the 'old guard' of Atlanta, who she always despised.
After a failed sailing trip, she first fled to her father's relatives in Savannah, from there to Ireland and to get to know her roots. After discovering that Rhett is expecting a child, she learns that Rhett divorced while she was away in order to marry Anne Hampton. Scarlett defiantly decides that he should never find out about his child's existence.
In Ireland she meets her elderly grandmother, her cousin Father Colum and the rest of the extended family and decides to give them a hand. She buys back the old family estate of Ballyhara. At a horse market, she met Rhett by chance, who was looking for a horse to breed on the island. She receives an invitation from a friend of his, Sir John Morland, to go on a fox hunt, during which she falls from her horse and Rhett is the first with her. The English Lord Fenton invites them to a reception in Dublin. In wistful and wistful memories of Rhett, she begins an affair with him there, which does not protect her reputation, when he unnecessarily steps out of the bedroom when her employee Mrs. Fitzpatrick knocks on the door. Scarlett leaves Dublin furious and is called to Atlanta by her sick sister Suellen. Upon their return, Lord Felton paid his respects again, and the affair continued. Mary Boyle seeks help from her uncle, Father Colum, who then goes to Lord Fenton. For the impregnation of Mary, Colum thinks it appropriate that Lord Felton pay for a passage to America and a little for the time up to the confinement, in order to avoid the shame of an illegitimate birth in Ireland. Lord Fenton refuses, Colum had learned from Mrs. Fitzpatrick about the relationship with Scarlett and threatens to tell her about this side of Fenton. Lord Fenton shoots him and dumps him in the forest.
After visiting a grave, Scarlett tells Fenton that the murder at Fenier Colum is believed to be for political reasons. Fenton invites Scarlett to London, Mary asks her for a job as a nanny so that she can then give birth in England and receives her. Lord Fenton invites Scarlett to dinner with his family, after which he is furious and intrusive that she refuses to have sex with him. When Scarlett announced the end of their relationship the next day, he followed her to her bedroom and raped her, explaining that he had made Mary pregnant and killed her cousin. Scarlett later wakes up to find him with a knife in his chest. The police are taking them to jail. Rhett, whose pregnant wife died of yellow fever , is informed by John Morland and travels to London. Rhett hires Morland as a lawyer and learns from Scarlett about his child. Scarlett is sentenced to death on the gallows, after which the escaped Mary reveals herself as the perpetrator in the courtroom. Scarlett and Rhett become a couple again.
background
After Alexandra Ripley was authorized by the heirs of Margaret Mitchell to continue the novel Gone With the Wind , the rights to the film were bought for $ 9 million . The production of the four-part miniseries cost another $ 40 million, which was shared by European and American channels. The premiere took place simultaneously in all countries involved in the production costs.
The filming was preceded by international casting shows in which the leading actress should be sought. In Germany, this selection ran for three weeks on Sat.1 in 1992 under the title Wer wird die neue Scarlett? in which the later famous actress Natalia Wörner also took part. 15 winners of the 17 national competitions then competed against each other. The female lead did not go to the winner of the elimination, but to Joanne Whalley-Kilmer . The casting show was ultimately only intended as an advertisement for the series.
Audience ratings for the broadcast were good in the United States and Germany. The series found 10 million viewers in Germany.
The series won two Emmy Awards in 1995 and was nominated for an Emmy Award in another category. She was also nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award .
Reviews
The television lexicon sees the series as a US-European Schmonzette, which has nothing in common with the novel. According to the television dictionary, the reviews were negative.
Web links
- Scarlett in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography for Natalia Wörner. imdb.com, accessed March 22, 2013 .
- ↑ Christian Richter: The television cemetery: The great casting cheat. Quotemeter.de, March 21, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2013 .