Silkwood
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Silkwood |
| Original title | Silkwood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 131 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| script |
Alice Arlen Nora Ephron |
| production |
Michael Hausman Mike Nichols |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Miroslav Ondříček |
| cut | Sam O'Steen |
| occupation | |
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The 1983 film Silkwood is set in the United States in the early 1970s . It covers the true story of laboratory assistant Karen Silkwood (1946–1974), portrayed by Meryl Streep . She was killed in a traffic accident under circumstances that were never fully clarified while she was working at a plutonium processing plant in Oklahoma , unionizing and researching life-threatening, illegal practices at her facility.
action
In a Kerr-McGee fuel element factory , accidents occur time and again when handling radioactive substances. However, these are played down in relation to employees and security documents are forged. The chemical technician Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) does not want to close her eyes anymore in view of the accumulation of events and starts to get involved in the union. She is asked to provide evidence to be able to use it in the negotiations with the group management. Under sometimes mysterious circumstances, she herself is radioactively contaminated several times . She also has to take setbacks in her private life. Her support in the workforce decreases, her boyfriend leaves her for a while because he doesn't want to share her commitment.
Eventually, Silkwood is reported to hand over the documents (including retouched X-rays of welds on the fuel assemblies) to a reporter for the New York Times when they realize that the company's actions are potentially more dangerous than they originally thought. However, she never arrives at the meeting point; her car comes off the road and she dies as a result of the "mysterious accident". It remains unclear whether she carried the documents with her, they were not in Silkwood's car (according to the text trailer).
criticism
“The film tries to turn the authentic case into an empathetic portrait of a woman struggling for her identity, but it largely sticks to the conventions of socially critical problematic films. Outstanding: the performance of the leading actress. "
“Extensive excursions into the love life of Silkwood give the film a more human touch than it is digestible. With a boyfriend and a friend, she led a cruet a trois, which is rather unusual for the Midwest . [...] The scenes in the work are latently threatening. Today, the viewer sees almost incredulously how the workers - masked like astronauts and only protected from the deadly substance by rubber gloves and glass walls - move with little concern until the alarm bell rings again because someone has been contaminated. "
Awards
- The film was nominated for five Academy Awards in the categories: Best Actress (Meryl Streep), Best Supporting Actress (Cher), Best Director, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay.
- Cher received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. There were four other nominations in the categories: Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director, Best Actress - Drama (Meryl Streep), and Best Supporting Actor (Kurt Russell).
- Meryl Streep's role as Karen Silkwood in the American Film Institute ranks 47th in the "Top 50 Heroes in Film History".
Web links
- Silkwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Silkwood in the online film database
- Photos for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martyr in the atomic state . In: Der Spiegel No. 14/1984 of April 2, 1984, pp. 245-251. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ↑ Silkwood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 10, 2017 .