Sphere - The power from space

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Movie
German title Sphere - The power from space
Original title Sphere
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Barry Levinson
script Kurt Wimmer ,
Stephen Hauser ,
Paul Attanasio
production Michael Crichton
music Elliot Goldenthal
camera Adam Greenberg
cut Stu Linder
occupation
synchronization

Sphere - The power from space (AKA Sphere ) is an American science fiction film from the year 1998 by director Barry Levinson based on the novel Sphere - The thoughts of the evil of Michael Crichton from 1987. As one of the After discovering a spaceship at the bottom of the sea, the psychologist Goodman ( Dustin Hoffman ), together with the biochemist Halperin ( Sharon Stone ), the mathematician Adams ( Samuel L. Jackson ) and the astrophysicist Fielding ( Liev Schreiber ) try to find out as much as possible about the UFO bring. When they perceive a strange sphere, they have no idea that it will manipulate their thoughts.

action

The psychologist Goodman is called to the crash site of an airplane. A little later it turns out that it is not an airplane, but a crashed spaceship . Goodman is part of a team whose composition is based on his own proposal. Years ago, Goodman carried out a study on behalf of the government on contact with extraterrestrial life forms. Goodman, who thought the whole thing was some kind of joke, gave the names of scientists he knew. These scientists, the astrophysicist Fielding, the mathematician Adams and the biochemist Halperin, are now on board the salvage ship with him.

Competitive thinking, envy and resentment split the group right from the start. The head of the team, an obscure captain named Barnes, reveals to the team that the spaceship is an alien spaceship that has been three hundred meters deep at the bottom of the Pacific for 288 years. The group dives down to a Navy built base and explores the spaceship.

They find out that it is an American spaceship that has probably accidentally flown through a black hole and thereby traveled back in time. During their exploration, the scientists find an alien artifact in the form of a huge, perfect sphere. The spacemen picked up the sphere during its flight. In the meantime, the connection to the supply ships is cut because a storm is approaching and the ships have to get to safety.

The team at the underwater base is now on its own. Adams tries to get inside the sphere to be the first to solve the secret of the artifact. When he leaves the sphere again, he is in a kind of coma . Goodman is there to save Adams, but first enters the sphere - unobserved by the others. When Adams wakes up, strange things happen. First, the technician Fletcher is killed by a swarm of jellyfish after she has reset the automatic start of the rescue submarine. The scientists suddenly receive encrypted data that appears on the computer monitors.

The mathematician Harry Adams can decipher the code. It turns out that the data is being sent from the spaceship by an intelligence named JERRY. Communication with JERRY turns out to be difficult and then fatal. JERRY things can "manifest", and just for fun, a giant appears octopus that attacks the submarine base. Except for Goodman, Halperin and Adams, all residents of the base die in this attack. Goodman discovers that JERRY is actually HARRY (Adams' subconscious) and incapacitates him with the help of Beth Halperin. But the manifestations continue. Halperin suspects Goodman of having been in the bullet, and vice versa. Halperin was actually also in the sphere and activated the explosives that were scattered around the habitat. When the three realize that their deepest fears and inner conflicts, which have become reality, triggered the events, it is almost too late. Shortly before the explosive devices explode , they manage to escape to the surface in the rescue submarine.

During the decompression phase on board the supply ship, however, the problem of the time paradox remains to be resolved for the three. Adams, who came up with this first, believed that all members of the team should have died for the spaceship to fly through the black hole and travel back in time in 2043. Since they are still alive now, however, they could report their findings so that the crew of the spaceship would be warned and would not fly through the black hole, which meant the spaceship would never have traveled back in time. The three realize that they still have the power given by the sphere and decide to use this power to forget what happened.

background

  • The film was released in German cinemas on April 2, 1998.
  • The psychologist Norman Goodman is called Norman Johnson in the novel, Halperin's only name is Halpern.
  • Many scenes (including Harry and Norman's conversation about the ULF report) were completely improvised.

Reviews

“What a director! What a cast! What a disappointment! That must have been thought by Michael Crichton, who provided the template with his novel. After the discovery of the 'Sphere', the plot becomes increasingly implausible, and instead of suspense, the viewer can only expect banal dialogues. It's also a shame about the brilliantly filmed underwater scenery and Elliot Goldenthal's effective soundtrack. "

- TV movie

"A captivatingly staged science fiction film based on an (older) novel by Michael Crichton, which, however, ultimately cannot satisfy the high expectations with its conventional catastrophe scenes."

- Lexicon of international film

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

synchronization

role actor Voice actor
Dr. Norman Goodman Dustin Hoffman Joachim Kerzel
Dr. Elizabeth "Beth" Halperin Sharon Stone Martina Treger
Dr. Harry Adams Samuel L. Jackson Oliver Stritzel
Captain Barnes Peter Coyote Jürgen Heinrich
Dr. Ted Fielding Liev Schreiber Andreas Fröhlich
Alice Fletcher Queen Latifah Anke Reitzenstein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start dates in IMDB
  2. ^ Film review, tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Sphere - The power from space. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Sphere - The power from space in the German dubbing index