Taking Woodstock
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Taking Woodstock |
| Original title | Taking Woodstock |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ang Lee |
| script |
James Schamus , Elliot Tiber (novel), Tom Monte (novel) |
| production |
Ang Lee , James Schamus |
| music | Danny Elfman |
| camera | Eric Gautier |
| cut | Tim Squyres |
| occupation | |
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Taking Woodstock (alternative title: Taking Woodstock - The Beginning of a Legend ) is an American period film produced in 2009 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the history of the Woodstock Festival . The plot is based on the novel and the supposedly true story of Elliot Tiber . Directed by Oscar winner Ang Lee . Based on the film about the concert by Michael Wadleigh , split-screen technology was also used here .
action
The 34-year-old Elliot Teichberg works as an interior designer in the New York borough of Greenwich Village and still lives with his parents, who run a rather unsuccessful motel in the small town of Bethel in New York State . In order to boost business, Teichberg had already organized small music evenings in previous years and was therefore the only one with a license to hold music festivals in town. As president of the local chamber of commerce, he was able to issue these himself. For this year he had invited a small experimental theater company that was housed in a barn behind the motel.
When Teichberg learns that the music producer Michael Lang is planning to set up a big music festival, he contacts him and offers to hold it on the premises of his parents' motel. The organizers found the site unsuitable; Instead, the farmer friend Max Yasgur makes his pastures available. The organization team is housed in the motel owned by Elliot's parents. The plans met with rejection from the other residents of Bethel, as they feared a hippie invasion . One of the few who support Elliot is his school friend Billy, who has just returned from Vietnam and is suffering from a war trauma. Teichberg hires the transvestite and former US Marine Wilma as security officer .
After a press conference in which Elliot accidentally declared under the influence of marijuana that entry to the festival was free, instead of the assumed 100,000 visitors, a million people made their way to Bethel. In addition, rainfall turns the area into a mud pit, which causes considerable chaos in the small town.
Elliot visits the festival site on all three days. He experiences the first day as an LSD trip; on the other two days he didn't notice anything about the concert either - because of the rain.
Despite all the difficulties, the festival noticeably revives Elliot's parents, with whom he has a rather difficult relationship, and he becomes especially closer to his father. After the festival is over, Elliot decides to realize his long-cherished dream and move to California to work as an artist.
background
Produced relatively cheaply on a budget of $ 35 million, the film was shot in New York State in August 2008 , but not on location. While Woodstock was taking place in Sullivan County , the scenes for the film were created in Rensselaer County and Dutchess County . The "El Monaco Motel" was reconstructed in New Lebanon in Columbia County .
The author of the book, Elliot Tiber, was born as Elliot Teichberg.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 2009 and was presented at the Biografilm Festival in Italy in June 2009 . It was shown in cinemas in Germany and Austria from September 3, 2009.
Michael Lang contradicts Tiber's account of the first meeting with Max Yasgur . He was introduced to Yasgur by a realtor. Max Yasgur's son says that according to his mother, Yasgur did not know Teichberg. One of Woodstock's organizers, Artie Kornfeld , said he heard about Yasgur's farm himself.
German dubbed version
The voice actors for the German version are:
| role | speaker |
|---|---|
| Elliot Teichberg | Robin Kahnmeyer |
| Billy | Ozan Unal |
| Elliot's father | Jan Spitzer |
| Michael Lang | Nicolás Artajo |
| Max Yasgur | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Dan | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Elliot's mother | Astrid Bless |
| Wilma | Tobias Kluckert |
| Devon | Stefan Krause |
literature
- Elliot Tiber: Taking Woodstock. Edel, Hamburg 2009.
Web links
- Taking Woodstock in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release to Taking Woodstock . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 308 K).
- ^ Bill Bleyer: The road to Woodstock runs through Sunken Meadow State Park. . In: Newsday , August 8, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
- ↑ Nate Bloom: Revisiting Woodstock, Other flicks, His son, the rabbi . In: Jweekly.com , August 27, 2009.
- ^ Taking Woodstock. German synchronous file, accessed on August 15, 2009 .