Terry Pratchett - Off the post
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| German title | Terry Pratchett - Off the post |
| Original title | Going Postal |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 185 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Jon Jones |
| script |
Richard Kurti , Bev Doyle |
| production | Vadim Jean |
| music | John Lunn |
| camera | Gavin Finney |
| cut | Alex Mackie |
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Terry Pratchett - Ab die Post (also Terry Pratchett's Going Postal , original title: Going Postal ) is a British fantasy film directed by Jon Jones from 2010 with Richard Coyle in the lead role. It is based on the novel Ab die Post by Terry Pratchett . Originally produced as a two-part television film, it has now also been released on DVD and Blu-ray .
action
The hitherto incorrigible fraudster Feucht von Lipwig is executed under his false name. But this was only fictitious: Lord Vetinari, sole ruler of Ankh-Morpork on the Discworld , gives him a "second chance" and forces him to become the new post minister. Von Lipwig is given the golem pump19 as a probation officer who, among other things, is supposed to prevent him from attempting to escape. Together they are supposed to rebuild the ailing post office in Ankh-Morpork.
After he has accepted Lord Vetinari's offer, von Lipwig immediately starts an attempt to flee, which is thwarted by Mr. Pump. The minister then reluctantly goes to work and when entering the post office is confronted not only with mountains of undelivered mail, but also with his only employees: the aged junior postman, Mr Grütze, who has never been promoted because there has never been a post minister in office long enough and Stanley Heuler, the postman's apprentice who is an extremely passionate collector of needles. When Lipwig wants to leave the post office, Pump explains to him that he always knows where the post office minister is. Meanwhile, a letter from Lipwig slips into his hand, whereupon he decides to deliver it.
He is of Reacher Gilt, the owner of the Klacker -Imperiums, a cutting-edge communications technology , intercepted, who advises him quickly to leave the post office, as there is with a curse was occupied. Von Lipwig is still looking for a way out of his predicament and finds Adora Liebherz, who heads the Golem Foundation. He hopes she will give him tips on how to get rid of pump19. His attempts to flirt with Liebherz are not very successful because she sees through him as a con man. In the meantime, it has been shown that undelivered mail has developed a collective intelligence. Feucht von Lipwig reveals the terrible fate of people who have been harmed by his crimes, above all the forgery of securities . He also learns that the Klacker, the Post's biggest competitor, was founded by Adora's father. Reacher Gilt took it over after Lipwig's forgeries had paralyzed the bank and thus took Adora's family's livelihood. Father and brother Adoras died while she was running the Golem Foundation .
So Lipwig decides to rebuild the post office together with Adora and hires all golems from the foundation to do this. Soon the mail is gaining popularity and the clacks are waning in popularity. The Post wants to destroy it and sets a fire. While rescuing Stanley, Lipwig is attacked by a banshee who reveals he killed the other postal ministers and Adora's father and brother on Gilt's behalf. However, the banshee is killed by the intelligent letters, and Lipwig's only evidence disappears. Now that the newest stagecoaches are being attacked by bandits with increasing frequency, the post office is on the brink.
The above first part of the film is described by Feucht von Lipwig as the narrator, who summarizes the events in a letter to Adora Belle Liebherz. Now that he hands over this confession, Adora turns away from Lipwig because he is responsible for the suffering of her family.
The fire destroyed the post office and went bust. Now Feucht remembers a cash reserve he had previously buried. Since he is now almost on the path of righteousness, but is under constant surveillance, he asks the crocodile god Offler for a donation of 150,000 dollars. “Miraculously” he is shortly afterwards possessed by Offler, who leads him to his money hiding place. Feucht wakes up there and is promptly arrested, since the sum corresponds exactly to his misappropriated prey. The money will be confiscated for the general public and from now on administered by Vetinari.
With these funds, the post office will be rebuilt. In addition, Adora can paralyze the clacking for a few days, which stimulates the postal service again. However, the clacks fix the problem quickly and Lipwig finally challenges Gilt to the final duel. Whoever has brought a message to a distant city faster wins. If Lipwig wins with the mail, Gilt has to transfer the clacker empire back to the Liebherz family, but if Gilt wins with the clack, which is more likely due to the enormous speed of such a message, Lipwig is hanged. The post minister does not back down, instead he selects the message: the biography of Vetinari. The carriage with Stanley and grits is on its way while the clacking begins. Shortly before, Adora was able to get hold of Gilt's accounts through an old confidante, Klacker engineer Pony, which ultimately gave her solid evidence of his crime. Instead of reporting him, however, they intercept Gilt's message from a disused clacking tower and send these accounts for the deaths of several people to the next.
That saves Lipwig's life at the last moment. Reacher Gilt can be captured and Adora now has the clack empire back in hand. In the credits, Lord Vetinari offers the cheater Gilt the same "second chance" as Feucht von Lipwig at the beginning of the film. Gilt doesn't take his chance, and a postman (cameo Terry Pratchett) can only deliver the letter to a dead person.
Production and publication
- Most of the shooting took place in Budapest . Further sets were set up in a studio.
- The German title takes over the title of the original English edition of the underlying novel by Going Postal . This English expression means something like: 'to freak out', 'to go crazy'; but also: 'run amok', which can be traced back to rampages in post offices . The German publication also uses this film title, although the novel is called Ab die Post in German .
- In Germany the film will be released on DVD and Blu-ray by NEW KSM. In addition to the standard editions, there is also a "Starmetal" edition of the Blu-Ray Disc. The film is also included in the Terry Pratchett complete box . The publication date was November 15, 2010.
- The German first broadcast took place on May 19, 2013 on RTL . The film achieved a market share of 8.2 percent.
synchronization
The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Sascha Draeger .
| actor | Dubbing voice | role |
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| Richard Coyle | Sascha Rotermund | Moist from Lipwig |
| Charles Dance | Volkert Kraft | Lord Havelock Vetinari |
| Claire Foy | Joey Cordevin | Adora Belle Dear Heart |
| David Suchet | Pure beauty | Reacher applies |
| Andrew Sachs | Peter Groeger | Mr. Grütze |
| Timothy West | Peter Weis | Ridcully |
| Steve Pemberton | Rainer Schmitt | Drumknott |
| Ian Bonar | Matthias Klimsa | Stanley Howler |
| Paul Barber | Wolf Frass | Dave |
| Nicholas Farrell | Achim book | Pump19 |
| Tamsin Greig | Gabriele Libbach | Sacharissa scratch good |
Differences to the novel
- In addition to various cuts, the relationship with Adora Belle Liebherz ( Claire Foy ) is shown completely differently. While both sides flirt in the novel, in the film Adora fights Feucht's efforts, including calling the golems to strike.
- The character of Adora Belle is also depicted completely differently in the film. While she reacts emotionally and quick-tempered in the film, she is more indifferent in the novel, so she takes Feucht's admission that he is responsible for the loss of her old job with downright calmness. And unlike the plot in the film, Adora Belle doesn't quit smoking.
- The entire story of the ancient golem Anghammarad is missing.
- The novelty of the female golem in the form of Gladys was not shown (although the name Gladys is on a plaque in the Golem Foundation).
- While in the novels the werewolf nature of Sergeant Angua is kept secret by the guard and it is pointed out several times that Sergeant Angua is uncomfortable to transform in front of witnesses, in the film Angua transforms into a fully occupied pub. After her transformation, she looks like a "modern" werewolf who walks upright on two legs. In the novels she is described as a "normal" wolf with a blond mane. In addition, her character in the film does not match the description in the novels.
- While Drumknott (Lord Vetinari's secretary) is portrayed in the novels as a man without presence, absolutely professional and dispassionate (at least until the events in "Great Steam Ahead"), Drumknott shows himself in the film with large gestures, strong facial expressions and a cynical one , almost gleeful expression.
- While Feucht in the film selects Lord Vetinari's biography as the show to be promoted in the competition with the big strand, in the novel a magic book is chosen for the broadcast, by Arch Chancellor Ridcully, and only because he is the management of the big strand referred to as a bad gang.
- In the film it turns out that all of Feucht von Lipwig's predecessors, who were commissioned by Vetinari to reopen the post office, were killed by the banshee assassin Mr. Gryle. In the novel, however, they fell victim to the ghosts and illusions in the post office, triggered by the countless words and thoughts that are in the letters.
- The purification of Feucht von Lipwig, which is triggered in the film by flashbacks that are generated by the letters, does not take place in the novel. Instead, it is the challenge and wrestling with Reacher Gilt, as well as the burgeoning relationship with Adora Belle, that lead Feucht to give up most of his criminal inclinations, since these in fact only served to satisfy his urge for danger and adventure.
Reviews
“The third film adaptation of a ' Discworld ' novel lacks the author's laconic wit a bit, but entertains with its splendid set and good-humored mimes. - »Lively fantasy fun with a great look« "
Web links
- Terry Pratchett - From the post in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Terry Pratchett - From the post at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Going Postal. ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Kino.de
- ↑ From the post on Wishlist.de
- ↑ “Avatar” makes RTL the big winner of the day . In: quota meter . May 20, 2013 ( quotenmeter.de [accessed July 31, 2017]).
- ^ Going Postal. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on November 26, 2013 .
- ↑ Terry Pratchett - Off the Post - Film Review. TV feature film ; Retrieved June 22, 2014.
