The Company You Keep
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| German title | The Company You Keep |
| Original title | The Company You Keep |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Robert Redford |
| script | Lem Dobbs |
| production |
Nicolas Chartier Bill Holderman Robert Redford |
| music | Cliff Martinez |
| camera | Adriano Goldman |
| cut | Mark Day |
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The Company You Keep - The Grant Files is an American political drama from 2012 . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gordon .
The lead role is played by Robert Redford , who also directed and co-produced the film. Shia LaBeouf , Susan Sarandon and Julie Christie appear at his side . In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on July 25, 2013.
The film title is loosely translated: "The company you maintain."
action
After more than 30 years on the run, Sharon Solarz, who had actually planned to face the authorities, is arrested by the FBI at a gas station in Heatherton, New York . She was a member of the Weathermen , an underground student organization that fought against the Vietnam War and the system. Some of these Weathermen have been on the FBI's list of most wanted criminals since a heist on the Bank of Michigan that killed security guard Hugh Crosney. Now the journalist Ben Shepard of the Albany Sun Times is supposed to report on the case. Following a tip from his former friend Diana, who now works for the FBI, he comes across Billy Cusimano and the widowed single attorney Jim Grant. He denies any contact with Solarz and is otherwise not very cooperative. But on further research, Shepard discovers that Grant is Nick Sloan, who is also wanted. Before he can confront him, Nick Sloan begins his escape by telling his brother Dr. Daniel meets Sloan at a hotel to take care of his eleven-year-old daughter Isabel.
He is ahead of the FBI, which is monitoring his brother Daniel to get at him. While the FBI then believes that Sloan only wants to evade arrest, Shepard suspects after brief interviews with Daniel Sloan and Sharon Solarz that Nick Sloan wants to prove his innocence. Contrary to the instructions of his editor-in-chief Ray Fuller, Shepard goes to Ann Arbor , Michigan , to do further research. Meanwhile Nick Sloan arrives in Newark , where he visits his old friend Donal Fitzgerald. Nick gets a "clean" vehicle from Donal and seeks out Professor Jed Lewis, who reluctantly helps him because of the old days to get in touch with Mimi Lurie, who would be able to relieve him.
Meanwhile, Shepard is doing research in Detroit and locates Henry Osborne, the police officer who was responsible for investigating the bank robbery. At a first meeting in Osborne's yacht club, he was repulsive. Shortly thereafter, Shepard's conversation with Osborne's adopted daughter, Rebecca, unearths connections between Osborne and the Lurie family. After Osborne contacted the FBI, he was more talkative to Shepard and confirmed some of his suspicions. However, Osborne doubts Mimi would volunteer to exonerate Sloan. If she did, her own defense in the murder case would be impossible. This is exactly what Mimi argues with Nick when they meet in an old forest hut on a remote Luries property on a peninsula near the Canadian border . She won't sacrifice herself for Nick's daughter Isabel or her old love for him. Their only struggle is with the system. At the earliest, on the day on which all corporate bosses surrendered to justice, they would also answer for their actions. She has already made too many sacrifices, including Rebecca, their daughter with Nick, who she had to give up for adoption. Mimi leaves Nick the next morning and sails for Canada while Nick is arrested by the FBI. On the way, Mimi ultimately decides differently and turns around.
After Nick's arrest, Shepard returns to Albany and writes down his summary of the story. Nick Sloan was not involved in the bank robbery, but had to leave his daughter Rebecca behind and go into hiding to protect Mimi and the others. Rebecca grew up sheltered. While finishing his article, Shepard learns from television that Mimi has surrendered to the authorities and confessed to being involved in the bank robbery, which absolves Nick Sloan of any complicity. He did not send the sensation article promised to Ray Fuller. Nick Sloan himself is released from prison and is able to grant his daughter Isabel's wish to return home with her.
synchronization
The German dubbing took place at Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH (FFS), Berlin . The dialogue director was Christoph Cierpka .
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criticism
"Melancholy runs through" this "well-intentioned" and "reflective melodrama," said Stephen Holden of the New York Times . Although the story has “its moments”, it is mostly told as a “conventional, not really exciting refugee thriller”.
Although Robert Redford has "a magnetic personality on the screen", LaBeouf is actually the "standout" and acts like "the backbone of the film, reminding you of a younger Robert Redford," said Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times . Based on a “lean and lively script”, Redford staged a “clever, satisfying play”.
With "consistently fine representations" and a "tight and moving" direction by Redford a "good, solid thriller" is presented, said Michael O'Sullivan in the Washington Post . However, with the "themes of aging, atonement and death of idealism", it is a "far more fascinating film" than one might imagine.
background
The film was shot in Vancouver in autumn 2011 . It premiered on September 6, 2012 during the Venice International Film Festival 2012 . In the United States, it has grossed almost $ 5 million since it opened in theaters on April 5, 2013.
literature
- Andreas Kilb : We used to be lions. Robert Redford wants to know again - as a director and actor: "The Grant Files" shows him at the height of cinematic art that some find outdated. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 24, 2013, page 27.
Web links
- The Company You Keep - Die Akte Grant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Company You Keep - Die Akte Grant at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official English website
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ Release Certificate for The Company You Keep - The Grant File . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 940 K).
- ^ The Company You Keep - The Grant File. German synchronous index , accessed on October 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Stephen Holden: Remembering the Side of the '60s That Wasn't All Peace and Love on nytimes.com April 4, 2013, accessed June 10, 2013
- ↑ Betsy Sharkey: Review: For Robert Redford, 'The Company You Keep' means good actors on latimes.com from April 4, 2013, accessed June 10, 2013
- ↑ Michael O'Sullivan: The Company You Keep on washingtonpost.com of April 12, 2013 (English), accessed June 10, 2013
- ^ Monk, Katherine. "Redford crazy about Canada" ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 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. , Leader-Post , September 11, 2012
- ↑ “ The Company You Keep” (PDF; 192 kB), Sony Pictures Classics press kit
- ↑ The Company You Keep (2012) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed June 10, 2013
