The secret of the amaryllis

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Movie
German title The secret of the amaryllis
Original title The eyes of the amaryllis
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1982
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK o. A.
Rod
Director Frederick King Keller
script Stratton Rawson ,
Frederick O'Harra
production Howard Kling
music Roger Luther
camera Michael G. Mathews ,
Skip Roessel
cut Michael G. Mathews
occupation

The secret of the Amaryllis is a feature film by Frederick King Keller from 1982. In the production of Amaryllis Company is a film adaptation of the novel The Eyes of the Amaryllis (dt .: The eyes of Amaryllis ) from the year 1977 by Natalie Babbitt . The film did not come to cinemas in Germany and was first broadcast on April 2, 1983 on ARD .

action

It's been thirty years since the sailing ship “Amaryllis” sank in a hurricane. Geneva Reade, the captain's widow, is still waiting for a sign from her husband from the bottom of the sea. Over the years she has resisted her family's urging to give up her lonely home on the coast. When her granddaughter Jenny, who is supposed to support her grandmother with a broken ankle, comes to visit, she too falls under the spell of the mysterious atmosphere on the coast. One night there actually comes a sign in the form of the ship's figurehead washed up , an image of the captain's young bride at the time, with an amaryllis flower in her hair. But the sea demands the figure back, because otherwise the ship would not be able to find its way to the bottom of the sea without its eyes . The old woman refuses to return the deposit, and the weather deteriorates. Only when the storm devastated the house and imminent demise threatened, she reluctantly releases the figure again, after which the raging sea calms down. In the morning she decides to give in to her son George's urging and follow him into the nearby town. But what the sea washes now - is a red amaryllis ...

criticism

“Around 1880 an eleven-year-old girl on the coast of New England is involved in mysterious and fantastic events about her grandmother, who has been waiting for a sign from her drowned husband for 30 years. An atmospheric, well-photographed story with elements of the horror novel, in which an appeal for mutual human acceptance and the unity of man and nature flow. The content-related statement often takes a back seat to the formal ambition. "

- Film service

background

The film was shot on Nantucket Island in the US state of Massachusetts . For Frederick King Keller, after Tuck Everlasting (1981) (Eng .: The Immortal Tucks ) it was the second film adaptation of a material by Natalie Babbitt. The American television pioneer Frederick A. Keller , the director's father , hid behind the pseudonym "Frederick O'Harra", one of the scriptwriters .

publication

After the German first broadcast on April 2, 1983 on ARD , the film was repeated there for the first time on October 26, 1984. The original English version with a length of 94 minutes was released on June 27, 1995 by Family Home Entertainment as a VHS cassette. A German-language version has not yet appeared (as of 2018), the original dubbed version was deleted after a few years for licensing reasons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Babbitt: "The eyes of the Amaryllis", Arena, Würzburg 1985, ISBN 978-3401040394
  2. ^ "The Secret of the Amaryllis" on Filmdienst , accessed on July 15, 2018
  3. ^ Letter from BRmedia Service GmbH, recording service, dated February 20, 2012