The Ides of March - Days of Treason

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Movie
German title The Ides of March - Days of Treason
Original title The Ides of March
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director George Clooney
script George Clooney,
Beau Willimon ,
Grant Heslov
production George Clooney,
Grant Heslov,
Brian Oliver
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Phedon Papamichael
cut Stephen Mirrione
occupation

The Ides of March (Original title: The Ides of March ) is an American political drama directed by George Clooney , which is based on a screenplay by Clooney and Grant Heslov . It is an adaptation of the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon. The title is given by the metaphor of the Ides of March , when 44 BC. BC Gaius Iulius Caesar fell victim to a conspiracy.

The film was the opening film of the 68th Venice Film Festival and was subsequently screened at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival . It started in European cinemas at the end of 2011.

action

Politicians Mike Morris and Ted Pullman fight during the primaries the Democrats to run for the US presidential election . Stephen Meyers, 30, works as a Junior Campaign Manager for the charismatic Morris. The primary elections are currently due in the state of Ohio, which plays a key role in the election campaign. Meyers' successful work leads Pullman's campaign manager, Tom Duffy, to try to poach him. Meyers, however, is convinced of his candidate and weighs it down. At about the same time, an affair develops between Meyers and the 20-year-old intern Molly Stearns, who also works on the campaign team.

After initial hesitation, Meyers entrusts his boss and mentor Paul Zara with the secret meeting with Duffy. This information also reached the press via initially unclear channels - in the form of reporter Ida Horowicz. This then tries to blackmail Meyers: Either he reveals details to her about the campaign team's deals with the influential Senator Thompson, or she publishes the story about the attempted poaching.

The situation comes to a head when Molly Stearns reveals to Meyers that she is pregnant with candidate Morris due to a one-off slip. Since she comes from a strictly Catholic family, she cannot ask them for help. Meyers then organizes some money and drives Molly to an abortion clinic. He explains to her that she can no longer be part of the team afterwards. In turn, Zara, who puts loyalty above all else, fires Meyers after making it clear that he is Horowicz's source.

Molly learns of the expulsion from a colleague, who also informs her that Meyers had threatened to bring further information to the public after his release. After all, she sees no way out and commits suicide by overdosing on medication. At the turning point in the story, Meyers realizes that Duffy was just playing one bad game with him: The job offer turns out to be a trick that Duffy used to successfully weaken Morris's campaign team.

Meyers now strikes back: He blackmailed Governor Morris, who fired Zara and took Meyers back into the team in his place. His leverage is an alleged farewell letter from Molly, which is supposed to prove that Morris made her pregnant. Morris now faces a dilemma: either he accepts Meyers' blackmail and thus binds him to himself for probably at least four years, or he hopes that the said letter does not exist. Eventually, he decides to give in to blackmail. Morris also enters into a pact with Senator Thompson that persuades his delegates to vote for Morris and, in return, if the presidential run is successful, he will be a candidate for vice-president. In all likelihood, Morris will win the primaries and possibly the presidential election as well. In the final scene, Meyers is about to give a press interview on the latest events, although it remains to be seen whether he will stick to the agreement.

production

In October 2010, reported Variety , Clooney will as a producer, director and star of a film adaptation of the Broadway -Theaterstückes Farragut North act of Beau Willimon. Exclusive Media Group, Cross Creek Pictures, Smoke House Pictures and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way Productions funded the film. Filming began in February 2011 in downtown Cincinnati in Fountain Square in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, in the Northside and Mount Lookout neighborhoods, as well as at Xavier University and nearby Miami University . The film was also shot in downtown Detroit and Ann Arbor , Michigan . About 1,000 extras were used in the filming at the University of Michigan .

publication

The film premiered on August 31, 2011 as the opening film of the 68th Venice Film Festival . Sony Pictures Entertainment bought the distribution rights for the United States and Canada. Sony originally wanted to keep the title of the play. The Ides of March was originally scheduled to be limited in December 2011 and hit theaters widely in January 2012. However, Sony has brought the release date in the US to October 14, 2011.

The film also has clear similarities with the 1998 drama With all might , in which John Travolta played a Democratic presidential candidate on.

Awards

Academy Awards 2012

Golden Globe Award 2012

Reviews

“With the help of an excellent cast ensemble, to whom the camera repeatedly and sympathetically approaches, the film studies its political actors as people who are confronted with the limits of their integrity in an exciting interplay of interests. The calmly developed film, shining with furious dialogues, explores the gray area between political ideals and 'feasibility' at the interface between political thriller and drama. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The Ides of March tells of seduction and betrayal, idealism and corruption. Somewhat to be expected, it is about the painful awareness of the aspiring election campaign strategist, who during the primary elections for the presidential candidate election has to realize that Morris, his hero, is by no means of as high morality, consistency and incorruptibility as Meyers dreamed of. "

- The time

“In its reduction, the drama is also not interested in the camp struggle that has shaped and radicalized the debates in US politics in recent years: The polemical proxy wars between Fox News and MSNBC, for example, are not reflected here, instead the personal dilemma dominates lonely and vain men. So if you expect an authentic picture of the campaign business, you should watch DA Pennebakers and Chris Hegedus 'almost 20 year old documentary, The War Room ' about the first Clinton election campaign. "

- Spiegel Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for The Ides of March - Days of Treason . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 539 K).
  2. ↑ Age designation for The Ides of March - Days of Treason . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ TIFF 2011: U2, Brad Pitt, George Clooney Films Featured At 2011 Toronto International Film Festival . In: The Huffington Post , July 26, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2011. 
  4. ↑ Dave McNary: Clooney to direct Gosling in 'Ides of March' . In: Variety , Reed Business Information , October 27, 2010. Retrieved March 1, 2011. 
  5. ^ George Clooney films at Xavier . In: WCPO-TV . EW Scripps Company . February 28, 2011. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  6. ^ John Kiesewetter: Clooney team films 'Ides' at fast pace . In: The Cincinnati Enquirer . Gannett Company . February 28, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ George Clooney film looking for extras in Ann Arbor . In: Detroit Free Press . Gannett Company . February 16, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2011.
  8. ↑ Nick Vivarelli: Venice confirms 'Ides' as opener . In: Variety , Reed Business Information , June 22, 2011. 
  9. ↑ a b Russ Fischer: Sony Picks up George Clooney's 'The Ides of March' For December 2011 Release . In: / Film , November 2, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2011. 
  10. ↑ Sony Sets Release Date for George Clooney's 'The Ides of March' . In: The Hollywood Reporter . Prometheus Global Media. March 3, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2011.
  11. ^ Page of the film . In: on oscar.go.com . February 26, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  12. Jump up ↑ The Ides of March. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 7, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ↑ Birgit Glombitza: Let go of all hope! on zeit.de from December 22, 2011, accessed on February 1, 2012
  14. ↑ David Kleingers: Among lonely, vain men on Spiegel Online , accessed February 1, 2012