The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Movie
German title	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Original title	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Country of production	USA - UK
original language	English
Publishing year	2004
length	122 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Stephen Hopkins
script	Christopher Markus , Stephen McFeely
production	Simon Bosanquet
music	Richard Hartley
camera	Peter Levy
cut	John Smith
occupation
Geoffrey Rush : Peter Sellers Charlize Theron : Britt Ekland Emily Watson : Anne Sellers John Lithgow : Blake Edwards Miriam Margolyes : Peg Sellers Peter Vaughan : Bill Sellers Sonia Aquino : Sophia Loren Stanley Tucci : Stanley Kubrick Heidi Klum : Ursula Andress

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is an American-British drama directed by Stephen Hopkins (in German: Peter Sellers whole life). It was produced in 2004 with Geoffrey Rush (title role), Charlize Theron , Emily Watson , John Lithgow , Stephen Fry and Stanley Tucci . The script is based on the 1995 biography of Roger Lewis .

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The film mainly shows the private life of the English actor Peter Sellers (1925–1980, filmography ). It illuminates his comedic genius as well as his nightmarish inner life. The film begins in 1959 with the BBC radio production The Goon Show , accompanies him through various stages in his filmmaking, his marriages, his first child and retreating to a Swiss chalet , where he reminisces about his private life and career.

Reviews

• Matthew Turner praised the performance of Geoffrey Rush and the soundtrack on viewlondon.co.uk.
• Lexicon of international film : “The narrative capers of course suggest a depth that the film ultimately does not deliver. The mystification of the sitter remains on the level of transfiguration. "

Awards

• Stephen Hopkins was nominated for the 2004 Golden Palm .
• Best TV Feature Film and Geoffrey Rush won the 2005 Golden Globe Award . Charlize Theron and Emily Watson were nominated for a 2005 Golden Globe.
• The film won an Emmy Award in 9 categories in 2005 , including for directing and for Geoffrey Rush. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 7 other categories, including Charlize Theron.
• Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, and Best TV Feature were nominated for the 2005 Golden Satellite Award .
• Geoffrey Rush won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2005 , and Charlize Theron was nominated for the same award.

Remarks

The film was shot in North Carolina and England .

Web links

• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers atRotten Tomatoes(English)
• Trailer on kino-zeit.de
• Content on cinefacts.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ movie review on viewlondon.co.uk
2. ^ The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .