The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London

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Movie
German title The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London
Original title The Limehouse Golem
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English , Irish , Hebrew , Mandarin
Publishing year 2016
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Juan Carlos Medina
script Jane Goldman
production Elizabeth Karlsen ,
Joanna Laurie ,
Stephen Woolley
music Johan Söderqvist
camera Simon Dennis
cut Justin Krish
occupation
synchronization

The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London is a British horror mystery film directed by Juan Carlos Medina in the year 2016 , from a screenplay by Jane Goldman . The film is based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 crime thriller The Golem of Limehouse, starring Olivia Cooke , Bill Nighy and Douglas Booth .

The film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2016. It was published by Lionsgate in the UK on September 1st, 2017.

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A series of murders has rocked the Limehouse community in the Docklands of Victorian London. Journalists who use public taste for melodrama name the murderer after the Jewish legend of the golem . Famous musician Elizabeth Cree is accused of poisoning her husband John on the night of the last Golem murder. Inspector Kildare discovers evidence linking John Cree to the Golem murders and wants to resolve the cases before Elizabeth is hanged.

Kildare finds the Golem's diary, in which he describes his crimes. The handwritten diary was in a printed copy of a De Quincey essay on murder - considered one of the fine arts there - in an anthology in the reading room of the library at the British Museum. Kildare concludes that the golem must be one of the four men who were in the library at the time of the last entry: Dan Leno, Karl Marx, George Gissing, and John Cree. Kildare procures handwriting samples from the other three men. Meanwhile, he learns Elizabeth's story, who, as the daughter of an unmarried mother, became a music star from sewing sailcloths on the docks.

After her abusive mother - she tortured her daughter with a hot needle after she was raped - died, Elizabeth became friends with Dan Leno and joined his music hall troupe. Disguised as a man, she performed raunchy comic songs. Her performances were very popular and she quickly moved into second place after Leno. However, Elizabeth aspired to become a dramatic actress. John Cree, an unsuccessful playwright, wooed her and offered her a leading role in his new play. She didn't respond to his advances, but her colleague Aveline got jealous and sabotaged Elizabeth's dramatic role.

Elizabeth was forced to pose naked for photos and hit him by the theater owner, a man named "Uncle", which gives him sexual satisfaction. She confided in John, who offered to marry her and protect her. Elizabeth accepted, and Kildare notes that "Uncle" died suddenly a few days later, leaving the theater to Dan Leno. John's career has stagnated and he is bitter towards Elizabeth, who supports him financially. She asked Aveline for help with the burden of conjugal duties, after which they began an affair with John and worked as a maid in the Cree house. John stopped working on Misery Junction to annoy Elizabeth. Their relationship at that point was marked by coldness and bitterness, which did not change until John's death.

Kildare eventually finds a handwritten copy of the play in which Cree wrote about Elizabeth's impending execution before his death. Kildare gets the execution to be postponed for an hour in the hopes that exposure of John Cree's crimes will result in her sentence commuted. However, after talking to Elizabeth, Kildare realizes that she is the real Golem. She killed "Uncle" and then began to commit murders as the Golem in order to make a name for herself. She then poisoned her husband when he found evidence of her crimes.

Broken by this realization, Kildare delays announcing that Elizabeth was the Golem until she is hanged. He gives her the "fame" of eliminating the golem, rather than the greater fame of a murderer. In the final scene, Dan Leno's company plays John's play, which has been rewritten to tell Elizabeth's life story. Aveline, now playing Elizabeth's role, accidentally dies during the execution scene. Leno covers up her death and takes the stage disguised as Elizabeth. Finally we see Elizabeth bowing with him on stage. She calls out Leno's greeting "Here we are again".

synchronization

The German-language dubbing was done by Christa Kistner dubbing production based on a dialogue book by Antonia Ganz , who also directed the dialogue .

actor Voice actor role
Bill Nighy Frank Glaubrecht John Kildare
Olivia Cooke Kaya Marie Möller Elizabeth Cree
Paul Ritter Till Hagen Augustus Rowley
Maria Valverde Maja Maneiro Aveline Ortega
Douglas Booth Tino Mewes Dan Leno
Clive Russell Reinhard Scheunemann Prison director
Daniel Mays Marius Clarén George Flood
Morgan Watkins Nic Romm George Gissing
David Bamber Joachim Tennstedt Greatorex
Peter Sullivan Uve Teschner Inspector Roberts
Sam Reid Bastian Sierich John Cree
Henry Goodman Uli Krohm Karl Marx
Graham Hughes Viktor Neumann Little Victor
Amelia Crouch Emilia Raschewski Elizabeth (young)
Keeley Forsyth Heath Domanowski Elizabeth's mother
Adam Brown Dennis Sandmann Mr. Gerrard
Mark Tandy Reinhard Kuhnert Judge
Damien Thomas Peter Groeger Salomon Weil
Siobhan Cullen Maximiliane Häcke Sister mary
Nicholas Woodeson Kaspar Eichel Toby Dosett
Eddie Marsan Stefan Krause "Uncle"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 169596 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Age rating for The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ The Limehouse Golem - The Monster of London. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on May 6, 2020 .