The Painted Door
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Painted Door |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bruce Pittman |
| script | Joe Wiesenfeld |
| production |
Michael MacMillan Janice L. Platt |
| music | Bruce Ley |
| camera | Savas Kalogeras |
| cut | Margaret Van Eerdewijk |
| occupation | |
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The Painted Door is a 1984 Canadian short film directed by Bruce Pittman .
action
A farm in the Canadian no man's land: shortly before the start of a heavy snowstorm, Ann's husband, John, sets out to visit his father, who lives 16 miles away, and to help him with his household before the storm, as the old man can hardly look after himself. Ann is concerned and John promises to stop by Steven on his way to see his father and send him to Ann. John leaves and Ann passes the time thinking about Steven and how the fun-loving man danced with her when John wouldn't want to. She starts painting the doors of the apartment, which she has been planning to do for a long time.
Steven appears in the middle of the storm, they both drink gin. Steven tries to wake Ann's memories of the dance together, but Ann pretends not to be able to remember anything. Later both cards play, but stop when Ann becomes less and less concentrated. She thinks John will be back soon, but Steven doubts it because the storm is very strong. A little later both sleep together and spend the night in bed together. In the morning the bedroom door is open. John is found dead by farmers shortly afterwards. He inexplicably got lost in the storm. As Ann goes to her husband's body, she discovers the color on his hands that she used to paint the doors. She is left in shock.
production
The Painted Door is based on a short story by Sinclair Ross . The film was made in collaboration between Atlantis Films and the National Film Board of Canada . It was shown at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 1984 . After Cornet at Night (1983), it was the second Sinclair film adaptation that director Bruce Pittman realized.
Awards
The Painted Door was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 1985.
Script template
- Sinclair Ross: The painted door , in The lamp at noon and other stories . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1968, frequent revisions, most recently full text in 2018
- Übers. Walter E. Riedel: The freshly painted door , told in
Web links
- The Painted Door in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Painted Door on the National Film Board of Canada website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Writing of the roles according to the credits of the film.
- ^ David Stouck: As for Sinclair Ross . University of Toronto Press, 2005, p. 267. The story Cornet at Night was also first published in 1968 in the anthology The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories .
- ↑ On Ross: Reingard M. Nischik , Konrad Groß, Wolfgang Klooss eds., Canadian History of Literature. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2005; from unchang. 8th edition and as an ebook: Springer Nature , p. 135