The Producers

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Movie
German title The Producers
Original title The Producers
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 129 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 6
Rod
Director Susan Stroman
script Mel Brooks ,
Thomas Meehan
production Mel Brooks,
Jonathan Sanger
music Glen Kelly
camera John Bailey ,
Charles Minsky
cut Steven Weisberg
occupation

The Producers is a movie of the US director Susan Stroman from the year 2005 . It is a film adaptation of the 2001 musical of the same name , which was successfully performed on Broadway in New York and in London . Both are based on the comedy Spring for Hitler by Mel Brooks from 1968. The film was produced by the film studios Universal and Columbia , among others .

action

1959 in New York City : Max Bialystock, a formerly extremely successful theater producer on Broadway , is out of luck. One day his accountant Leo Bloom has an idea. He suggests to Bialystock that in the future he should only raise more money than the actual pieces cost. The trick is that the pieces have to be so bad that they have to be taken out of the program shortly after the premiere. They expect that in such a case, investors will hardly ask for their money back.

Your first production according to this scheme should now be the extremely tasteless musical Spring for Hitler by the crazy Nazi Franz Liebkind. However, the musical surprisingly turns out to be a success and overturns Bialystock's and Bloom's plans.

History of origin

The Producers is based on the 2001 Broadway musical of the same name, which was critically acclaimed and won twelve Tony Awards . Mel Brooks , who developed The Producers based on his 1968 film Spring for Hitler ( The Producers ), was responsible for the theater production. For the 2005 film version, Broadway director Susan Stroman was hired, who was also involved in the New York production and will make her directorial debut on the big screen with The Producers . Mel Brooks wrote the script together with Thomas Meehan , with whom he had already worked on the adaptation of Frühling for Hitler on the theater stage.

With the exception of the new cast of Will Ferrell and Uma Thurman , all actors in the musical version could also be won over for the film version. Because of questions prospective tax benefits filming from 28 February 2005 began in the newly built Steiner Studios in Brooklyn , New York and not as originally planned in the Canadian Toronto . When the film crew moved in, the film studio was only 90 percent complete and you had to wait until the roof, among other things, was completely sealed. The production costs of the film are estimated at 45 million US dollars (approx. 37.5 million euros). The film is said to have grossed a little over 38 million US dollars.

Reviews

" The Producers is just a missed opportunity."

- Hollywood Reporter

"Uma Thurman as a wannabe actress is that little bit of real glamor in this aggressive and pointlessly glowing, noisy spectacle."

- New York Times

"You can't kill all the laughs, not from a Mel Brooks script, but Stroman sells Brooks songs with the delicacy of cannon fire."

- Rolling Stone

"Enough is enough. Somebody should just stop the remake of The Producers . "

- USA Today

"With hundreds of appearances in New York and London under their belts, the characterizations of Lane and Broderick have lost fire."

- Variety

“So how good is the film about a musical about a musical? The answer is: he's darned good. "

- Washington Post

“The staging is based on the classic musicals of the 1950s, and the film impresses with its perfect unity of dance, song and action, which elicits remarkable dancing skills from the actors. Unrestricted pleasure, also due to the excessive playful mood of all actors. "

- Lexicon of international film

Others

  • Nicole Kidman was originally engaged for the role of Ulla , but she had to give up the part due to overlapping film projects.
  • Many of the extras in the audience scenes are not professional actors, but rather individuals who donated money during a charity event. Because of this donation, they were allowed to appear as extras in the film.

Awards

At the January 16, 2006 Golden Globe Awards ceremony , the film was nominated in four categories, including Best Comedy or Musical and Nathan Lane and Will Ferrell for Best Actors.

Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards 2006 :

  • Best Film (Comedy / Musical)
  • Best Song: There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway
  • Best Actor (Comedy / Musical): Nathan Lane
  • Best Supporting Actor: Will Ferrell

literature

  • Mel Brooks, Tom Meehan: The producers: the book, lyrics and story behind the biggest hit in Broadway history - how we did it . Miramax / Turnaround, London 2002, ISBN 0-7868-6880-5 (English edition)
  • Anne Marie Hatch: Drama for students: presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied dramas. Volume 21, Gale, Detroit 2005. (English edition)
  • Jessica H. Hillman: When Nazis sing: the changing presentation of Nazism and the Holocaust on the American musical stage . Dissertation Thesis (MA): University of Colorado, 2003. (English edition)
  • Nick Smurthwaite, Paul Gelder: Mel Brooks and the spoof movie . Proteus Books, London / New York 1982, ISBN 0-86276-049-6 (English edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Producers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 550 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Producers . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
  4. ^ The Producers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 27, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used