The Walker
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Walker (DVD Title) A Friend of Certain Ladies - The Walker (TV Title) |
| Original title | The Walker |
| Country of production |
United States , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Schrader |
| script | Paul Schrader |
| production | Deepak Nayar |
| music | Anne Dudley |
| camera | Chris Seager |
| cut | Julian Rodd |
| occupation | |
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The Walker is a US-American - British film directed by Paul Schrader from the year 2007 .
Carter Page III accompanies women from the Washington upper class on official occasions, where this is not possible for their men due to scheduling reasons. When a senator's wife is involved in a murder case, he protects her name, although this ultimately means his social end.
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Originally from Texas , Carter Page III works in Washington, DC as a "Walker". The single homosexual accompanies older, married women of the US American upper class to public events if their husbands are unable to do so due to scheduling reasons. Carter's father despised him for his homosexuality, but bequeathed him a fortune that enabled him to earn a living without having to do a regular job. He spends a lot of time in his canasta round with Natalie van Miter, Chrissie Morgan and Abigail Delorean. Lynn Lockner, one of the ladies Carter is with, is a senator's wife .
Lynn has an affair with lobbyist Robbie Kononsberg that Carter helps cover up. At one of their meetings, she finds Kononsberg murdered and discovers that a photo that documents the affair between the two has been stolen. Lynn tells Carter not to call the police immediately, but rather to drive her home and provide an alibi so that she is not involved in the investigation and her extramarital affair is made public.
Carter complies with her request, then drives back to the murdered man's apartment and calls the police. Thereupon he himself becomes one of the suspects. Emek Yoglu, a friend of mine, a gay photo artist, offers him a complete list of all Kononsberg's phone calls over the past few months. But the two underestimated the circles from which the murderers come: Emek is brutally beaten up in a bar and warned that he should stop his research if there are no further attacks against him or Carter. Carter also finds that his acquaintances are distancing themselves from him, only Emek continues to stand by him.
One evening Carter is chased by ex- Marine and former FBI agent Edgar Kaminski, who is hit by a vehicle and killed during the chase. Together with Emek, he visits Jack Delorean, who had put the former agent on the two. Delorean confirms Carter's suspicions that he and Kaminski were trying to extortionate their knowledge of the Lynn and Kononsberg affair; Kononsberg was killed by Kaminski while attempting to obtain possession of the compromising photo.
Carter secures the photo and gives it to Lynn so that her life can move on in an orderly manner. Carter's social standing, on the other hand, is ruined and he is preparing to move out of Washington.
background
Work on the script was finished by Paul Schrader in 2002. Filming began The film was in Washington, DC, on March 31, 2006. London and on the Man Isle of rotated at an estimated budget of 10 million US dollars . On February 13, 2007, the film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival , followed by further screenings at international film festivals. The film was shown in British cinemas on August 10, 2007, and was shown in the USA from December 7, 2007. The film was released on DVD in Germany on May 20, 2009 . On the opening weekend, the film grossed just under 45,000 pounds sterling in Great Britain and around 16,500 US dollars in the USA, and in total it made a good 77,000 US dollars in the USA.
Originally, the film was conceived as a direct sequel to the film American Gigolo , with Kevin Kline by the director for the lead role. In addition to Kline, Steve Martin , Tim Robbins and Michael Keaton were also in discussion for the lead before it was awarded to Woody Harrelson .
Paul Schrader told HX-Magazine that Woody Harrelson refused to take on public relations for the film because he was dissatisfied with his own performance as a leading actor: “His agent told me he didn't like himself in the film. I think he wanted the character a little more cocky than me, a little more weirdly fluffy, but I don't see the character that way. "
German dubbed version
Moritz Bleibtreu dubbed his role of Emek Yoglu himself in the German version. Woody Harrelson was - as in the majority of his films - dubbed by Thomas Nero Wolff .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Carter Page III. | Woody Harrelson | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Abigail Delorean | Lily Tomlin | Marianne Lutz |
| Det. Dixon | Geff Francis | Oliver Stritzel |
| Edgar | Stewart Alexander | Gerald Paradise |
| Emek Yoglu | Moritz Bleibtreu | Moritz Bleibtreu |
| Jack Delorean | Ned Beatty | Hans Teuscher |
| John Krebs | Garrick Hagon | Eberhard Prüter |
| Larry Lockner | Willem Dafoe | Dieter Memel |
| Lynn Lockner | Kristin Scott Thomas | Traudel Haas |
| Natalie Van Miter | Lauren Bacall | Barbara Adolph |
| Robbie Kononsberg | Steven Hartley | Helmut Gauss |
criticism
The editors of the Lexicon of International Films are of the opinion that the film is a "gripping, convincingly played drama in which Paul Schrader tries again to fathom the essence of a person behind his dazzling facade and confronts him with the abysses of his existence."
According to Cinema , the film contains “cynical and clever verbal contributions, precise characters” and sums it up: “great portrait of society” .
The world judges: “Paul Schrader looks slightly disgusted at the politics business; that's what the crime fiction convention demands, which remains a bit slow. Nonetheless, 'The Walker' is extremely tasteful - and that's not a small compliment you can give the film. "
Harald Mühlbeyer's verdict on Cinefacts is: "A film that largely leaves the viewer outside because - like its main character - they seem too entangled in the world it describes."
Awards
Woody Harrelson was named Best Actor at the Verona Love Screens Film Festival in 2008.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Walker . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 358 DVD).
- ↑ Engl. "Walker", also "Walker" - interglot.com: walker . Also used as a synonym for a person accompanying or escorting another person, based on Nancy Reagan's companion Jerry Zipkin: Schrader: Indies are scavenger dogs, scouring the planet for scraps - Interview with Paul Schrader by Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times dated December 11, 2007, accessed November 22, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
- ↑ a b c Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ↑ This is London: American gigolo in the frame , Derek Malcolm, August 9, 2007
- ↑ Landmark Theaters: The Walker ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2010 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rouge: Interview with Paul Schrader: Pretending that Life has no Meaning , George Kouvaros, September 19, 2005
- ↑ English: " His agent told me he doesn't like himself in it. I think he wanted the character to be a little more fey than I did, a little more comically fluffy, and I didn't see the character that way. " , Out in hollywood, Woody Harrelson doesn't like" The Walker " ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Greg Hernandez, December 11, 2007
- ↑ a b c dubbing index: German language dubbing
- ^ The Walker in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Cinema : Review on Cinema.de , accessed on November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Die Welt : Review in Die Welt , February 14, 2007, accessed on March 29, 2011.
- ↑ Cinefacts : Review , on Cinefacts.de , accessed on March 29, 2011.
- ^ Internet Movie Database : Awards
Web links
- The Walker in the Internet Movie Database (English)