Your best hour
Movie | |
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German title | Your best hour |
Original title | Their finest |
Country of production | United Kingdom |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2016 |
length | 118 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
Rod | |
Director | Lone Scherfig |
script | Gaby Chiappe |
production |
Finola Dwyer , Elizabeth Karlsen , Amanda Posey , Stephen Woolley |
music | Rachel Portman |
camera | Sebastian Blenkov |
cut | Lucia Zucchetti |
occupation | |
Your best hour (Original title: Their Finest ) is a British film drama directed by Lone Scherfig from 2016.
action
Catrin Cole lives in a wild marriage with Ellis Cole in London, whose last name she has adopted. In 1940, the year of the war, she took up a position at the British Ministry of Information , whose propaganda films are intended to restore courage and hope to the nation after the defeat of the British Army in Europe. Catrin is responsible for giving the films a more feminine touch, so that above all the many mothers and wives whose sons and husbands are at war can identify with the fight against Hitler Germany . Shortly after Catrin's hiring, the young Tom Buckley is tasked with making a film about the heroic rescue of some soldiers from the beach in Dunkirk . Since the story is supposedly based on a true story and is about twin sisters who stole the cutter of their drinking-addicted father in order to save as many soldiers as possible from the mainland, Tom also takes Catrin into his team. However, when Catrin asked the two sisters to describe the actual events behind the heroic deed at Dunkirk, she decided to withhold the truth and use the means at her disposal to campaign for greater equality in the patriarchal society of the 1940s.
production
The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival .
Cast and dubbing
The German-language synchronization of the film was made by Neue Tonfilm Munich . The author of the dialogue book was Marina Rehm, the dialogue director was Solveig Duda , who also played the role of Phyl Moore.
role | actor | Voice actor |
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Catrin Cole, secretary, now screenwriter | Gemma Arterton | Laura Maire |
Tom Buckley, screenwriter | Sam Claflin | Louis Friedemann Thiele |
Ambrose Hilliard, aging actor | Bill Nighy | Frank Glaubrecht |
Ellis Cole, artist, supposed husband of Catrin Cole | Jack Huston | Stefan Günther |
Sammy Smith, Ambrose Hilliard's film agent | Eddie Marsan | Kai Taschner |
Sophie Smith, sister of Sammy Smith | Helen McCrory | Carin C. Tietze |
Phyl Moore, observer from the Ministry of Information | Rachael Stirling | Solveig Duda |
Roger Swain, film director in the Ministry of Information | Richard E. Grant | Hans-Georg Panczak |
Raymond Parfitt, senior screenwriter | Paul Ritter | Philipp Moog |
Carl Lundbeck, soldier, “Duty American” in propaganda film | Jake Lacy | Manuel Straube |
Reviews
“Scherfig, who has already demonstrated her knack for English romances with period flair with“ An Education ”, vividly evokes the sense of community of the filmmakers who defied the Blitzkrieg. The dialogues are full of epigrams that mischievously tell of how to cope with the absurdities of everyday war life. The narrative tone is warm and comfortable, but does not close itself to the hardships of the times. "
Web links
- Your best hour ( memento from 7 July 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at Concorde Filmverleih
- Your best hour in the online film database
- Your best hour in the German dubbing file
- Your best hours in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Your best hours atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for your best hour . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Andrew Barker: Toronto Film Review: 'Their Finest'. In: Variety . September 11, 2016, accessed on March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Synchronous database : your best hour. In: German synchronous card index . Retrieved March 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Gerhard Midding: Critique of your best hour. In: epd-film.de . June 24, 2017, accessed March 21, 2020 .