Tulip Fever (film)

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Movie
German title Tulip fever
Original title Tulip Fever
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Justin Chadwick
script Deborah Moggach ,
Tom Stoppard
production Alison Owen ,
Harvey Weinstein
music Danny Elfman
camera Eigil Bryld
cut Rick Russell
occupation

Tulip Fever is a British-American historical film directed by Justin Chadwick , which was released in German cinemas on August 24, 2017. The film is based on the book of the same name by Deborah Moggach .

action

Holland is in a heyday in the 17th century. The trade and sale of tulips and tulip bulbs is booming here. The wealthy Amsterdam merchant Cornelis Sandvoort lost his first wife and two children to a plague epidemic. Now he has fetched the young Sophia from the orphanage and married. Although of advanced age, Cornelis hopes for (male) offspring. However, he does not want to adjust.

Cornelis' maid Maria loves the fishmonger Willem. In order to be able to marry his Maria, Willem gets into the tulip bulb business and makes some profit.

Cornelis hires the young painter Jan van Loos to have a double portrait made with his young wife Sophia. Soon a passionate affair begins between the artist and the businessman. When Willem wants to visit his Maria, he watches Jan and Sophia embracing through the window, but thinks Sophia is Maria. Shocked by Maria's apparent infidelity, Willem runs into a pub. There he gets drunk, is robbed by a whore and later shanghait . Maria discovers that she is pregnant by Willem.

The secret lovers Sophia and Jan are planning their escape from Amsterdam with Maria's support: They want to use Maria's pregnancy to put Cornelis on Maria's child and simulate Sophia's death in childbed. In order to raise money, Jan gets into the tulip bulb business himself . The abbess of the St. Ursula Monastery supports him - not without self-interest. He can increase his money by auctioning off tulip bulbs in inns.

On a thunderstorm night, Mary's labor began. A midwife is brought in and the doctor, Doctor Sorgh, shields Cornelis from the birth. Only when the child has been born is he allowed to enter the room in which the conspirators covered the apparently dead Sophia with a white cloth. Cornelis is badly hit by the death of his young wife, but is happy about the little daughter. Sophia is nailed in the coffin and brought to Jan. In the face of Cornelis' grief, however, she doubts the correctness of her action. She runs back to Cornelis' house, but doesn't have the heart to step back into his life. She knows neither on nor off.

Jan's creditors insist on immediate payment. They lock him up in his studio and send Jan's simple friend Gerrit to the monastery to get the valuable tulip bulb. Gerrit does not recognize the value of the onion and eats it without alcohol. Jan is financially ruined .

Cornelis has since learned that the child does not come from him. He generously leaves his house to his maid Maria and her husband Willem. He himself goes to East India and starts a new family there. The house he gave away has now been filled with children.

Eight years later, Jan was commissioned to paint a mural in the abbey church of the monastery . From the scaffolding below, he sees the abbess walking through the church with the orphans and a nun . This nun is his Sophia.

Historical and literary template

As early as the 1620s it was possible to obtain very high prices for individual tulip varieties, for example for the Semper Augustus

After the tulip had penetrated through the Ottoman Empire to Europe, the plant developed into an object of speculation in Holland from the middle of the 16th century. At times, a single tulip bulb was worth more than an entire house in downtown Amsterdam. In the 1620s it was possible to achieve very high prices for individual tulip varieties, for example the Semper Augustus tulip, which was traded as the most expensive tulip of all time in 1637. However, the tulip bubble burst in the spring of 1637, when the value of tulips fell by 95 percent within a few days and the Dutch government made tulip prices legal to put an end to the madness. Even when the markets collapsed, it was also the beginning of tulip cultivation that made Holland famous.

Deborah Moggach published in 1999 the novel Tulip Fever , which was adapted for the film. Against the backdrop of the first modern stock market crash during the Golden Age , the novel tells of the fatal consequences of an affair between the merchant's wife Sophia and the painter Jan, who need money to leave Amsterdam. Together with Sophia's maid Maria, they forge a daring plan and put everything on one card. However, they are not counting on the unthinkable: that the tulip market will one day collapse. Best Exotic Marigold Hotel had previously been adapted for a film from her books , and the script for the film Pride and Prejudice from 2005 was written by the author, based on the novel by Jane Austen .

production

Staff, cast and dubbing

The adaptation of Moggach's novel was directed by Justin Chadwick . The novel was adapted by Tom Stoppard .

When a film adaptation of Tulip Fever was first considered in 2004 , Keira Knightley and Jude Law , directed by John Madden, were to play the leading roles. However, due to tax changes in the UK and the film's budget skyrocketing by $ 17 million, production was put on hold. Ten years later, Alison Owen and Harvey Weinstein secured the rights to the material and started production with a completely new cast. In the meantime, Steven Spielberg had also offered to buy the film rights, but this never happened.

In February 2014 it was announced that Christoph Waltz had a role in the film. He plays the spice dealer Cornelis Sandvoort. Alicia Vikander took on the role of his wife Sophia, Dane DeHaan plays her young lover Jan van Loos. Deborah Moggach, the author of the novel, can be seen in the film in a short guest appearance as a pipe-smoking and beer-drinking woman.

Yvonne Greitzke speaks in the German dubbing Sophia Sandvoort and Patrick Roche, her lover Jan van Loos. Christoph Waltz speaks himself in his role of Cornelis Sandvoort.

Filming and equipment

The monastery garden of Norwich Cathedral

Exterior shots were made at the Charterhouse in London . Further filming took place in Norwich Cathedral and the monastery gardens there, in Holkham, in Tilbury , at Cobham Hall School and in Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath. Recordings were also made in Austria .

Simon Elliott was responsible for the equipment . The scene image is from the Oscar-nominated Rebecca Alleway . London-based Welsh painter Jamie Routley created the portraits that appear in the finished film. Moggach was also inspired to write her book by the works of Dutch painters.

Costumes and film music

The costumes were designed by Oscar-winning British costume designer Michael O'Connor . The film music was composed by the four-time Oscar-nominated film composer Danny Elfman . The soundtrack consists of 18 tracks and was released on CD by Sony Classical on August 25, 2017.

Marketing and Publishing

A first trailer in English was published in April 2017. In May 2015, actress Cressida Bonas , who plays Mrs. Steen in the film, presented scenes from the film at the Cannes Film Festival . In June 2017, the first trailer for the film was published in German.

The film was released in Danish cinemas on July 13, 2017, in Swedish cinemas on July 14, 2017 and in German cinemas on August 24, 2017. A theatrical release in the US is scheduled for August 25, 2017.

reception

Reviews

Elke Eckert from PC Games thinks that tulip fever with its passionate lovers, the historical ambience and the deceptive maneuvers of Shakespeare in Love reminds me a bit , which is not surprising given the fact that the screenwriter is also Tom Stoppard . This lets the characters in the film do things that seemed too thickly applied, but as a consequence of emotional exceptional situations they no longer seem so improbable, which is also due to the great cast even in the supporting roles.

In her criticism of Shakespeare in Love , Walli Müller from NDR Info also reminds us of The Girl with the Pearl Earring . The film is very entertaining and impressively equipped, but certainly not a naturalistic painting of the times and nothing for historians, according to Müller.

In his film review, Andreas Kilb from the FAZ expressly praises the work of the Danish cameraman Egil Bryld, the film is “visually at the height of its subject”. The people who could have come from pictures by Dutch masters would, however, become “talking puppets of an equipped cinema that fails to recognize its own possibilities”. His conclusion: “In the cinema, trivial books often turn into subtle films. Not here. Because Tom Stoppard, who has been a gold maker in the costume genre since 'Shakespeare in Love', retells the content of the novel in his script so slavishly that the film has no room for its own rhythm. The hectic drive through the scenes, be it town houses, pubs, monasteries or the replicated canals of Amsterdam, becomes a symbol of the helplessness of the director. The film is always hot on the heels of its story, but it never gets through to her. "

Gross profit

In Germany, the number of visitors to the film was low (154,049 visitors within the first few weeks). Internationally, he grossed 8 million US dollars, which was far below his budget of 25 million US dollars.

Web links

Individual evidence

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