Ulysses (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ulysses |
| Original title | Ulysses |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 132 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph Strick |
| script |
Fred Haines , Joseph Strick |
| production | Joseph Strick |
| music | Stanley Myers |
| camera | Wolfgang Suschitzky |
| cut | Reginald Mills |
| occupation | |
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Ulysses is a 1967 black and white film directed by Joseph Strick . The film is based on the novel Ulysses by James Joyce . For the film adaptation of the novel, chapters of the novel had to be left out, others were rearranged. The first performance in the Federal Republic of Germany was April 10, 1970.
action
The underlying novel depicts the June 16, 1904 ( Bloomsday ) in the life of the Dubliner (Dublin also stands for Ithaca ) advertiser of the Jewish faith Leopold Bloom ( Odysseus ), his wife Molly ( Penelope ) from Gibraltar and that of Stephen Dedalus ( Telemachos and Daidalos ) from eight in the morning until late at night.
background
The film sparked a storm of protest at the Cannes Festival in 1967 over obscenities. The Federal Republic of Germany only released the film for public screening in 1970; in Ireland it was subject to restrictions until 2000. It was shown in Cannes with partially blacked out subtitles and was otherwise only seen censored.
Reviews
“The film adaptation of James Joyce's sprawling novel is only partially successful […]. In terms of craftsmanship, it is extraordinarily professional, but in terms of staging it is mostly academic and uninspired. Blasphemy and profanity in dialogue take on an unjustified preponderance. "
"[...] failed because of the inability to film [...]"
“The epoch-making [...] novel by James Joyce in an acceptable, two-and-a-quarter hour English widescreen film adaptation, which admittedly intensely and drastically processed the delicate and in places also blasphemous of the original. Therefore, these 19 hours of a Dublin day in the life of that Hungarian-Jewish man and his wife as well as the young Irish student, with the conversations and thoughts, dreams and visions associated with them, are only something for a mature audience interested in literature. "
Critic Roger Ebert called the film the second best of 1967 (after the classic Bonnie and Clyde ).
Honors
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the title “Particularly valuable”.
- Academy Awards 1968
- Oscar nomination in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for Joseph Strick and Fred Haines
- A total of three nominations for Barbara Jefford, Wolfgang Suschitzky and Milo O´Shea
- Cannes Film Festival 1967
- Nomination for the Golden Palm for Joseph Strick
- Nomination DGA Award in the category Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Joseph Strick
- Golden Globes 1968
- Golden Globe nomination for Best English-Language Foreign Film (UK)
- Became the top ten films selected
literature
- Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf, Willy Loderhose (eds.): The large film lexicon. All top films from A-Z . Second edition, revised and expanded new edition. Publishing group Milchstraße, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89324-126-4 .
Web links
- Ulysses in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulysses at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Time , March 31, 1967.
- ↑ a b c Lexicon of International Films , p. 3280 f.
- ↑ 3sat .
- ↑ a b Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf, Willy Loderhose (eds.): The large film lexicon. All top films from A-Z . Second edition, revised and expanded new edition. Verlagsgruppe Milchstraße, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89324-126-4 , p. 2838 .
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 166/1970.
- ^ Roger Ebert's review