Room with a view (film)

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Movie
German title room with view
Original title A room with a view
Country of production GB
original language English , Italian
Publishing year 1985
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director James Ivory
script Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
production Ismail Merchant
music Richard Robbins
camera Tony Pierce-Roberts
cut Humphrey Dixon
occupation
synchronization

Room with a View (A Room with a View) is a British feature film by James Ivory in 1985. The screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the novel room with a view of EM Forster from the year 1908th

action

The Englishwoman Lucy Honeychurch visited together with their relatives Charlotte Bartlett, you know as chaperone was begotten, in the spring of 1907 Florence . When the two are disappointed at dinner together in their guesthouse that their room does not look out onto the Arno as expected, the free-spirited compatriot Mr. Emerson and his son George offer them their rooms. The city and the Arno can be seen from Messrs. Emerson's rooms. Charlotte sees the offer as an unbearable violation of her form, if not as an attempt at advances. Only the Reverend Beebe, who also happens to be staying at the guesthouse and who will take over the parish in Lucy's home parish, persuades Charlotte to accept the Emersons' offer and to swap hotel rooms.

When Lucy goes on a trip to the center of Florence, she witnesses a fatal stabbing, which causes her to faint. The also present George Emerson intercepts Lucy and takes care of her. During a trip to Fiesole for some boarders , George and Lucy suddenly find themselves alone in a cornfield. He gives her a passionate kiss on the impulse, which is observed by Charlotte Bartlett. The old maid, who once had a similar romance with an unfortunate outcome in her youth, causes the trip to be stopped immediately. Lucy and Charlotte swear to each other not to tell anyone about the kiss, but at the same time fear that George will tell the romantic story.

Back in England, Lucy becomes engaged to the wealthy esthete Cecil Vyse. Lucy tries to rent a vacant Sir Harry Otway country house in the neighborhood to two old ladies, the Alans, whom she met in Florence. But it is passed over by Cecil, who happens to meet the Emersons in London and looks after the house for them. Lucy is uncomfortable meeting George again, especially since he sees her surprising reunion as a sign of fate and kisses her again. Charlotte has to confess to Lucy that she betrayed her secret to her friend and writer Eleanor Lavish, who in her new romance novel - which Cecil reads without suspicion - recreates the Italian vacation romance between George and Lucy.

Lucy realizes that she is not indifferent to the vital and passionate George and breaks off the engagement with the spirited and mannered, but boring Cecil Vyse. Lucy, however, hides the reason why she has fallen in love with George and pretends that she wants to travel to Greece with the Alan sisters. Only the intervention of George's father succeeds in destroying Lucy's building of lies. She tearfully confesses her love for George. The two get married and go on their honeymoon to Florence, where they kiss at the window of the room that the Emersons had given Lucy and her chaperone.

background

Room with a View was filmed in England and Florence . Its production cost about three million dollars . It grossed US $ 21 million in US cinemas alone, making it a commercial success. The film gave Helena Bonham Carter her breakthrough as a film actress. In the following years, director James Ivory successfully filmed two further novels by EM Forster: Maurice (1987) and Reunion in Howards End (1992). There was an argument between Judi Dench and Ivory during the filming, among other things because he suggested that she play the character of the writer as a Scot.

The opera arias used as film music were recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa and the London Philharmonic Orchestra under John Pritchard : “Chi il bel sogno di Doretta” from “ La rondine ” and O mio babbino caro from the opera “ Gianni Schicchi ”, which in Florence is playing. Both operas are by Giacomo Puccini . The main theme (“Firenze è com'un albero”) from “Gianni Schicchi” also sounds orchestral several times .

synchronization

The dubbing was created in 1986 Berliner Synchron based on the dialogue script and dubbing direction by Mina Kindl .

role actor German Dubbing voice
Charlotte Bartlett Maggie Smith Bettina Schön
Lucy Honeychurch Helena Bonham Carter Melanie Pukass
Mr. Emerson Denholm Elliott Friedrich W. Building School
George Emerson Julian Sands Thomas Petruo
Reverend Mr. Beebe Simon Callow Helmut Gauss
Reverend Mr. Eager Patrick Godfrey Eric Vaessen
Eleanor Lavish Judi Dench Marianne Gross
Cevil Vyse Daniel Day-Lewis Hubertus Bengsch
Mrs. Honeychurch Rosemary Leach Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Freddy Honeychurch Rupert Graves Stefan Krause

Awards

The film won an Oscar in 1987 in the categories of Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Costume Design and Best Production Design . James Ivory, Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Ismail Merchant and Tony Pierce-Roberts have been nominated for an Oscar.

The film won the BAFTA Award in 1987 for portraying Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, for best film, and for production design and costumes. The nine nominations for the BAFTA Award included those for James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Simon Callow, Denholm Elliott and Rosemary Leach.

Maggie Smith won the Golden Globe Award in 1987 . James Ivory and the film for Best Drama were nominated for the same award.

The film won the Independent Spirit Award and the London Critics Circle Film Award in 1987 . James Ivory won the David di Donatello in two categories and the Sant Jordi Award in 1987 ; he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award in 1987 . Tony Pierce-Roberts was nominated for the British Society of Cinematographers Award in 1986; In 1987 she was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award . James Ivory and Tony Pierce-Roberts won the Evening Standard British Film Award in 1987 . Ruth Prawer Jhabvala won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1987 .

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Reviews

The film critic Roger Ebert writes in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 4, 1986 that the film attacks the British class system. He praises the portrayals of Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott and Julian Sands.

Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz rate the film in their encyclopedia “Films on TV” (1990) as very good and write: “The exposure of the film is brilliant and the further implementation is equal. A testimony to the potential of the new British film of the 80s, overflowing with wit, subtlety and beautiful motifs. "

Dieter Krusche describes the film in Reclam's film guide as “a masterpiece of careful precision”. Ivory “approached his literary model with noticeable respect”; it was "he succeeded in preserving her complexity and transferring her literary qualities directly into the picture".

In 1986 Siegfried Schober wrote in his review in Die Zeit that the film was "actually impossible and yet a delight". According to Schober's criticism of the film illustrated "all Italy clichés [...] in glorious color moods, but you can [sic] liked it, because it makes sense because gently bourgeoisie is taken for a ride, the cultivated this melting and blarney." Furthermore, he writes in his film review: “In the first part, the Italian piece, the film had an almost casual outing character, something strolling about; in the second part, in England, it becomes more complex and a mature social comedy develops. […] The contrast between the romantic vitalist George Emerson and the intellectual snob Cecil Vyse gives the film its deeper meaning. The love story about Miss Honeychurch is only a means to an end. Emerson stands for the intense feeling, for closeness to nature and for the brooding temperament, while Vyse represents refinement, distance and alienation from life. The conflict between nature and culture, which the film reveals in many variations, is very simple ”.

literature

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  1. Filming locations for A Room with a View
  2. Business Data for A Room with a View
  3. John Miller: Judi Dench: With A Crack In Her Voice . Orion, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78022-644-6 ( google.de [accessed April 11, 2018]).
  4. Tim Teeman: James Ivory on Sex With Peaches, Oscars, Fighting Harvey Weinstein, and 50 Years of Moviemaking . In: The Daily Beast . February 20, 2018 ( thedailybeast.com [accessed April 11, 2018]).
  5. Gereon Stein: Room with a view on synchrondatenbank.de. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  6. German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Room with view. Retrieved March 24, 2018 .
  7. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  8. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (expanded new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 954
  9. Dieter Krusche: Reclams Filmführer, 12th, revised edition, Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010518-8
  10. Miss Honey and her men . In: Die Zeit , December 12, 1986. Retrieved October 3, 2013.

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