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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Leben Und Sterben Des Colonel Blimp BS-2866:Berlinale 2012 29.01.2012 13:23 Uhr Seite 108 BERLINALE SPECIAL THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP LEBEN UND STERBEN DES COLONEL BLIMP Emeric Pressburger Der junge britische Offizier Clive Candy, ein Held des Burenkriegs, Großbritannien 1943 Michael Powell gerät 1902 auf einer Reise nach Berlin in Verwicklungen, die ihn zwin- Länge 164 Min. · Format DCP · Farbe gen, sich mit dem deutschen Offizier Theo zu duellieren. Doch aus STABLISTE BIOGRAFIEN den Gegnern werden Freunde. Im Ersten Weltkrieg, als der Deutsche Regie Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger, 1902 in Miskolc, Un garn, Kriegs gefangener in England ist, vertieft sich die Freundschaft. Wäh - Buch Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger geboren. Studium in Prag und Stuttgart, Arbeit rend der NS-Zeit emigriert Theo schließlich nach Großbritannien, wo Kamera Georges Périnal als Journalist, schließlich Drehbuch autor bei sich die Wege der beiden Männer ein drittes Mal kreuzen. Schnitt John Seabourne der UFA. 1933 Emigration nach England, 1939 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, gedreht in Technicolor, gilt Ton Desmond Dew ist THE SPY IN BLACK der Beginn der Zusam - in der Filmgeschichte als „englische Antwort auf CITIZEN KANE“. An - Musik Allan Gray men arbeit mit dem Regis seur Michael Powell. ge lehnt an die landesweit bekannte Cartoon-Figur des Colonel Blimp, Production Design Alfred Junge Gemeinsam gründeten sie die Produktions - Kostüm Joseph Bato firma The Archers, die einige zentrale Filme entwirft der komplexe, vier Jahrzehnte umfassende Film die Ge - schich te eines Militärs, der seinen Beruf als Gentleman und fairer Maske George Blackler der europäischen Film ge schichte produzierte. Produzenten Michael Powell, Sports mann auszuüben gedenkt, jedoch unweigerlich mit den Erfor - Pressburger starb 1988. Emeric Pressburger der nissen des modernen Krieges kollidiert. Premierminister Winston Michael Powell, 1905 in Bekesbourne, Co-Produktion Independent Producers, England, geboren. Nach der Schule Arbeit als Churchill empfand den Film als „schädlich für die Moral der Truppe“ London Bank ange stellter. Kam als Darsteller zum Film und versagte ihm jede Unterstützung. Um mehr als ein Drittel ge - und lernte bei schnell produzierten Low- kürzt, lief THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP viele Jahre nur DARSTELLER Budget-Filmen das Regiehandwerk. Nach ver stümmelt in den Kinos. Zu sehen ist die aufwendig restaurierte Clive Candy Roger Livesey einer Reihe ausgesprochen erfolgreicher Filme Originalfassung. Edith Hunter Deborah Kerr beendete 1960 der Skandal um PEEPING TOM Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff Adolf seine Regie karriere. 1970 wurden seine Filme Wohlbrück wiederentdeckt und gelten heute als Klassiker Col. Betteridge Roland Culver des britischen Kinos. Powell starb 1990. Spud Wilson James McKechnie von Ritter Albert Lieven BIOGRAPHIES Botschaftsrat Arthur Wontner Emeric Pressburger: born in Mikolc in Hoppy David Hutcheson Hungary in 1902, he studied in Prague and in Frau von Kalteneck Ursula Jeans Stuttgart, working first as a journalist and Murdoch John Laurie finally as a screenwriter for UFA. Emigrating to England in 1933 he began collaborating with PRODUKTION director Michael Powell in 1939 on THE SPY IN The Archers BLACK. Founding the production company The London Archers, the pair went on to create a number of key works of European film history. WELTVERTRIEB Pressburger died in 1988. Park Circus Michael Powell: born in Bekesbourne in Glasgow, Großbritannien England in 1905, after leaving school he +44 141 3322175 began his career as a bank clerk. Entering the [email protected] film industry as an actor, he learned the art of Deborah Kerr Foto: Reliance MediaWorks, ITV Studios Global Entertainment directing working on low budget films known RESTAURIERUNG as ‘quota quickies’. After making a number of Clive Candy, a young British officer and hero of the Boer War finds Leitung Academy Film Archive in highly successful films his directing career himself involved in events that oblige him to duel with a German offi- Zusammenarbeit mit BFI, ITV Studios came to an abrupt end as a result of the scan- Global Entertainment und The Film dalous reception of PEEPING TOM in 1960. In cer named Theo. The two combatants nonetheless become friends. During the First World War Theo is sent to England as a prisoner of Foundation. Unterstützt durch The Material 1970 his films were rediscovered and are World Charitable Foundation, The Louis war; as a result, the friendship between the two men deepens. During regarded today as classics of British cinema. B. Mayer Foundation, Cinema per Roma Powell died in 1990. the Nazi regime Theo finally emigrates to Britain where the paths of Foundation und The Film Foundation. the two men cross for a third time. Digitale Bearbeitung Reliance MediaWorks FILMOGRAFIE gemeinsame Filme Filmed in Technicolor, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is Fachberatung Martin Scorsese, 1939 THE SPY IN BLACK · 1940 CONTRABAND · widely regarded by film historians to be the ‘English answer to CITIZEN Thelma Schoonmaker Powell 1941 49TH PARALLEL · 1942 ONE OF OUR AIR- KANE’. Loosely based on the familiar British cartoon figure, Colonel Technische Beratung Michael Pogorzelski, CRAFT IS MISSING · 1943 THE LIFE AND DEATH Blimp, this complex film spanning four decades tells the story of a mil- Schawn Belston OF COLONEL BLIMP · 1944 THE VOLUNTEERS · itary man trying to practice his profession in a fair and gentlemanly, Colorist Ray Grabowski A CANTERBURY TALE · 1946 A MATTER OF LIFE Color Warner Bros, Motion Picture AND DEATH · 1947 I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING! · sportsmanlike manner who finds himself inevitably faced with the demands of modern warfare. Winston Churchill, the then prime min- Imaging (MPI) BLACK NARCISSUS · 1948 THE RED SHOES · 4K Scans Point 360 1949 THE SMALL BACK ROOM · 1950 THE ister, deemed the film to be ‘damaging for troops’ morale’ and refused ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL · GONE TO EARTH · 1951 to support it. More than a third of the work was cut and for many THE TALES OF HOFFMANN · 1955 OH ... ROSA- years a mutilated version of the film was all that could be seen in cin- LINDA!! · 1956 THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER emas. This Berlinale screening will present the extensively restored PLATE · 1957 III MET BY MOONLIGHT · THEY’RE original version. A WIRD MOB · 1972 THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW 108 BERLINALE 2012.
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