Ein Liebesdreieck entsteht zwischen einem schönen, aber gefährlichen Vampir, ihrer cellistischen Begleiterin und einem Gerontologen.Ein Liebesdreieck entsteht zwischen einem schönen, aber gefährlichen Vampir, ihrer cellistischen Begleiterin und einem Gerontologen.Ein Liebesdreieck entsteht zwischen einem schönen, aber gefährlichen Vampir, ihrer cellistischen Begleiterin und einem Gerontologen.
- Auszeichnungen
- 3 Nominierungen insgesamt
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesDavid Bowie actually learned to play the cello for his music scenes.
- PatzerWhen Sarah is on the TV program discussing the condition Progeria, she pronounces it "Pra-j-eriah'. The correct pronunciation is "Pro-geria."
- Zitate
Sarah Roberts: What's that piece you're playing?
Miriam Blaylock: It's "Lakme" by Delibes. Lakme is a Brahmin princess in India, she has a slave named Malika.
Sarah Roberts: Malika...
Miriam Blaylock: In a magical garden they sing how they follow the stream to its source, gliding over the water.
Sarah Roberts: Is it a love song?
Miriam Blaylock: I told you, it was sung by two women.
Sarah Roberts: It sounds like a love song.
Miriam Blaylock: Then I suppose that's what it is.
Sarah Roberts: Are you making a pass at me, Mrs. Blaylock?
Miriam Blaylock: Miriam.
Sarah Roberts: Miriam.
Miriam Blaylock: Not that I'm aware of, Sarah.
[Sarah smiles, shakes her head, and then spills wine on her top]
- Crazy CreditsIronically, in the credits Willem Dafoe is identified as "2nd Phone Booth Youth"; whereas, he is the first "Phone Booth Youth" to be seen and speak in the Phone Booth scene. Likewise, John Pankow is noted in the credits as "1st Phone Booth Youth"; whereas, he is actually the second "Phone Booth Youth" to be seen and say his lines.
- VerbindungenFeatured in At the Movies: Adult Sexuality (1983)
- SoundtracksLe Gibet
by Maurice Ravel
Published by Arima and Durand SA
Music Supervised and Arranged by Howard Blake
This is a visually stunning film, making up for in effects what it sometimes lacks in coherence. It seems that lovely, immortal Cathy, called Miriam, is a vampire queen who has been around since the Sphinx was built, apparently. Bowie is her consort, a once mortal man whose two hundred-odd year lifespan is suddenly winding down at a frighteningly rapid rate. Desperate to find a cure, he seeks out scientist Susan Sarandon, who at first disbelieves Bowie's claims, but is soon convinced when the young and handsomely androgynous man suddenly ages over the course of a few hours time into a decrepit ruin. Miriam, who has had countless lovers over the centuries, gives Bowie the heave-ho and turns her attention to lovely young Sarandon. But Sarandon, though initially easy to seduce (in an erotic lesbian scene) proves to have a will stronger than Miriam's, and Miriam's habit of keeping her collection of ex-lovers cadavers close at hand, proves to be a mistake.
This is a strange film, almost as cold and dispassionate as one might well imagine a vampire to be. It seems to hold the viewer at arms length, not allowing them to experience the emotions of the characters...but the characters, for the most part, are severely lacking in emotion anyway, so the stark emptiness of the film becomes a brilliant mirror. Some vampire enthusiasts might find this boring and confusing, but it's a good effort and not a total loss.
The three main characters are worth watching simply for their amazing beauty and grace. Tony Scott (brother of Ridley) has made a nice, if somewhat bizarre and chilling, work of art here and, like most works of art, it's up for interpretation.
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsland
- Sprache
- Auch bekannt als
- The Hunger
- Drehorte
- 6 Chesterfield Gardens, London, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(Miriam & John Blaylock's house)
- Produktionsfirma
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Box Office
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 5.979.292 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 1.832.898 $
- 1. Mai 1983
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 5.991.807 $