Eine Britin erinnert sich an die Volljährigkeit während des Ersten Weltkriegs - eine Geschichte über junge Liebe, die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges und wie man die dunkelsten Zeiten verstehen ka... Alles lesenEine Britin erinnert sich an die Volljährigkeit während des Ersten Weltkriegs - eine Geschichte über junge Liebe, die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges und wie man die dunkelsten Zeiten verstehen kann.Eine Britin erinnert sich an die Volljährigkeit während des Ersten Weltkriegs - eine Geschichte über junge Liebe, die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges und wie man die dunkelsten Zeiten verstehen kann.
- Auszeichnungen
- 5 Gewinne & 7 Nominierungen insgesamt
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesSaoirse Ronan was originally cast as Vera Brittain but she dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Alicia Vikander replaced her.
- PatzerAs Roland and Vera meet in late 1914 before he leaves for France, Aunt Belle notices that Roland is sick and she talks about how influenza is ripping through the troops and it's in all the newspapers "Spanish Influenza they call it." The earliest known case of what would only later be called the Spanish flu was in March of 1918--and reports of the plague were zealously suppressed in the press of the belligerent nations for fear that it damaged morale. The only reason the disease, which actually was first documented in Kansas, was named "Spanish Flu", was because Spain was neutral in the war and the Spanish papers were free to report cases, giving the wrong impression elsewhere that Spain was hit first and harder by the disease.
- Zitate
Roland Leighton: Down the long white road we walked together. Down between the grey hills and the heather. You seemed all brown and soft, just like linnet. Your errant hair had shadowed sunbeams in it. And there shone all April in your eyes.
- Crazy CreditsDuring the opening credits, World War I guns can be heard in the background.
- VerbindungenFeatured in Film '72: Folge #44.1 (2015)
- SoundtracksSilver Threads Among the Gold
Written by H.P. Danks & Eben E. Rexford
Performed by John McCormack
Source: Library and Archives
Canada/Silver Threads Among the Gold
1922/AMICUS 31399658
Young Vera is headstrong, not only about wanting to make her own way in a man's world (female emancipation was still years away), but later about making her own contribution to the war effort by enrolling as a nurse while her lover, brother and other male friends are fighting in the trenches. Told wholly from her point of view, it's an entertaining if not enthralling watch, beautifully shot and well acted if somehow just lacking some extra pathos to really capture the hellish undertow of the War to end all Wars.
Alicia Vikander is appealing as the vaguely tomboyish, intellectual Vera. In those days, it would appear, the golden youth had to be chaperoned everywhere by a usually imposing maiden aunt figure and make their feelings about each other known by writing and sending poems as the film strives to contrast the idyllic pre-war days of carefree swimming and carousing with the bleakness and destruction of war itself. For me, I didn't feel the contrast quite sharply enough and my abiding memories of the film are of the big family house and the dreaming spires of Oxford rather than the hell of the makeshift military hospitals and muddy and bloody trenches on the front line.
The best shot for me was when I perhaps detected a tribute to all-time great movie "Gone With The Wind" as Vera goes Scarlett-like amongst the wounded and dying, searching for her wounded brother where the camera ascends into a sweeping dolly shot showing the full extent of the number of the casualties, just like Vincent Fleming's rightly famous take all those years ago.
The supporting actors are picked from the familiar directory of experienced British character actors, notably Miranda Richardson and Emily Watson, while the young actors in the leads, all of them unfamiliar to me, perform with aplomb.
There is a great true-life story to be told here and this film does so respectfully and responsibly, if just a little too carefully at times.
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- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 1.822.250 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 53.000 $
- 7. Juni 2015
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 5.851.758 $
- Laufzeit2 Stunden 9 Minuten
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