Format:
1 DVD-Video (127 Min.)
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farbig
Series Statement:
Alan Clarke at the BBC, Volume 1: Dissent
Uniform Title:
The love-girl and the innocent
Content:
Alan Clarke returned to his theatrical roots for this ambitious adaptation of the 1969 play by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, which is set over the course of a week in a Soviet prison camp during the Stalin era. The Love-Girl of the title is the unhappy Lyuba, a pragmatic survivor who reluctantly trades sexual favours with those in positions of influence and power in order to secure better rations or more comfortable work details. The Innocent is Nemov, a reserved production chief whose position is usurped and who falls for Lyuba, but cannot bear the thought of sharing her with others ... Clarke was clearly not interested in compromise here. Where other directors might have scaled the play down and shot in the studio, Clarke chose to film at an ex-RAF camp in Norfolk using the BBC's Outside Broadcast unit. This allowed him to use a multi-camera studio set-up in an actual location and it really pays off, giving the production a sense of almost cinematic scale by providing ready-made sets that would have been expensive and sometimes impractical to create in the studio. It also makes it possible to see a genuine skyline in daylight and the cold breath from mouths at night, and allows the foundry workers to carry out real smelting and casting. [www.cineoutsider.com]
Note:
enthält außerdem:
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light - Part 4 (2016)
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engl. / UT: engl. für Hörgesch.
Language:
English
Keywords:
DVD-Video
