The British Director has filmed the famous evacuation action to the Northern coast of France during the Second world war. The 107 minutes of film to give the audience a Live feel.
The British Director Christopher Nolan is considered to be the exception-rounder. The anticipation of his Film “Dunkirk” was on the war epic is one of the most anticipated cinema events of the year. In London it has now (13.7.) its world premiere experienced. The Film comes out on 19. July in the American cinema and starts at the end of the month in Germany.
Dunkirk: the Moral victory of the allies
Nolan has adapted the historical events surrounding the battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque) for the cinema. Under the name of “Operation Dynamo” were ships around 340,000 British, French and Belgian soldiers, with the war, but also many of the smaller private boats via the sea route from the Northern French coast to England to be evacuated. The allied troops of the German army at Dunkirk, surrounded.
Red carpet for “Dunkirk”, cast and Prince Harry
The events in the few days between the 26. May and the 4. June 1940 took place, have been digging deep in the British folk soul. Even if the British and the French were taken by the Germans after a military defeat in the pliers, the largely successful evacuation strengthened in retrospect, the perseverance, especially of the British soldiers. The events were perceived by many as a “moral victory” over Nazi Germany.
Nolan wants viewers to “fear of death” can feel
When it became known that Christopher Nolan wanted to deal with his current film project with the famous battle of Dunkirk, many thought of another far ausholendes, long war epic to the screen. But Nolan had something else in mind: “a Lot of films about the Second world war, which I admire actually, that’s exactly where outdated today: the section on the map where someone stands by and explained everything to us,” revealed the Director, now in an Interview with the “süddeutsche Zeitung”.
Fleeing from German attacks from the air in “Dunkirk”
“I want to bring the audience to this beach, with the fear of death, the uncertainty of whether they can Survive this. As if you were there live,” says Nolan about his intention to convey to the viewers a realistic impression of the events on the French coast. Dramatic and spectacularly staged battle scenes on Land, on water and in the sky in the cinema for a visual roller-coaster ride.
Christopher Nolan: Director of Blockbuster with claim
The Briton stands with his previous work for spectacular overwhelm cinema in the smart art. Already his first films “Memento” and “Insomnia” were fascinating journeys into the subconscious of your film’s protagonists, and explored the boundaries between truth, reality, imagination and dream. After that, succeeded the British, to transfer the Mix of entertainment and artistry in the more expensive Blockbuster productions.
Kenneth Branagh plays the British Commander Bolton
Both of his Batman movies (“The Dark Knight”) as well as in his Science-Fiction epics (“Interstellar”) facilities and spectacular moments of Tension as well as aesthetic. Without a doubt, Nolan belongs to the worldwide limited circle of Directors, the places with a lot of money from Hollywood very intelligent entertainment with depth on the legs.
“Dunkirk”: No Superstars from Hollywood, not a figure of identification
And so both is also “Dunkirk” cinema for the masses, but also for those viewers who are interested in new game types of the seventh art. The Film does not over-wide lines on dialogs, and a Central character with which the audience can identify. It is primarily three narrative strands and perspectives are spreading that Nolan in front of the spectators: Two British soldiers on the coast, two men in boats, as well as a British Pilot to advance the plot.
In the case of the actors, the Director refrained from deliberately on current Superstars from Hollywood and occupied the roles exclusively with European models: “This is unusual for Hollywood, and it is also a risk,” said Nolan to the SZ. He said the producing Studio, as he wanted to make it: “in all seriousness and with respect for the historical facts.” With the British singer Harry Styles (“One Direction”) in the role of a young soldier.
Each boat will be used for evacuation to England
Also, the restriction to the case of this topic, unusual short duration of the game, 107 compact Film-minutes, were a conscious decision of the Director. Nolan wanted to appeal to the audience emotionally: “It is not a classic war film. The enemy is not named once, it’s only on the brink of war policy, and we see the German hardly, except in their aircraft.” He didn’t want to be a “fundamental, universal, almost biblical sense”: “The children of Israel trapped at the Red sea beach, in the back of the Egyptians,” the Director says in the Interview.
Germany’s Hans Zimmer contributed the Soundtrack
The Film, which was filmed last year, mostly at the original locations, and contributed to the German Hollywood-composer Hans Zimmer, the music, is traded from the American film journalists already as a hot Oscar candidate for 2018.
Prince Harry welcomes the world premiere of the singer and actor Harry Styles
Look at you should the cinema, “Dunkirk”, where possible, on the big screen in an IMAX. The Film was shot with 70-mm cameras, which allows for very high resolution and sharp images. Christopher Nolan is regarded as a self-confessed Fan of analog film materials and the performance practice of movies in large cinemas.
Nolan: “This experience of Seeing you.”
In the SZ-Interview, Nolan revealed to the audience, as he has each of the scenes of the “Dunkirk” looked during the filming and gives you a bit of advice: “It is the cinema, where I look at everything, in every Phase of post production. The canvas is 18 meters high, there are real rolls of film in the projector, the 70-Millimeter Film, super are not yet sharp and high contrast. This experience of Seeing you.” If it were up to him, so Nolan should make this experience the best way to every spectator: “This traditional art is any digital projection superior to.”
More to Christoper Nolan’s latest Film “Dunkirk” in the new issue of CINEMA, there is also a report about Sönke Wortmann’s “summer festival” and a view to a possible German hit movie of the summer: “Bullyparade”.