Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

OLIVER TWIST

OLIVER TWIST

Roman Polański
France, 2005, 128 Min
Julia Scheile

England in the mid-19th century. Oliver Twist grows up in an orphanage, surrounded by poverty, denied warmth and security. Finding himself apprenticed to a gravedigger, he flees to London. His new life in the foreign, great city hardly gets off to a fortuitous start: he falls into the clutches of Fagin, the notorious boss of a gang of orphan pickpockets. The unscrupulous crook Bill Sykes is an even more fearsome figure, who insists that Oliver must also be trained in the art of picking pockets. Before Oliver’s prospects eventually begins to look brighter, there’s a few more trials to be endured.

Each new generation succumbs to the breathtaking and timeless tale of Oliver Twist, the orphan who dared to ask for more. Roman Polański revived the world-famous classic with a film adaptation more elaborate and spectacular than any of its predecessors. He created visual worlds of stunning visual power, steeped himself in the sinister atmosphere of a bygone age and in the fascinating world of Charles Dickens, one of the great Victorian novelists.

Supported by the same crew that worked on his Oscar-winning THE PIANIST (2002), Polański throws new light on a story known to young and old alike – vivid, imaginative and timeless.

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Ronald Harwood
Kamera
Pawel Edelman
Ton
Jean-Marie Blondel
Schnitt
Herve de Luze
Ausstattung
Anna Sheppard, Allan Starski
Musik
Rachel Porter
Darsteller
Barney Clark, Jeremy Swift, Ian McNeice, Richard Durden, Timothy Bateson, Andy de la Tour
Produzent
Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde, Roman Polanski
Produktion
Runteam Ltd. London
Co-Produktion
ETIC Films, Meduga Produzione, R. P. Productions
Kontakt
Julia Scheile
TOBIS Film GmbH & Co. KG
Pacelliallee 47
14195 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49.30.839.007 0
Fax: +49.30.839 007 65
julia.scheile@tobis.de
Roman Polański

Roman Polański - born 1933 in Paris, of Jewish-Polish descent. After the end of the war he worked for radio and theatre and wrote radio plays for children. He studied directing at PWSFTViT in Łódż from 1954 to 1959, emigrated to the USA in the 1960s and now lives in France and Poland.

Movies
NÓŻ W WODZIE (1962)
REPULSION (1965)
CUL-DE-SAC (1965)
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967)
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)
MACBETH (1971)
CHE? (1973)
CHINATOWN (1974)
LE LOCATAIRE (1976)
TESS (1979)
PIRATES (1986)
FRANTIC (1988)
LUNES DE FIEL (1992)
THE DEATH AND THE MAIDEN (1994)
THE NINTH GATE (1999)
THE PIANIST (2002, Cottbus 2002)