Schatten der Vergangenheit

Originaltitel: Dead Again

1991
16
1 Std. 47 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

30.925

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in Schatten der Vergangenheit (1991)

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Whodunnit Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

Eine Frau, die ihr Gedächtnis verloren hat, wird in einem Waisenhaus in Los Angeles aufgenommen, und ein Privatdetektiv wird angeheuert, um ihre Identität aufzuspüren.Eine Frau, die ihr Gedächtnis verloren hat, wird in einem Waisenhaus in Los Angeles aufgenommen, und ein Privatdetektiv wird angeheuert, um ihre Identität aufzuspüren.Eine Frau, die ihr Gedächtnis verloren hat, wird in einem Waisenhaus in Los Angeles aufgenommen, und ein Privatdetektiv wird angeheuert, um ihre Identität aufzuspüren.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,8/10

30.925

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 Gewinn & 5 Nominierungen insgesamt

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This movie was shot entirely in color. It was decided during editing, however, that the movement between past and present could be made clearer by printing the Roman and Margaret scenes in black-and-white. Director Sir Kenneth Branagh comments on the DVD that the costume and set designers were disappointed by this, because they would have used different colors for those scenes, which would photograph better in black-and-white, had they known this.

Patzer
In the opening credits, the newspaper stories (other than the obvious headlines) consist of the same five paragraphs printed 37 times in succession.

Zitate
Cozy Carlisle: Someone's either a smoker or a nonsmoker. There's no in-between. The trick is to find out which one you are and be that.
Mike Church: Yeah, well, you know, I'm - I'm trying to quit. So...
Cozy Carlisle: Don't tell me you're trying to quit. People who say they are trying to quit are basically pussies who cannot commit. Find out which one you are. Be that. That's it. If you're a nonsmoker, you'll know.

Crazy Credits
Jo Anderson and Patrick Doyle are each credited twice for their dual roles in this movie.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: David Steinberg/Kenneth Branagh/The Harper Brothers (1991)

Soundtracks
Lush Life
Written by Billy Strayhorn

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8/10

I liked it a lot

Now I don't think Dead Again is a classic or a masterpiece, but I did find it very entertaining. One flaw with the film is that it is a little too long, by about four or so minutes. The other flaw I had was that I felt the ending was overdone, though not as overdone as the remake of The Wicker Man thank goodness. Still Dead Again is stylish, dark and entertaining, with stunning cinematography and film noir and Hitchockian elements, eccentric plotting, the usual twists and turns and a good script.

Another strong asset was the score, the opening theme was very bombastic and haunting. The direction is decent, and the acting was fine. Kenneth Branagh acquits himself well in a very difficult dual role, one of the cynical LA private detective and the other of the composer executed for the murder of his wife back in 1949, while Emma Thompson is terrific also in a dual role as an amnesiac woman obsessed with scissors and is suffering from nightmares of somebody else's life and the composer's wife.

Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams and Wayne Knight are also fine in their supporting roles, Jacobi especially. Overall, this is definitely worth watching even with its flaws. 8/10 Bethany Cox