Swept from the Sea
- Vincent Perez: Yanko Gooral
- Rachel Weisz: Amy Foster
- Ian McKellen: Dr. James Kennedy
- Tom Bell: Isaac Foster
- Zoe Wanamaker: Mary Foster
- Joss Ackland: Mr. Swaffer
- Kathy Bates: Miss Swaffer
Amy Foster - from the Sea ( Swept from the Sea ) is an American film drama of Beeban Kidron from the year 1997 The screenplay by Tim Willocks is based on the novel Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad in 1901. .
Action
The action takes place in Cornwall at the end of the 19th century. Yanko Gooral is the only survivor of the sinking of a ship with the lead Ukrainian emigrants. As the first people after the disaster encountered Gooral the young Amy Foster; she takes care of him for a few days and they fall in love, even though they can not understand each other. Since Gooral does not speak a word of English, meet the other villagers Gooral after his rapid recovery with great suspicion; He is classified as a madman and has to work as a slave.
Amy is an outsider in the village because of their difficult, taciturn character. She often wanders alone on the coast around, collects lying around flotsam and hoarding it in a cave like a treasure. Her parents, the cynical and hardened Isaac Mary, Amy has a strained relationship; especially Isaac throws her of ruining his life, because Mary had already been pregnant before her marriage.
Gooral befriends with Dr. James Kennedy, for he is as a replacement son. Kennedy had once even family, but they lost tragically and now lives alone. Gooral turns out to be more intelligent, docile pupil, and gradually learns English. When he has earned with better working some money, he buys a suit and Amy makes the yard. Finally, he stops her hand. Amy's parents balk at this link; in bitter dispute eventually turns out that Amy was not witnessed by Isaac, but by his father Isaac and thus is not Amy's father, but her half-brother.
Some men from the village to talk to in a drunken state one night in rage and let your anger out on Yanko of who comes with Amy at random. You almost drown him in the sea, Amy can rush to his aid, he is patched up by the doctor, however, has swallowed a lot of water and get into the lungs, of which he never fully recovered.
Mr. Swaffer, a fellow with Dr. Kennedy landowners, the young family gives a house and a substantial piece of land that they soon begin to manage. Against the odds Gooral and Amy can enforce their marriage, and soon takes Amy a healthy baby boy, whom she "Johnny" calls.
Gooral ill with pneumonia, how many villagers in this harsh winter and when one night a storm comes up, Amy calls the Doctor but can not stay, because it still has many other patients, but promises to come back. In delirium he begins again to speak in his foreign language. The doctor will be delayed by the storm. Gooral fever rises from his bed and pressed Amy in increasingly threatening manner until she finally flees in panic with the child out of the house. She is looking for help with their parents, the mother rejects rude and reproachfully. When Dr. Kennedy comes to the house, he finds Gooral before dying. It turns out that he had wanted nothing further of Amy as a glass of water.
In the period after death Goorals Dr. Kennedy Amy is angry because of the ease with which they seem about the death of her husband is away. He told the paralyzed Miss Swaffer the whole story, which then reminds him how he once had to repress and forget the loss of his family to live on can. Dr. Kennedy realizes that he has done wrong Amy; he goes to her and apologizes to her.
Reviews
James Berardinelli called the film on ReelViews as " failed". The film try " with a mixture of comedy and tragedy to touch the heart ," but neither the comic nor tragic scenes would work - the latter due to the extremely poor representations.
The lexicon of international film wrote thought the film was " not persuasive " and wake " no feelings ", although he would conceived as " emotional film ." He was " failed in every respect " and call " boredom and involuntary mirth " out.
Background
The the film underlying narrative of Joseph Conrad has parallels to Conrad's own life: He came as a Polish sailor to England and met the foreign language he good enough later to publish short stories and novels, of which today counted to world literature some be.
The film was shot in England, particularly in Cornwall, rotated. It had its world premiere on September 9, 1997 at the Toronto Film Festival. The film played in the cinemas of the USA, a 280,000 U.S. dollars.