Where Angels Fear to Tread (film)

Angels Fear to Tread is a British film directed by Charles Sturridge based on the novel by EM Forster. The main roles Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves and Helen Mirren act. The film was launched on June 21, 1991 in England and arrived on 9 January 1992 in the German cinemas.

Action

On a trip with her ​​young friend Caroline Abbott in Tuscany falls in love Lilia Herriton in a significantly younger Italians and in the country itself, so she decides to stay there. Out of anger the family of her deceased husband's brother and his sister Lilias sent to Italy to prevent a unstandesgemäße marriage. But they are too late. Lilia marries the Italians and becomes pregnant in due course. When she dies giving birth to the child, the Herritons see obliged and entitled to travel to Monteriano to take custody of the infant, so that he can grow up as an Englishman.

Background

As with rooms with views of Italy and its inhabitants are presented with an irresistible charm that ultimately Caroline Abbott fell into disrepair.

In the novel, the story ends in tragedy, but in the film the final with a new scene indicated positive.

The film is mistaken for a production of James Ivory, because he filmed the Forster novels room with a view and Howards End.

Criticism

" The social and psychological problem of xenophobia as the theme of a literary adaptation, despite the tasteful furnishings and ground dialogs do not succeed to use the current volatility of the substance. "

Soundtrack

  • Rachel Portman, Gaetano Donizetti: Where Angels Fear to Tread. Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Virgin Records, S. L. 1991, Media -No. CDV 2671 - original stereophonic recording of the film music by the Hungarian Film & Television Orchestra and The London Independent Players under the direction of David Snell
1991 in film Screenplay Tim Sullivan (director) Film score Michael Coulter Fictional film E. M. Forster A Room with a View (1985 film)
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