Animal Farm (1954 film)

Revolt of the Animals is an animated film by John Halas and Joy Batchelor from 1954, which is based on the fable Animal Farm from 1945 by George Orwell. This film is also titled Animal Farm - known revolt of the animals. He is considered the first European animated film production in Long playing time.

In short, it comes in this fable about that a reign of terror is replaced by another. The novelist dealt in his novels with political systems of government, particularly the dictatorship. One of the most famous of his works is the novel 1984., They are assigned the Utopian genre of dystopias.

Action

For Table of Contents see the main article: Animal Farm.

The plot closely adheres largely to the presentation, but the end differs significantly. The pigs do not begin to do with the human common cause, but can trigger " animalistic world revolution ", enter the course on each farm the pigs to power and it should pursue the goal of the other animals with less and less food is always a work more to make. In the very last scene of the movie the oppressed creatures launch a second revolution, this time against the rule of the pigs.

The animal forms are created metaphorically and make allegorical figures such as Karl Marx, Lenin ( the boar Old Major), Leon Trotsky ( the pig Snowball ) or Stalin ( the pig Napoleon ) represents a second, more harmless, approach is that of the animated children's film. The film was financed during the Cold War, with money from the CIA, the world premiere took place in New York City, then the German premiere in June 1955 at the Berlinale in Berlin, in Australia 1961 at the Adelaide Film Festival and re- re-release in Germany 1982nd The film has been dubbed into ten languages.

Synchronization

While in the original version, only two speakers are heard ( Gordon Heath and Maurice Denham as the narrator as all other voices and animal sounds ), Eberhard Cronshagen reached with the German processing back to several speakers.

Book editions

  • George Orwell: Animal Farm. A Fairy Story [ Textbook, with materials ]. Klett, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-12-573802-7 ( English text edition of Penguin Books, see also: Penguin, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-103613-7 ).
  • George Orwell: Animal Farm. A fairy tale. Illustrated by Friedrich Karl Waechter (original edition: Animal Farm A Fairy Story, newly translated by Michael Walter and with a newfound preface the author [ as epilogue ]. ). Diogenes, Zurich 2005 ( German edition 1982), ISBN 978-3-257-20118-5. ( Diogenes Paperback detebe. 20118 ).
  • Reiner Poppe: George Orwell: Animal Farm. In: King Notes, Volume 109, 4th, updated and corrected edition, worry, Hollfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-8044-1697-0.

Reviews

  • Stefan Höltgen: Pigs System, May 12, 2009 www.f- lm.de
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