Julia (1977 film)

Julia is a film drama, released in 1977, distributed by 20th Century Fox, and is based on the autobiographical book Julia ( Pentimento ) by Lillian Hellman. It describes the close friendship between two American women against the background of National Socialism. Both Vanessa Redgrave, who won an Oscar for it, as well as Jane Fonda impressed by their acting skills and also with the public, the film was a success.

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Julia, from a wealthy Jewish family, and Lillian Hellman have been friends since early childhood. Julia studied medicine at Oxford and Vienna ( inter alia with Sigmund Freud) during the rise of National Socialism mid-1930s and is politically active. Other hand, Hellman suggests a career as a playwright and lives together with the older crime writer Dashiell Hammett in New England. The film shows both in a beach house where she has reached a deadlock when writing and her childhood friend recalls, with whom she remained in correspondence. She studied her friend - the beat goes on crutches by the Nazis - in short, in Vienna. Shortly thereafter, it disappears without notice from the hospital. A few years later, Hellman is invited as a recognized writer after the success of her piece "A Children's Hour " in the Soviet Union. Julia brings about the contact Johann to smuggle in transit through Germany money for the resistance movement. In Berlin, they meet one last time. Hellman learns that Julia has a child in Alsace, that they named it after her friend Lily. She promises to be necessary to take care of the child. After returning to the States she learns that Julia was murdered, which is only hinted at in the film. Research by Hellman for the child were unsuccessful, and the family Julia wants to hear about it.

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Academy Awards

  • Jason Robards Best Supporting Actor
  • Vanessa Redgrave for Best Supporting Actress
  • Alvin Sargent Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Nominations: Best Picture ( Richard Roth as producer)
  • Nomination: Best Director Fred Zinnemann
  • Nomination: Best Actress Jane Fonda
  • Nomination: Best Supporting Actor Maximilian Schell
  • Nomination: Douglas Slocombe best camera
  • Nomination: Best Costume Design Anthea Sylbert
  • Nomination: Walter Murch best editing

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ( AMPAS )

  • Best Editing

BAFTA Awards

  • Richard Roth for Best Picture
  • Jane Fonda Best Actress
  • Alvin Sargent Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Douglas Slocombe Best Cinematography

Others

The role of Julia Faye Dunaway was first offered, refused. The role of the Hellman were offered Barbra Streisand, who rejected them. The Julia should then originally Jane Fonda play that but then the Hellman took over, as there were problems with the occupation role. Meryl Streep has here her first film role, as Lisa Pelikan.

Lillian Hellman comes in a shadowy cameo at the beginning and end of the film before ( in a boat sitting).

The avowed socialist Vanessa Redgrave took the Academy Awards in 1978 for a militant anti-Israel speech at Jewish demonstrators protesting against their commitment to the Palestinians. This caused a scandal and harm to her career in Hollywood sustainable.

Reviews

" [ ... ] Sensitively staged, in the description of the political situation in the mid 30s atmospherically dense and by good representation humanly convincing. "

" Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave act with that strained awareness that always ' is considered, Academy ripe. Only plays Jason Robards, Miss Hellman's life companion Dashiell Hammett, counteracts the sweet theatricality of the film with knurrigem understatement. Julia ' is anything but a new, even politically accented women's film, at best a half-hearted remake of Hollywood's best, soap operas - '. "

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