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Flüsternde Wände

Originaltitel: The Whisperers
  • 1967
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 46 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
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Edith Evans in Flüsternde Wände (1967)
Drama

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA lonely elderly Englishwoman talks to herself and hears voices talking about her.A lonely elderly Englishwoman talks to herself and hears voices talking about her.A lonely elderly Englishwoman talks to herself and hears voices talking about her.

  • Regie
    • Bryan Forbes
  • Drehbuch
    • Robert Nicolson
    • Bryan Forbes
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Edith Evans
    • Nanette Newman
    • Harry Baird
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  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    7,1/10
    1612
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Bryan Forbes
    • Drehbuch
      • Robert Nicolson
      • Bryan Forbes
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Edith Evans
      • Nanette Newman
      • Harry Baird
    • 44Benutzerrezensionen
    • 17Kritische Rezensionen
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    • Für 1 Oscar nominiert
      • 9 Gewinne & 4 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Edith Evans
    Edith Evans
    • Mrs. Ross
    Nanette Newman
    Nanette Newman
    • The Girl Upstairs
    Harry Baird
    Harry Baird
    • The Man Upstairs
    Jack Austin
    • Police Sergeant
    Gerald Sim
    Gerald Sim
    • Mr. Conrad
    Lionel Gamlin
    Lionel Gamlin
    • Mr. Conrad's Colleague
    Glen Farmer
    • 1st Redeemer
    Oliver MacGreevy
    • 2nd Redeemer
    Ronald Fraser
    Ronald Fraser
    • Charlie Ross
    Kenneth Griffith
    Kenneth Griffith
    • Mr. Weaver
    Avis Bunnage
    Avis Bunnage
    • Mrs. Noonan
    John Orchard
    John Orchard
    • Grogan
    Peter Thompson
    • Publican
    Sarah Forbes
    • Mrs. Ross When Young
    Penny Spencer
    Penny Spencer
    • Mavis Noonan
    Kaplan Kaye
    • Jimmie Noonan
    Michael Robbins
    Michael Robbins
    • Mr. Noonan
    Frank Singuineau
    Frank Singuineau
    • Negro Doctor
    • Regie
      • Bryan Forbes
    • Drehbuch
      • Robert Nicolson
      • Bryan Forbes
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    8killercharm

    Dame Edith Evans is a knockout

    Dame Edith Evans is a knockout playing Mrs. Ross, a lone old woman who not only hears whispering but believes it to be voices talking to her from inside her radio, and not the broadcast. She believes the voices to be hostile. We therefore see that she is losing grip as time wears on and she lives her solitary life. This movie is great, strong and sad. Turns out the reason she's on her own is that both her husband and her son are rats. One gets imprisoned and one is a drunk living in an SRO. It's her son who's imprisoned but not before he leaves a stash of cash in her hoarder-house. Well. We've all certainly seen enough movies to know that cash can only bring trouble, which it does in the form of Avis Bunnage, who delivers another power performance as the ne'er-do-well who finds Mrs. Ross and takes her home. Alas, the treatment of this woman who is well and truly alone will break your heart.
    8Weirdling_Wolf

    moodily shot in darkly evocative monochrome, Brian Forbes's singularly bleak 'The Moodily shot in darkly evocative monochrome, Brian Forbes's singularly bleak 'The Whisperers'

    The supremely versatile film-maker, Bryan Forbes directs a remarkably bleak and eerily unsettling treatise on the multifarious cruelties inherent with old age. 'The Whisperers' (1967) remains a forceful, extraordinarily persuasive work of melancholic cinema that has lost none of its considerable power to enthral and perturb with equally forceful cinematic rigour! It would be greatly remiss of me if I failed to praise maestro, John Barry's truly magnificent score!

    No small admirer of, Brian Forbes's dazzlingly ecclectic cinema, I passionately believe that 'The Whisperers' remains one of his finest films. Exquisitely shot, with exemplary performances, the magisterial, Edith Evans on positively mesmeric form, movingly delivering one of cinema's most genuinely affecting performances. It is tantamount to a cultural travesty that this monochrome masterpiece has long been allowed to mildew away in undeserved obscurity. 'The Whisperers', along with the equally unsettling existential nightmare 'Séance on a Wet Afternoon' are arguably two of the more compelling dramas produced during the UK's dynamic Renaissance of the 1960s. Hopefully some tasteful, forward-thinking celluloid archivist might soon release this exceptionally fine film on a restored, features-packed Blu-ray!
    7mukava991

    beautiful ugliness

    This grim tale about the loneliness and vulnerability of old age, set in what must be the most rundown section of Manchester, manages to touch us in an unsentimental manner. Its chief quality is the crisply photographed slum in which it largely takes place, like the last remains of the 19th century surviving into the post-War 20th. The protagonist, Margaret Ross, played by the stately Edith Evans, lives in a cluttered ground floor flat in this urban wasteland of rain-slicked cobblestone streets without cars or pedestrians, but an abundance of crumbling brick walls, gutted buildings and stray cats. The opening credit sequence of grey rooftops under rainy skies is particularly striking.

    At home she looks through newspapers, eats bread with honey, sips tea and listens to radio as her sink faucet drips, drips, drips. She constantly hears voices (the "whisperers" of the title) and turns up the radio to drown them out. When the upstairs neighbors, an interracial couple with an infant, pound on the floor in protest, she pounds back on the ceiling with a broomstick and is showered with bits of plaster. (We see the bald patch from where the plaster has fallen but the absence of other patches means that she has never before banged on the ceiling; this strand of the story would have been more convincing if more of the ceiling was similarly defaced.) When not talking to the imagined voices, she spends her solitary life visiting the library where she surreptitiously warms her feet on the heating pipes, collecting welfare from a local government office where she makes frequent references to her good breeding and high-class family connections, listening to sermons at a local evangelical storefront chapel, and tending to household chores which seem to consist mostly of emptying large quantities of dust, coal ashes and bottles and cans from which she derives most of her nourishment.

    Evans brings dignity to the role but somehow she does not seem to be the right actress for the part. Margaret Ross is a woman of humble origins. Evans is a thoroughbred. True, she does claim that she married beneath herself, but that would be putting it mildly. Still, she has the acting skills to keep us entertained, and she gets brilliant support from the secondary players: Eric Portman as her surly husband, Avis Bunnage as a predatory welfare mom and Gerald Sim as a welfare clerk add a great deal to the overall presentation. Leonard Rossiter, too, shows up for a strong few minutes as a government official. And John Barry supplies a melancholy but unobtrusive musical score.

    Evans got an Oscar nomination for this performance. Fair enough. But I think Gerry Turpin should have also gotten one for his beautiful cinematography.
    JudyMark77

    EDITH EVANS IS MAGNIFICENT

    this is a great performance another example of the academy awards not giving it to the rightful owner...i love kate hepburn but lets face it THIS performance deserved it...this is one of thoses performances that you are so grateful that film can perserve...edith evans is so great and yet so sad in the starring role... it is a most depressing film and one that is not to be seen if one is depressed but for an actor to see a great actress in her glory this is one of those experiences indeed...i always admired edith evans but never more than in this picture..of aging and how awful it can be to anyone so treat yourself to an unusual experience and see the whispers...
    8MOscarbradley

    The bleakest of kitchen sink dramas

    This may be the bleakest of all the 'kitchen sink' movies, (it is unremittingly gloomy) and Bryan Forbes' picture of the British Welfare State in the 1960's has an almost Dickensian feel to it. But then Forbes always seemed to work better with subjects which didn't lend themselves to levity.

    It's the story of Mrs Ross, a pensioner living on her own and beset by the voices one hears when one is so lonely and in the part Edith Evans is quite magnificent. If you think Evans too patrician for the part of an old woman living in a working class district of an industrial, mostly derelict and rain-sodden city, she does point out that 'she married beneath her' and since she is hardly ever off the screen this is a real tour-de-force, (and she was nominated for the Oscar for it as well as winning a whole slew of other awards). There are also first-rate supporting performances from the wonderful Avis Bunnage and the always consistently reliable Gerald Sim and Eric Portman, terrific as her errand husband). Unfortunately the film's sub-plots involving stolen money and some gangsters seems superfluous and gives the film a somewhat melodramatic air and its down-beat mood meant it was never a popular success and it is hardly ever revived. But seek it out, all the same; it is certainly worth seeing.

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    • Wissenswertes
      The director Bryan Forbes and Nanette Newman, who played the upstairs neighbor, were husband and wife.
    • Patzer
      The old kitchen curtain is shown in scene after Archie leaves, while Margaret is moping around the apartment. The new curtains are shown again after she returns from seeing Mr. Conrad at the National Assistance Board.
    • Zitate

      Archie Ross: What kind of job might it be, sir?

      Mr. Conrad: Doorman at a cinema.

      Archie Ross: Oh, wonderful. Nice and healthy and in the open.

      Mr. Conrad: The healthiest jobs, Mr. Ross, are the ones you keep.

    • Verbindungen
      Version of ITV Play of the Week: The Whisperers (1961)
    • Soundtracks
      Shall We Gather at the River?
      (uncredited)

      Written by Robert Lowry

      Performed by Edith Evans and mission attendees

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 18. Juli 1967 (Westdeutschland)
    • Herkunftsland
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
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      • The Whisperers
    • Drehorte
      • Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, Vereinigtes Königreich
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      • Seven Pines
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