Ein Mann zu jeder Jahreszeit (1966)
62KEin Mann zu jeder Jahreszeit: Directed by Fred Zinnemann. With Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw. The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
“This is one of my favorite films. It is of perfect length and pacing, and the script is one of the best ever written. The acting, direction, and design of this movie are uniformly excellent. The segue into Henry VIIIu0026#39;s entrance is alone reason for seeing the movie. The production design is top-notch, both beautiful and–unlike many u0026quot;costume dramasu0026quot;–not so overwhelming as to lose the actors among outrageous sets and costumes. For an adaptation of a stage play, a remarkable proportion of the action taking place outdoors, with Moreu0026#39;s house at Chelsea being particularly lovely.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enItu0026#39;s very easy to see this film superficially as a moral fable, and many people scoff at it as being a stagy morality play. But itu0026#39;s both more subtle and more vibrant that that. The subtlety of Robert Boltu0026#39;s script lies in its exploration of identity. Weu0026#39;re not meant to identify or admire Moreu0026#39;s religious ideas, which the movie actually tiptoes around. Instead itu0026#39;s what Bolt called Moreu0026#39;s u0026quot;adamantine sense of his own selfu0026quot; that the movie really highlights.”
