Réalisation:
Keith GordonScénario:
Robert B. WeideMusique:
Michael ConvertinoActeurs·trices:
Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, Arye Gross, Frankie Faison, Gerard Parkes, Vlasta Vrana, Zach Grenier, Kirsten Dunst, John Goodman (plus)Résumés(1)
Keith Gordon's darkly comic film version of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s highly original novel stars Nick Nolte as Howard J. Campbell Jr., an unusual antihero with a twisted story to tell. The tale begins in a Israeli prison cell, where Campbell is on trial for WWII war crimes. Campbell is given a typewriter and enough paper to recount his bizarre memoir, which appears as a series of black-and-white and color scenes that shift between 1940s Germany, 1950s New York, and 1960s Israel. The American Campbell and his parents relocate to Germany between the two world wars and live a happy life. Campbell grows up to be a playwright and marries a beautiful German actress, Helga Noth (Sheryl Lee). On a day like any other, Campbell's life takes a bizarre turn as he is offered a top-secret assignment by a U.S. government official (John Goodman in an unbilled role)--to pose as a Nazi sympathizer while relaying secret American code via the radio. Campbell successfully accomplishes his mission by starting an anti-American, anti-Semitic radio program that is revered in Nazi Germany and deplored in America. In a strange twist of fate, the unknown American playwright becomes a well-known German celebrity. After the war, Campbell escapes Germany and flees to New York, preferring to remain anonymous in the booming city. Years later, Campbell's life is turned upside down when he is recognized and pursued by Holocaust survivors, eager white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and U.S. law enforcers, leading to his incarceration in the Israeli prison where he awaits his fate. As Campbell, Nolte gives one of the finest performances of his career. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Acteurs·trices
Nick Nolte
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Warrior (2011)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
U-Turn, ici commence l'enfer (1997)
Sheryl Lee
Allemagne de l'Ouest
Meilleurs films :
Twin Peaks - Fire Walk With Me (1992)
Sailor et Lula (1990)
Twin Peaks : Les pièces manquantes du dossier (2014)
Alan Arkin
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Seule dans la nuit (1967)
Edward aux mains d'argent (1990)
Le Coeur est un chasseur solitaire (1968)
Arye Gross
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Minority Report (2002)
Mother Night (1996)
Big Eden (2000)
Frankie Faison
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Le Silence des agneaux (1991)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Gerard Parkes
Irlande
Meilleurs films :
Les Anges de Boston (1999)
Ralph (2004)
Mother Night (1996)
Vlasta Vrana
Norvège
Meilleurs films :
Wicker Park (2004)
Eye of the Wolf (1995) (téléfilm)
Mother Night (1996)
Zach Grenier
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Fight Club (1999)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Zodiac (2007)
Kirsten Dunst
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Entretien avec un vampire (1994)
Les Quatre Filles du Dr March (1994)
John Goodman
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Monstres & Cie (2001)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Cars, quatre roues (2006)
David Strathairn
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
L.A. Confidential (1997)
La Vengeance dans la peau (2007)
Temple Grandin (2010) (téléfilm)
Henry Gibson
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Magnolia (1999)
Slow Burn (1986) (téléfilm)
Mother Night (1996)
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
États-Unis
Meilleurs films :
Mother Night (1996)
First Man - Le premier homme sur la Lune (2018) - i.a.
À fond la fac (1986)
Bronwen Mantel
Canada
Meilleurs films :
Laurence Anyways (2012)
Crazy Moon (1987)
Mother Night (1996)
Richard Jutras
Meilleurs films :
Le 20ème Siècle (2019)
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Wicker Park (2004)
Don Jordan
Meilleurs films :
Mother Night (1996)
The Wool Cap (2004) (téléfilm)
Stardom (2000)
Bernard Behrens
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Colombo (1971) (série)
Mother Night (1996)
Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Norman Rodway
Grande-Bretagne
Meilleurs films :
Falstaff (1965)
The Hiding Place (1975)
Mother Night (1996)
Michael John Fedun
Canada
Meilleurs films :
Mother Night (1996)
Phileine zegt sorry (2003)