DVDs: Derek Jacobi

Dieser Film ist einfach nur schön.
Einer der besten Filme, die in den letzten Jahren zu sehen waren, es wird einem einfach warm ums Herz.

Eine traumhafte Handlung, die man den Schauspieleren trotz der stellenweise sehr märchenhaften Handlung in jeder Sekunde voll abnimmt. Diagnose, einfach sehenswet.

"Ich habe geklopft..."

einfach zauberhaft!      5 von 5 Punkten
ich bin zwar schon 30 jahre, aber dieser film hat mich verzaubert. ich habe ihn inzwischen schon ca. 5x gesehn.
obwohl der film in englisch ist, kann man ihn sehr leicht verstehen. die tolle filmkulisse und die bezaubernden kostüme sind die reinste augenweide .. und man darf auf keinen fall vergessen: if you don't want me, but you need me - i will stay!
if you want me, but you don't need me - i will go!

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You guest it; Sister Hilaria is found in the ice and the last time she was seen was with Brother Oswain of who is delirious from an encounter with bandits. Two kids are missing and a mysterious woodsman (with a sward) is creeping around. Things only get more complicated. In the process of sorting this out Father Cadfael leaves words of wisdom as "There is no shame in tears when they are worth shedding."

The identity of the mysterious woodsman holds great significance.

Spannend und Mysteriös!!!      5 von 5 Punkten
Es ist der Winter, der ein grausames Geheimnis konserviert hat. Mit der Gründlichkeit von modernen Pathologen und ausgereifter Heilkunst sowie seiner stärksten und für das Mittelalter ungewöhnlichsten Waffe, der Logik, setzt Cadfael Mosaikstück für Stück zunächst völlig zusammenhangsloser Teile zusammen. Dabei kommt Cadfael ohne zu wissen, seiner eigenen Vergangenheit sehr nah.......

You know this is going to be a good one when it starts out with a bloody face staring at you. Later there is the bragging priest and you know if he is not the one to die that he should be. And what is with the soon to be bride playing on both sides of the fence?

A new novice that speaks strangely in his sleep, a missing king's chaplain who should have staid in the cars or rather not go out alone, and a mystery wild man is just the right mix for a murder mystery.

Once again Cadfael uses forensics, logic and intuition (with a little last minute information) to smoke out the truth and bring the culprit/s to justice.
You will suspect everyone up to the end.

Spannend bis zuletzt!!!      5 von 5 Punkten
Schreie in der Nacht schrecken die Klosterbrüder wiederholt auf. Was ist mit dem neu dazugekommenen Bruder, der Nacht für Nacht im Schlaf schreit,Ungereimtheiten spricht und pfeift?????Fragen über Fragen die Cadfael mit gewohnter Gründlichkeit auf den Grund geht und wieder einmal beweisen kann und muss, das Schein nicht immer Sein bedeutet.

Shrewsbury needs a new priest. Due to the civil war between Empress Maud and King Stephen 12th-century England the priest is picked for his political leanings.
A local girl is having an illegitimate child and asks Cadfael for confession. Cadfael explains only a priest can do that.
Father Ailnoth, the new parish priest to Shrewsbury, earns the scorn of his parishioners. After refusing to absolver a parishioner for carrying an illegitimate child; later the priest is found dead in the river. There are plenty of suspects but a shortage of clues.

This leads to a scuffle between the merchants and the visiting vendors. In the morning a wine merchant's body seems to be watered down with a hole and no tong. Abbot Radulfus charges Cadfael to find out if it was the Abbots fault for refusing to share with the towns people.

Naturally things get complex. There are crosses and double crosses, beautiful girls and suspicious sheriffs. This may even lead to a rift between the Sheriff Hugh Beringar and Cadfael (old friends.)Cadfael uses forensics, intrusion and logic to help solve the mystery.

Mein Lieblings- Cadfael!!!      5 von 5 Punkten
Es ist doch seltsam, dass, kaum soll ein Jahrmarkt die Völker zusammenführen, sofort Gewalttätigkeiten ausbrechen und mysteriöse Ungereimtheiten ihren Lauf nehmen. Cadfael klärt auch hier wieder spannend diesen Fall und auch mal wieder Beringar auf, das nichts so einfach und klar ist, wie es scheint.
Mein Lieblings- Cadfael und ein absolutes Muss!!!!!

This is one of the best Father Cadfaels as it has meaning and story on many levels. True the ending is not exactly the book ending. But the feel is still there. The point that I like best is that the language is common but the cultures as dissimilar.

Although there is no Hugh Beringar (Sean Pertwee), this film contains one of my favorite actors John Hallam who plays the lord Richard. He has been in many popular movies including "4.50 from Paddington" where he gets to play a similar character as Cedric Crackenthorpe.

I leave you with this thought:
"Those that seek to lay hands on St. Winifred are apt to perish."

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DVD info:
The first thing that struck me was how clear the picture is. Maybe some of it is the tape was worn yet I never noticed that that Brother Jerome had freckles. Unexpectedly they (whoever they are) put all the DVD goodies on this except a running commentary. Of course there are interactive menus, which make navigation easy. Then there is a scene index of which I seldom use. An Exclusive audio comments by Derek Jacob, has pictures of him with Ellis Peters as he explains that a one and a half hour program just can not pack the elaborate plots and number of characters in to do justice to the book readers. The Ellis Peters biography and book list is written on the screen (Sorry you have to read some of this.) The production scrapbook has about 10 stills showing the film being made. I have not tried the captions for the hearing impaired. What is not mentioned is a list of the productions that Derek Jacobi has done.
Want to see something eerie, look at the picture of Derek next to Ellis. They could be related.

A Truly Rare Benedictine.      5 von 5 Punkten
When the decision was made to produce for TV several episodes from her mystery series about Brother Cadfael, that 12th century crusader turned herbalist monk turned detective who has been, ever since his creation, one of the most compassionate and unusual sleuths of literary history, novelist Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) was not entirely happy. In fact, according to this series's star, Sir Derek Jacobi, Ms. Peters had very mixed feelings about giving up her brain child and entrusting it to other people who went about cutting and adjusting everything, from the storylines themselves to the way the protagonists speak and even the sequence of the stories, to the necessities and limitations set by the new medium. But she eventually acquiesced and at one point promised that "the next one I write, I'll make sure it's easier for you all to film."

While the thirteen episodes that were eventually produced are, thus, not entirely true to the individual Chronicles they are based on - and "A Morbid Taste for Bones" certainly is no exception in that respect - they are closer than many other movie or TV versions of famous works of literature. Most importantly, they maintain not only the core storylines but also the historical authenticity, atmosphere and spirit set by Ms. Peters's books in a marvelous fashion; portraying, like the novels, vividly and with great care for detail medieval monastic life as well as a society caught in the middle of a civil war (that between Empress Maud and King Stephen for the throne of England), with shifting allegiances, intrigue, favoritism and again and again, innocent victims caught between the front lines. And Sir Derek Jacobi brings both the wealth of his experience and skill and all of his own shrewdness, intelligence, sense of humor and empathy to the role of the medieval Benedictine sleuth and thus truly becomes Cadfael - for the thousands of new fans who are discovering the series through its enactment for TV just as much as for us who loved the books before they were ever transposed to a visual medium: Due to his experiences as a crusader endowed with a keen sense of reality, a certain world-weariness and a deep sense of morality alike, he not only understands the letter of the law (both divine and worldly) but more importantly, also the deeper implications of the same, and always finds a way to apply the church's teachings in a truly Solomonic manner, and to arrive at solutions that are as just as they are compassionate and pragmatic. - A tremendous cast of supporting actors rounds out an overall excellent production; to mention just a few, Julian Firth as the ambitious and narrow-minded Brother Jerome and Terrence Hardiman as Abbot Radolfus (as well as, in other installments of the series, Sean Pertwee and later Eoin McCarthy as Under-Sheriff Hugh Beringar, who joins Cadfael in his investigations whenever, as is so often the case, these transcend the world of monastic life and require the administration of secular justice as well as clerical insight).

"A Morbid Taste for Bones" is actually the first Chronicle of Brother Cadfael; the TV adaptation, however, is set somewhere between "The Virgin in the Ice" (the sixth Chronicle, which brings some unexpected insights into Cadfael's past), "The Devil's Novice" (the eighth Chronicle), "The Raven in the Foregate" (the twelfth Chronicle) and "The Rose Rent" (the thirteenth Chronicle).

The story opens with a number of visions experienced by young Brother Columbanus (Nick Patrick), who claims to have had encounters with St. Winifred, in her earthly life a girl from a remote Welsh village decapitated by an evil-spirited nobleman. The saint, Brother Columbanus claims, has told him she is unhappy with the lack of care and dedication her grave receives from the local village folk, and wishes to be relocated nowhere else but to Shrewsbury's very own Saint Peter and Saint Paul. After a heated discussion over the appropriateness and dangers of such an excursion, the monks decide to mount an expedition to Wales to save the maiden saint's bones. Predictably, they are anything but welcome in Wales - not only are they emissaries from an English abbey, which in itself would be bad enough already; they also seek to take what village folk consider their greatest treasure and, more importantly, the village's holy protectress. When wealthy squire Lord Rhysart (John Hallam), who has led the village in opposing the monks' mission, is found murdered, they quickly find themselves implicated. Cadfael, of Welsh descendance himself but now part of a mission from an English abbey, ends up between all lines of allegiance in trying to find Rhysart's murderer; but find the murderer he must, to ensure the success of his brothers' mission and their safe return home. And more than ever, it takes all his world-wisdom *and* all his understanding of the divine to unravel the mystery.

A wealthy land owner Geravase Gurney wills his land to the abbey in exchange for a small home and to have the Abby supply the meals. His stepson is cut out of his inheritance this way. The mother is caught in-between and tries to reconcile them both. Before the deal is done he is poisoned. Yep too many people had access to the meal so it is up to Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) to figure out who did it and why. If you have a pre3ty good idea you are wrong.

Of occurs to add a little spice the toe story when Cadfael discovers a little something of his past that makes it imperative he find the answer.

This is the time that Abbot Herribert (Peter Copley) is replaced by Abbot Radulfus (Terrence Hardiman) see him in a different light as Walter Fane in "Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder"

We learn more of Cadfaelýs past      5 von 5 Punkten
"No man is measured by the love he gives to others, but how he is loved by others."

A wealthy land owner Geravase Gurney wills his land to the abbey in exchange for a small home and to have the Abby supply the meals. His stepson is cut out of his inheritance this way. The mother is caught in-between and tries to reconcile them both. Before the deal is done he is poisoned. Yep too many people had access to the meal so it is up to Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) to figure out who did it and why. If you have a pre3ty good idea you are wrong.

Of occurs to add a little spice the toe story when Cadfael discovers a little something of his past that makes it imperative he find the answer.

This is the time that Abbot Herribert (Peter Copley) is replaced by Abbot Radulfus (Terrence Hardiman) see him in a different light as Walter Fane in "Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder"

Within a short while, a body is found in a leather sack amongst the visitors. No body is to leave. In an attempt to discover the culprit Cadfael boils down the man's body to inspect the bones and uncovers two possible explanations for his death. And yes they did leave.

Once again many things are not what they seem and it is up to Brother Cadfael to bring then to light. There are also parallel stories that may or may not have a bearing on the murder. One is of a seller of bogus relics. The other two brothers that are on a pilgrimage.

If you do not compare to the book it is a good film and well balanced. The movie has to tighten the story so some good guys in the book may have to go bad. (Do not forget that the first two chapters of the book are revealed in detail in "A Morbid Taste for Bones" and "One Corpse Too Many")This story takes place years later.

I hate this "Pilgrim"!      1 von 5 Punkten
Since I have been a fan of Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael for a number of years, I looked forward to seeing him on screen. Well, as far as I am concerned, the BBC version of "The Pilgrim of Hate" is a classic example of how an excellent story can be utterly ruined. Not only that unnecessary scenes like the self-flagellation of the novice - NOT in the book! -waste time which could have been put to better use for exposition; not only that Prior Robert and his toady Brother Jerome are depicted as callous and cruel (which, in spite of all their faults in the novels, they are not) in their treatment of the beggars, but primarily because the main characters and the conflict of this book are so absolutely falsified and turned upside-down! The crippled boy Rhun and his sister Melangell, both unselfish and admirable characters in the novel, are here turned into thieves and imposters; and Luc Meverell (Matthew) and Ciaran -not his brother by the way, but the man who murdered Matthew's friend and foster-father while he was defending another's right of free speech, to use modern parlance - has been turned into the worst kind of fundamentalist religious fanatic as well as a killer. And the dead father's body in the sack, which is then boiled up by Cadfael in order to clarify the mystery! Are we in some kind of fourth-rate horror film? Peters' novel is about redemption, growing self-awareness, courage, selflessness and forgiveness. I find her books to be invariably uplifting; the boy Rhun, unlike the "Walter" in the video, is concerned for his sister's happiness and does not want her to sacrifice her life for him; his cure at the altar of St Winifred is a reward for his unassuming integrity. Why do filmmakers have to twist perfectly good stories around to suit their own soured view of life? Let them write their own original scripts, but without destroying a vastly better plot with much subtler characters and situations.

76 Minuten Spannung!!!      5 von 5 Punkten
Auch diesen Kauf habe ich wie immer nicht bereut. In diesen 76 Minuten versucht Cadfael wieder Mord und Ungereimtheiten aufzuklären, diesmal am Tag einer Schutzheiligen. Das Kloster, wird an diesem Tag bevölkert von Gläubigen und Pilgern und anderem, von dem jeder seine private Absicht zu verfolgen scheint. Dieser Cadfael erscheint mir Atmospärisch "düsterer" als manch andere, ist aber ein absolutes Muss und nur empfehlenswert!!!!

Düster!!!      5 von 5 Punkten
Dieser Cadfael ist einer der düsteren und etwas andersartigen Fälle, die ich kenne. Es ist Winter und viele Gläubige und Pilger treffen sich am Tag der heiligen Winnifred im Kloster, bzw. in den Vorhallen. Doch auch zwielichtiges Volk ist dabei und ein Beutel mit äußerst ungewöhnlichem Inhalt.....
Wieder einmal macht es großen Spaß, sich durch die Verwicklungen dieses Falls hindurch zu finden.
Es ist auf alle Fälle ein Muß für jeden Fan!!!