Der Buchladen der Florence Green
The Bookshop
At the end of the 1950s, a young widow named Florence Green decides to put her grief behind her and make a long-cherished dream come true. She buys a weather-beaten house in the sleepy English coastal town of Hardborough and opens a bookshop inside it. But her project encounters both prejudice and resistance. The town’s provincial inhabitants, who haven’t really encountered any of the cultural upheavals that have swept through the country’s far-off urban centres, are catapulted out of their lethargy by cutting-edge controversial contemporary works such as Nabokov's "Lolita" and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". Florence finds a kindred spirit in the shape of the reclusive Mr Brundish, but she also finds a formidable opponent in Mrs. Gamart, a local figure and would-be patron of the arts who jealously guards her sphere of influence. This adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald's 1978 novel is a celebration of bibliophilia. Director Isabel Coixet has succeeded in creating a distinctive, stylistically coherent drama about the struggle of a woman who courageously takes her life into her own hands and tries to introduce a breath of fresh air into a crusty community.
Source: 68. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Florence Green
- Edmund Brundisher
- Violet Gamart
- Milo North
- General Gamart
- Christine
- Mr. Raven
- Mr. Keble
Production company
Alle Credits
Director
Screenplay
based on
Director of photography
Still photography
Production design
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound
Casting
Music
Cast
- Florence Green
- Edmund Brundisher
- Violet Gamart
- Milo North
- General Gamart
- Christine
- Mr. Raven
- Mr. Keble
Production company
in co-production with
Co-Producer
Executive producer
Original distributor
Shoot
- August 2016 - September 2016: County Down, Nordirland, Barcelona
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 05.04.2018, 177993, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (ES): 21.10.2017, Valladolid, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 16.02.2018, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 10.05.2018
Titles
- Weiterer Titel The Bookshop
- Originaltitel (DE) Der Buchladen der Florence Green
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 05.04.2018, 177993, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (ES): 21.10.2017, Valladolid, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 16.02.2018, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 10.05.2018