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ZU SEHEN AM
Mo, 24.11. - 20.15 Uhr im Thalia
Sa, 29.11. - 17.00 Uhr - Savoy!
(Fehler im gedruckten Programm)
So, 30.11. - 15.00 Uhr, Savoy
Was für eine Story! Gouverneur George Bush hat
sich das Näschen mit Kokain gepudert, so der Autor
seiner erste Biographie. Das Buch ist ein Erfolg, wird
aber auf Druck der Regierung vom Markt genommen. Ein
engagierter Verleger und der Autor versuchen das Buch
neu auf den Markt zu bringen und kämpfen gegen
den Einfluss der Mächtigen. Doch die Geschichte
endet sehr tragisch. Ein Beispiel für das Verhältnis
für Politik und Medien, der Macht der Regierung
und dem Verhältnis zwischen Autor und Verleger.
Regisseur Michael Galinsky ist persönlich anwesend.
Homepage: http://www.hornsandhalos.com
>> English
Late 1988, a small article appeared in the New York
Times: publisher St. martin’s Press had withdrawn
Fortunate Son, the first biography of the former governor
of Texas, George W. Bush, from the bookshops. At that
moment, the book by J.H. Hatfield was number eight in
the best-seller list of Amazon. Com, a success that
was probably due to the fact that the book alleged that,
in the early Seventies, Bush had used cocaine. The renowned
publisher claimed a breach of faith with the writer,
after a Texan newspaper had revealed that the writer
himself had been in jail for attempted murder.
A little later, the small underground publisher Soft
Skull reported that it was going to republish the biography.
But that was less easy than the 29-year-old part-time
cleaner and founder of Soft Skull, Sander Hicks. Hoped.
This was followed by months and years of court cases,
negative publicity and disagreements between publisher
and writer
In Horns and Halos, Hawley and Galinsky use all the
vicissitudes around the energetic, committed publisher
Hicks and the sombre, distrustful Hatfield to sketch
an amusing picture of the world of a left-wing underground
publishing house from the Lower East Side. But at the
same time, the film yields a much greater result: an
insight into the mechanisms of the relationship between
media and politics.
Before making Horns and Halos together Hawley and Galinsky
made two feature films, of which Radiation played at
Sundance 1999 and over thirty festivals worldwide. In
addition they have made over 50 short videos.
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