An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German science fiction and drama film written and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. It was adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell. With a budget of $102 million (financed by independent sources; Warner Bros also paid $15 million to acquire the film's North American rights), Cloud Atlas is one of the most expensive independent films of all time.
With an ensemble cast to enact the film's multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany.
The film premiered on September 9, 2012, at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, where it received a 10-minute standing ovation.It was released on October 26, 2012[14] in conventional and IMAX theaters. It received varied reviews from film critics, with some like Roger Ebert praising it highly and others panning it outright.
Plot of Cloud Atlas (2012)
The official synopsis for Cloud Atlas describes the film as:
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
The film consists of six interrelated and interwoven stories that take the viewer from the South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Unlike the original novel, the film is structured, according to novelist David Mitchell, "as a sort of pointillist mosaic: We stay in each of the six worlds just long enough for the hook to be sunk in, and from then on the film darts from world to world at the speed of a plate-spinner, revisiting each narrative for long enough to propel it forward."
Cloud Atlas is a 2012 German science fiction and drama film written and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer. It was adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by David Mitchell. With a budget of $102 million (financed by independent sources; Warner Bros also paid $15 million to acquire the film's North American rights), Cloud Atlas is one of the most expensive independent films of all time.
With an ensemble cast to enact the film's multiple storylines, production began in September 2011 at Studio Babelsberg in Germany.
The film premiered on September 9, 2012, at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, where it received a 10-minute standing ovation.It was released on October 26, 2012[14] in conventional and IMAX theaters. It received varied reviews from film critics, with some like Roger Ebert praising it highly and others panning it outright.
Plot of Cloud Atlas (2012)
The official synopsis for Cloud Atlas describes the film as:
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
The film consists of six interrelated and interwoven stories that take the viewer from the South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Unlike the original novel, the film is structured, according to novelist David Mitchell, "as a sort of pointillist mosaic: We stay in each of the six worlds just long enough for the hook to be sunk in, and from then on the film darts from world to world at the speed of a plate-spinner, revisiting each narrative for long enough to propel it forward."
The six stories are:
Pacific Ocean, circa 1849. Adam Ewing, an American lawyer from San Francisco during the California Gold Rush, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement for his father-in-law. He meets Dr. Henry Goose who offers a cure for the parasitic worm that is seemingly eating his brain. While ashore, Adam learns about the enslavement of the Moriori tribe and observes a slave being whipped. The slave, Autua, stows away on the ship and Adam reluctantly keeps him hidden.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1936. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a famous composer, allowing Frobisher the time and inspiration to compose his own masterpiece, "The Cloud Atlas Sextet".
San Francisco, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, is a journalist, sent to write a story about a new nuclear power plant. She meets Sixsmith, now a respected nuclear physicist who decides to help Rey expose a conspiracy regarding the safety of a nuclear reactor.
United Kingdom, 2012. Timothy Cavendish, a 65-year-old publisher, flees the associates of a jailed gangster author and ends up confined against his will in a nursing home from which he attempts to escape.
Neo Seoul (Korea), 22nd century. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at a fast-food restaurant, is interviewed before her execution. Sonmi rebels against the totalitarian society that created and exploited her kind.
On a beautiful ocean island on a distant post-apocalyptic Earth, a tribesman named Zachry living a primitive life after most of humanity have died during "the Fall" is visited by Meronym, a member of the last remnants of a technologically-advanced civilization. After a young girl of Zachry's tribe is saved by Meronym, he agrees to guide her into the mountains in search of Cloud Atlas, an outpost and station where she is able to send a message to people who have left Earth and who are now living in space.
Cast of Cloud Atlas (2012)
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing"
Jim Sturgess as Adam Ewing
Tom Hanks as Dr. Henry Goose
David Gyasi as Autua
Bae Doona as Tilda Ewing
Hugo Weaving as Haskell Moore
Jim Broadbent as Captain Molyneux
Hugh Grant as Reverend Gilles Horrox
Keith David as Kupaka
Susan Sarandon as Madame Horrox
Halle Berry as Native Woman
Ben Whishaw as Rafael
"Letters from Zedelghem"
Ben Whishaw as Robert Frobisher
Halle Berry as Jocasta Ayrs
James D'Arcy as Rufus Sixsmith
Jim Broadbent as Vyvyan Ayrs
Tom Hanks as a Hotel Manager
Hugo Weaving as Tadeusz Kesselring
Hugh Grant as Hotel Heavy
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery"
Halle Berry as Luisa Rey
Tom Hanks as Issac Sachs
Hugo Weaving as Bill Smoke
Keith David as Joe Napier
David Gyasi as Lester Rey
Bae Doona as a Mexican Woman
James D'Arcy as Rufus Sixsmith
Hugh Grant as Lloyd Hooks
Ben Whishaw as Record Shop Owner
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish"
Jim Broadbent as Timothy Cavendish
Tom Hanks as Dermot Hoggins
Jim Sturgess as Highlander
Hugo Weaving as Nurse Noakes
Ben Whishaw as Georgette
Hugh Grant as Denholme Cavendish
Susan Sarandon as Ursula
Halle Berry as Indian Party Guest
"An Orison of Sonmi~451"
Bae Doona as Sonmi-451
Jim Sturgess as Hae-Joo Chang
Hugo Weaving as Boardman Mephi
James D'Arcy as Archivist
Zhou Xun as Yoona-939
Halle Berry as Ovid
Jim Broadbent as a Korean Musician
Keith David as General An-Kor Apis
Hugh Grant as Seer Rhee
Tom Hanks as Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After"
Tom Hanks as Zachry
Halle Berry as Meronym
Jim Sturgess as Adam/Zachry Brother in Law
Hugo Weaving as Old Georgie
Susan Sarandon as Abbess
Hugh Grant as the Kona Chief
Jim Broadbent as a Prescient
Zhou Xun as Rose
Pacific Ocean, circa 1849. Adam Ewing, an American lawyer from San Francisco during the California Gold Rush, has come to the Chatham Islands to conclude a business arrangement for his father-in-law. He meets Dr. Henry Goose who offers a cure for the parasitic worm that is seemingly eating his brain. While ashore, Adam learns about the enslavement of the Moriori tribe and observes a slave being whipped. The slave, Autua, stows away on the ship and Adam reluctantly keeps him hidden.
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1936. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a famous composer, allowing Frobisher the time and inspiration to compose his own masterpiece, "The Cloud Atlas Sextet".
San Francisco, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, is a journalist, sent to write a story about a new nuclear power plant. She meets Sixsmith, now a respected nuclear physicist who decides to help Rey expose a conspiracy regarding the safety of a nuclear reactor.
United Kingdom, 2012. Timothy Cavendish, a 65-year-old publisher, flees the associates of a jailed gangster author and ends up confined against his will in a nursing home from which he attempts to escape.
Neo Seoul (Korea), 22nd century. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at a fast-food restaurant, is interviewed before her execution. Sonmi rebels against the totalitarian society that created and exploited her kind.
On a beautiful ocean island on a distant post-apocalyptic Earth, a tribesman named Zachry living a primitive life after most of humanity have died during "the Fall" is visited by Meronym, a member of the last remnants of a technologically-advanced civilization. After a young girl of Zachry's tribe is saved by Meronym, he agrees to guide her into the mountains in search of Cloud Atlas, an outpost and station where she is able to send a message to people who have left Earth and who are now living in space.
Cast of Cloud Atlas (2012)
"The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing"
Jim Sturgess as Adam Ewing
Tom Hanks as Dr. Henry Goose
David Gyasi as Autua
Bae Doona as Tilda Ewing
Hugo Weaving as Haskell Moore
Jim Broadbent as Captain Molyneux
Hugh Grant as Reverend Gilles Horrox
Keith David as Kupaka
Susan Sarandon as Madame Horrox
Halle Berry as Native Woman
Ben Whishaw as Rafael
"Letters from Zedelghem"
Ben Whishaw as Robert Frobisher
Halle Berry as Jocasta Ayrs
James D'Arcy as Rufus Sixsmith
Jim Broadbent as Vyvyan Ayrs
Tom Hanks as a Hotel Manager
Hugo Weaving as Tadeusz Kesselring
Hugh Grant as Hotel Heavy
"Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery"
Halle Berry as Luisa Rey
Tom Hanks as Issac Sachs
Hugo Weaving as Bill Smoke
Keith David as Joe Napier
David Gyasi as Lester Rey
Bae Doona as a Mexican Woman
James D'Arcy as Rufus Sixsmith
Hugh Grant as Lloyd Hooks
Ben Whishaw as Record Shop Owner
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish"
Jim Broadbent as Timothy Cavendish
Tom Hanks as Dermot Hoggins
Jim Sturgess as Highlander
Hugo Weaving as Nurse Noakes
Ben Whishaw as Georgette
Hugh Grant as Denholme Cavendish
Susan Sarandon as Ursula
Halle Berry as Indian Party Guest
"An Orison of Sonmi~451"
Bae Doona as Sonmi-451
Jim Sturgess as Hae-Joo Chang
Hugo Weaving as Boardman Mephi
James D'Arcy as Archivist
Zhou Xun as Yoona-939
Halle Berry as Ovid
Jim Broadbent as a Korean Musician
Keith David as General An-Kor Apis
Hugh Grant as Seer Rhee
Tom Hanks as Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor
"Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After"
Tom Hanks as Zachry
Halle Berry as Meronym
Jim Sturgess as Adam/Zachry Brother in Law
Hugo Weaving as Old Georgie
Susan Sarandon as Abbess
Hugh Grant as the Kona Chief
Jim Broadbent as a Prescient
Zhou Xun as Rose
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