Der Fall Phil Spector

Der Fall Phil Spector (2013)

Phil Spector

Nein, Bescheidenheit gehörte nicht zu seinen Stärken. Aber gerade jetzt wäre sie, gepaart mit Zurückhaltung, mehr als angebracht. Denn Phil Spector nach eigener Ansicht der erfolgreichste Musikproduzent aller Zeiten, sitzt auf der Anklagebank. Der Vorwurf wiegt schwer: Am 3. Februar 2003 soll er die Schauspielerin Lana Clarkson erschossen haben. Phil Spector selber spricht von einem unabsichtlichen Selbstmord. Mit der Verteidigung wird Linda Kenney Baden betraut. Der Schauprozess kann beginnen …

Erscheinungsdatum
2013-06-14
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (149)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 27 Min.
Genres
Drama, TV-Film, Krimi, Historie, Musik
Regie
David Mamet

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Gedreht in: New York City

Phil Spector is a 2013 American biographical drama television film written and directed by David Mamet. The film is based on the murder trials of record producer, songwriter and musician Phil Spector, and premiered on HBO on March 24, 2013. It stars Al Pacino as Phil Spector, Helen Mirren as defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, and Jeffrey Tambor as defense attorney Bruce Cutler.

Production

In an interview in 2013, Phil Spector's writer and director David Mamet explained that, although he enjoyed Phil Spector's music, he knew nothing about Spector and paid little attention to the murder case against him until 2010, the year after Spector's conviction for murder in his second trial, when Mamet viewed Vikram Jayanti's 2009 BBC documentary The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector.

The documentary included a compelling interview with Spector that took place just before his first trial in 2007 and news footage of the trial itself, and Jayanti said that he intended to leave the audience with the impression that the charges against Spector were unproved.

Mamet drew on court transcripts for portions of the film, and the movie discusses key pieces of evidence that were actually used at Spector's trial. In 2013 interviews, Mamet asserted that "none of the facts in the case have been misrepresented. ...none of the testimony has been misrepresented", and that the film quotes actual court documents verbatim.

However, Mamet also claimed that Phil Spector is otherwise "purposefully hypothetical", that in the film, "almost everything is hypothetical", and that "the reason it's not a true story is that that didn't happen". He explained that Phil Spector is "a fiction about what might happen backstage at the defense team if I were the lead defense attorney.

Mamet said that his script addresses the question, "'How might the facts suggest reasonable doubt to a jury of 12 people?' Which is very, very different, of course—and this is the point of the film—from innocence." Both Mamet and Mirren said that Phil Spector is a mythological story, which Mamet said is about the fictional version of Linda Kenney Baden "coming to grips with the notion of what is reasonable doubt and what is prejudice".

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