Ein US-Präsident krempelt das Land um, befeuert den Nationalismus und sät Hass: Die Verfilmung von Philip Roths The Plot Against America passt ins Wahljahr 2020 und ist doch mehr als eine Anti-Trump-Serie.
Um zu verstehen, was schiefläuft in der Welt, reicht der Albtraum eines Zehnjährigen. Zum Beispiel der des kleinen Philip, der seine geliebte Briefmarkensammlung durchblättert und feststellt, dass etwas anders ist: Statt der Zeichnungen berühmter Amerikaner, die unter dem Schriftzug United States Postage zu sehen sein sollten, prangt da nun das Gesicht Adolf Hitlers. Dass Philip, Kind jüdischer Amerikaner, kurz darauf aus der Horrorvision einer von Nationalsozialisten besetzten USA erwacht, tröstet ihn nur bedingt. Denn seine Realität sieht nicht viel besser aus.
Die Serie The Plot Against America nach dem Roman von Philip Roth erzählt eine kontrafaktische Geschichte und geht der Frage nach, was wohl gewesen wäre, wenn 1940 nicht Franklin D. Roosevelt zum dritten Mal zum US-Präsidenten gewählt worden wäre, sondern der Fliegerheld, Isolationist und Hitler-Unterstützer Charles Lindbergh? Natürlich ist es kein Zufall, dass der Roman, der 2004 erschienen ist, genau jetzt verfilmt wurde. Die Serienmacher David Simon und Ed Burns, gefeiert für ihr Baltimore-Epos The Wire, hatten bereits 2013 die Gelegenheit, den Stoff zu adaptieren, lehnten aber ab. Die Wahl Donald Trumps ließ sie ihre Meinung ändern.
The Plot Against America Is 2020's Most Urgent Series
Ein US-Präsident krempelt das Land um, befeuert den Nationalismus (America first bemühte schon übrigens schon Lindbergh) und sät Hass gegen Minderheiten: The Plot Against America wirkt jetzt wie die ultimative Anti-Trump-Serie im Wahlkampfjahr 2020. Und sie ist noch viel mehr als das.
Roths Kunstgriff im Roman bestand darin, mit den eigenen biografischen Koordinaten Authentizität zu suggerieren. Sein Held heißt nicht nur wie der Autor, er verlebt auch genau wie dieser im Jahr 1940 eine glückliche Kindheit in einem jüdisch geprägten Viertel Newarks. Sie endet in der Fiktion, als unter dem neuen Präsidenten der Antisemitismus dramatisch wächst.
Auf die Sicht des fiktionalen Ich-Erzählers, der auf seine Kindheit zurückblickt, hat die Serie auf Wunsch des 2018 verstorbenen Roth verzichtet. Was dadurch wegfällt, ist eine gewisse emotionale Dringlichkeit, die die exzellente Besetzung (neben Winona Ryder und John Turturro besonders Azhy Robertson als Philip) aber weitestgehend auffängt. Den Kern des Romans, die perfide Beiläufigkeit, mit der sich Misstrauen und Hass in eine Gesellschaft fressen können, arbeitet die Serie hervorragend heraus. Ist nicht das hier unsere Heimat?, fragt Philip zu Beginn verwundert seinen Vater, als ein Rabbi Geld für Juden in Palästina sammelt, um die Glaubensbrüder in der Heimat zu unterstützen. Da nickt der Vater noch amüsiert. Ein paar Monate später muss er Hakenkreuzschmierereien von den Grabsteinen seiner Vorfahren abwaschen. Der Weg dorthin wird mit einer Gemächlichkeit erzählt, die nicht mit Langatmigkeit verwechselt werden sollte. Denn darum geht es in The Plot Against America: um die Erkenntnis, dass das Ausmaß historischer Umbrüche für diejenigen, die sie erleben, manchmal erst erkennbar ist, wenn es zu spät ist.The Plot Against America is an American alternate history drama television miniseries created and writt by David Simon and Ed Burns, based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Philip Roth, that aired on HBO from March 16, 2020, to April 20, 2020.
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The Plot Against America imagines an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xophobic populist, who becomes presidt and turns the nation toward fascism.
HBO announced on November 8, 2018, that it had ordered a six-episode miniseries based on Philip Roth's novel The Plot Against America to be writt by David Simon and Ed Burns and executive produced by Simon, Burns, and Roth, alongside Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschbaum, Nina Noble, Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle, Susan Goldberg, and Dnis Stratton. Production companies involved with the series include Annapurna Pictures and Blown Deadline Productions.
In April 2019, Winona Ryder, Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, John Turturro, Anthony Boyle, Azhy Robertson, and Caleb Malis joined the cast of the series.
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The Road is Op Again, writt in 1933 for Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration, was used for the oping theme song, performed by actor Michael Kostroff.
He decided to take on the project in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, in which Donald Trump was elected US Presidt,
June 1940. Herman is riled by the anti-war rhetoric of populist aviator hero Charles Lindbergh with its anti-Semitic overtones, but does not take the possibility of his running for the Presidcy seriously. Herman is offered a promotion, but this would require them to live in Union where they would likely be the only Jews in the neighborhood. Disgusted by the patrons at a German-themed bar in Union, he decides to decline the offer. Alvin is fired from his job at a local Esso service station for stealing; he tells Sandy he took the blame for a frid. He moves out of the house after an argumt with Herman. Bess's older sister Evelyn, who looks after their mother, is having an affair with a married man in New York; it soon becomes clear that he has no inttion of divorcing his wife. Philip's frid Earl, whose mother has a scandalous reputation, is a corrupting influce on him. Evelyn and Bess meet Rabbi Bgelsdorf, who is sympathetic to Lindbergh's anti-war message; Evelyn is charmed. Alvin secretly stays with a frid whose father runs a candy store. At night, he and two frids wait outside the German bar in Union and beat up two drunk patrons on their way home, calling them fascists.
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October 1940. Sandy eagerly attds a speech by Lindbergh, with Evelyn and Bgelsdorf prest. Evelyn and Bgelsdorf later ter into a relationship, and Evelyn introduces him to her mother. Bgelsdorf assures Evelyn he will attempt to sway her family to his side politically. With Herman's assistance, Alvin takes a job as a driver for a wealthy man named Abe Steinheim, but quickly grows to find him crass and corrupt. To aid her family financially, Bess takes a retail job at an expsive departmt store, but soon becomes unnerved by the Lindbergh-supporting customers. Philip continues to learn delinqut behavior from Earl, including theft and following strangers around the city. Speaking at a Lindbergh rally, Bgelsdorf lavishly dorses Lindbergh, with Evelyn by his side. Disgusted by Bgelsdorf and the direction of the country, Alvin quits his job and lists in the Canadian Army. Lindbergh later wins the election and becomes Presidt.
May 1941. A few months after Lindbergh's inauguration, anti-Semitic incidts have be rising in the United States. Lindbergh signs a neutrality agreemt with Adolf Hitler. He also places Bgelsdorf in charge of a program called Just Folks, as part of the Office of American Absorption, which temporarily places Jewish boys into rural families to make them more American; Evelyn signs up Sandy to participate. Philip begins to have nightmares about Nazis. Meanwhile, Evelyn and Bess's mother's demtia has be worsing. As Bess's concern for her family's safety grows, she places them on a waiting list to pottially emigrate to Canada. The Levins take a trip to Washington, D.C., where they experice anti-Semitism among both citizs and the police. Herman ultimately gives his permission for Sandy to travel to Ktucky as part of Just Folks. Alvin flourishes in Canada's military program, and is recruited by British intelligce to help steal a German radar device. However, he loses his leg in combat.
September 1941. Bess and Evelyn's mother dies. Herman visits Alvin in the hospital and offers his support, but Alvin has grown aloof and disillusioned. Alvin is questioned by the FBI, after which he is discharged and returns to New Jersey. In a synagogue, Sandy gives a prestation espousing Just Folks, after being designated a 'Recruitmt Officer' by Evelyn. Wh Evelyn and Bgelsdorf join the Levins for Shabbat, Herman clashes with Bgelsdorf's views and upbringing, including his father fighting for the Confederacy. After Bgelsdorf proposes an expansion of Just Folks, Anne Morrow Lindbergh invites him and Evelyn to a state dinner with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbtrop (as all other Jewish represtatives refused). Evelyn also secures an invitation for Sandy, which rages Herman and Bess, who refuse to let Sandy attd. He responds by calling his parts ghetto Jews and worse than Hitler. Evelyn dances with the German official at the dinner, which appears later on the newsreels. The FBI, meanwhile, has be tracking Alvin after marking him a pottial Communist. Earl leaves town to live with his grandmother after his mother is committed to a psychiatric hospital. Seldon's father dies. Philip, overwhelmed by everything happing around him, happily watches a Lindbergh newsreel, much to Herman's exasperation.
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April 1942. The Levins are forcibly signed up, by Evelyn, to participate in Homestead 42, Bgelsdorf's Just Folks expansion that relocates tire Jewish families. Bgelsdorf informs Bess that their participation will convince the FBI to take some heat off of Alvin. Philip expresses curiosity and concern about a Ku Klux Klan presce in Ktucky, and angrily asks Evelyn why his neighbor Seldon Wishnow, and Seldon's widowed mother Selma, wer't relocated instead. Misinterpreting this as a desire to be with his frid, Evelyn signs them up as well. Despite FBI threats,
The Road is Op Again, writt in 1933 for Franklin D. Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration, was used for the oping theme song, performed by actor Michael Kostroff.
He decided to take on the project in the aftermath of the 2016 US election, in which Donald Trump was elected US Presidt,
June 1940. Herman is riled by the anti-war rhetoric of populist aviator hero Charles Lindbergh with its anti-Semitic overtones, but does not take the possibility of his running for the Presidcy seriously. Herman is offered a promotion, but this would require them to live in Union where they would likely be the only Jews in the neighborhood. Disgusted by the patrons at a German-themed bar in Union, he decides to decline the offer. Alvin is fired from his job at a local Esso service station for stealing; he tells Sandy he took the blame for a frid. He moves out of the house after an argumt with Herman. Bess's older sister Evelyn, who looks after their mother, is having an affair with a married man in New York; it soon becomes clear that he has no inttion of divorcing his wife. Philip's frid Earl, whose mother has a scandalous reputation, is a corrupting influce on him. Evelyn and Bess meet Rabbi Bgelsdorf, who is sympathetic to Lindbergh's anti-war message; Evelyn is charmed. Alvin secretly stays with a frid whose father runs a candy store. At night, he and two frids wait outside the German bar in Union and beat up two drunk patrons on their way home, calling them fascists.
The Plot Against America (tv Mini Series 2020)
October 1940. Sandy eagerly attds a speech by Lindbergh, with Evelyn and Bgelsdorf prest. Evelyn and Bgelsdorf later ter into a relationship, and Evelyn introduces him to her mother. Bgelsdorf assures Evelyn he will attempt to sway her family to his side politically. With Herman's assistance, Alvin takes a job as a driver for a wealthy man named Abe Steinheim, but quickly grows to find him crass and corrupt. To aid her family financially, Bess takes a retail job at an expsive departmt store, but soon becomes unnerved by the Lindbergh-supporting customers. Philip continues to learn delinqut behavior from Earl, including theft and following strangers around the city. Speaking at a Lindbergh rally, Bgelsdorf lavishly dorses Lindbergh, with Evelyn by his side. Disgusted by Bgelsdorf and the direction of the country, Alvin quits his job and lists in the Canadian Army. Lindbergh later wins the election and becomes Presidt.
May 1941. A few months after Lindbergh's inauguration, anti-Semitic incidts have be rising in the United States. Lindbergh signs a neutrality agreemt with Adolf Hitler. He also places Bgelsdorf in charge of a program called Just Folks, as part of the Office of American Absorption, which temporarily places Jewish boys into rural families to make them more American; Evelyn signs up Sandy to participate. Philip begins to have nightmares about Nazis. Meanwhile, Evelyn and Bess's mother's demtia has be worsing. As Bess's concern for her family's safety grows, she places them on a waiting list to pottially emigrate to Canada. The Levins take a trip to Washington, D.C., where they experice anti-Semitism among both citizs and the police. Herman ultimately gives his permission for Sandy to travel to Ktucky as part of Just Folks. Alvin flourishes in Canada's military program, and is recruited by British intelligce to help steal a German radar device. However, he loses his leg in combat.
September 1941. Bess and Evelyn's mother dies. Herman visits Alvin in the hospital and offers his support, but Alvin has grown aloof and disillusioned. Alvin is questioned by the FBI, after which he is discharged and returns to New Jersey. In a synagogue, Sandy gives a prestation espousing Just Folks, after being designated a 'Recruitmt Officer' by Evelyn. Wh Evelyn and Bgelsdorf join the Levins for Shabbat, Herman clashes with Bgelsdorf's views and upbringing, including his father fighting for the Confederacy. After Bgelsdorf proposes an expansion of Just Folks, Anne Morrow Lindbergh invites him and Evelyn to a state dinner with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbtrop (as all other Jewish represtatives refused). Evelyn also secures an invitation for Sandy, which rages Herman and Bess, who refuse to let Sandy attd. He responds by calling his parts ghetto Jews and worse than Hitler. Evelyn dances with the German official at the dinner, which appears later on the newsreels. The FBI, meanwhile, has be tracking Alvin after marking him a pottial Communist. Earl leaves town to live with his grandmother after his mother is committed to a psychiatric hospital. Seldon's father dies. Philip, overwhelmed by everything happing around him, happily watches a Lindbergh newsreel, much to Herman's exasperation.
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April 1942. The Levins are forcibly signed up, by Evelyn, to participate in Homestead 42, Bgelsdorf's Just Folks expansion that relocates tire Jewish families. Bgelsdorf informs Bess that their participation will convince the FBI to take some heat off of Alvin. Philip expresses curiosity and concern about a Ku Klux Klan presce in Ktucky, and angrily asks Evelyn why his neighbor Seldon Wishnow, and Seldon's widowed mother Selma, wer't relocated instead. Misinterpreting this as a desire to be with his frid, Evelyn signs them up as well. Despite FBI threats,
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