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Tracy Evans

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Recenserad i Australien 🇦🇺 den 14 januari 2023

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I watched this series years ago when it was on the TV. I also read the book.
While a little dated in the special effects department, this is a fantastic story, set in a beautiful location and full of fabulous actors.
Would recommend to anyone who loved an historical drama.

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Hemeraner

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Recenserad i Tyskland 🇩🇪 den 10 januari 2016

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"Die Säulen der Erde" ist eine achtstündige Romanverfilmung in vier abendfüllenden Spielfilmteilen basierend auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Ken Follett. Die Handlung ist eingebettet in dem historisch tatsächlich geschehenen Erbfolgekrieg in England des 12. Jahrhunderts. Durch den Tod des Sohnes Heinrich I. Beauclerc bestimmt dieser, dass seine Tochter Mathilde (Maud) Thronfolgerin wird. Obwohl ihr der Adel die Treue schwört schmieden sich hinter den Kulissen Ränke. Es gibt nämlich noch einen Anwärter auf den Thron: Stephan Étienne de Blois (Tony Curran). Dieser ist nicht nur der Neffe von Heinrich I. sondern damit enger Verwandt von Wilhelm dem Eroberer, der die normannische Dynastie in England begründete.

Dieser ist auch eindeutiger Favorit der Kirche, da die Linie Stephans ihr mehr Hochachtung entgegenbringt als Heinrich das tut. Als der König während eines Festes stirbt (tatsächlich an Lebensmittelvergiftung am 01.12.1135 in der Normandie), usurpiert Stephan mit der Familie Hamleigh und hochrangigen Würdenträgern der Kirche, darunter Waleran Bigod (Ian McShane) gegen die Thronfolgerin. Während Bigod auf höhere Posten in der Kirche und damit insbesondere auf den des Erzbischofes schielt, begehren die hinterlistigen Hamleighs einen Titel, am liebsten den des Grafen von Shiring (Donald Sutherland).

Als Baumeister bekommt Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell) von den ganzen Machenschaften zunächst nichts mit. Er muss Frau und Kinder durchbringen. Doch Arbeit ist rar. Sein Wunsch wäre es eine Kathedrale zu bauen. Er ahnt nicht, dass dieser Traum - mit Hindernissen - in greifbare Nähe rücken soll...

Der Roman "Die Säulen der Erde" gilt bislang als der erfolgreichste, den Follett je geschrieben hat. Die Verfilmung konnte indes nicht in einem zweistündigen Spielfilm abgefrühstückt werden. Zu komplex ist die Handlung. Bereits die des Erbfolgekrieges alleine nimmt die Zeit minestens in Anspruch. Zwar sind fast alle Charaktere recht eindimensional und vorhersehbar geraten. So sind die Hamleighs von Anfang an verschlagen und böse und auch als solche leicht zu erkennen. Waleran Bigod ist der Bösewicht der Kirche par excellence, der jedoch hin und wieder neben politischen und ehrgeizigen Motivationen Glauben und ab und an - in seltenen Momenten - aufrichtiges Bedauern ausdrückt. Jedoch spielen alle ihren Part glaubwürdig. Die Aufnahmen sind aufwändig und monumental geraten. Hier handelt es sich um eine Miniserie, die zeigt, dass auch TV Produktionen es durchaus mit Kinofilmen aufnehmen können.

Es ist ein ehrgeiziges Projekt gewesen mit einem Aufwand für das Fernsehen in damals nie gekannten Maßstäben mit einem internationalen teils hochkarätig besetztem Cast.

Während die vier DVDs keinerlei nennenswerte Extras besitzen verfügt die fünfte DVD über alle möglichen Extras wie Interviews mit Cast und Crew, B-Roll, Making Of, Entstehung der Animation und der visuellen Effekte. Das Bild ist dabei klar geraten. Es bedarf eigentlich keiner Blu-ray. Mir reichten die Schärfe und Farben.

Ich kann jetzt nicht für die mittlerweile angebotene Version sprechen. Je nach Auflage entscheiden sich später einige Produzenten für preiswertere Plastikboxen mit Amarey statt mit Schubern ausgestatteten und ausklappbaren Erstversionen wie zu Anfang. Meine Box ist noch aus der Erstausgabe. Sie besteht aus einem harten Pappkarton, der wie ein Buchdeckel gestaltet ist und sich aufklappen lässt. Darunter befindet sich ein ausklappbares Inlay, das alle fünf Scheiben erhält. Es lässt sich so ausklappen, dass es den Grundriss der Kathedrale enthält. Auf jeder der Außenflächen befindet sich eine Scheibe. Die Rückseiten sind mit Promofotos der Charakteren versehen. Es gibt ferner ein Faltblatt. Dieses enthält ein Poster aller wichtigen Charakteren auf der einen Seite und auf der anderen Seite ein Who's Who so wie eine Landkarte. Damit ist die Box schick gestaltet und in jedem Fall ein Hingucker für das Regal.

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Harold Wolf

21st Century CLASSIC of a 12TH Century EPIC on Gothic Architecture

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 3 mars 2011

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7 hrs is NOT enough. An elaborate cast, set, costuming, script adaptation of Ken Follet's classic novel. Historical content, leading one to believe a British monk & mason invented Gothic church architecture, including the winged `flying' buttress. The truth is acknowledged near the end, but not before getting the viewer totally enthralled in this action/adventure/romantic epic drama. Builders, monks and royalty of the middle Ages between the years 1120 and 1170, shot on a Budapest location.

The awesome cast has been listed elsewhere, as large as the production itself. First class in every way. Truly this should become a recognized Century 21 classic, a modern "Gone With the Wind." Impressive in every detail, even having the book's author in a merchant's role, episode 7.

The series is "NOT RATED" but beware, if it makes a difference, there is full frontal nudity, violent scenes, sex, & bold language. Blood, decapitation, incest...well, enough warning. I'd still recommend this to today's 12-year-olds and beyond because of the powerful story, dramatic filming, and historical/educational dramatization. You ENTER the Middle Ages immediately after passing through the opening credits. Spellbinding. Mesmerizing. Bewitching. Stellar.
YES, SUBTITLES.

Some helpful genealogy you might want to copy/paste/print:
King Henry I: only son died at sea; Maud (birthed Henry II); nephew Stephen
Tom Builder: wife Agnes; son Alfred; daughter Martha; son Jonathan
Bartholomew: daughter Aliena (birthed Tom); son Richard
Jacques Cherbourg: son Jack via lover Ellen
Percy Hamleigh: wife Regan; son William

Eight episodes each about 53 minutes:
1 ANARCHY- Henry I dies after the king's heir is lost in the sea burning of the royal ship. Nephew Stephen wins throne. Daughter Maud & son have followers. Tom Builder looks for masonry work and crosses paths with Ellen and her son, Jack.

2 MASTER BUILDER- Kingsbridge church burns and there are political deals aplenty. Ellen is accused as witch, & possible holder of a great secret. William gets motherly incest as well as rape added to his achievements. Maud is off to safer France. Tom begins a cathedral.

3 REDEMPTION- Tom and William battle over quarry stone. Richard and Aliena seek mercy from father's hanging, and make a deal, a costly one.

4 BATTLEFIELD- William and a mystery knight battle for the Shiring Earldom. Stephen and Maud have armies that battle too. Philip looses a battle with Waleran's torturers.

5 LEGACY- Gloucester and Stephen both offered for a prisoner exchange. Then Maud and Stephen continue warring. A Kingsbridge festival is terrorized. Jack and Alfred battle over a girl and Tom must sent one packing.

6 WICHCRAFT- Maud's back in France and Stephen reigns on. Richard has a Kingsbridge return. Alfred pops the question, marriage and builder style. A HUGE building tragedy, again. Jack's seeking his French family, and work.

7 NEW BEGINNINGS- Jack studies geometry & stone building near Paris, a new Gothic style. Aliena treks to France too. Kingsbridge recovers and grows, as does the cathedral and Philip gets an offer from Waleran.

8 THE WORK OF ANGELS- 8 passing years and Jack focuses on twin tower conclusion, but the roof begins to crack. Aliena & Richard yet seek an Earldom. Waleran's yet with ambition, as is young Henry.

A satisfying ending, other than the fact that you have grown to love this series and never want it to end. Sorry for the epic length of this review but "Pillars of the Earth" is worth 6 Amazon stars--if I could award that many.

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anniemnm

Good adaptation of an even better book...

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 22 juni 2011

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This mini-series deserves praise for fabulous actors, high production values and a script that captured the spirit of the book as well as the times very well.
While I am in agreement with several other reviewers that the symmetry of the hangings at the beginning and the end of the book are deeply missed ("The boys came early to the hanging" is the opening line of the first and last chapters of the book), the adaptation makes what appear to be carefully thought out choices to make the story "work" better for a TV audience. The movie emphasizes the political struggles of the time far more than the book and the royals end up getting far more attention as a result. A prophecy that never appears in the book, but works as a story-telling device, binds this thread. There is implied incest in one storyline in order to make characters appear even more beyond-the-pale immoral than they already are that doesn't appear in the book and is unneccessary. A ring and a letter are invented to make a story of treason stick because we can't have 100 pages of information to peice the mystery together ourselves. An improbable trial takes place toward the end of the mini-series in order to get rid of a character no one likes (he is murdered and the trial involves someone wrongly accused) and to avoid having to spend time deepening a peripheral character who, in the book, becomes the new prior after Philip is too old to carry on. They mess with how long it took to build the cathedral, etc... There are other deviations from the book's plot as well, but the point is that most of these changes work to simplify the plot enough to condense it into 8 hours.
One of the glories of the book for me is the fact that Follet uses his imagination to create an inner life for his characters that feels very modern. The medieval world can feel very alien, with it's very real fear of hell, violence very thinly under the surface of life for many people, etc... Follet takes real history about the fact that at least some of peoples' motivations don't change and gives us something that even a non-scholar can connect to. The reason the book is so incredibly long is that Follet lovingly creates this world, never leaving out a shading (one could argue that this works with how long it took to build a cathedral and how much slower the pace of life was at the time as well). The book and the mini-series are different enough that you can experience either of them first and still find the other satisfying.
My husband, who majored in medieval history in college, put the book down in disgust when he read the description of Tom and Ellen and how quickly they became a couple (something the mini-series addresses by creating a decent interval between when Tom's wife dies and these two finally getting together). He would argue that the internal dialogue that Follet creates for his characters is far too modern for the medieval setting. He actually enjoyed the mini series and is thinking of trying to overcome his problems with Follet's writing to try and read it again. I missed some of the story points from the book, but loved the fact that the miniseries had the same feel as the book and that so many of the characters jumped off the page because of the fine acting involved.
My point is, watch the mini-series AND read the book -- they are both worth it.

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pete stewart

Awesome drama

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 21 november 2010

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I admit that it is 10 years since I read The Pillars of the Earth, and some of the details of the book are a little hazy. But since then I have gone on to read all but two of the Ken Follett novels. Of all the Follett novels I have read, this is amongst the best and so I was very excited to see that it was being serialised. I am so glad that it was not made into a film as that would in no way ever cover the extraordinary details of the Follett novel. Even with the eight hours of viewing it is possible to say that something was lost. But you cannot expect to cover 1072 pages in eight hours. For anyone who has not read the book it might be difficult to follow, as the adaptation goes at an extraordinary pace. So go and read the book!

You have to say there are changes from the book. When I read it, Prior Philip was the main character, despite your heart warming to Tom Builder from the first pages, and later the same for Jack Jackson. The TV adaptation makes Jack the focus but with almost an equally strong storyline for Prior Philip. It has to be said that the final scenes of the book with Prior Philip and the savage events of 1170 are missed out in the TV adaptation.

This is an adaptation though and therefore the author would have been more than consulted and approved the content. And what content it was! A series of huge characters were established quickly, and brilliantly acted. The setting and where it was filmed never bothered me. I believed it was twelfth century southern England, so that is OK by me. I was just so involved from the start. So rarely does a piece of TV drama come along where you feel that if you step out of the room for 30 seconds you have lost the whole plot. In this case, that is exactly what I felt. Ken Follett's research into his original book would have made sure that the history and the type of society that existed at that time was true to life of those times. From my own research, I would go along with that. Therefore it was accurate to my viewing. It is educational, factual and at the same time absorbs the viewer in fiction. The business of the civil war came in more to the TV than it did the book. However, the overall focus remained on town and fuedal happenings.

This was an awesome piece of drama which resulted from an outstanding book. The acting was outstanding. The filming was dramatic and successful. The characters were very strong. I would recommend anyone to buy the DVD so it can be watched more than once, to really take the whole story on board...then read the book, if you have not already, to enhance the experience.

I also look forward to the day when 'World Without End' (the follow up book to 'Pillars') and 'A Dangerous Fortune' (in my opinion the best of the Follett novels) receive the same treatment.

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seven of nine

TOM BUILDER UND CO...

Recenserad i Tyskland 🇩🇪 den 23 november 2010

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haben es in der TV-Verfilmung des Meilenstein-Buches von Master Follett wahrlich nicht leicht.
Sollen sie doch der Vorstellung der Buchfans bis ins kleinste , gelesene und nicht vergessene Detail gerecht werden.
Ich bin auch so eine, die im Kino schon laut ausgerufen hat : -das war nicht so im Buch !!!- ( muss jetzt meistens alleine ins Kino gehen...)

Aber hier ist mir das merkwürdigerweise noch nicht rausgerutscht. Weil ich zum einen schon glücklich bin, dass
eines meiner Lieblingsbücher endlich den (steinigen) Weg vom Kopfkino auf den Bildschirm gefunden hat, und zum anderen, dass auch ich gelernt habe, dass alles im Auge des Betrachters liegt.

Daher bemühe ich mich , das Buch gedanklich erstmal im Regal zu lassen und mich auf die Umsetzung zu konzentrieren und sie zu schätzen und zu würdigen.

Es gibt Abweichungen, die mir gar nichts ausmachen, zum Beispiel, dass Tom und Alfred Builder im Buch beide sehr gross und schlank sind und hellbraunes Haar haben,
dass Prior Philipp s Klosterbruder Francis Tom s Kind gefunden hat, dass die Altersunterschiede nicht beachtet wurden...

Was mich ziemlich stört ist die Besetzung der Hamleighs. War nicht Regan die - hässlichste Frau , die man sich nur vorstellen konnte - mit Geschwüren im Gesicht und von Gestalt her dick ?
Wäre doch ein leichtes für die talentierten Maskenbilder gewesen, dies hier darzustellen ...(diese Regan im Film kommt mir vor wie die böse Stiefmutter von Schneewittchen...)
Auch William hab ich ganz anders in Erinnerung, auch korpulenter und blond ? Und noch viel brutaler ...(das Ödipusgedöns ist mir etwas zuviel...)

1:1 den Seiten entstiegen sind für mich der wunderbare Prior Philipp ,( der sich schämt weil er -keine saubere Kutte zu tragen hat )- , die tatkräftige Aliena,der introvertierte begabte Jack und fast auch Ellen ( obwohl ihr die -Teufelsmütze- fehlt)...und Waleran Bigod, der seinem Namen -alle Ehre- macht und sich selbst läutert.

Diejenigen, die das Buch noch nicht gelesen haben und -unbeinflusst- sind, dürften auf alle Fälle sehr angetan sein, über eine leidenschaftliche Schauspielkunst, mühevoll aufgebaute Kulissen, Informationen über den komplizierten englischen
Erbfolgekrieg , alltägliches Leben im Mittelalter und die gewaltige Macht der Kirche über Bauer, Bürger und Edelmann...

Die Buch-Verfechter sollten doch mal -fünfe grad sein lassen-, denn sie werden bestimmt auch begeistert sein von
Gänsehaut-Szenen ( zum Beispiel im Steinbruch, in dem die Mönche kurz vor Sonnenaufgang zu Singen anfangen)
und dass sie endlich William Hamleigh mal eins in die Fresse hauen können....

Was beide -Seiten- vielleicht gleichsam stört ist der oft zu moderne Slang ...

Mir gefällt die Verfilmung trotz einiger -Makel- sehr gut, werde aber wohl bald das Buch zum xten Male lesen,
um mir wieder ins Gedächtnis zu rufen - wie war es denn mit Ken Folletts Romankindern wirklich ? -

Aber dass so ein Thema endlich mal Einzug ins TV geschafft hat und viele Leute dazu bewogen hat, auch SO WAS
mal anzunehmen, finde ich stark !!!

Fünf Sterne für die mutige Verfilmung- zehn Sterne für das wundervolle Buch...

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Cynthia

Yep, the book is better

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 5 december 2011

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I had high hopes for this series because I love the book, yet I have somewhat mixed feelings about the miniseries.
First, the visuals are stunning-- costuming, sets, the cathedral, everything. However, it is sad that the book--which is about religious and artistic passion and ethics versus greed and corruption-- morphs for the miniseries into a much simpler tale of sexual passions and political corruption, with art and religion as an afterthought-- merely as the stage upon which life and sex are played. The characters in the book are complex and often tortured; the characters in the DVD set are flat and simplistic. There are also unfortunate changes to the story line regarding architectural innovation and discovery.
These and other changes dumb down the essential themes that make the book so extraordinary. Follet's book gives the reader a glimpse into the past. It teaches a bit about cathedral architecture and construction and it allows the reader to put these into a larger cultural, religious, and political context. The DVD series, rather than transporting the modern viewer into the past, takes the modern archetypes of the lone pioneering artist, the misunderstood gay man, the political flip-flopper, and the wise pagan and overlays them on a story of the past. While this sort of "ahah, those people were just like us" message has a place in movies and literature, it doesn't work with this miniseries. It makes the characters from the book who are grand and courageous and heroic into movie people who are disturbingly familiar-- petty and grasping and lustful and simply too human-- average people who stumble into greatness and immortality rather than (as they are in the book) grand visionaries who overcome their muddy and bloody times through hard work, honor, and passion to create something grand and beautiful and eternal.
I've written a rather more negative review than I intended to because I enjoyed the miniseries in spite of the fact that is compares poorly with the book. It is exquisite visually, the pacing is good for such a complex story line, and it has some solidly interesting characters. I give it four stars. Go ahead and buy this. It is probably superior to anything at your local multiplex theatre. But while you're at it, buy the book as well. They have the same title but they are two very different stories.
Art endures.

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Kyle Scott

Marvellous ... and I want that face cream aswell!

Recenserad i Storbritannien den 21 november 2010

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Now this is a review by a viewer that has not read or even shamefully had any previous knowledge of Ken Follett's worldwide best seller before this Channel 4 airing; so I cannot compare the two. However what I can say is that I just can't praise this smashing bit of historical drama enough; and the book, in which I fully intend to read, will have a lot to live up to.

The plot itself revolves around the building of a cathedral (really not as dull as it sounds!); with the civil war of King Stephen and Empress Matilda playing out as a thrilling back plot. At times you wish there would be more made of the war rather than the cathedral, especially when Empress Matilda vanishes for whole episodes (oh how I was on her side until she had that innocent child killed), but the story of Kingsbridge keeps you entranced just as well.

The design on the series is magnificent from the sets to the costumes, all the more better in HD. Although the CGI can be quite terrible at times that really is the only bad thing I could say about the whole thing, such a minor little thing. Well that and Phillip's Welsh accent (yes he is surpossed to be Welsh - I think).

The characters are compelling and interesting, as are their stories. There is a brilliant, vicious, vile villain that makes you just yearn for his competence. There isn't a nice thing to say about the failed excuse for a human, not even his mothers relationship with him can make you have the least bit of sympathy. You want to watch until the end just to see him brought down.

The fact the Americans have decided to use the typical British series length at only eight episodes is both a good and bad decision. Bad in the fact that you get so engrossed with the characters and the plot that you just greedily want more; but yet good in the fact that there isn't a single dull moment in the whole series.

No filler plot, no dragging out for time; the plot fits the eight part's just superbly. I can't think how they could have stretched the plot out anymore, not even by a single episode. Everything is just so neatly wrapped up after eight.

Oh how I've just rambled but it really is that good! A brilliant drama.

And I'll have whatever cream they used to make the characters all look the same age for around 30 years as well please!

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George Anderson

Delivered as ordered.

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 30 juni 2022

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Haven't played disc yet but, assume it will work properly.

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Oh My Gosh!

The discs play fine. This series is better than World Without End

Recenserad i USA 🇺🇸 den 12 mars 2018

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The discs come in a plastic and cardboard folding contraption. The discs play fine.

This series is better than World Without End, which is a so-so miniseries. The Tudors is excellent and the Reign is okay. Camelot is at the bottom of the heap. Two current series that are very good are The Vikings and The Last Kingdom.

If the above don’t sound interesting you might like a couple of space race shows. I spent a month on a space race binge. First I read Space by James A. Michener. Then I watched two movies, The Right Stuff (1983) and Apollo 13 (1995), and then two great series, From Earth to the Moon (1998) and The Astronauts Wives Club (2015). They’re a great combination.

If the above shows don’t sound interesting here are a few of the series I really enjoyed watching more than once. I love good miniseries like Band of Brothers (2001), Frank Herbert’s Dune (2000), Into the West (2005), Lonesome Dove (1989), Pride and Prejudice (1995), Taken (2002) and The 10th Kingdom (2000) because they have beginnings, middles and endings, like a good novel.

Other shows I’ve really enjoyed include Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009), Breaking Bad (2008-2013), Cowboy Bebop (1998), Downton Abbey (2010-2015), Firefly (2002), Game of Thrones (2011-2019), The IT Crowd (2006-2013), Jericho (2006-2008), Lost (2004-2010), Merlin (2008-2012), Rome (2005-2007), Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (2011), Spartacus: Blood and Sand (2010), Stargate: SG-1 (1997-2007), Stargate: Atlantis (2004-2009), Star Trek The Original Series (1966-1969) and Star Trek Voyager (1995-2001). I didn’t list any contemporary series I’m following that don’t have an end date yet, not conducive to binge watching from beginning to finish, or the hundreds of other fantasy and science fiction shows I’ve watched.

If you like reading try some of my favorite fantasy and sci-fi authors: Richard Adams, Palo Bacigulupi, Suzanne Collins, Abe Evergreen, Diana Gabaldon, Hugh Howey, George Martin, Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi, and Andy Weir.

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