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Danielle Steel's The Ring: Parts 1 & 2 [DVD]
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Format | Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Color |
Contributor | Linda Lavin, Danielle Steel, Paula Bacon, James Sikking, Tim DeKay, Michael York, Elizabeth Barondes, Carmen Culver, Jon Tenney, Alessandro Nivola, Nancy Sackett, Nastassja Kinski, Carsten Norgaard, Rupert Penry-Jones, Armand Mastroianni, Leslie Caron See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 2 hours and 57 minutes |
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Product Description
Nastassja Kinski stars as Ariana von Gotthard, a privileged young German woman whose family is torn apart by the rise of the Nazis. As World War II rages, she must survive tragedy and imprisonment until a surprising marriage transcends the horrors of the Reich. But when catastrophe strikes again, Ariana escapes to America and discovers a new world of heartbreak, betrayal and one last chance to begin her life anew. In love and war, hope is the ultimate weapon. Will it be enough to reunite a family-and a past- that may be lost forever.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : Yes
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.75 x 5.75 x 0.53 inches; 4 ounces
- Director : Armand Mastroianni
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 57 minutes
- Release date : September 20, 2005
- Actors : Nastassja Kinski, Michael York, Rupert Penry-Jones, Carsten Norgaard, Tim DeKay
- Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
- ASIN : B0007WQHE4
- Writers : Carmen Culver, Danielle Steel, Nancy Sackett
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #67,976 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #3,487 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #11,405 in Drama DVDs
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I have read (and LOVED) NUMEROUS Danielle Steel books, not only The Ring (the book that this movie is based on), but ALSO Jewels , Zoya , Remembrance , Crossings , Echoes , A Good Woman: A Novel , Safe Harbour , "H.R.H.", "Miracle", and countless others (too many to name or even remember the titles of, off the top of my head -- though the ones I've listed above are my TOP faves!)
**SPOILERS AHEAD!!**
Danielle Steel's The Ring: Parts 1 & 2 is the story of Ariana (Nastassja Kinski) & Gerhard (Rupert Penry-Jones) von Gotthard, a sister and brother who come from wealthy German aristocracy, and whose prominent Berlin family is systematically destroyed when the Nazis come to power.
Beginning with the suicide of Ariana & Gerhard's mother, Kassandra (Paula Hamilton) in the early years of the Nazi era, and the death of their father, Walmar (Michael York) after being shot by the Germans during the final months of World War II, the von Gotthard family is torn apart, one by one.
Walmar von Gotthard was killed by the Nazis at the German-Swiss border, after helping his 16-year-old son Gerhard escape to Zurich, Switzerland, in order to avoid the Nazi military draft -- a fateful decision that results in a decades-long separation between Ariana & Gerhard.
Danielle Steel's "The Ring" follows Ariana & Gerhard over the span of around 40 years (from the mid 1930s to the 1970s) -- from their childhood in early Nazi Germany, their adolescence (and separation from each other) & young adulthoods in World War II Europe, to their fruitless search for each other in the months & years after the war, and then ultimately, their separate lives on different continents (Ariana in New York City and Gerhard in Paris) , as well as their eventual reunion around 3 decades after their separation -- brought about by the next generation (Ariana's son, Noel).
Although I have read & LOVED Danielle Steel's The Ring , there are some parts (or passages) where I like the book version better than the movie, but in other ways I like the movie version a lot better.
For example, I thought the book did a much better job than the movie at fleshing out Kassandra's character, including her relationship (or lack thereof!) with her much-older husband Walmar and her children, Ariana & Gerhard and the loneliness, desperation & feelings of being "trapped in a gilded cage", leading to her illicit romance with Dolff Stern and the tragedy that resulted from that affair.
On the other hand, I did not like the way that the book portrayed the storyline involving Max Thomas's relationship with the family, and his escape from Germany to Switzerland and thought the movie did a much better job with that storyline, as well as the storyline about what happened to Gerhard after he was separated from his father and sister (which the book neglected, instead focusing solely on Ariana's storyline).
I also did not like how in the book, Ariana never went back to Germany after the war to search for her father or brother (unlike the movie where Ariana, Max & Noel returned to Germany in 1946 to look for them). I thought that it was unrealistic that she would just completely give up all hope without even TRYING to search for them once things had settled down in Europe. And in a similar vein, I did NOT like it how in the book, Ariana & Gerhard never conclusively learn what happened to Walmar (although of course, the reader does!). Even though it was more unrealistic, I preferred the movie version, in which during Ariana's visit to Berlin after the war, Max helped her to locate Walmar's body (which was buried near the Swiss border) and have it buried in the Von Gotthard family plot at the Grunewald cemetery -- and that Gerhard & Giselle were able to see Walmar's tombstone there, during their visit to Berlin so that at least both Ariana & Gerhard could have "closure" in regards to their father. In those respects, I love the movie better than the book.
But in other ways, I love the book better than the movie. Basically there were too many deviations between the book and the movie -- while some changes were for the better, other changes were NOT!
Just as it was written in the book version, I would have liked to see more of Kassandra's story, more depth in Manfred and Ariana's love story and more about the evolution of Ariana's relationship with the Liebman family & eventually Paul Liebman (as in the way it transpired in the book) as well as Noel & Tamara's romance, and Tamara's friendship with Brigitte Gerard (instead of just randomly meeting Brigitte the way it was shown in the movie)
Yet, I also liked how the ending was written for the movie and think that it should have ended with aspects of BOTH the book & movie versions (by combining Tamara's friendship with Brigitte as in the book, as well as Noel & Tamara meeting Brigitte at her family's art gallery while on their honeymoon, as in the movie)
So I guess it just boils down to that I LOVE BOTH the book and the movie, in different ways!
☆★☆★☆ 5 STARS!!!!!!!!!!!
Really love it and it came quickly.
loved deeply and dearly was finally vindicated when the ending justified her anguish and emotional suffering upon reunion with her long lost sibling and the marriage of her son to a Jewish girl. Although her Jewish husband and his family prejudged her harshly, she was an innocent victim of the realities of a cruel
war. Kudos to the author for the magnificent treatment of an extremely sensitive subject.