Cloud atlas / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a Cloud Atlas/X Filme Creative Pool/Anarchos production ; written for the screen and directed by Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski ; produced by Grant Hill, Stefan Arndt, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski.

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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 story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cloud atlas (Motion picture)
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Main Author: Heil, Reinhold (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
Cloud Atlas (Firm)
X Filme Creative Pool
Anarchos Productions, Inc
Warner Home Video (Firm)
A Company Filmproduktionsgesellschaft (Firm)
ARD Degeto Film (Firm)
Other Authors: Tykwer, Tom, 1965- (Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director)
Hill, Grant, 1972- (Film producer)
Arndt, Stefan (Film producer)
Wachowski, Lana, 1965- (Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director)
Wachowski, Lilly, 1967- (Film producer, Screenwriter, Film director)
Hanks, Tom (Actor)
Berry, Halle (Actor)
Weaving, Hugo, 1960- (Actor)
Broadbent, Jim (Actor)
Sturgess, Jim (Actor)
Pae, Tu-na, 1979- (Actor)
Whishaw, Ben, 1980- (Actor)
D'Arcy, James, 1975- (Actor)
Zhou, Xun, 1974- (Actor)
David, Keith (Actor)
Sarandon, Susan, 1946- (Actor)
Grant, Hugh (Actor)
Gyasi, David, 1980- (Actor)
Klimek, Johnny, 1962- (composer (expression))
Toll, John (Cinematographer) (director of photography.)
Griebe, Frank, 1964- (director of photography.)
Mitchell, David (David Stephen)
Language:English
Spanish
French
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in French, Spanish or English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Published: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013]
Edition:Widescreen version.
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:
Fate and fatalism > Drama.
Reincarnation > Drama.
Mitchell, David > (David Stephen) > Film adaptations.
Fate and fatalism.
Reincarnation.
Fantasy films.
Science fiction films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films > United States.
Feature films > Germany.
Feature films > Hong Kong.
Feature films > Singapore.
Drama.
Genre:
Film adaptations.
Drama.
Fantasy films.
Science fiction films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films
Physical Description:1 videodisc (172 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
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 story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
Note:Produced in association with A Company and Ard Degeto.
Based on the novel by David Mitchell.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2012.
Special feature: Making-of featurette "A film like no other" (7 min.).
Call Number:AR6 D0155841 VideoDVD
Audience:
MPAA rating: R; for violence, language, sexuality/nudity and some drug use ; CHV rating: 14A.
Credits:Photography directed by the Wachowskis, TomTykwer ; di rectors of photography, John Toll, Frank Griebe ; editor, Alexander Berner ; music, Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil ; production designers, Hugh Bateup, Uli Hanisch ; supervising art directors, Stephan O. Gessler, Kai Koch, Charlie Revai ; set decoration, Rebecca Alleway, Peter Walpole ; costume designers, Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud ; executive producers, Philip Lee, Uwe Schott, Wilson Qiu.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Cast:
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Xun Zhou, Keith David, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, David Gyasi.