I just caught the last seconds of the trailer in German tv yesterday and the title under which it will run in Germany. It's:

The Core - Der innere Kern

Which translates to "The Core - The inner Core" [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

It will run from April 3 (maybe April 1 would have been better).

Some thirty years ago, all English movie titles were translated into some German which often had no resemblance to the original title. Today, many titles are left as they are. When you read the program of a Multiplex cinema, you wouldn't recognize you're in Germany. Example of Karlsruhe's Multiplex:

Catch Me If You Can
Chicago
Daredevil
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer
Das Leben von David Gale
Ein Chef zum Verlieben
Extreme Ops
Final Destination 2
Gangs of New York
Good Bye, Lenin!
Karlsson auf dem Dach
Manhattan Love Story
National Security
Roberto Benignis Pinocchio
Solaris
The Ring

"Good Bye, Lenin!" is actually a German movie! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Harald

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The flying classroom? [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

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Yep. A movie after a very famous German children's book by the famous German author Erich Kästner, written in 1933. His books were among those burned by the Nazis on 10 May 1933. There is not much flying in the book...

Harald

Hey, we in the USA have books about brave toasters, so why not a flying classroom?

Don't forget Magic Schoolbuses.

Whoo! The Magic School Bus rocks my socks. [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

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I'm just wondering: do they use German voice-overs in those movies? In Holland every english show is subtitled, which I think is great because it really helped me to learn/improve my english. A lot of other European countries just use voice-overs though. Once they did use voice-overs on a German police-series, but noone watched it.

In Germany, movies are usually dubbed, that means, the speech is totally replaced as best as possible. From seeing some satellite tv form Poland it looks to my, as they are doing "voice over" there. In the background, you can hear the original voice and in the foreground, you hear the translation, but it is more like a narrator.

Harald

Ah, subtitles are nice, but where would the fun be if we had not had the experience of watching poorly-dubbed Japanese Godzilla movies? Bad dubbing can make a lousy movie very entertaining.

What's Up Tiger Lilly?

There was an old British tv series in the early Seventies, The Persuaders, with Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. It was pretty dull and ceased after some 20+ episodes.
In Germany, it was pretty successful, because they dubbed it to something different, putting in plenty of jokes and play on words.

Harald

The Persuaders dull?

I don't think so. It ended because of it's cast, Roger Moore and Tony Curtis were top movie stars at the tops of their careers at the time, how long do you think they were going to stay in a TV series. Also it was very expensive to make featuring a lot of foreign location shooting and movie sized production budgets.

And it had lot's of jokes and word play in the original, it's what's known as 'tongue in cheek'

(Yes I may be a fan.

20 episodes is a lot for a British comedy/drama series.

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Well, so maybe that's a legend here about the original. So maybe one can just say that the dubbing managed to keep the spirit of the original.