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Encyclopedia > Mother Night (film)
Mother Night
Directed by Keith Gordon
Written by Kurt Vonnegut
Robert B. Weide Screenplay
Starring Nick Nolte
Sheryl Lee
Alan Arkin
Runtime 114 min.
Language English
IMDb Page

Mother Night is a 1996 film based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut of the same name. Keith Gordon is an American actor turned film director. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... Robert B. Weide (born June 20, 1959) is a U.S. writer, producer, and director, perhaps best known for his documentaries and his work on Curb Your Enthusiasm. ... Nick Nolte at Cannes, 2000 Nicholas King Nolte (born February 8, 1941, Omaha, Nebraska) is an American model, actor, and producer. ... Sheryl Lee is an actress, born April 22, 1967 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, though she grew up in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. Lee is best remembered by legions of David Lynch fans for her appearance as Laura Palmer in the cult television series Twin Peaks, as well as Laura... Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an American actor. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...

Nick Nolte plays Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American by birth who moves to Germany during the interwar period. His parents move back to the U.S. but he chooses to remain behind and pursue a career as a playwright. During the build-up to WWII, he is approached by an American intelligence agent who recruits him to pass coded intelligence in propaganda broadcasts. Sheryl Lee stars as his wife, Helga Noth, and then again later in the film as Helga's younger sister, Resi. Alan Arkin also stars as Campbell's neighbor in post-war New York City, who by pure coincidence turns out to be a Soviet intelligence agent.


The film is narrated by Campbell as he sits in a jail cell in Israel, waiting to stand trial for war crimes.



Works of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Novels:
Player Piano | The Sirens of Titan | Mother Night | Cat's Cradle
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade
Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday
Slapstick or Lonesome No More
Jailbird | Deadeye Dick | Galápagos
Bluebeard | Hocus Pocus | Timequake Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... The player piano is a type of piano that plays music without the need for a human pianist to depress the normal keys or pedals. ... The Sirens of Titan (1959) is a science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Mother Night is a novel first published in 1961 and written by the American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Cats Cradle (ISBN 038533348X) is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ... God Bless You, Mr. ... Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Childrens Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by best-selling author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Slapstick, or Lonesome No More is a science fiction novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. ... Jailbird is Kurt Vonneguts 1979 fictional novel about a man recently released from a low security prison. ... Deadeye Dick is a 1982 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... The novel Galápagos is Kurt Vonneguts look at evolution, first published in 1985. ... Kurt Vonneguts Bluebeard was written in 1988 and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared, rather briefly, in Breakfast of Champions. ... Hocus Pocus is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Timequake is a semi-autobiographical work by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ...


Short story collections:
Canary in a Cathouse | Welcome to the Monkey House | Bagombo Snuff Box Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories by Kurt Vonnegut published in 1961. ... Welcome to the Monkey House is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Bagombo Snuff Box is an assortment of short stories written by Kurt Vonnegut. ...

Collected essays:
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons | Palm Sunday, An Autobiographical Collage | Fates Worse than Death, An Autobiographical Collage | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian | A Man Without a Country Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a collection of essays, reviews, short travel accounts, and human interest stories written by Kurt Vonnegut from c. ... Fates Worse than Death subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a collection of short interviews written by Vonnegut and first broadcast on NPR. The text of these interviews makes up the content of . ... A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. ...


Plays:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus Five (adapted by others from Vonnegut's words; introduction by Vonnegut) | Make Up Your Mind | Miss Temptation | L'Histoire du Soldat Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Between Time and Timbuktu is a television adaptation of Kurt Vonneguts science fiction novels and stories, and the title of a book containing the script of the broadcast. ... Histoire du soldat (sometimes written Lhistoire du soldat; translated as The Soldiers Tale or A Soldiers Tale) is a 1918 theatrical work to be read, played, and danced (lue, jouée et dansée) set to music by Igor Stravinsky. ...


Film adaptations:
Happy Birthday, Wanda June | Slaughterhouse-Five (film) | Slapstick of Another Kind (film) | Who Am I This Time? | Harrison Bergeron | Mother Night (film) | Breakfast of Champions (film) Happy Birthday, Wanda June is the 1971 film adaptation of the play by the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ... Slaughterhouse-Five is a film adaptation of the Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name. ... Who Am I This Time? is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut in the 1950s. ... The dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, opens with the line Spoiler warning: Unfortunately, this equality has been achieved by handicapping the most intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society down to the level of the lowest common denominator, a process central to the society which is overseen... Breakfast of Champions is a 1999 film adapted from the novel of the same name by Kurt Vonnegut. ...


  Results from FactBites:
 
Whyaduck Productions, Inc. -- Weide's Mother Night (3525 words)
This scene, filmed faithfully from the novel, has been made especially effective by the cinematic identification between Resi the adult, so happily hopeful in her role as Helga, and Resi the child, nihilistic to the point of having no personhood at all.
In Mother Night his Howard Campbell is a more conventionally aesthetic artist; in fact, it is Campbell's motivation as an aesthete that corrupts his drama and his fascination with playing the ultimately tragic role of hero that damns the world with his propaganda.
In his film Robert Weide stops short of such self-judgment, preferring to let the watching prison guard make sufficient comment with a simple exhale of smoke, a reminder of his earlier comment of how strapping the legs of the executed Rudolf Hess felt exactly the same as strapping shut his suitcase.
Mother Night - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (440 words)
Mother Night is a novel first published in 1961 and written by the American author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Mother Night was made into a film in 1996 by writer / producer Robert B. Weide; it was directed by Keith Gordon and starred Nick Nolte.
So I was right to trust him"; when asked about the degree of artistic influence Vonnegut had had over the film, Vonnegut said "Almost none.
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