FILM · 2008 · FRANCE
Martyrs
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- #001
Morjana Alaoui, the actress who played Anna, broke three bones in her foot when she fell 3 metres (9.8 ft) from the set during filming. She had to stay in bed for six weeks, and production was temporarily halted for more than a month.
- #002
Mylène Jampanoï and Morjana Alaoui, who played Lucie and Anna, accepted their roles after being affected by the script; Jampanoï even took on the role despite her agent's reservations. While preparing for the shoot, the actresses rehearsed with director Pascal Laugier for two months, and during filming Laugier isolated them from the rest of the crew to keep them in a heightened emotional state. In an interview, both said they found the shoot so emotionally difficult that they could never work with the director again, and Jampanoï recalled: "Every night when I went back to my room I just cried because I was so physically and psychologically exhausted. All my scenes are violent." Though she respected Laugier's working style, she found him to be "as temperamental as I am… I have great admiration for him… but in the end we clashed."
- #003
North American distribution rights were acquired by The Weinstein Company, but studio owner Bob Weinstein was so horrified by the film that he skipped a theatrical release and put it out directly on DVD through a partner company, both in an unrated edition and in a heavily edited, R-rated version. The film was later remade as Martyrs (2015) by producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions, something Blum later regretted. Pascal Laugier, director of the French original, said that selling the remake rights was the only regret of his career, because he hated the American version and, due to a bad contract negotiation, never received any money from it.
- #004
Special makeup effects artist Benoît Lestang committed suicide a few months before the film's French premiere.
- #005
Third-billed star Catherine Bégin does not appear in the first 61 minutes of the film.
- #006
In Pascal Laugier's previous film Saint Ange (2004), the main character is named Anna Jurin. In Martyrs, Anna is one of the female leads' character names, and Lucie Jurin is the other.
- #007
The opening events take place on 16 October 1971, which is also director Pascal Laugier's date of birth.
- #008
Mademoiselle's assistant (played by Jean-Marie Moncelet) is named Étienne. Saint-Étienne (Saint Stephen) was the first Christian martyr (stoned to death in AD 54), venerated by most Christian churches as the patron saint of stonemasons.
- #009
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones.
- #010
Kaspar Eichel is the German dubbing voice of Robert Redford.
- #011
Maria Koschny is the regular German dubbing voice of Jennifer Lawrence.
- #012
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Ezra Bridger in Star Wars Rebels.
- #013
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Jesse Eisenberg.
- #014
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Sugawara in Haikyu.
- #015
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Yugi Muto in Yu-Gi-Oh.
- #016
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Plagg in Miraculous.
- #017
Kaspar Eichel is the German dubbing voice of Richard Dreyfuss.
- #018
Konrad Bösherz is the regular German voice of Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach.
- #019
Kaspar Eichel is the new voice actor for Patrick Stewart, just as he was for Charles Xavier in Wolverine: The Path of a Warrior, X-Men: Days of Future Past and Logan - The Wolverine.
- #020
Torsten Michaelis is best known as the German dubbing voice of Martin Lawrence.
- #021
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Natalie Portman.
- #022
Torsten Michaelis is known as the German dubbing voice of Wesley Snipes.
- #023
Kaspar Eichel is the German dubbing voice of Beau Bridges.
- #024
Kaspar Eichel is the German dubbing voice of Glenn Morshower.
- #025
Torsten Michaelis is best known as the German dubbing voice of Sean Bean.
- #026
Torsten Michaelis is known as the German dubbing voice of Chris Tucker.
- #027
Torsten Michaelis is known as the German dubbing voice of Benicio del Toro.
- #028
Kaspar Eichel is the German dubbing voice of Patrick Stewart.
- #029
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Greta Gerwig.
- #030
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Kirsten Bell.
- #031
In 2003, Manja Doering was awarded the German Synchronization Performance Prize for voicing Reese Witherspoon in the film 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
- #032
Manja Doering and Torsten Michaelis guest on John Sinclair Audioplays.
- #033
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Rebecca Hall.
- #034
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Jessica Chastain.
- #035
Manja Doering is the regular German dubbing voice of Reese Witherspoon.
- #036
Manja Doering took her first major voice role in 1994, when a new German dub was made for the video release of the Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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