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The Miracle Maker (2000)
Country
of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: shown theatrically
first (see Timeline)
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times: 90 mins
42 sec
Format: Technicolor
Sound: Dolby Digital
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ffilmiau S4C Films / British Screen
/ Icon Entertainment International / BBC Cymru Wales /
Cartwn Cymru / Christmas Films
Executive Producer: Christopher Grace
Executive Co-Producers: Elizabeth Babakhina; Huw Walters
(for S4C), Ralph Kamp (for Icon Entertainment
International), John Geraint (for
BBC Wales), Geoffrey Marshall-Taylor (for the BBC)
Producer: Naomi Jones; Renat Zinnurov (for Christmas
Films)
Line Producer: Irina Karpova
Production Co-Ordinator (for Christmas Films): Igor
Markozyan
Production Co-Ordinators (for Cartwn Cymru): Nic Howell,
Andrew Peters
SCRIPT
Script: Murray Watts
Script Editors: Martin Lamb, Penelope Middelboe
DIRECTION
Executive Director: Derek Hayes
Directors: Stanislav Sokolov, Derek Hayes
2nd Unit Director: Galina Beda
ANIMATION
Key Animation (Cartwn Cymru): Chris Fenna, Nicolette Van
Gendt, Roger Phillips, Jose Solis, Rick Villeneuve, Arjan
Wilschut, Mike Bell, Peter Dodd, Alastair Fell, Claire
Grey, Steve Hayne, Roger McIntosh, Ann Marriott, Moving
Still Productions, Mair Thomas
Layouts: Tass Darlington, Peter Hesom
Animators: Natasha Dabizha, Alla Solovyova, Vladimir
Kadukhin, Milana Fedoseyeva, Olga Veselova, Sergei
Olifirenko, Tanya Molodova2D Art Direction And
Backgrounds: Ashley Potter
Background Painters: Boris Scherbakov, Maya Novozhilova
Assistant Animators: Toni Ardolino, Julian Evert, Morgan
Griffiths, Lee Huxtable, John Lund, Philip Owen, Terence
Bannon, Marc Burnell, Caroline Cole, Peter Gambier, Ken
Hayes, Steve Hayne, Eryl Lewis Jones, Iwan Jones-Roberts,
Marc Lewis, Nicola Marlborough, Alex Mason, Philip Organ,
Tom Petith, Miriam Reid, Vince Reilly, Morgan Tomos
Animo Compositing: Paul Bannister, Susannah Light, Tracey
Paddison, Martyn Yates
Animo Scanning: David Hoctor
Animo Painters: Joke Eycken, Lee Jones, Ben Lamb, Michael
Roberts, Mari Sheard, Inez Stoodley
Rendering: Bearcat Productions
Line Testing: Dean Roach
Animatic Compositor/Colourist: Louise Harrison
Puppet Sculpture: Vladimir Shafranyuk, Anatoli Gnedinski,
Gennadi Bogachev, Natasha Dabizha, Alexander Draigor,
Igor Khilov, Maxim Gladikov, Michael Koltunov, Anton
Vyatkin, Yuri Odintzov, Yulia Sheftel, Nadezhda
Chernikova, Vladimir Schegolkov, Oleg Ikonnikov,
Alexander Nozdrin, Vladimir Monastirev, Victor Grishin,
Tanya Fedorova
Puppet Facial Articulation Developed And Implemented By:
Sergei Olifirenko
Puppet Armature: Konstantin Trusov, Vladimir Razgulyaev,
Yuri Aksenov, Lev Morozov
Puppet Costumes And Wigs: Natasha Barkovskaya, Nadezhda
Lyarskaya, Nina Vinogradova, Lyuba Doronina, Nina Moleva,
Olga Usacheva, Marina Kurchevskaya, Vera Piunova, Natasha
Grinberg, Maria Fedorova
Technical Director: Izya Oirakh
Technical Support Group: Leonid Pakholenko, Tanya
Strukova, Michael Averianov, Andrew Krilov, Violetta
Krilova, Vladimir Kostikov, Eugene Chetirkin
Puppet Character Development: Helena Livanova, Mike
McMahon
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director Of Photography: Alexander Vikhanski
Cameraman: Leonard Kolvinkovski
Camera Assistants: Sergei Galkin, Alexander Bobilev
Lighting Grips: Igor Baulin, Vladimir Andreev, Gennadi
Luzanov
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Helena Mikhailova
Editors: William Oswald, John Richards; Helena
Medvezhnikova, Lyudmila Krilova (for Christmas Films)
Negative Cutting: Sylvia Wheeler Film Services Ltd
MUSIC
Music / Conductor / Orchestrator: Anne Dudley
Orchestral Performers: BBC National Orchestra of Wales;
Cerddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig Y BBC
Orchestra Leader: Janice Graham
Solo Performers: Paul Clarvis (ethnic percussion); Andy
Findon (flute); Skaila Kanga (harp)
Music Contractor: Isobel Griffiths Ltd
Solo Choir Boy: Nicholas Santos
Choir: Metro Voices
Music Superviser: Karen Elliott For Air-Edel Associates
Ltd
Music Recorded At: BBC Wales
Music Engineer: Paul Hulme
Assistant Engineer: Paul Jenkins
Music Producer: Roger Dudley
Music Mixed At: Angel Recording Studios, London
Music Copyist: Gill Townend Music Ltd
SOUND
Sound Supervisor And Re-Recording Mixer: Peter Jeffreys
Dialogue Recording: Matthew Roberts
Soundtrack Breakdown: Robert Francis
Sound Design And Editing: Ian "Spike" Banks
Assistant Sound Editors: Matt Creed, Paul Mcfadden
Re-Recording Mixer: Tim Ricketts
Foley Re-Recording Mixer: Darran Clement
Foley Artists: John Fewel, Julie Ankerson
Additional Dialogue Artists: Paula-Louise Beaumont,
Richard Cadbury, Brian Gear, Richard Heneghan, Peggy
Mason, Rex Plowman,
Andy Turvey, William Vernon, Jos Williams
Dolby Sound Consultant: Julian Pinn
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Puppet Make-Up: Galina Kruglova, Tamara Gorshenina, Tanya
Platonova, Helena Zelenina
Costume Designers: Anna Baibakova, Eugenia Bogolyubova
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Digital Visual Effects: The Digital Film Company At The
Moving Picture Company
Visual Effects Producers: Matthew Plummer, Rupert Porter
Digital Visual Effects Supervisor: Richard Bain
2D Operators: Frazer Churchill, Gavin Digby, Ed Hawkins,
Charlie Noble, Ed Plant, Paul Riddle, Greg Salter, Jelena
Stojanovic, Simon Terry, Tom Wood
3D Operators: Russell Appleford, Martin Costello,
Frederik Sundquist, Paul Franklin, Stein Gausereide, Andy
Hall, Nigel Hardwidge, Chas Jarrett, Rogan Macdonald,
Jake Mengers, Stefan Moss, Gillian Schneider, Richard
Stevens
2D Computer Animation: Duncan Macdonald
Title Lettering: Jonah Jones
End Titles And Opticals: General Screen Enterprises
Motion Control Operator: Alexei Morozov
Assistant Operators: Helena Golubeva, Dmitri Palagin
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Executive Art Designer: Helena Livanova
Assistant Set Designers: Igor Mednik, Oksana Kholodova,
Nadezhda Ivanova, Ekaterina Langner, Olga Nefedova
Executive Set Designer: Boris Moiseyev
Assistant Designers: Tanya Brodskaya, Yulia Mashkina,
Yana Borinskaya, Olga Usacheva, Andrei Filkin, Natasha
Kabanova
Set Constructors: Victor Dmitriev, Slava Dmitriev
Storyboard: Christopher De Lloyd, Christopher Evans, Das
Petrou
LOCATIONS
Animated and Produced in Cardiff, Wales and Moscow,
Russia
MISCELLANEOUS
Production Team Manager: Michael Sementzov-Ogievski
Assistant Team Manager: Svetlana Vavilova
Dialogue Direction: Joan Washington
Interpreters and Translators: Tanya Romanovskaya,
Lyudmila Zolotareva, Natasha Filatova, Dmitri Stroev,
Olga Lewis
Producer's Assistant: Sabina Fisher
Production Secretary: Donna Murray
Production Accounts: Dr J. K. Davies
Accounting Group: Tanya Baturina, Natasha Peshkovskaya,
Valentina Yudin
Production Cost Controllers At S4C: Margaret Hughes, Sian
Davies Hill, Joanne Edwards
Overseas Courier: Marina Erastova
Legal Advisor At S4C: Ifer Arch
Marketing Manager At Icon: Michaela Piper
Technical Consultants: John Cary, Tim Farrington, Ceri
Griffin, Sam James, Chris Lyons, Monica McCartney, Peter
Rush, Jo Weekes, Malcolm Yallop
Research/Historical Advisors: Christabel Gingell, Anna
Iamim, Angela Kidner, Dr Nikkos Kokkinos, David Pileggi
(Shoresh Study Tours)
Theological Advisors: Dr M.F. Brearley; The Reverend Dr
Richard A. Burridge, King's College, London; Nigel M. De
S. Cameron,
Trinity International University, Illinois; Reverend Dr
Noel A. Davies, Swansea; The Right Reverend Lord Habgood;
Pryderi Llwyd Jones, Aberystwyth; Father Dominic Milroy,
O.S.B., Ampleforth Abbey; Dr Stephen Travis, St John's
College, Nottingham; Bishop Rowan Williams, Monmouth; The
Very Reverend Dr N.T. Wright, Dean Of Lichfield Cathedral
Rushes Transfer: Arion Communications Ltd
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: Simon Perry and Sarah Harper of British Screen
CASTING
Casting: Mary Selway, Sarah Trevis
VOICES
Ralph Fiennes (Jesus)
Michael Bryant (voice of God, the doctor)
Julie Christie (Rachel)
Rebecca Callard (Tamar)
James Frain (Thomas)
Richard E Grant (John the Baptist)
Ian Holm (Pilate)
William Hurt (Jairus)
Anton Lesser (Herod)
Daniel Massey (Cleopas)
Tim McInnerny (Barabbas)
Alfred Molina (Simon the Pharisee)
Bob Peck (Joseph of Arimathea)
Miranda Richardson (Mary Magdalene)
Antony Sher (Ben Azra)
Ewan Stewart (Andrew)
Ken Stott (Simon Peter)
David Thewlis (Judas)
Vass Anderson
Nigel Anthony
Tony Armatrading
David Becalick
Robert Duncan
Martin Gent
Patrick Godfrey
Julie Higginson
William Hootkins
Joe James
Lennie James
Emily Mortimer
Michael Nardone
Phoebe Nicholls
Geraldine O'Rawe
Geraint Owen
Neville Phillips
Rupert Proctor
Martyn Read
Sian Rivers
David Schofield
Dougray Scott
William Thomas
Richard Dyer
Adam Welch
PLOT SUMMARY
The life of Jesus Christ
told through puppet animation.
CAPSULE REVIEW
A fabulous re-telling of
the Christ story, beautifully animated with an almost
perfect cast. It may be familiar stuff but the telling
has a freshness about it that many biblical epics lack
and even non-believers will be hooked.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Video Distributor: Icon Home Entertainment (V09220)
DVD Distributor: Icon Home Entertainment (D09220)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
France
Rating: U
New Zealand
Rating: G
UK
Rating: U
TIMELINE
2000
January
10: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for theatrical
release)
March
3: UK - featured on BBC News Midland TV show
22: UK - theatrical premiere
22: UK - featured on BBC News West TV show
31: UK - theatrical release
31: UK - featured on Christian Channel Europe's One
O'Clock News TV show
April
2: UK - featured on Good Morning Sunday, Radio 2 radio
show
9: UK - featured on Songs of Praise TV show
9: UK - featured on The Heaven and Earth Show TV show
12: France - theatrical release
14: Italy - theatrical release
23: USA - television broadcast
September
21: New Zealand - television broadcast
October
4: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for video release)
30: UK - video release (Icon Home Entertainment
(V09220)); DVD release (Icon Home Entertainment (D09220))
November
15: Iceland - video premiere
2001
February
1: UK - rated U by the BBFC (for video release)
POSTER TAGS
A visually stunning animation of the
greatest story ever told
REFERENCES
Broadcast 10 September
1999 p.2
credits, note
Broadcast 5 May 2000 p.10
note
Cine&Media no.4
(2000) pp.13-15
illustrated article
Creation March 2000 p.4
credits, note
Empire no.130 (April
2000) p.22
illustrated review
Film Review no.593 (May
2000) p.34
illustrated credits, review
Film Review Yearbook 2001
p.90
illustrated review
Film tutti i film della stagione no.46
(July / August 2000) pp.12-13
credits, synopsis, review
Premiere (France) no.278
(April / May 2000) p.52
illustrated review
Screen International no.1146
(20 February 1998) p.42
credits, production note
Screen International no.1165
(3 July 1998) p.17
credits, production note
Screen International no.1201
(26 March 1999) p.35
credits, production note
Sight and Sound vol.10
no.4 (April 2000) pp.59-60
credits, review, synopsis
Sight and Sound vol.10
no.11 (November 2000) p.70
video review
Total Film no.39 (April
2000) p.98
illustrated credits, review, synopsis
Variety 3 April 2000 p.36
credits, synopsis, review KEYWORDS
the bible; jesus christ; miracles;
resurrection; religion
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