Catch-22
(2019)
Schauspieler:
Daniel David Stewart, Rafi Gavron, Christopher Abbott, Graham Patrick Martin, Kyle Chandler, Gerran Howell, Jon Rudnitsky, Austin Stowell, Lewis Pullman, Giancarlo Giannini, George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Pico AlexanderDie Miniserie Catch-22 beruht auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Joseph Heller, der das geflügelte Wort (auch „Catch-22-Dilemma“ auf Deutsch) über eine paradoxe Zwickmühle, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt, geprägt hat. Die Handlung spielt während des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Italien, wo sich der Artillerist John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) als psychisch krank diagnostizieren lassen möchte, um nach Hause geschickt zu werden. Allerdings wird niemandem eine Geisteskrankheit attestiert, der aus eigenen Stücken versucht, seine Haut zu retten, was seine Situation zunehmend unmöglicher und absurder macht.
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II. Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive". His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse because Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them.
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II. Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive". His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse because Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them.
