Additional information for Cloud Atlas, which has a domestic theatrical release set for October 26, 2012. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. Cloud Atlas has a total running time of 172 minutes.
R
USA
13+
Canada
15
UK
16
South Africa
15A
Ireland
A
India
12
Germany
MA15+
Australia
M18
Singapore
M/12
Portugal
18
South Korea
R-13
Philippines
16
Brazil
16
Hungary
18
Argentina
15
Sweden
15
Norway
III
Hong Kong
14
Switzerland
PG12
Japan
K-16
Finland
172min
Cloud Atlas
France
Cloud Atlas
Germany
Cloud Atlas
Greece
Cloud Atlas
Italy
Cloud Atlas
Portugal
Atlas oblaka
Croatia
Atlas oblaka
Serbia
Cloud Atlas: La red invisible
Argentina
Cloud Atlas: La red invisible
Chile
Облакът атлас
Bulgaria
Облачный атлас
Russia
A Viagem
Brazil
Anan Atlas
Israel
Atlas Neba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Atlas chmur
Poland
Atlas mraku
Czech Republic
Bulut Atlasi
Turkey
Cloud Atlas - Tutto è connesso
Italy
Debesu zemelapis
Lithuania
Der Wolkenatlas
Germany
El atlas de las nubes
Spain
Felhőatlasz
Hungary
Pilveatlas
Estonia
Pilvikartasto
Finland
September 08, 2012
Canada
October 08, 2012
USA
October 26, 2012
Canada
October 26, 2012
India
October 26, 2012
Turkey
October 26, 2012
USA
October 27, 2012
Pakistan
November 02, 2012
South Africa
November 05, 2012
Netherlands
November 08, 2012
Belarus
November 08, 2012
Kazakhstan
November 08, 2012
Russia
November 08, 2012
Ukraine
November 09, 2012
Bulgaria
November 09, 2012
Iceland
November 15, 2012
Germany
November 15, 2012
Serbia
November 16, 2012
Austria
November 16, 2012
Republic of Macedonia
November 17, 2012
Armenia
November 22, 2012
Czech Republic
November 22, 2012
Greece
November 22, 2012
Hungary
November 22, 2012
Slovakia
November 22, 2012
Slovenia
November 23, 2012
Lithuania
November 23, 2012
Poland
November 29, 2012
Croatia
November 29, 2012
Netherlands
November 29, 2012
Portugal
November 29, 2012
Switzerland
November 29, 2012
Thailand
November 30, 2012
Estonia
December 05, 2012
Philippines
December 12, 2012
United Arab Emirates
December 27, 2012
Israel
December 28, 2012
Mexico
December 28, 2012
Paraguay
December 28, 2012
Venezuela
January 03, 2013
Argentina
January 10, 2013
Italy
January 10, 2013
South Korea
January 11, 2013
Brazil
January 11, 2013
Uruguay
January 17, 2013
Singapore
January 21, 2013
Panama
January 24, 2013
Hong Kong
January 31, 2013
China
February 08, 2013
USA
February 17, 2013
UK
February 21, 2013
Malaysia
February 22, 2013
Ireland
February 22, 2013
Spain
February 22, 2013
Sweden
February 22, 2013
UK
February 28, 2013
Australia
March 01, 2013
Chile
March 01, 2013
Colombia
March 01, 2013
Finland
March 08, 2013
Norway
March 13, 2013
France
March 14, 2013
Denmark
March 14, 2013
Peru
March 15, 2013
Japan
March 20, 2013
Belgium
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An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
This film follows the stories of six people's "souls" across time, and the stories are interleaved as they advance, showing how they all interact. It is about how the peoples' lives are connected with and influence each other.The first storyline follows a lawyer named Adam Ewing (Jim Sturgess) in the early1800's, whose family is in the slave trade. He has been sent to the Pacific to arrange a contract for some Maori slaves with a slave trader from that area. Upon his return home, Ewing saves a Moriori (native New Zealand) man named Autua (David Gyasi) who is a runaway slave stowing away on the ship. Ewing also realizes he is being poisoned by a doctor he trusted Dr. Henry Goose (Tom Hanks). Autua saves Ewing's life and his views of the natives are changed in important ways as he comes to know the man. Adam Ewing's journal which chronicled his ordeal and rescue by a runaway slave are later published into a book which is discovered by the next character in the storyline.The second storyline follows the tragically short life of a talented young wannabe composer in the 1930's named Robert Frobisher (Ben Whishaw) who finagles himself into a position aiding an aging composer Vyvyan Ayrs (Jim Broadbent). While working for Ayrs, Robert Frobisher begins reading the published chronicle of Adam Ewings' journal which he has found among the many books at Ayrs' mansion. He never finishes reading the journal and it is unclear what effect it has on the creation of his own musical composition. Robert enters a sexual relationship with Ayrs's wife, which, along with Ayrs' own arrogance and presumption of superiority of position and class, tears him and Ayrs apart. Ayrs threatens to ruin Frobisher's already rickety reputation when he encounters Frobisher's own work, the Cloud Atlas sextet. Ayrs forces Frobisher to accept second place in the credit for the Sextet. Frobisher inadvertently shoots Ayrs during an argument then flees. When Ayrs survives the shooting, and sets police after him, he realizes he is facing utter ruin, as Ayrs threatened. Frobisher completes the Sextet, then sends it to his lover and friend, a Cambridge student, Rufus Sixmith (James D'Arcy) and commits suicide. Rufus Sixmith meets the main character in the third storyline much later in his life, and we discover Robert Fobisher's Cloud Atlas sextet has been recorded into an album and although it is an obscure recording, it has clearly affected peoples lives.The third storyline is about a journalist in the 1970s named Luisa Rey (Halle Berry). She meets Rufus Sixmith in a chance encounter while being stuck on a broken elevator. Sixmith, by now is now a renowned physicist. After leaving the elevator, Sixmith later attempts to re-contact Rey and reveal that there is a conspiracy afoot to cover up a report about the flaws in the design of a nuclear power reactor. When she is about to meet-up with Sixmith, she finds him just recently dead, an apparent suicide. Her journalistic instincts kick in, telling her there is more to the story than a man committing suicide, and discovers that a report on the reactor written by Sixmith can reveal the terrible secret. Along with the report, Rey also finds a collection of letters written from Frobisher to Sixmith many years earlier while Frobisher was working on the Cloud Atlas Sextet composition. A scientist named Isaac Sachs (Tom Hanks) meets Rey and helps her. The CEO, Alberto Grimaldi (Hugh Grant) sends his head of security, Joe Napier (Keith David) and his agent, Bill Smoke (Hugo Weaving) to stop her. Smoke has already killed Sixmith, and then Sachs, and attempts to kill Rey as she gets closer and closer to the truth. Smoke is stopped in the end by Joe Napier. As Napier and Rey escape death by the hands of Smoke, Luisa Rey publishes an article leading to the shutdown of the reactor after revealing the contents of the Sixmith Report.The fourth storyline is a modern-day tale of Timothy Cavendish (Jim Broadbent), the owner of a small publishing company, who has published a small biographical book by a lowlife thug. While the book has literally no hope of making much, if any, money, this changes when the author-thug kills a critic of his book by throwing him off a balcony to his death. Suddenly the book has legs and Cavendish is rolling in money from royalties. When friends of the thug come looking for his royalties, Cavendish is put in a tight situation, as he doesn't have the money they are demanding, and clearly the hooligans aren't particularly constrained by the law. While traveling by train to his hide-out address his brother recommended, Cavendish is seen reading a manuscript that was sent to him. The manuscript is titled, "Half Lives - The First Luisa Rey Mystery" and is the romanized version of the third storyline. He arrives at the "hotel" his brother sent him to, which, only the next day is revealed to be a nursing home for the elderly. Residents are treated as prisoners, and each attempt to get out is stopped by the staff (which is revealed to be the nursing home's primary purpose, to lock up troublesome relatives). With the assistance of three other residents, they eventually create an escape plan and they manage to escape. Once he makes good on his escape, he writes a best-selling tale of his adventures, which is later made into a biopic.The fifth storyline is about Sonmi-451 (Donna Bae), a clone bred for work in a Papa's Song fast-food restaurant in Korea (now called Neo Seoul) in the far future. In this stark future, she lives in a day-to-day world, each day identical to the next, existing only to serve food to "consumers". But her limited life is revealed to be less than she is capable of when another of the clones inadvertently awakens her from her daily slumber. Sonmi-451 through chance, discovers a fragment of the biopic film of "The Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish" on a cell-phone/pda left at the Papa's Song fast-food restaurant. This film lays the seeds of the never-ending struggle against injustice. She starts to question all the things she has seen and experienced, including the believed purpose of her existence, in which other clones, and eventually she, will "ascend" from after a single year of work. When her friend, the other clone, is killed, she meets a man named Hae-Joo Im, who it is revealed was behind her friend, and then her, being exposed to something more than their day-to-day existence. They have been attempting to prove that the clones were the equal of "naturally born" humans, hearkening back to the days of slavery. Hae-Joo rescues her from her life in the restaurant, and begins teaching her about the outside world as well as teaching her about philosophy, art, and "higher values". When they are captured by the authorities, he escapes, then rescues her from the authorities. He reveals he is actually a former member of the military who has become a member of a revolutionary organization, taking action against the oppressive government, that wishes to free the clones in Neo Seoul. Somni-451 is proof that the clones are capable of being more than mere slaves. He takes Sonmi-451 to meet the other revolutionaries, who arrange for her to learn what "ascension" really is, on a ship where they massacre the clones, only to reprocess them and use their bodies to feed the still-functioning clones. She agrees to assist the revolutionaries, knowing it means capture and death, by writing a Manifesto. They capture a broadcast facility, and reveal the truth, not just to all earth but to the offworld colonies as well. All of the revolutionaries, including Hae-Joo, but except Sonmi-451, are killed holding off the government's agents so that she can keep broadcasting her Manifesto. Sonmi-451 reveals all the above while being questioned by an agent of the government, who asks her why she did it all, when the government will make everyone believe it was false. She acknowledges that she goes to her execution calmly, believing that death is only a door, and knowing that one person -- her interviewer -- knows it is true, and that it will not be possible to suppress the Truth.The sixth and final storyline is about Zachry (Tom Hanks) who is a tribesman living in a low-tech post-apocalyptic Hawaii, 100 years Neo Seoul has been swallowed by the sea. His people revere Sonmi, and believe her to be holy. A member of a far more advanced group of people called the Prescients, named Meronym (Halle Berry) asks to live with their tribe and Zachry's sister takes her in, their relationship grows. Zachry is harboring his own secret, that he hid in cowardly shame while barbarians called the Kona killed his brother-in-law and his nephew. People suspect him, and he is largely an outcast, but his sister and his niece still accept and love him. Meronym wishes to cross the mountains to get to a place she believes is inland, but it is an area fraught with suspicious dread, and no one will take her there. When Zachry's beloved niece is taken fatally ill, and he realizes only Meronym has the ability to save her, he agrees to lead her up the mountains to where she wants to go in exchange for Meronym's assistance. Zachry's fears, personified by his tribe's belief in a god of Death named Old Georgie, whisper to him that he must kill Meronym, that he is risking his tribe for an outsider. He rejects the impulses, seeing in Meronym something more and better than his fears can destroy. Meronym and Zachry succeed in reaching a large facility, and he is again pushed by Old Georgie to kill Meronym, and he again resists, but barely. Meronym reveals to Zachry that the world is dying, that all humans, even the Prescients, are doomed, unless they can reach the offworld colonies, if they still exist at all (most of the Prescients believe them to be dead, and Meronym on a likely fool's errand). Meronym reveals that the place they are at is the same broadcast facility that Sonmi used to transmit her manifesto. She explains to him that his beliefs are not entirely true, that Sonmi was a human, not a goddess, and shows him pictures and things that prove it. They return to the valley of Zachry's clan, to see smoke in the distance. Zachry realizes his tribe is under attack by the barbarian Kona, and runs ahead to assist. When he arrives, everyone in his tribe is dead, all the Kona appear to be gone. He sees his sister's dead body, then runs to their hut to find his niece. There he finds one lone barbarian lying in a drunken stupor, and he kills him in rage. He hears a noise, and finds his niece hiding in a small niche. At the same time, the barbarians return looking for their klansman, and, seeing his horse outside the hut, begin to investigate. They see him lying there, throat freshly cut, and begin to search the hut for whoever killed him. Zachry and his niece flee, with the Kona in hot pursuit. The Kona catch up to them in the same woods where he hid in cowardice as his brother-in-law was killed, and, as he is about to die, in much the same place and position as his brother died (the story thus coming full circle), Meronym steps up from the place he hid in cowardice, and, using her weapons and risking her own life, she saves him and they kill the half-dozen Kona together. Meronym signals for her own people, and they accept Zachry and his niece in as one of their own, with Meronym's urging.Finally, it's shown that Zachry has been telling his tale to a large group of children, and that he married Meronym, and that the offworld colonies heard their broadcast, and came to rescue the survivors... and that he and Meronym are on another world entirely.
Tom Tykwer
Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski
Director(s)
David Mitchell
Lana Wachowski
Tom Tykwer
Andy Wachowski
Writer(s)
Stefan Arndt
producer
Alex Boden
producer: UK
David Brown
line producer: UK
José Luis Escolar
line producer: Spain
Grant Hill
producer
Philip Lee
executive producer
Marcus Loges
line producer: Germany
Roberto Malerba
co-producer
Gigi Oeri
associate producer
Alexander Rodnyansky
co-producer
Uwe Schott
executive producer
Pearry Reginald Teo
executive producer: Ascension Pictures
Tom Tykwer
producer
Alexander van Duelmen
co-producer
Andy Wachowski
producer
Lana Wachowski
producer
Producer(s)
Reinhold Heil
Johnny Klimek
Tom Tykwer
Composer(s)
Dr. Henry Goose / Hotel Manager / Isaac Sachs / Dermot Hoggins / Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor / Zachry
Tom Hanks
Native Woman / Jocasta Ayrs / Luisa Rey / Indian Party Guest / Ovid / Meronym
Halle Berry
Captain Molyneux / Vyvyan Ayrs / Timothy Cavendish / Korean Musician / Prescient 2
Jim Broadbent
Haskell Moore / Tadeusz Kesselring / Bill Smoke / Nurse Noakes / Boardman Mephi / Old Georgie
Hugo Weaving
Adam Ewing / Poor Hotel Guest / Megan's Dad / Highlander / Hae-Joo Chang / Adam (Zachry's Brother-in-Law)
Jim Sturgess
Tilda / Megan's Mom / Mexican Woman / Sonmi-451 / Sonmi-351 / Sonmi Prostitute
Doona Bae
Cabin Boy / Robert Frobisher / Store Clerk / Georgette / Tribesman
Ben Whishaw
Kupaka / Joe Napier / An-kor Apis / Prescient
Keith David
Young Rufus Sixsmith / Old Rufus Sixsmith / Nurse James / Archivist
James D'Arcy
Talbot / Yoona-939 / Rose
Xun Zhou
Autua / Lester Rey / Duophysite
David Gyasi
Madame Horrox / Older Ursula / Yusouf Suleiman / Abbess
Susan Sarandon
Rev. Giles Horrox / Hotel Heavy / Lloyd Hooks / Denholme Cavendish / Seer Rhee / Kona Chief
Hugh Grant
Old Salty Dog / Mr. Meeks / Prescient 1
Robert Fyfe
Mr. Boerhaave / Guard / Leary the Healer
Martin Wuttke
Young Cavendish
Robin Morrissey
Javier Gomez / Jonas / Zachry's Older Nephew (as Brody Lee)
Brody Nicholas Lee
Enforcer
Ian van Temperley
Veronica
Amanda Walker
Ernie
Ralph Riach
Mr. Hotchkiss
Andrew Havill
Mrs. Hotchkiss
Tanja de Wendt
Little Girl with Orison at Papa Song's / Catkin / Zachry Relative 1
Raevan Lee Hanan
Groundsman Withers
Götz Otto
Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 2 / Mozza Hoggins
Niall Greig Fulton
Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 3 / Jarvis Hoggins
Louis Dempsey
Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 4 / Eddie Hoggins
Martin Docherty
Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 1 / Musician / Felix Finch / Lascivious Businessman
Alistair Petrie
Megan Sixsmith / 12th Star Clone
Zhu Zhu
Haskell Moore's Dinner Guest 5 / Nurse Judd / Aide in Slaughtership
Sylvestra Le Touzel
Papa Song Punk
Jojo Schöning
Young Ursula
Laura Vietzen
Ursula's Father
Thomas Kügel
Ursula's Daughter
Marie Rönnebeck
Young Girl
Ruby Kastner
Ursula's Granddaughter
Emma Werz
Miro (as Mya-Leica Naylor)
Mya-Lecia Naylor
Adam Grandson (as Korbyn Hanan)
Korbyn Hawk Hanan
Axwoman (Woman in Pub Fight)
Katy Karrenbauer
Ursula's Mother / Herbalist
Dulcie Smart
Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski
Director(s)
Lana Wachowski
Tom Tykwer
Andy Wachowski
Writer(s)
producer
Alex Boden
producer: UK
David Brown
line producer: UK
José Luis Escolar
line producer: Spain
Grant Hill
producer
Philip Lee
executive producer
Marcus Loges
line producer: Germany
Roberto Malerba
co-producer
Gigi Oeri
associate producer
Alexander Rodnyansky
co-producer
Uwe Schott
executive producer
Pearry Reginald Teo
executive producer: Ascension Pictures
Tom Tykwer
producer
Alexander van Duelmen
co-producer
Andy Wachowski
producer
Lana Wachowski
producer
Producer(s)
Johnny Klimek
Tom Tykwer
Composer(s)
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