Zulu (2013)

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Movie
German title Zulu
Original title Zulu (France) ,
City of Violence (South Africa)
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Country of production France , South Africa
original language English , Afrikaans
Publishing year 2013
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 18, 16 (abridged version)
Rod
Director Jérôme Salle
script Julien Rappeneau ,
Jérôme Salle
production Richard Grandpierre
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Denis Rouden
cut Stan Collet
occupation
synchronization

Zulu is a French - South African crime drama from the year 2013 . For the screenplay , Jérôme Salle , also director, and Julien Rappeneau adapted the novel of the same name by Caryl Férey from 2008. The film stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom in the leading roles . Mostly filmed in South Africa , it is about the investigation into several murders in Cape Town , in which a secret project to possibly decimate the black population is uncovered. The film focuses on the social situation in South Africa after the end of apartheid and is based on the military research project Project Coast, which was initiated by apartheid politics .

The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 as a graduation film and as a world premiere and was also shown at other film festivals. It had its cinema premiere in France and French-speaking Switzerland in December 2013 and in Germany and Austria in May 2014. Critics praised the film as exciting and the acting of the main actors as excellent, but criticized the plot as constructed and clichéd.

action

The Khayelitsha township

The main plot takes place in 2013. The black detective superintendent Ali Sokhela, who is a Zulu , and his white colleagues Brian Epkeen and Dan Fletcher are investigating the death of Nicole Weiss, the young daughter of a celebrity, who was found slain in a botanical garden in Cape Town . Initially, the investigators consider a sexual offense to be possible, but also a crime in the drug environment.

As a child Sokhela had in 1978, at the time of apartheid , in the province of Natal , the murder of his father by Necklacing witnessed by an angry gang. While fleeing, the boy was seriously injured in the genitals by a dog and kicks by police officers. As a grown man, he therefore has great difficulties in experiencing love relationships. At night he is in the company of a prostitute, with whom he does not have sex because of his genital injuries.

Epkeen's ex-wife Ruby once left Epkeen and now lives with the wealthy dentist Rick in his villa. Epkeen seems unable to control his drinking behavior and often has one-night stands . The relationship with his son David, over whose custody the parents are fighting, is characterized by constant arguments. As Epkeen is ashamed of the actions of his father, who worked as a public prosecutor under the apartheid regime , he took his mother's surname and did not have his father's tombstone inscribed. The supervisor of the investigative team is the chief of the police department Kruger, who was involved in human rights violations under the apartheid regime, which were committed by his former police unit . Regardless, Sokhela has chosen to forgive and accepts his superior.

Dan Fletcher is an investigator with little experience in the field . His - like him - fair-skinned wife Claire, with whom he has children, has cancer and, unlike Dan, is against the fact that members of the apartheid regime have been pardoned by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission .

Investigators learn that the drug dealer Stan is believed to be involved in the murder case. While searching for Stan, Sokhela, Epkeen and Fletcher are attacked by drug dealers on the beach. Fletcher is so badly injured with a machete that he dies a little later. Epkeen manages to shoot some of the dealers and drive the others off. The investigation results in transfers between the tenants of a house near the dealers' hut, which they used as a storage facility for drugs, and the security company DPS, of which Frank de Beer is the head. De Beer and his assistant Cat torture Stan until he confesses to having given Nicole Weiss synthetic drugs and slept with her. When she became aggressive under the influence of the drugs, Stan beat her until she died. De Beer orders Cat to "clean up" a villa on the beach and let Stan live for now.

Sokhela, Epkeen and other police officers raid Cat's bar in a Cape Town township . After they stormed the building, it was shot at from a car. Numerous police officers and guests die in the process. Sokhela and Epkeen leave the building to drive away the gunmen. In the shooting and the subsequent chase, Sokhela is wounded and some shooters are killed.

Sokhela has been investigating the disappearance of street children for a long time. He happened to witness a brawl among street children that he could end by intervening. After discovering a short time later that one of the boys is now dead and another is missing, he finally finds out that numerous street children have recently disappeared. He therefore asks his mother, in whose house he still lives, for help in finding the boy.

Investigators found out that drug dealers sell a synthetic substance that during the apartheid regime as part of Project Coast Dr. by the scientist Joost Opperman was designed to liquidate the black population. Those who take the drug, depending on the dosage, initially become euphoric, then violent and later tired of life. The drugs are tested on street children and their corpses are finally thrown into the pigs to eat.

In the meantime, Cat and de Beer had murdered an uninvolved woman and placed traces of Stan's DNA under her fingernails. Stan's severed head had been sent to the police. The police command now sees the opportunity to close the case and put it on file. However, Epkeen wants to continue investigating. After Epkeen has gained access to Rick's property and pushed him into the swimming pool, also out of jealousy, he is suspended from duty by Kruger.

Epkeen continues to investigate and breaks into de Beer’s company at night. Searching them, he finds both synthetic drugs and a hard drive on which the effects, development and purpose of the drug - the decimation of the black population - are documented. When the alarm is triggered, he flees and takes the hard drive with him. To get this back, de Beer takes Ruby and Rick hostage. Epkeen drives to Rick's villa and gives de Beer back the hard drive he has copied in the meantime. Rick, who is ready to sacrifice Ruby, tries in vain to buy himself free and is instead shot in cold blood by de Beer. Epkeen is beaten up by de Beer's henchmen and tied up with Ruby, both of which are to be murdered. Eventually, however, Epkeen manages to cut his bonds with the shards of a broken window and free himself and Ruby from de Beer’s clutches.

The police have since discovered a plot of land with a mass grave in which the body parts of the test subjects who died in the drug tests are located. Because Ali Sokhela's mother discovered the property beforehand, she too was murdered when she entered a nearby house. When Sokhela identifies his mother's corpse, which is already covered with a tarpaulin, at the scene, he loses self-control and, driven by revenge, continues the investigation on his own. He procures a pump gun and lets himself be flown to a farm in a Namibian desert region, where he meets Dr. Opperman suspects. Epkeen follows him and urges him to arrest the suspects rather than kill them. Ali Sokhela knocks him unconscious and single-handedly storms the main building. He kills everyone who gets in his way. He shoots Cat, his mother's murderer, in the bathtub before he would have killed him. Epkeen, who arrives in time, engages in a firefight with de Beer, whom he wounds and arrests. Meanwhile, Sokhela pursues Dr. Opperman. After he got his off-road vehicle stuck and fled, Sokhela pursued him on foot for hours. When he finally caught up with him and Dr. Opperman exhaustedly begs for mercy or forgiveness, Ali decides differently and beats - even exhausted - all his frustration and despair on the already lying on the floor Dr. Opperman a. When Epkeen found Sokhela by helicopter, Sokhela had already died - also due to his gunshot wound - as did Dr. Opperman.

At the end of the film, Epkeen orders a tombstone for Sokhela and, on this occasion, also orders the inscription of the tombstone for his father. When he stops in front of the funeral home, looking thoughtful, the film fades out.

production

After producer Richard Grandpierre had acquired the rights to film Caryl Férey's novel Zulu , which was published in French in 2008 and a German translation in 2010 , Jérôme Salle successfully applied to work with him as a director. Salle and Julien Rappeneau adapted the novel as co-scriptwriters, which had won the most important French crime book prize, the Grand prix de littérature policière, and numerous other prizes. In addition to Rappeneau, people with the multiple Oscar- nominated composer Alexandre Desplat and the cameraman Denis Rouden were responsible for the creative process with whom Salle had already directed in the films Largo Winch - Tödliches Erbe and Largo Winch II - Die Burma Conspiracy had worked. In interviews, leading actor Forest Whitaker highlighted the director's work compared to US film productions as being less influenced by the film studio. The budget was about 16 million US dollars . Product placement was integrated into the film, at least by means of Hamilton brand watches .

Cast and German dubbed version

Sokhela actor Forest Whitaker (2010)
Actor and German voice actor
actor Role name German
voice actor
Forest Whitaker Ali Sokhela Tobias Master
Orlando Bloom Brian Epkeen Philipp Moog
Tanya van Graan Tare Maria Koschny
Inge Beckmann Ruby Debora refuses
Nomhle Nkyeni Josephina Beate Gerlach
Iman Isaacs Janet Svantje washer
Christian Bennett Stan Fabian Heinrich
Randall Majiet Cat Jan-David Rönfeldt
Conrad Kemp Dan Fletcher Bernhard Völger
Tinarie van Wyk Loots Claire Fletcher Katrin Zimmermann
Sven Ruygrok David Epkeen Vanya Gerick
Regardt van den Bergh Frank de Beer Roland Hemmo
Patrick Lyster Joost Opperman Lutz Riedel
Danny Keogh Kruger Frank-Otto Schenk
Natasha Loring Marjorie Katrin Jaehne
Adrian Galley Nils Botha Gerald Paradise
Dean Slater Rick Peter Flechtner
Garth Collins Stewart Weitz Ingo Albrecht
Khulu Skenjana Themba Julien Haggége

With the exception of the two Hollywood- experienced leading actors Whitaker and Bloom, the film was exclusively cast with South African, largely unknown actors. Director Salle said the film's funding would not have worked without the stars. Djimon Hounsou was originally intended to play the role of Ali Sokhela . Forest Whitaker was only engaged after his cancellation due to the appointment. The director also stated that for his decision to cast the role of Epkeen with Orlando Bloom, his family history was also important; Orlando Bloom's birth father Harry Bloom, a well-known South African journalist and writer, once fought against apartheid relations. Dan Fletcher's actor Conrad Kemp gained so much attention for his role that he later got a role in a Broadway play . The gang member Randall Majiet, who had recently been released from prison and is still in rehabilitation, was hired to play the Cat .

The German dubbed version created the Berlin company EuroSync for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Stephan Hoffmann .

Filming and scoring

In preparation for filming, Whitaker met members of Zulu gangs, including former prisoners, in South African township settlements. In a press interview he said that in the township of Khayelitsha still Necklacings give and that vigilante justice is common in the legal system among residents because of lack of confidence of the population. In preparation for his role, Whitaker learned the local languages isiZulu and Afrikaans .

The shooting lasted from September 24th to December 7th, 2012, there was no second unit . The filming locations included the center of Cape Town , coastal residential areas and township areas characterized by crime, drug trafficking and gang activities, for example in the Cape Flats . The film was also shot in Namibia . Handheld cameras were often used for filming. Local residents were hired to support the filming, for example to maintain security.

Composer Alexandre Desplat stated that he composed the music in such a way that it does not underline the action in the film, but allows the scenes to have a lasting effect. His intention was to create a "harsh and bizarre atmosphere". Desplat had the music played by an orchestra with a high proportion of electronic elements and avoided the use of ethnic instruments. His intention was to keep his distance from Africa and "not to fall into the trap of a genre film."

publication

Director Salle (l.) And Epkeen actor Bloom at the German premiere of the film in Hamburg

The film has been shown in cinemas from at least 24 nations around the world.

The film had its world premiere on May 26, 2013 at the Cannes International Film Festival . As a graduation film, it ran out of competition. The cinema premiere in France and French-speaking Switzerland was on December 4, 2013. There, 215,462 and 1,346 cinema-goers saw the film in the same month. The box office in France is $ 1.8 million. The German premiere and original version with German subtitles was shown on November 6, 2013 at the 27th Braunschweig International Film Festival . On May 6, 2014, the German cinema premiere took place in the CinemaxX cinema in Hamburg- Dammtor , at which director Salle and leading actor Bloom were also present. The media coverage of this performance was heavily focused on Bloom, who was popular for his previous leading roles. The official German theatrical release followed on May 8; 125 cinemas showed it in the first week. In Germany, where the film was released without youth approval, the film had at least 69,100 admissions, in Austria , where it opened on May 9, 2014, at least 183. The box office income in these two countries is 638,000 and 45,000 US dollars respectively. The film was released in German on October 31, 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray .

The African premiere took place in July 2014 at the Durban International Film Festival . The film opened in South Africa's cinemas on October 10, 2014 under the title City of Violence (German roughly: “City of Violence”).

Shape and style

The film was mainly assigned to the genres of action, crime, thriller and police film . It has also been referred to as a social drama and a "socio-political study". Fast (2014) called him a political thriller, but of no political thriller was because he did not put the apartheid issue to the fore. The staging , whose style was understood as belonging to the mainstream , is characterized by the change of location between the brown, dusty, run-down townships and the white dream beaches and posh villas, a change that was interpreted as representative of the reality of life in today's South Africa. The flashbacks that take place during Sokhela's childhood are "implied rather than shown." Among the scenes of violence, recipients highlighted the scene on the beach in which Dan Fletcher is mutilated. According to Reich (2014), for example , the violence escalated in this, similar to that in crime novels of the 1970s .

Historical background

In South Africa, apartheid consolidated the dominance of whites over the non-European population. After its election victory in 1948 , the National Party, together with other organizations that propagated the superiority of whites over non-whites, established the system of apartheid, primarily through legislative means. The government implemented the apartheid program by existing and newly created concepts of separate development ( Separate development implemented called) into society. This also included classifying the various population groups according to government guidelines , concentrating them in homelands or group areas and thus delimiting them from the settlement areas of the whites. Homeland residents were to be deprived of the possibility of being citizens of South Africa and of exercising free movement rights by gradually moving their area towards apparent state independence ( Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act ) , which was also the case in four cases .

KwaZulu , located on the east coast of South Africa and now part of the KwaZulu-Natal province , became the homeland for the Zulu . The most important political force of the Zulu population in the apartheid system was the Inkatha Freedom Party , whose actions, however, were characterized by forms of cooperation within the framework of the apartheid conditions of the time. In contrast, the ANC party , in whose leadership Nelson Mandela was involved and which consistently resisted the apartheid policy, was a well-organized extra-parliamentary opposition force that operated domestically and from exile. The events shown in the film in the flashbacks to 1978 take place in what is now KwaZulu-Natal and deal with the clashes between the Inkatha Freedom Party and supporters of the ANC. During apartheid, which lasted until 1994, several thousand people from all population groups lost their lives as a result of violence.

Mandela, who was elected President of South Africa after his release from prison and as a result of the 1994 elections won by the ANC , set up the so-called Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1996 to 1998 . Its aims were to solve politically motivated crimes that occurred during apartheid and to reconcile the various population groups. It was a particular concern of Mandela to establish mutual understanding and not advocate revenge. Above all, the Commission's results were criticized for impunity, which those heard had already been assured in advance in return for their statements. Although some crimes have been solved through the work of the commission, some observers believe that its goal of reconciling the population has not been achieved.

With the so-called Project Coast (German: "Project Coast"), the apartheid government aimed to arm the country with chemical and biological weapons because it feared that hostile powers could attack the country with weapons of this kind. In the beginning the weapons were still available for purely defensive targets, later ethnic weapons were also developed for use against the black African population. The project was led by the physician Wouter Basson and lasted from the beginning of the 1980s to 1993. During this period, several hundred people died from the use of the developed weapons. In 2002, Basson was acquitted in a court case for invoking an orderly emergency . Zulu is based on the Project Coast; in the film, Opperman is the head of the project who was acquitted in amnesty proceedings on the grounds of an emergency.

Novel adaptation, themes and motifs

For the adaptation as a script, Salle and Rappeneau omitted some elements of the novel, including characters and subplot strands. In this context, they described the script as a condensation and simplification of the novel plot. This can be seen, among other things, in the family name of Ali Sokhela, who - in contrast to the film - in the novel bears the name Newman, which differs from his original surname, in order not to be associated with his father. In contrast to the film, the virus that Opperman tries to transmit to street children in the novel is HIV .

Salle chose forgiveness as the central motif of the film. He characterized this as a possibility to create a contrast to the often common in Hollywood films and in his opinion glorified motif of revenge. In view of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission established after the apartheid period, he described South Africa as the optimal background for his film: “The film is about the difficulty and necessity of forgiveness, without which no progress is possible.” “Even more than a film about apartheid, it is a film about the difficulties that human beings or entire societies experience while going through trauma. "

In the film, the characterization of the main characters reflects the country of South Africa. Both have to live with the burden of the apartheid past and are involved in the history of violence in their country in different ways - especially through their family history. Sokhela strictly rejects racism , his role model is Nelson Mandela, whom he likes to quote: "If you want to have peace with your enemies, then work with your enemies - and they will become your partners." This makes it clear that only the act of forgiveness is essential Sokhela enables one to go on living. Sokhela utters this quote during an evening conversation with Epkeen, Dan Fletcher and his wife Claire in response to the question of whether he would have preferred revenge as an alternative to forgiveness by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The film thus addresses the moral dilemma that shapes the conflict between revenge and forgiveness in the context of South Africa's coming to terms with the past .

After the murder of his mother, Ali Sokhela changes his heart and he decides to take revenge on the perpetrators, from which even Epkeen cannot stop him. This makes it clear that forgiveness cannot be unlimited. In this regard, the film was understood as a social criticism. Koebner (2014) interpreted it in the film-dienst as an “open criticism” of the political decision to forgive the perpetrators of apartheid for the purpose of restoring the functionality of South African society.

reception

criticism

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The state German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden gave the film the highest rating of "particularly valuable". In the grounds of the judgment it was said, among other things, that the director had succeeded in “pushing the viewer into the seat” up to a nerve-wracking and gripping showdown. The German TV magazine prisma also came to a similarly enthusiastic verdict, praising the camera work as unleashed and the soundtrack as sensitive. The performances of the two main actors, Whitaker and Bloom, were largely popular, for example through the Focus. South African critics, however, expressed dissatisfaction with their efforts to use the language patterns that existed at the locations.

Several critics came to the conclusion that the plot and the figure constellation seemed too constructed. The author of the Allgemeine Zeitung, for example, explained in this regard that the references to apartheid and racism seemed deliberate. Nevertheless, according to the author of the Handelsblatt, the "harmonious connection of the elements creates a dynamic that keeps the tension consistently high until the furious finale." The film-dienst said that the film benefits "from the nuanced approach to the characters" and The adaptation of the novel is therefore more appealing than “some clichéd elements of the criminal case and the very European, because skeptical, view of a battered country.” Rüdiger Suchsland praised the film on Deutschlandfunk for the unpredictability of the events. The film magazine epd Film spoke of Zulu as a “profound piece of cinema” because the film casually tells the subject of apartheid and “without lapsing into an accusatory gesture” and Salle does not presume to want to explain South Africa.

Bert Rebhandl expressed disapproval in the FAZ. The film is told sensationally and feasts on violence. In view of the intention of the film, interpreted by Rebhandl, to show a fundamental lack of civilization as martially as possible, be it a cynical punch line when the white hero - Epkeen is meant with his attempt to keep Sokhela from his revenge on the criminals - "knock out the fallen black ones got to"; the “star logic triumphs”. In his extremely negative review for profil.at, the Austrian Stefan Grissemann said that the anti-racist interest that he claimed would not be taken away for a second from the film . Overall, the film is "a precarious tightrope walk between suspense shockers and history lessons, cinema fast food with the scents of testosterone and adrenaline ."

The French newspaper Le Monde criticized that the film suffered from a literal adaptation of the novel. The psychology of the characters is partially eliminated in the film. Bloom, for example, overstrains the neglect of the character he is portraying in his acting and barely misses the point of comedy .

The London Evening Standard sharply criticized the film as an “unpleasant, clichéd thriller”, which “coincidentally portrays Cape Town as the seventh circle of hell ” with its numerous scenes of violence ; his choice as the final film of the Cannes Film Festival is inexplicable.

Awards

For the soundtrack of Zulu and other films, composer Alexandre Desplat was awarded the World Soundtrack Award , presented in Brussels , as well as the French film prize Étoile d'Or .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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