13 Tzameti
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 13 Tzameti |
| Original title | 13 Tzameti |
| Country of production | France , Georgia |
| original language | French , Georgian , German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Géla Babluani |
| script | Géla Babluani |
| production | Géla Babluani Bruno Daniault Jean-Marie Delbary Fanny Saadi |
| music | The Troublemakers |
| camera | Tariel Meliava |
| cut | Noémie Moreau |
| occupation | |
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13 Tzameti is a French - Georgian thriller from 2005 directed by Géla Babluani . The film, shot in black and white, belongs to the film noir genre .
action
The young Georgian immigrant Sébastien overhears a conversation about a letter that is supposed to be about a large sum of money while Jean-François Godon is doing electrical work. After Godon's unexpected death, he manages to steal the letter. In the letter is a train ticket to Paris and a receipt for a paid hotel room. Arriving in the hotel room, Sébastien, who still pretends to be Monsieur Godon, receives a call informing him that he has to go to a locker the next morning, which has another train ticket and new instructions ready. The next day, he also finds a sign printed with the number 13 and 100 euros, which he needs when he arrives at the destination station for a taxi that will take him to the meeting point. When the police, who had been following him up to this point, arrived at the meeting point on the advice of the taxi driver, Sébastien had already been picked up by a driver to whom he had identified himself with the sign and his trail was lost to the police for the time being.
Sébastien finally arrives at a forest house, where he meets a company that is hosting a kind of Russian roulette . Only here does the sender of the letter, who had expected Monsieur Godon as a player, know Sébastien's true identity. In his place, he is no longer free not to take part in the game. Sébastien and twelve other men are each given a revolver with a bullet and have to line up in a circle. They are instructed to shoot the participant standing in front of them, with the assembled bets placing bets on the individual participants. Sébastien is the only one to survive the individual rounds and kill his opponents, and finally, after killing his last opponent, receives € 850,000 in prize money. However, since he is afraid the police will find him, he hides the money. He was arrested shortly afterwards.
However, the police can credibly assure Sébastien that he was turned away before the start of the competition and therefore did not take part. The police then let him go. Then he sends the money to his parents. When Sébastien got on the train home, however, the brother of his last opponent shot him; while Sébastien dies, his murderer flees with Sébastien's empty pocket.
background
The main actor George Babluani is the younger brother of the director Géla Babluani.
Director Gela Babluani on the idea of his film:
“The same memories from my childhood come up again and again, fixed images, like rays of light penetrating the darkness. These images are always there, confusingly. But when I try to find its source, I only perceive a vague feeling of innocence that slips into the past. I wanted to capture this moment by means of an initiation journey into the interior of a closed society, where lines of fire and interests cross, where there is no other way out than the cold urge to survive. "
In German cinemas the film was shown in the original French version with German subtitles, but a German dubbing was added on DVD.
Reviews
Cinema spoke of an "extraordinary, extremely bitter and in the second half almost unbearably exciting film enjoyment". What the protagonist experiences goes beyond "the framework of the usual survival thriller". Cinema's conclusion was: "After a slow start, this taciturn thriller turns into pure, ingenious, suspense cinema."
The Süddeutsche Zeitung noticed a "tension between cultures". In contrast to Eli Roth ( hostel ), director Géla Babluani would celebrate “a hypothermic psychological terror”, “in which there are only fine beads of sweat on the forehead and the silent scream of fearfully wide eyes.” The horror villa reminds of the institutions from One flew over Cuckoo's Nest or Shock Corridor . The distinctive faces of the actors and the imagery, which would approach “the fatalism of American film noir with the existential oppression of the early black and white films by Polanski and Pasolini ”, were emphasized.
The daily newspaper also highlighted the familiar aesthetics of the black and white pictures, which one would associate with “pretty couples in Parisian street cafes” (“The Georgian director's pictures have something decidedly French”). References were also made to hostel or the Saw series - 13 Tzameti is “a nasty little terror film that tries to raise this special form of extreme existentialism to a new level of consciousness - a kind of Sado-Nouvelle-Vague.” The suggested indifference von Bablani's directorial work has “something inescapable, nihilistic”, a fashionable cynicism that is popular in Hollywood .
Awards
The film won the Luigi De Laurentiis Prize for Best Debut Film and the Netpac Prize at the 62nd Venice Film Festival in 2005 . In 2006 he was awarded the Jury Prize for Best Foreign Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival . In addition, the Babluani brothers were nominated for the César 2007 in the categories of Best Young Actor and Best First Work. The film also won prizes at the Transylvania International Film Festival , the Tbilisi International Film Festival and the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya . In addition , 13 Tzameti was awarded the European Film Prize in the Best Newcomer Film category.
Remake
Even before the film was released, Brad Pitt secured the rights to a remake. This was created with the title 13 also under the direction of Géla Babluani and was released in theaters in 2010.
The independent film Luck is also based on the plot of 13 Tzameti .
Web links
- 13 tzameti in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 13 Tzameti in the online film database
- 13 Tzameti atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 13 Tzameti in the Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved July 15, 2011.
- ↑ 13 Tzameti Plays Russian Roulette with the Plot ( Memento from November 26, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ cf. 13-tzameti.de
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Georgian Roulette . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 13, 2008, p. 14.
- ^ Andreas Busche: Fashionable cynicism . In: the daily newspaper , March 13, 2008, p. 14.
- ↑ Soham Shah looks for LUCK via 13 Tzameti? on glamsham.com