24: Redemption

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Movie
German title 24: Redemption
Original title 24: Redemption
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length TV version: 89 minutes
Director’s Cut: 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jon Cassar
script Howard Gordon
production Paul Gadd , Michael Klick
music Sean Callery
camera Rodney Charters
cut Scott Powell
occupation
synchronization

24: Redemption is an American television film that was made in 2008 as part of the television series 24 and directed by Jon Cassar . The film is about an attempted coup in the fictional African state of Sangala. The rebels who carried out the coup are supported with weapons by a covert organization in the US government. The hiding ex-CTU agent Jack Bauer helps a group of orphans escape from the rebels to the US embassy.

The film has received nominations for film and television awards more than a dozen times, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe .

action

In Redemption is a prequel to the seventh season of 24 . Like the episodes of the series, Redemption is told in real time , the action takes place - followed by an approximately three-minute opening credits that are not played in real time - between 3 and 5 p.m. in the time zone in which Sangala is located, one of the main locations in which it is a fictional African state. The other main location is Washington, DC , where the handover of US President Noah Daniels to his successor Allison Taylor takes place on that day.

After the events of the sixth day , Jack Bauer withdrew to Sangala. He has joined his old friend and mentor, Carl Benton, who runs an international school in Sangala. Jack Bauer, who provides missionary help there, is supposed to answer for his interrogation methods, which are also characterized by torture, before a committee in the USA. Jack disregards several of these subpoenas , as he does not want to go back and is of the opinion that he has already paid enough.

General Juma, who heads the Sangalese People's Liberation Front, has his henchman Colonel Ike Dubaku recruited child soldiers for his army . That's why Dubaku wants to move in the children of the international school. To do this, Dubaku sends a storm squad led by his brother Youssou to the school. However, Bauer and Benton can hide the children in time. Bauer is captured by the commando, tortured by Youssou and shortly afterwards freed by Benton, with Youssou and his accomplices perishing.

Sangalese Prime Minister Matobo briefs the White House on the impending coup proposed by Juma against his government. Allison Taylor wants to send the Matobos government US military to help, but her current predecessor Noah Daniels refuses. Daniels therefore has all US nationals withdraw from Sangala and evacuate the US embassy there.

Juma has modern weapon systems that Jonas Hodges, a US businessman, procured for him. So that the arms trade via Abu Dhabi and Eritrea cannot be traced, the American Chris Whitley is tasked by the politician Nichols, who was instrumentalized by Hodges, to destroy the records. Chris meets with Allison Taylor's son Roger a short time later and tells him that he was hired by Nichols three months ago to transfer company funds to offshore accounts. When he discovers that one of the accounts belongs to a terrorist suspect, he tries to seek help from Roger's mother. When he tries to secure the evidence for his allegations from the files at home, he is arrested and pharmacologically tortured by Hodges' henchmen Halcott and Quinn.

Jack and Benton flee with the students in the direction of the US embassy. On the way there, Benton climbs onto a Russian mine, which Jack cannot defuse due to lack of time. Benton only triggers the anti-personnel mine after Jack has moved on with the orphans, which enables him to stop the Dubaku-led pursuit. In order for the orphans to be accepted by the American embassy, ​​Jack has to be taken into custody. At the same time, shortly before 5 p.m., Allison Taylor's public inauguration takes place . At the same time, Quinn and Halcott cement Whitley's bloody corpse in place. Hodges commands the Secret Service -Agenten Vossler, Roger Taylor observe .

production

Much of the film was in and around Cape Town turned

Due to a strike by the screenwriters' union at the end of 2007 , the seventh season of the series was delayed by a year ( → main article: Season 7 ). In order to bridge the broadcast gap between the seasons, a television film was made with Redemption 2008. Various scenes were shot directly in and around Cape Town for the film.

Cast and voice actor

The film introduced characters for the subsequent seventh season, including a new US president.

main actor

Role name actor Voice actor role
Jack Bauer Kiefer Sutherland Tobias Master US secret agent a. D.
Ethan Kanin Bob Gunton Joachim Pukass Secretary of Defense
Allison Taylor Cherry Jones Marianne Gross US Senator, US President-elect
Henry Taylor Colm Feore Udo Schenk Husband of Allison Taylor

Supporting and guest actors

Role name actor Voice actor role
Tom Lennox Peter MacNicol Olaf Reichmann White House Chief of Staff
Frank Tramell Gil Bellows Charles Rettinghaus Employees at the US Embassy in Sangala
Noah Daniels Powers Boothe Hans-Werner Bussinger US President
Carl Benton Robert Carlyle Torsten Michaelis Head of the international school "Okawango"
Ike Dubaku Hakeem Kae-Kazim Thomas Wolff Colonel in the Sangalese People's Liberation Army
Edward Vossler Mark Kiely Wolfgang Wagner Secret Service Agent
Chris Whitley Kris Lemche Nicolás Artajo Employee of a financial company, friend of Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor Eric Lively Udo Schenk Son of Allison and Henry Taylor
Benjamin Juma Tony Todd Engelbert von Nordhausen General and leader of the Sangalese People's Liberation Army
Jonas Hodges Jon Voight Lutz Riedel US businessman
Charles Solenz Sean Cameron Michael Andreas Hosang UN staff in Sangala
Ule Matobo Isaach De Bankolé Helmut Gauss Sangalese President

publication

The film premiered on November 23, 2008 in the US and was released on DVD two days later, along with a 13-minute longer version.

reception

criticism

The New York Times praised the action scenes compared to the other scenes. The DVD Talk review website found the film to be a "noticeable improvement" over the "boring" sixth season and was "engaging and entertaining" at least when viewed for the first time. TV Highlights said that the film "very nicely" shows that 24 also works in film format. The Lexicon of International Films rated the film as "exciting entertainment as a hybrid between TV movie and solid, but under-produced cinema film."

Awards and nominations

The film was nominated for an Emmy in five categories at the Emmy Awards 2009 : for best leading actor (Kiefer Sutherland), music composition, image editing, sound editing and sound mixing. The film received an Eddie Award for best feature film from the American Cinema Editors . There were further nominations, mainly for best TV film, at the NAACP Image Awards , the Satellite Awards and the Saturn Awards . Sutherland was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor .

literature

Reviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 24: Redemption. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on February 16, 2015 .
  2. ^ Stanley, Alessandra: Saving the World in Less Than a Day. Television Review | '24: Redemption ' , in: The New York Times, November 20, 2008, accessed March 20, 2012
  3. ↑ Randy Miller: 24: Redemption , in: DVD talk December 9, 2008, accessed March 20, 2012
  4. ↑ 24. Everything for the series. The longest days of Jack Bauer , Medien Publikations- und Werbegesellschaft mbH, Hille 2009 (TV Highlights Extra, No. 3/2009), ISBN 978-3-931608-10-1 , p. 72
  5. ↑ 24 - Redemption. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed January 15, 2013 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used