7500

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Movie
Original title 7500
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language English , German , Turkish , Arabic
Publishing year 2019
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Patrick Vollrath
script Patrick Vollrath,
Senad Halilbašić
production Jonas Katzenstein ,
Maximilian Leo
music Martin Rascher
camera Sebastian Thaler
cut Hansjörg Weißbrich
occupation
synchronization

7500 is a thriller by Patrick Vollrath , which celebrated its world premiere on August 9, 2019 at the Locarno Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on December 26, 2019. It is Vollrath's debut feature film. In the film, which takes place exclusively in the cockpit of an Airbus A319 , Joseph Gordon-Levitt takes on the lead role of co-pilot Tobias Ellis, who has to assert himself against an attempt by a group of young men to break into the cockpit.

action

For co-pilot Tobias Ellis it seems to be a completely normal working day. As always, he routinely prepares the aircraft for take-off and safely takes the Airbus A319 into the air together with the older and more experienced German pilot Michael Lutzmann. It should go from Berlin to Paris. Tobias' German-Turkish friend Gökçe, who works as a stewardess for the same company, is also on board.

But then suddenly you hear screaming on board Flight 162. Three Muslim extremists armed with broken glass try to storm the cockpit. When the first terrorist, Kenan, manages to wriggle inside and seriously injure Michael, Tobias, who is injured in the arm, knocks him out and ties him to a seat in the cockpit. Michael dies a little later despite Tobias' resuscitation attempts.

Tobias can see what is happening in front of the door on a black and white monitor. The terrorists murder a passenger and Gökçe in front of the camera. Then Kenan recovers and he can let the 18-year-old terrorist Vedat into the cockpit, who ties Tobias but doesn't kill him. Kenan begins to crash the plane but is then overwhelmed by Vedat, who frees Tobias. Tobias carries out an emergency landing in Hanover with the help of Vedat.

During the evacuation, Vedat takes Tobias hostage. After long discussions and negotiations with the police, Vedat threatens Tobias with a piece of glass in the cockpit window and is shot by the police.

production

Directed by Patrick Vollrath , who wrote the script together with Senad Halilbašić . It is Vollrath's feature film debut, which was awarded the student Oscar for his graduation film Alles wird gut . The film also received a nomination for best short film at the 2016 Academy Awards .

7500 , the title of the film, refers to the emergency code for an airplane hijacking .

The film received project funding of EUR 681,711.68 from the German Film Funding Fund. In addition, he received preparatory funding of 60,000 and production funding of 800,000 euros from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW. Additional production funding came from the BKM (500,000 euros), the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding (200,000 euros), the Film Funding Agency (350,000 euros) and the Baden-Württemberg Media and Film Company (200,000 euros).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the co-pilot Tobias Ellis

The main role of co-pilot Tobias Ellis was cast with Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Carlo Kitzlinger plays his colleague, the flight captain Michael Lutzmann. Aylin Tezel can be seen in the role of Tobias' German-Turkish friend Gökçe, who works as a stewardess on the same flight. Murathan Muslu plays the hijacker Kinan / Kenan, Omid Memar plays his 18-year-old accomplice Vedat and Paul Wollin plays the leader of the extremists Daniel.

The shooting took place between October 31 and December 5, 2017 in the MMC Studios in Cologne. Sebastian Thaler acted as cameraman . The production design comes from Thorsten Sabel , the costumes from Christine Zahn .

In May 2019, Amazon Studios secured the global rights to the film at the Marché du Film in Cannes. In August 2019 it was presented at the Locarno Film Festival , where the film celebrated its world premiere. At the end of September and beginning of October 2019 it was shown at the Hamburg Film Festival . A screening at the Film Festival Cologne was planned for October 2019 . The film was released in German cinemas on December 26, 2019.

The film was produced by the German Augenschein Filmproduktion , co-producer was the Austrian Film AG Produktions GmbH (previously Novotny & Novotny ). Bayerischer Rundfunk, Südwestrundfunk and Arte Germany were involved.

reception

Reviews

Boyd van Hoei of The Hollywood Reporter writes that Patrick Vollrath's decision to keep the Aristotelian units of action, time and space is interesting. In addition to the few passengers who pass the cockpit door in front of the camera, the aircraft's passengers are never seen. However, this fact also confronts the director with the problem of having to fill the 90 minutes, with only limited space for characters or actions in the cockpit. Van Hoei criticizes the credible representation of the terrorists' motivation, who apparently only want to take revenge on the West because the West is killing Muslims. Vollrath may try to comment on the world as a globalized melting pot by giving Tobias a half-Turkish girlfriend and a quarter-Turkish child, but this mostly feels like tokenism , because although the American works with his girlfriend and son in Germany and lives, Tobias made no effort to learn even a little German or Turkish. Even if a certain behavior like the Stockholm Syndrome creeps into the relationship between Vedat and Tobias at the end of the film, this does not have the space it needs to be credibly developed. Van Hoei highlights the work of cameraman Sebastian Thaler and production designer Thorsten Sabel , who would have created a cockpit with relatively rough and economical lighting that looks convincing and at the same time serves as a space for the dramatic fights and difficult decisions that have to be made there.

Patrick Heidmann from the Stuttgarter Nachrichten in his article on the Locarno Film Festival mentions that the first half of 7500 films in particular is “masterful genre cinema”. Vollrath would achieve something remarkable, especially with a view to the limited setting. In addition, one can assume “that a lot can be expected from Vollrath in the coming years”.

Patrick Wellinski from Deutschlandfunk Kultur describes the film as a “precise genre work” that “uses the genre codes very skilfully and also has something claustrophobic in a confined space, just in the cockpit”.

Günter H. Jekubzik from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater remarks that despite all the differences to the usual aircraft hijackings , in which presidents like in Air Force One or Jodie Foster in Flightplan regain control in astonishingly spacious machines, 7500 have one thing in common with them: " It's extremely exciting! ”The key difference, besides concentrating on tight spaces, is the focus on psychology instead of action, whereby Tobias Ellis doesn't fight his opponents so much, but for the survival of everyone, even his opponents, including overcoming them According to Jekubzik, lower feelings of revenge belong, which fuel almost all such films.

Awards

7500 was included in the preselection for the German Film Award at the beginning of January 2020 , but was not considered when the regular nominations were announced. Below is a selection of other nominations.

Filmfest Hamburg 2019:

Locarno Film Festival 2019:

  • Nomination for the Variety Piazza Grande Award (Patrick Vollrath)

synchronization

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book and the dialogue direction by Roland Hüve on behalf of logoSynchron GmbH, Cologne.

actor Voice actor role
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Robin Kahnmeyer Tobias Ellis
Omid Memar Omid Memar Vedat
Aylin Tezel Aylin Tezel Gokce
Carlo Kitzlinger Volker Wolf Michael Lutzmann
Paul Wollin Paul Wollin Daniel
Murathan Muslu Murathan Muslu Kenan
Aurélie Thépaut Aurélie Thépaut Nathalie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for 7500 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186827 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b c Boyd van Hoei: '7500': Film Review. In: The Hollywood Reporter , August 9, 2019.
  3. ↑ Secret distress signal sent: Code "7500" - passenger jet forced to land. In: RP ONLINE. June 3, 2005, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b 7500. In: augenschein-filmproduktion.de . Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Dave McNary: Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Replace Paul Dano in Thriller '7500'. In: Variety, October 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b c Guy Lodge: Locarno Film Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt in '7500'. In: Variety , August 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ apparently film production. In: Facebook. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Amazon secures the thriller "7500" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In: MMC Film & TV Studios Cologne, May 22, 2019.
  9. ↑ Melanie Goodfellow: Locarno Film Festival unveils 2019 line-up. In: screendaily.com, July 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ Airplane thriller “7500” celebrates its world premiere on August 9th at the 72nd Locarno Festival. In: MMC Film & TV Studios Cologne, July 17, 2019.
  11. ^ Locarno Film Festival: Applause for Vollrath's thriller "7500". In: orf.at, August 9, 2019.
  12. ↑ 7500. In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved September 10, 2019.
  13. ^ Film Festival Cologne: Festival program. In: filmfestival.cologne. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  14. ↑ Start dates in Germany . In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  15. ↑ 7500. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on August 10, 2019 .
  16. ↑ 7500 at crew united . Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  17. ^ Patrick Heidmann: Locarno Film Festival: Dark Silence in the Favela. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten, September 11, 2019.
  18. ↑ Patrick Wellinski: 72nd Film Festival in Locarno - director Pedro Costa wins the Golden Leopard. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, September 11, 2019.
  19. ↑ Günter H. Jekubzik: 7500. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  20. ↑ preselection. In: deutscher-filmpreis.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  21. ↑ Nominations: Art Cinema Award. In: filmfesthamburg.de. Retrieved September 28, 2019.