A Most Wanted Man
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A Most Wanted Man |
| Original title | A Most Wanted Man |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anton Corbijn |
| script | Andrew Bovell |
| production |
Andrea Calderwood Simon Cornwell Stephen Cornwell Gail Egan Malte Grunert |
| music | Herbert Grönemeyer |
| camera | Benoît Delhomme |
| cut | Claire Simpson |
| occupation | |
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A Most Wanted Man is a British spy thriller directed by Anton Corbijn from the year 2014 . It is based on the novel of the same name Marionettes (English original title: A Most Wanted Man ) by John le Carré .
action
The film begins with the arrival of the Muslim Chechen Issa Karpov in the port of Hamburg . Karpov traveled illegally to Germany after being in Russian and Turkish prisons. He goes in search of the banker Tommy Brue, where he is targeted by a secret anti-terrorist unit led by Günther Bachmann. Bachmann was also working on Dr. Faisal Abdullah, a Muslim scholar whom he suspects of being involved in terrorist financing behind a cosmopolitan and benevolent facade.
Meanwhile, Karpov finds shelter with a Turkish woman and her son, who finally establishes contact with human rights lawyer Annabel Richter. Richter is deeply moved by the fate of the young man who suffered severe torture in Russia and wants to save him from possible deportation. Now on Bachmann's radar herself, she turns to Brue. Karpov is able to present a letter from Brues father to his father, which should give him access to his inheritance, which lies with Brues private bank. It concerns many millions from mafia activities of the father.
Bachmann is not the only one who is interested in Karpov and Richter: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution urges Bachmann to arrest the alleged terrorist Karpov before he can join a suspected terrorist cell. Against the intervention of the rival service Bachmann may eventually only the influence of the CIA - Resident protect Martha Sullivan. Bachmann, whose sources were revealed during a mission in Beirut , nevertheless has reservations about Sullivan because he blames the CIA for the failure in Lebanon .
Bachmann thus gains time for his plan to get to Karpov through Richter, Abdullah through Karpov, and the people behind him through Abdullah. He has Richter kidnapped by his team and convinces them to work with him - supposedly to protect Karpov. At the same time, he puts pressure on Brue to ensure that Karpov's fortune is paid out. Issa is not personally interested in the money because he despises his father's deeds. However, the judge convinces him to use the money for Abdullah's aid projects. When Brue approaches Abdullah, his son opens the door for him. The viewer knows him as the young student whom Bachmann has long referred to as a source against Abdullah.
As expected, Abdullah names a number of aid organizations in the Muslim world that Bachmann has Sullivan review. Sullivan has meanwhile been able to gain the trust of Bachmann - also through the admission that the CIA has failed in Beirut - and is privy to his plans. However, all aid organizations have shown themselves to be of integrity. Nevertheless, the ingenious plan should still work out at the crucial date in Brues Bank. In the bugged office, Brue Abdullah presented the transaction list with the request that each of the payees listed be signed off. On the last page, Abdullah finally wants a change: A Cypriot shipping company is to be used to act as a front company for terrorist financing. When he signs his signature, Bachmann triumphs in the observation car in front of the bank. He instructs Abdullah's son, who is supposed to pick up his father, by telephone to put him off with an excuse. Because Bachmann, in the role of a taxi driver, would like to address Abdullah and win him over against the background of the compromising information as a source against the next largest "fish".
But it doesn't come to that: the taxi is stopped by a CIA team under the eyes of the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution; Abdullah and Karpov are kidnapped. Bachmann notices the intrigue against him and its subtle, sophisticated method and leaves the scene with resignation.
background
The shooting for the film took place in 2012 in Hamburg and Berlin , among others . It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2014 . The regular US theatrical release was on July 25, 2014. There the film already grossed over 15 million US dollars. The film opened in Europe on September 5, 2014.
It was the last film in which Philip Seymour Hoffman was the lead actor. He died shortly after the premiere in February 2014.
The soundtrack for the film was written by Herbert Grönemeyer , and he also plays a supporting role.
Soundtrack
- Gang of Four : To Hell With Poverty
- Phil Phillips & The Twilights: Sea of Love
- Claudia Brücken : Everyone Says Hi
- German American Friendship : The Mussolini
- Brainbox : Down Man
- Roy Orbison : Falling
- Tom Waits : Hoist That Rag
synchronization
The dubbing was done by TaunusFilm Synchron GmbH in Berlin. Elisabeth von Polo directed the dialogue. The German actors spoke to themselves.
| actor | speaker |
|---|---|
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Oliver Stritzel |
| Willem Dafoe | Pure beauty |
| Rachel McAdams | Ranja Bonalana |
| Homayoun Ershadi | Tayfun Bademsoy |
| Grigoriy Dobrygin | Mark Schmal |
| Mehdi Dehbi | Imtiaz Haque |
| Robin Wright | Marianne Graffam |
criticism
The film received an 87 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes . The DVD fan website praised the film and wrote: “Moving, full of emotion and tension, A Most Wanted Man crackles from the first to the last scene. This highly intelligent agent story is extremely contemporary and deeply human, a story of love, betrayal, power and the modern world in which we live ... ”Die Blickpunkt: Film called A Most Wanted Man“ best old school cinema ”, the“ less on action rather than character drawing ”. Spiegel Online praised the film, especially the portrayal of Hoffman: “In its dignity and tragedy, Hoffman's interpretation of the role undermines the virtuoso distance with which Corbijn otherwise illustrates this bitter story of guilt and uncertainty on the various fronts of the war on terrorism . The great freedom, the promise of Hamburg's streets to the world, it seems vanishingly small in the end. Like the screen without Philip Seymour Hoffman ”.
Web links
- A Most Wanted Man in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website
- A Most Wanted Man atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Expert opinion from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) with the rating "particularly valuable"
- Review in Studies in Intelligence, CIA
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for A Most Wanted Man . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 450 K).
- ↑ Age rating for A Most Wanted Man . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Filmstarts.de
- ↑ A Most Wanted Man on Filmtourismus.de. Retrieved June 24, 2015 .
- ↑ boxofficemojo
- ^ Official Twitter profile for the film
- ^ Filmkritiker.com
- ↑ A Most Wanted Man. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 11, 2018 .
- ↑ A Most Wanted Man. Accessed September 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Preview: Film of the week. In: Blickpunkt: Film. No. 31/14, p. 48.
- ^ Spiegel Online: Corbijn thriller "A Most Wanted Man": The spy who came out of the pub