Ajami (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ajami |
| Original title | Ajami |
| Country of production | Israel , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Scandar Copti Yaron Shani |
| script | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani |
| production |
Thanassis Karathanos Talia Kleinhendler Moshe Danon |
| music | Rabih Boukhari |
| camera | Boaz Yehonatan Yaacov |
| cut | Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani |
| occupation | |
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Ajami is an Israeli film drama from the year 2009 . The action takes place in Ajami , a suburb of Jaffa in the city of Tel Aviv-Jaffa .
action
One day a young man and member of the Abuzen family goes into a café with a Kalashnikov, shoots around and demands protection money. The owner doesn't like that, which is why he shoots him immediately. Now the Abuzen family speaks a vendetta from, violated the cafe owner in an attack on the market in Jaffa hard and kill the little boy Yihjah she held mistaken for the nephew of the cafe owner. The family fled Jaffa, leaving the nephew Omar, who asked the influential Abu-Lias for help. With a down payment of 2000 dinars, Hajik-Hajem managed to protect him and, after a three-day armistice, a court hearing was scheduled. The Muslim judge judges and ends the blood revenge by the family having to pay 35,000 dinars to the Abuzen. Omar and his friends quickly set out to earn money with both legal and illegal business in order to keep this payment. But it doesn't come together enough, which is why he toyed with the idea of selling drugs.
The Arab worker boy Malek, who lives illegally in Israel, works in the restaurant at Abu-Lias and hopes that his sick mother will soon be better. But she will soon be discharged from the hospital because of the high costs, as no one can afford the operation costs of US $ 75,000. Then, while he was spending the evening with some friends, he found out that the drug addict Binj (played by one of the two directors Scandar Copti ) had crystal meth worth 150,000 shekels . After this is apparently murdered, Omar and Malek take the drugs and want to sell them to a Jew. But he feels betrayed and beats up Omar, who can only watch from the corner of his eye as Malek is shot in the head.
Ariel, a Jew, is stabbed in the heart by some aggressive Arabs after an argument about illegal goats next to his house. That stresses Dando, who not only has to worry about this stabbing, but also about his missing brother Joni, who has not been found since his military service. After his colleagues let the drug dealer Zalem Abet escape on the street, he also has to deal with a police investigative committee. But even afterwards he still cannot find peace at home, because not only does he have to take care of his bedridden father, his wife demands more attention from him, so that he has to experience another argument. But the skeleton of his missing brother is soon found murdered in a cave by the military.
Malek and Omar cook together laughing and singing with Binj, the cook in Abu Lias' Israeli restaurant. While Binj is in the nightclub with his Jewish girlfriend to celebrate, he is called because his brother stabbed the Jew Ariel in the street. Immediately he sets off to look for it. But Binj and his father are picked up by the police and arrested. After they were released and Binj is alone in his apartment, Sis comes by. He is the brother of the friend of Binj's brother and received a large amount of crystal meth from Binj's brother. He doesn't know what to do with the drugs and therefore hands them over to Binj. The three policemen who later handle the drug deal with Omar and whom the drug dealer Zalem Abet was already guilty of, visit Binj and rummage through his house for drugs. However, they cannot find anything and are called away for another mission. So Binj decides to flush most of the meth down the toilet and hide several fake drug packages in his apartment to fool the cops if they ever come back (which they threatened to do). He consumes the rest, thereby dying of an overdose.
Malek is apparently shot by Dando and Omar manages to escape to his car.
Omar is frustrated and has an argument with his lover Hadir, the daughter of Abu-Lias. He wants her to finally tell her parents about their relationship and wedding plans. But Hadir doesn't want to. But one day Abu Lias notices how she approaches Omar and caresses, so that, although Hadir denies everything, he immediately knows that they are together. He immediately throws Omar out of his restaurant and chases him away. He explains to his daughter that as a Christian she should not marry a Muslim . But she doesn't want to know anything about it and suffers from her separation from Omar. After Omar tells Anan that he wants to sell drugs with Malek, Abu-Lias knows what to do. The alleged drug deal will be a trap in which Omar falls into the hands of the police and is arrested, according to Abu-Lia's plan.
Early in the morning of the deal, Nasri, who is worried about his brother Omar, fights for a ride to the deal in a parking garage, where he is supposed to wait in the car.
Dando monitors the deal via video camera and radio, but is also in the parking garage. After another undercover policeman feels betrayed that it is not crystal meth but sugar, Dando and another policeman take hold. Dando discovers his late brother's watch at Malek, so he beats Malek, points his gun at him and asks him where he got the watch from. The other police officers try to stop him from shooting Malek. Suddenly a shot goes off and Dando sinks to the ground. Nasri stands in the background with the weapon aimed at Dando. He shot Dando and is now being shot himself by Dando's colleagues. Omar doesn’t notice anything, as he is already fleeing to his car and discovers that it is empty.
criticism
“ [Ajami] is the latest and one of the harrowing films along the religious lines in Israel. [...] The details of the action in Ajami are not as important as the effects of the many sad moments that build up one after the other. "
“ Ajami is a complex, elliptical film, the various narrative threads only come together at the very end. Even Kabaha and his colleagues didn't know how the film would end until the very end ”
"The film by an Israeli and an Arab director, divided into five chapters, told from multiple perspectives and on different time levels, works on the surface as a perfect thriller, but also describes the political situation in the Middle East intensively."
“Through the use of amateur actors, a camera that always keeps a certain distance and the renouncement of an emotional soundtrack, the melodramatic is pushed into the background by an effort to achieve authenticity. But when the individual episodes converge towards the end, the restraint in staging is over. Suddenly the directors use every means to enforce their intention to leave the viewer as dissolved as possible. "
“The Arab Christian Copti and the Jew Shani do not see themselves as messengers of empathy. Because they do not attribute great power to cinema, they do not use it as an instrument of suggestion. The film benefits from her modesty. They shaped what was brought to them: splinters of life, grief, hopeless love, anger. But also a warmth that shows in each of the many touches. "
production
The film was shot exclusively with amateur actors. None of the actors got a script to read during the shoot, the scenes are - with some instructions from the directors - all improvised.
The financing took seven years, the filming 23 days and the film editing over seven months.
Awards
- A nomination at the Academy Awards in 2010 as a foreign language Best Picture
- five awards at the Israeli film prize Ophir Award ( best film , best director , best screenplay, best music, best editing) and four nominations (best camera, best production design, best costume design, best sound)
- A special mention at the Caméra d'Or
- A nomination for the European Film Awards for Best Newcomer Film
- two nominations for the Young Artist Award for best young actor in an international film production
publication
In Israel , Ajami opened in cinemas on September 17, 2009 and became the second most successful film of 2009 with 165,000 admissions. After being shown at several film festivals, it opened for the first time outside of Israel in Greece on February 11, 2010 , followed on March 11 2010 with Germany in the cinemas. Overall, the film had a production budget of about $ 1 million and worldwide revenues of about $ 1.3 million. The German-language DVD has been available since September 24, 2010.
Web links
- Ajami in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ajami in the German dubbing file
- Ajami at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert : Ajami on suntimes.com from February 17, 2010 (English), accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ a b Ulrike Putz: Blood feud under small star on Spiegel Online from March 6, 2010, accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ Ajami. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: Filmkritik auf critic.de, accessed on November 4, 2012
- ↑ Christina Bylow: Our laws, your laws in the Berliner Zeitung of March 11, 2010, accessed on November 4, 2012
- ↑ Sousan Hammad: Interview: Palestinian cinema on aljazeera.com from September 28, 2009 (English), accessed on January 8, 2012
- ↑ יאיר רוה: סיכום 2009: הסרטים הישראליים הקופתיים של השנה ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on blog.orange.co.il on December 24, 2009 (Hebrew), accessed January 8, 2012
- ^ Ajami (2010) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed January 8, 2012
