Allied - familiar strangers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Allied - familiar strangers |
| Original title | Allied |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Zemeckis |
| script | Steven Knight |
| production |
Graham King , Steve Starkey , Robert Zemeckis |
| music | Alan Silvestri |
| camera | Don Burgess |
| cut |
Mick Audsley , Jeremiah O'Driscoll |
| occupation | |
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Allied - Vertraute Fremde (Original title: Allied ) is an American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis , which was released in North American cinemas on November 23, 2016 and in German cinemas on December 22, 2016. The film is about two spies who fall in love during a planned assassination attempt. The main roles are played by Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard .
action
During the Second World War in 1942, Canadian intelligence officer Max Vatan parachuted over the Moroccan desert of French North Africa and was taken to Casablanca in a car by a silent Arab . There he meets the French resistance fighter Marianne Beauséjour. Both have received an order from the Allies to jointly kill the German ambassador in Morocco. For the Germans you mimic a married couple. Max is a café for breakfast with Marianne by a German intelligence officer recognized. In order not to let the mission fail, he strangles the man in the hotel phone booth.
The two get an invitation to the reception of the German ambassador. Before the attack, they practice in the desert. The agent shoots well, but can not unlock the Sten Gun . But it can stifle Max's growing suspicions. The night before the attack, they cannot sleep and drive into the desert by car. She asks Max what he wants to do after the war. Max replies that he's going to buy a ranch from Medicine Hat and raise horses. Since they may not survive the day, they sleep together in the car while a sandstorm is raging. When the ambassador enters the hall, helpers blow up a car in front of the building as a distraction. In a mess, the two agents shoot the ambassador and approaching guards with Sten Guns hidden under a table.
After her mission, Max goes to London and catches up with the agent. They marry. Marianne gives birth to daughter Anna during a bombing raid.
A year later - in the spring of 1944 - Max's supervisor ordered him to meet with an agent of the counterintelligence SOE . While Max and his colleagues assumed in advance that he would be offered a command at D-Day , he now learns that confidential information had been received. The interrogation of a prisoner revealed that the real Marianne Beauséjour with her Resistance cell had been executed by the Germans and that the woman Max met in Casablanca is a German agent who has assumed her identity. The German ambassador who was shot was a dissident whom Hitler wanted to have eliminated. Max's wife is a double agent and Max is an ignorant accomplice for the Germans in eliminating the dissident. To prove it, it should be put to the test with a fictitious message. Max is supposed to take a call with misinformation that only he receives. Have him write the message down so that his wife can read it. If the secret service intercepts the transmission of this text, she is convicted and Max has to eliminate her himself for treason. Otherwise, he himself would be executed as an accomplice.
He is now trying to find out whether the woman he married is actually the real Marianne or a German agent. He begins questioning people who were involved in actions with Marianne Beauséjour before she was allegedly replaced by a German agent. At a party that his wife organizes for Max on the weekend so that he can get to know her friends in Hampstead , a friend advises Max not to accept the assignment for D-Day, otherwise he would be subjected to psychological tests by the espionage defense . So he questions the assignment of his superiors, since he is not sure whether he is only being tested. Shortly afterwards, the house with the party guests narrowly escapes the crash of a shot down German bomber that burns out on a meadow behind the house.
On the evening of the next day he flies with a Westland Lysander to Dieppe in France, which is occupied by the Wehrmacht. There he lets resistance fighters lead him to Paul Delamare, who is in the local prison and who used to work with Marianne. The drunk man sees the resemblance between the image of Max's wife and the woman he worked with. He also reports on Marianne's characteristics, although Max is puzzled when he learns that she is a talented pianist and that Paul himself saw her play the French national anthem on the piano. On the way back, Max gets in the way of an armored personnel carrier with German soldiers. He can blow up the vehicle with a hand grenade and shoots the wounded soldiers.
Back in England, Max asks his wife to play the hymn on the piano, whereupon she confesses to having assumed Marianne's identity and confirms that she had forwarded the wrong information to her network. Because he still loves her, he wants to flee with her before he is ordered to kill her. Marianne confesses to Max that the woman Anna is staying with is also a German agent. Max shoots this and another German agent from his wife's network before they try to go into hiding. In the pouring rain they are parked at the Hendon military airport by Max's superior Heslop, who drives his car to the running propeller of the Westland Lysander, which Max finally got to run after leaving it for a long time. He wants to have Marianne interrogated to get more information from her and to bring Max to a court martial because he wanted to help her escape. Marianne gets out of the car with Max's service revolver, tells him in front of Heslop that she loves him and that he should take care of Anna before she shoots herself. Heslop then orders that the report be written that it was Max who shot his wife.
Years later Anna lives with her father on a farm with horses and has read the letter that her mother wrote for her.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Max Vatan | Brad Pitt | Tobias Master |
| Marianne Beauséjour | Marion Cotillard | Jessica Walther-Gabory |
| Frank Heslop | Jared Harris | Lutz Schnell |
| Bridget Vatan | Lizzy Caplan | Marieke Oeffinger |
| Guy Sangster | Matthew Goode | Norman Matt |
| Emmanuel Lombard | Anton Lesser | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Hobar | August Diehl | August Diehl |
| Paul Delamare | Thierry Frémont | Oliver Stritzel |
| Interrogator | Simon McBurney | Gerald Schaale |
production
Brad Pitt first got into conversation with Paramount Pictures in April 2014 to play a leading role in a then untitled film about World War II . The screenplay for Steven Knight's film was already available at the time. In February 2016, Robert Zemeckis was announced as director of the project and Brad Pitt's involvement in the film was finally confirmed.
Screenwriter Steven Knight stated that the plot of the film is based on true events and is about a story told to him at the age of 21.
Filming began in London in February 2016 . The scenes set in the Moroccan city of Casablanca were filmed in Gran Canaria in May 2016 .
A film teaser was released in September 2016. The teaser shows, among other things, scenes from the Second World War and a shot of Max and Marianne in the desert, in which he asks her what she intends to do after the war.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “Dramatic situations are always replaced by calm passages; individual scenes of violence or killing are depicted in a distant manner and have no sensational or glorifying character. The tragic end is also within a framework that does not overwhelm viewers from the age of 12 emotionally "
Reviews
The film won over 60 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics . Many critics were irritated by the cast of the roles. As the Hollywood Reporter notes : "It's pretty unclear what attracted Pitt to the role, considering that it's not exactly his strength to add depth to characters in romantic dramas." The taz criticizes the structure of the film: "With the move from Casablanca to Hampstead [...] the film shifts from a spy action film to a romantic drama and, when the decision is pending due to the doubts about Marianne Beauséjour's identity, it cannot decide to become a spy thriller. "
Gross profit
The worldwide revenue of the film to date amounts to 119.5 million US dollars. The film recorded 259,397 visitors in German cinemas in 2016.
Awards (selection)
The costume design by Joanna Johnston was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Costume Design in 2017 . There was also a nomination for the British Academy Film Awards 2017 and the Critics' Choice Movie Award .
Web links
- Allied - Familiar Strangers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Page to the film at the production company
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Allied - Familiar Strangers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Allied - Confidant Strangers . Youth Media Commission .
- Jump up ↑ Brad Pitt for World War II romantic thriller from "Deadly Promises" author - Interview with Steven Knight . In: Filmstarts.de , accessed on September 4, 2016.
- ^ Erik Hayden: Robert Zemeckis to Direct Brad Pitt Romantic Thriller. In: The Hollywood Reporter. February 6, 2015, accessed February 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Robert Zemeckis' WWII Romance Starts Filming in January, Says Steven Knight (English) . In: collider.com , August 27, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
- ↑ Brad Pitt Arrives In Gran Canaria, Traffic Stops . In: gran-canaria-info.com , accessed September 4, 2016.
- ↑ Lauren Huff: Watch: New Teaser for 'Allied' with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard . In: awardscircuit.com . September 21, 2016.
- ^ Reason for release for Allied - Confidante Strangers In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Allied In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 18, 2016.
- ^ David Rooney: Allied - Film Review . In: The Hollywood Reporter . November 21, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Fabian Tietke: Agent loves agents . In: taz - the daily newspaper . December 22, 2016, accessed December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Allied In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 6, 2017.
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2016 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved January 11, 2020.