Atomic Blonde

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Movie
German title Atomic Blonde
Original title Atomic Blonde
Country of production Germany , Hungary
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director David Leitch
script Kurt Johnstad
production Charlize Theron ,
Beth Kono ,
AJ Dix ,
Kelly McCormick ,
Eric grid ,
Peter Schwerin
music Tyler Bates
camera Jonathan Sela
cut Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir
occupation
synchronization

Atomic Blonde is an American action and spy movie from the year 2017 with Charlize Theron as a British secret agent in the lead role. Directed by David Leitch , the script was written by Kurt Johnstad . The film is based on the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston, which was also the working title for the film adaptation.

action

In November 1989, just days before the fall of the Berlin Wall , MI6 agent James Gascoigne was shot dead by KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin. He steals the list, a microfilm document hidden in Gascoigne's watch that contains the names of all secret service employees active in Berlin (on both sides). Ten days later, Lorraine Broughton, a high-ranking spy at MI6, was questioned by the head of MI6, Eric Gray, and CIA agent Emmett Kurzfeld about her recently completed mission in Berlin . The plot jumps between the debriefing room and flashbacks to Lorraines time in Berlin.

The day after Gascoigne's death, Lorraine is dispatched to retrieve the list and keep an eye out for Satchel, a KGB double agent who has been a problem for MI6 for years. When she arrives in Berlin, it is immediately of KGB agents in an ambush lured to deliver a message to her boss, Aleksander Bremovych. But she manages to escape and meet with her contact , the eccentric MI6 station manager David Percival. Lorraine searches Gascoigne's apartment and discovers a picture of him and Percival. In the debriefing, she tells Gray and Kurzfeld that Percival had previously denied knowing Gascoigne and that she suspects that Percival was behind the West Berlin police lurking on them while they searched Gascoigne's apartment. When Lorraine visits a restaurant mentioned by the KGB agents, she meets Bremovych, but is "rescued" by Delphine Lasalle, an inexperienced French agent . Although Lorraine Lasalle is initially suspicious, they eventually develop a romantic relationship.

Percival, who was following Lorraine, observes a watchmaker whom she has visited. He sees Bakhtin going into the same shop. Bakhtin tells the watchmaker that he has a watch full of secrets that he wants to sell to the highest bidder. Kurzfeld meets with Lorraine in Berlin and hands her a newspaper with a telephone number that tells her when she calls that Satchel has been compromised. Percival lures Bakhtin into an alley, kills him and takes the watch that he uses to find out who Satchel is. Lorraine, unaware that Percival has the list, finds out that the Stasi officer code-named "Spyglass" who gave Gascoigne the list also memorized the names on the list. Lorraine and Percival plan to take him across the border to West Berlin. Percival meets with Bremovych, who suspects Percival has the list, but Percival only offers the second best: Satchel's identity and operations "to keep the balance ," and also gives him clues about the plan, Spyglass Liberate East Berlin . Lasalle secretly photographs the meeting.

During the liberation of Spyglass, Percival secretly shoots him when the KGB is unable to. Lorraine battles multiple KGBs while rescuing the wounded Spyglass, but he drowns when her car is rammed into a river. Lorraine makes it to West Berlin and discovers that Percival has put a bug in her coat. She tells Lasalle, who calls Percival and threatens him with her knowledge of his meeting in Bremovych. Percival goes to Lasalle's apartment, kills her and escapes when Lorraine arrives a few moments later. Lorraine discovers the photos Lasalle took and finds that Percival has read the list. Percival burns his hiding place and tries to escape, but Lorraine arrives, kills him and takes the list.

In the MI6 debriefing, Lorraine finds out that Percival Gray said he had the list and that he was "very close to Satchel." It presents Lasalle's photographs and fake sound recordings depicting Percival as a satchel. She denies knowing the whereabouts of the list and leaves MI6 with no choice but to close the case.

Three days later, Lorraine, who now speaks Russian, meets in Paris with Bremovych, who calls her " Comrade Satchel". After Bremowitsch learns from Percival that there is more to Satchel than he previously knew, he orders his men to kill them. Lorraine kills his people; then she tells Bremovich in an American accent that she always fed him bad information to manipulate the KGB. She kills Bremovych, and then she and Kurzfeld (CIA) return to the United States with the list, their friendly conversation implying that she has worked for him all along.

background

The main actress and co-producer Charlize Theron wanted an action film that would be carried by its female main character and possibly lead to a kind of female Jason Bourne film series. David Leitch could be one of the two directors of the successful action film John Wick win, and for the soundtrack recorded Tyler Bates responsibility of this task even with John Wick had assumed. In addition to a song by Marilyn Manson , this time mainly music from the 1980s can be heard, although the original versions were not always used under the influence of the director. The main actress played almost all of the fight scenes herself and was only rarely doubled by the Canadian stuntwoman Monique Ganderton. Theron had trained five hours a day for three months. The 51 days of shooting for the film began at the end of November 2015. The shooting took place in Budapest , Berlin and Babelsberg . Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures was responsible for the implementation of the shooting on the original motifs.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was done at FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Berlin under the dialogue direction and the dialogue book by Christoph Cierpka .

role actor Voice actor
Lorraine Broughton Charlize Theron Bianca Krahl
David Percival James McAvoy Johannes Raspe
Emmett Kurzfeld John Goodman Hartmut Neugebauer
Eric Gray Toby Jones Michael Pan
"C" James Faulkner Wolf Frass
Dolphins Lasalle Sofia Boutella Jessica Walther-Gabory
Aleksander Bremovych Roland Møller Mark Zak
Yuri Bakhtin Jóhannes Jóhannesson Mark Schmal
James Gascoigne Sam Hargrave Gerrit Hamann
Stasi spy "SpyGlass" Eddie Marsan Lutz Schnell
Watchmaker Til Schweiger Til Schweiger
Merkel Bill Skarsgård Constantin von Jascheroff

reception

Reviews

In the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes got Atomic Blonde 244 reviews of which were rather positive 183 and also in the German Film and Media Review the film is "particularly valuable" awarded and this as "extremely captivating, highly exciting and incredibly cool" refers to the predicate . In the German press landscape, however, the simplicity of the plot and the characters was criticized. Also, according to some critics, the film could not really reproduce the atmosphere of the Berlin Wall. The female cast of the leading role in an action film was mentioned in particular by some press reviews.

Barbara Möller in Die Welt described the film as “ Splatter - Bond with the poorest plot of the year”, and Jens Balzer in Die Zeit speaks of a hit-and-run film without feeling.

For Jenni Zylka in the mirror , too , the characters are flatter than in the comic, whereas Juliane Liebert in the Süddeutsche Zeitung also discovers logic errors in the “stupid plot”, but is impressed by the stylishly beautiful pictures and finds it important to have a lesbian relationship in the film that does not appear in the comic template.

In the film service, Esther Bless finds the people lifeless, as if from a computer game, and the post-apocalyptic mood does not really match Berlin at the time of the fall, but on the other hand, Charlize Theron is profiled as an action actress. Britta Schmeis from Epd film a chance for the establishment of a female Bond is here awarded by the film more action film as a political thriller is.

In the Kölner Stadtanzeiger , Frank Olbert sees a dazzling leading actress Charlize Theron and a milestone for female action heroes and Verena Lueken in FAZ also sees it as a welcome change that a woman shoots and drinks in style through her agent job.

Gross profit

The film opened in US cinemas on July 27, 2017 and entered the box office at number 4 on its opening weekend with a grossing of 25 million US dollars. He was the second highest-ranking newcomer this week , behind Emoji . Atomic Blonde stayed in the top 10 of the US box office for two more weeks with positions 7 and 10 and grossed around 50 million dollars in its production country, which amortized the production costs of 30 million dollars . Worldwide the film had revenues of more than 95 million US dollars.

In Germany, Atomic Blonde opened in 530 cinemas on August 24, 2017 and reached 3rd place in the German cinema charts with 160,000 visitors in its opening week. He was thus outstripped by the horror film Annabelle 2 as the best newcomer. As a result, it stayed in the top 10 of the German cinema charts for a week at number 7 and grossed 2.2 million euros with around 300,000 visitors.

continuation

In July 2020, leading actress Charlize Theron confirmed that a sequel was being worked on for Netflix .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for Atomic Blonde . Youth Media Commission .
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  9. ↑ Charlize Theron at the Atomic Blonde Premiere ( memento of the original from September 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Augsburger Allgemeine , July 18, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
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  14. ↑ Even the Stasi man is amazed . Die Welt , August 24, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017
  15. ↑ Quadruple agent nonsense . Die Zeit , August 22, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017
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  20. ^ Charlize Theron between the battlefield and the catwalk , Kölner Stadtanzeiger , August 22, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2017
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