A moral choice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A moral choice |
| Original title | Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza |
| Country of production | Iran |
| original language | Farsi |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vahid Jalilvand |
| script |
Ali Zarnega , Vahid Jalilvand |
| production |
Ehsan Alikhani , Ali Jalilvand |
| music | Peyman Yazdanian |
| camera | Payman Shadmanfar |
| cut | Vahid Jalilvand, Sepehr Vakili |
| occupation | |
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A moral decision (original title Bedoune Tarikh, Bedoune Emza , English title No Date, No Signature ) is an Iranian drama film by the director Vahid Jalilvand from 2017.
action
Forensic doctor Kaveh Nariman rams a motorcycle with a family of four that night when he himself is cut. The father Moosa asks Nariman to call the police with his cell phone, which he does not want. Instead, he urges the father to accept money from him as compensation. Not much has happened, but eight-year-old Amir complains of slight neck pain. Nariman wants the family to drive Amir to the nearby clinic for a check-up, but realizes that she does not turn to the hospital.
The next day the boy is taken dead to Nariman's clinic. His colleague Sayeh, with whom he is friends, does the autopsy and determines that meat poisoning is the cause of death. Nariman's question as to whether she had also thoroughly examined the spine, she denies, there was no reason to do so. After Nariman initially withholds the accident, he finally tells her about it. He thinks it is possible that Amri had broken her neck. When the parents received the autopsy result, the mother blamed her husband for the death of the son because he had bought cheap chicken and he should have known that there was no healthy chicken for that price. Moosa then goes to the slaughterhouse where he bought the chicken from an employee, confronts him and can only be prevented from getting violent with great difficulty. The employee denies everything, but you find the barrels with the discarded chickens and he is fired. Nariman learns that Moosa has been arrested. He ambushed the butcher again in front of the company premises and injured him so badly that he fell into a coma. Nariman weighs heavily on this, knowing that if the son's cause of death wasn't the spoiled meat, Moosa would not have acted so and would not have been in jail.
Against the advice of his colleague, he decides to apply for the exhumation of Amir's body. He sets it up so that he can do the autopsy himself. Finally, there is a court hearing at which Nariman reports that a spinal trauma caused Amir's death. He did not call the police after the accident because his car's insurance had expired. He himself does not know why he only applied for the exhumation two weeks later. The judge asks him if he is aware that he is incriminating himself, which he affirms. Then Sayeh asks if he is sure that Amir died from the neck injury. The answer remains open.
publication
The film first ran on February 1, 2017 in Iran at the Fajr Film Festival. As a result, it was shown at numerous international festivals, including on September 2, 2017 in the competition at the Venice Film Festival and on October 9, 2017 at the Hamburg Film Festival . It was only released in German cinemas on June 20, 2019.
reception
Kai Mihm from epd Film says that director Vahid Jalilvand contrasts “Nariman's quiet, inwardly burning desperation [...] with the extroverted grief of his parents”. Nariman's guilt was mirrored in Moosa's guilt. "The finely nuanced intensity of these contradicting embodiments of guilt and soul pain, of grief and anger" would give the film an "emotional richness" that one experiences less and less in the cinema. The director wanted to "create awareness of the context and the scope of individual actions".
Lucas Barwenczik writes on film releases that the film remains "surprisingly close to the characters and portrays their very personal worries and needs". Both main actors were convincing: Navid Mohammadzadeh played his increasing despair not very subtly, but expressively. With Amir Aghaee it is "fascinating to watch how obstinate, strict and impenetrable" he interprets the role of the doctor. An important aspect is the representation of people of different classes in their different living environments. It is a melancholy film that mainly shows gray and black tones. The critic comes to the conclusion that it is a "convincing, serious character drama".
Awards
At the 2017 Venice Film Festival , in the Orizzonti section, Vahid Jalilvan was awarded for best director and Navid Mohammadzadeh for best actor.
Web links
- A moral choice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for A Moral Decision . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Critique of A Moral Decision. In: epd-film.de , May 24, 2019.
- ^ Criticism by the Filmstarts editorial team. In: filmstarts.de , accessed on July 2, 2019.