Dawn (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Dawn |
| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany , United Kingdom , Israel |
| original language | Hebrew , English , French |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Romed Wyder |
| script | Billy MacKinnon |
| production |
Samir , Romed Wyder |
| music | Bernard Trontin |
| camera | Ram Shweky |
| cut | Kathrin Plüss |
| occupation | |
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Dawn (Engl. For dawn ) is an international feature film by Swiss director Romed Wyder from the year 2014. It is a free adaptation of the novel of the same name in the English version (1960) of Elie Wiesel , who in the German translation titled The Burying night, Elisha carries. The production was shown at the Solothurn Film Festival in 2014 and was shown in Swiss cinemas in 2015.
action
Dawn is a psychological chamber play in which four comrades in arms urge the young Elisha to overcome his conflicts of conscience and to give full support to the armed struggle. The story takes place in Palestine in 1947, at the time of the British Mandate . The Zionists fight for the establishment of a Jewish state. A member of the armed Jewish underground was sentenced to death by the British authorities. In return, the resistance kidnapped a British officer whom they tried to trade for their friend. The rebels wait one night for the negotiations to end. When the British hang their friend at dawn, one of them will shoot the captured British officer they are holding hostage.
Reviews
The film critic Irene Genhart wrote on the occasion of the Swiss theatrical release in the Landbote : “It is oppressive in the mood, as Dawn in general - finely played, sharply thought out, subtly interwoven - is somehow oppressive as a whole. Because there is no escape from that night in which Elisha received his last initiation as a resistance fighter - rebel, freedom fighter, or whatever you want to call it. Because the deal that's working is: a life for a life. "
And Lory Roebuck specifies in the Aargauer Zeitung : “With the casting of the renowned British actor [Jason] Isaacs in the role of the captured officer, the film crew achieved a coup. The scenes between Isaacs and Basman are the climax of the film: intense, oppressive, ambiguous. «Dawn» is ninety minutes of suspense about the manipulability of humans - and its content is still brand new today. "
Web links
- Official website
- Dawn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dawn at filmportal.de
- Dawn at swissfilms.ch
- Review of Dawn on meinkino.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dawn at swissfilms.ch , accessed on February 22, 2019
- ↑ ProCinema
- ↑ Landbote
- ↑ Aargauer Zeitung