The Raid (2000)
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| Original title | The raid |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Austrian German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 84 minutes |
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| Director | Florian Flicker |
| script | Susanne Freund and Florian Flicker |
| production | Helmut Grasser , Allegro Film |
| music | Sam Auinger , Hannes Strobl |
| camera | Helmut Pirnat |
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The attack is an Austrian feature film from 2000 . A robbery on a tailor's shop turns into a perfidious power struggle between the robber and the tailor as well as a customer who happens to be present.
action
Andreas Berger ( Roland Düringer ) is divorced and unemployed. Financially, he is faced with a hopeless situation: He can neither pay the alimony to his ex-wife nor buy his son a birthday present. Disguised as a clown , he raids a Mondo store on a Saturday morning . When he tries to pull the gun, however, he panics and flees into a small, old-fashioned-looking tailor shop next to the supermarket. There he meets the owner, Josef Böckel ( Joachim Bißmeier ), whom he threatens with a drawn gun. In the next room sits a customer, Werner Kopper ( Josef Hader ), a hypochondriac with heart disease, who initially believes he could go undetected.
But the robber cannot escape with the measly booty of a few hundred schillings - a police force has been posted in front of the tailor's shop. Coincidentally, the Mondo branch across the street was attacked. Berger assumes that the officials came because of him and decides to stay with his two hostages in the tailoring shop for the time being.
It soon becomes clear that Berger is completely overwhelmed by the situation. He's anything but the tough guy he's trying to portray. He seems to have great understanding and sympathy, especially with the ailing customer Mr. Kopper (who suffers several attacks of shortness of breath because of a heart disease). So he cannot refuse him the desire to untie him. But the hostages are unable to work together - they seem to hate each other profoundly after their longstanding business relationship. While Berger is looking for more money, the shackled Böckel asks his customer to call the police on his cell phone. But he lies and claims that the battery is empty. When the cell phone rings later, Böckel recognizes the lie. When suddenly a young woman stands in front of the door and wants to go to the tailor's shop, Kopper says that the old tailor Böckel would have prostitutes come into his shop. The two hostages are increasingly mocking each other.
When Berger frees the tailor from his shackles after a long request, the tailor lunges at him and beats him almost unconscious. Then the second hostage intervenes - Kopper takes the pistol and threatens the tailor. He asks the robber to quickly disappear with the money. The tailor's revenge on Kopper: he tries to incite Berger against Kopper; he has a lot of money with him. In fact, Kopper hands the robber a small amount, but points out that he would have spent the money with the tailor Böckel anyway - that Berger was actually stealing the money from Böckel.
When the police finally leave the house opposite, the robber could actually leave the tailor's shop. After numerous arguments and solidarity between the three, after a scuffle and fighting over the firearm, which has changed hands several times, Andreas Berger finally says goodbye to his two hostages and wishes them all the best.
But the hostages only want to harm each other even more: Kopper asks the robber to go to the bank with Böckel and withdraw money from the tailor's account. Berger can be persuaded to do so and forces Böckel to go to the bank with him while Kopper is supposed to wait in the tailor's shop.
While Böckel has 5000 schillings paid out at the bank counter, the robber with a red wig and carnival glasses on his face stands behind him. He is wearing the long black coat from Kopper, which Kopper lent him to go to the bank. When Kopper's cell phone rings in his coat, Berger becomes nervous. Apparently the child of a bank customer now also notices that he is holding a pistol in his hand. Berger panics, pulls his gun, shouts "Assault!" And escapes from the bank with far more money than 5000 schillings. In front of the bank there is a scuffle between Berger and Böckel, where he manages to pocket most of the money himself. Berger panics because they attract too much attention and is satisfied with some of the money and flees.
He returns to the tailor shop alone to give Kopper his coat back. The two say goodbye to each other. Kopper then walks through the streets at dusk. When he finds the robber's wig and carnival glasses in his coat, he puts them on as protection against the cold. When he happened to pass the bank that had just been robbed, the police mistook him for the robber and threatened him. Kopper gets breathless and reaches into his pocket to find his asthma spray. A police officer thinks he is about to pull a pistol out of his pocket and shoots him.
Böckel assures the police that the dead Kopper is the robber.
background
Much of the film takes place in just one room - the tailoring workspace. Director Flicker described his film as follows: “The longer the afternoon, the more instinctive, the more irrational the three of them act, in both brutal and loving moments. Each of them is a tragedy in itself in its helplessness and stubbornness. "
Reviews
The Austrian newspaper Kurier wrote in a review on September 28, 2000 (page 37): “The ambiguous wrong often turns out to be more profitable in Viennese than six correct ones. The wrong kindness. The false modesty. The wrong time in the wrong place. In this triumph of three terrific tragic comedians - Roland Düringer, Josef Hader, Joachim Bißmeier - these falsehoods are just as monotonous as they are wickedly gathered in a very small space. "
The Wiener Zeitung (September 28, 2000, page 9) called the film an “artistic miracle”: “Two cabaret artists and an actor united in a terrific team effort. And each of them are breathtaking in their own way. An Austrian film of - in every respect - the best quality. "
The Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote on March 23, 2001 (p. 68): “There is screaming, howling, spitting and coughing, choking, vomiting and bleeding, that it has a kind. And the camera sways through the narrow space, almost hurriedly obediently, capturing all movements and also all emerging feelings, as mercilessly as only a camera eye can. "
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the film on January 23, 2001 (p. 47) an “insane chamber play. The coercive community that connects perpetrator and victim through fatal circumstances in a robbery brings to light comically ambivalent spontaneous reactions that reveal a long history. "
“Ever since Thomas Bernhard, it has become a dearly hated tradition of the Austrians to put your own character on the dissecting table - and to pretend you don't belong. It is exactly the same in the tailor's atelier, where the three random opponents drill mercilessly into the wounds of the others without realizing that they themselves have to bleed. ” - Süddeutsche Zeitung, November 17, 2001
"A truly sardonic psycho-chamber-dramedy in Cinemascope," Hold Up "provided Austria's top box-office draw, stand-up comedian Roland Düringer, with an unusually rich part. It also gave Flicker, formerly a director of modest auteur films, the chance of a lifetime: looks like he has a massive hit, while his sense of honor remains intact. ” - Film Comment
Awards
- The film was a competition entry at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2000 , where it was awarded the Bronze Leopard .
- In 2001 he received the special prize of the Saarland Prime Minister at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival .
- Big Diagonale Award as the best Austrian film in 2000
- Lady Harimaguada de Plata at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2001: 2nd Prize, Best Feature Film category
- Premio al Mejor Dirección de Fotografía at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2001
- Screenplay Award of the City of Salzburg 1995
Web links
- The raid in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The robbery in the online film database
- The film at filmz.de
- The film at Filmweltverleih.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted in Die Presse , August 3, 2000, p. 22
- ↑ Der Standard , August 14, 2000, page 13
- ↑ List of award winners, Max Ophüls Prize (PDF) ( 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.
