The catch
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The catch |
| Original title | Gibier d'élevage |
| Country of production |
Cambodia France |
| original language | Cambodian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rithy Panh |
| script | Rithy Panh Michel Fessler |
| production | Catherine Dussart |
| music | Marc Marder |
| camera |
Prum Mesa Mesar Prum |
| cut | Rithy Panh Marie-Christine Rougerie |
| occupation | |
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The catch (original title: French Gibier d'élevage ) is a French - Cambodian film drama from 2011 based on the work Shiiku ( Japanese 飼育 ) by the Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe , for which he received the Akutagawa Prize in 1958 at the age of 23 . As early as 1961 , the literature was filmed under the title The Booty of Nagisa Ōshima . In 2011 the film was produced by ARTE for French television.
action
During the Vietnam War in 1972, an American fighter plane crashed in the mountains over Cambodia at night. The African American pilot is able to save himself with the help of his parachute. Pang, a boy from a nearby jungle village, finds the parachute near the wrecked plane and then goes to look for the pilot with his peers. They manage to track down the pilot and take him prisoner with the help of the Khmer Rouge . After the soldiers have beaten and kicked the pilot on the way to the village, he is forced at gunpoint to descend a bamboo ladder into a dry well. The Angka congratulate on the capture of the enemy pilot. The youthful soldiers of the Khmer Rouge entrust the children of the village with guarding the prisoner against the advice of the village elder.
One of the soldiers praises Pang for being brave and not a traitor like his father, whom Pang doesn't even know and who has joined Lon Nol . He is told that his mother is a whore in Phnom Penh . But now he has found a new family in Angka. Pang is given the task of spying on the farmers of the village and betraying opponents of the Khmer Rouge.
The children provide their prisoners with water and rice. So that it is not discovered during reconnaissance flights , they cover the well shaft with twigs. One day an airborne squad consisting of eight helicopters appeared and discovered the crashed machine, which was also camouflaged with branches. The soldiers question the villagers, threaten them at gunpoint and torture them. After they were unable to find out more information about the crashed machine and the location of the pilot, they round up the villagers and burn down some huts. They are threatening to let the other huts fall victim to the flames too if the pilot is hidden in the village.
During the rainy season , the monsoon makes the water level of the well rise threateningly for the prisoner, so that he has to swim above the water. After the children's attempt to scoop off the water with a bucket failed, the soldiers lower a ladder to the prisoner, via which he, completely exhausted, can emerge from the well. The captured pilot is chained and the villagers build a bamboo prison for him . The key will be given to Pang for safekeeping. The power that was entrusted to him slowly rises to his head. So he forces his friends to bow to his dog in the dust. He later accuses a villager of listening to an imperialist radio station and stealing Tuol manioc and blackening it from the soldiers of the Khmer Rouge. As a reward, he is given the rifle that he had previously taken from a villager and given to the Red Khmers. Thereupon Pang begins to command his peers with military drill, who follow him unconditionally. They begin to expand their war game in the village to night watch. One evening Pang takes a wooden Buddha from his grandmother, who is in prayer, and throws it into the fire. He has completely lost his respect for his friends and even his family.
After the prisoner has made a paper airplane out of a leaflet that was thrown in search of him , he succeeds in winning the trust of the youngest among the children. A cautious friendship develops between them. Meanwhile, Pang overhears a conversation between Tuol and his wife, who are planning to leave the village to work in the city because the Khmer Rouge is not giving them enough to live on from their crops. Pang reports this conversation to the soldiers too. A few days later, Tuol and his wife are found murdered by one of the children near the village.
It is decided by the soldiers that the prisoner should work for his meals with immediate effect, after which he is guarded by five children dragging water. After one of the village elders recommends Pang to remove the prisoner's ankle chains, as he will not leave the village, the pilot is also used in the field work. One day the prisoner volunteers to help the boys fish. Nicknamed Okay by the boys, the ice between the two fronts seems to have broken after building a can phone for them . Furthermore, he helps them to repair a defective radio in Pang's absence and then dances the Twist to the music with them . When Pang returned to the village, however, he had the prisoner put on chains again and locked in his bamboo cage. However, while the radio was being repaired, the pilot disappeared an iron arrow in his sock. With this he worked on the lock of his ankle cuff during the night. He manages to take off the chains and escape from the cage.
The next morning, the horrified Pang finds an empty shed, whereupon he wakes the other boys and sends them to search for the fugitive in the jungle. The pilot finds his plane's crash site. The cockpit fittings are so destroyed, however, that he cannot call for help by radio. In the shadow of the wreck, he sinks down with tears in his eyes, fearing that he will never see his wife and child, whose photo he has with him, again. There he is found by the children. As they circle around him, he takes one of the children under his control and threatens to stab his neck with an iron arrow. Then Pang fired a shot from the rifle, with which he instead of the prisoner hit the boy Siet in the chest. The pilot picks up the injured boy and carries him back to the village for treatment. There the US soldier is arrested again by the soldiers of the Khmer Rouge and tied to a post. Meanwhile, Pang says goodbye to his grandmother because he will follow the soldiers to the front. While the soldiers are taking the prisoner out of the village, the children are sent home again. The soldiers also leave Pang behind in the village. The fate of the US soldier ultimately remains uncertain.
background
The film was shot in Cambodia in November 2011 . The budget of the film was around 2.6 million euros . The film celebrated its world premiere in Japan on October 23, 2011 at the Tokyo International Film Festival . In Germany the film was shown for the first time on free TV on Arte on December 10, 2011 as the original version with subtitles . It was broadcast in France on December 11, 2011. The German subtitles were edited by Heinz-Günter Hollein based on a translation by Jacky Nonnon under the editorial direction of Georg Steinert .
reception
Russell Edwards of Variety is of the opinion that Rithy Panh succeeded in reinterpreting the work written by Kenzaburō Ōe in 1958. Despite the apparently tight budget, the film knows how to convince with the captured images.
Panh, who is known “for his mix of documentary and real film” after his 1998 film One Evening After the War , “cast amateurs and shot with a documentary-style camera. The result is a fascinating film. " " Panh's criticism [...] is directed not only against the war of the Americans, but also against the terror of the Khmer Rouge. Or more universal: against oppression and indoctrination. [...] With its critical and humanistic message, “ the film is convincing . “The amateur actors do something remarkable. And the pictures intoxicate with elegant shots. [...] A film made and narrated with simple means, which, however, draws maximum effect from it and stimulates the audience to reflect on a cinematic high level. "
literature
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Shiiku ( 飼育 ), "The Catch", 1958
- Short prose. Translated by Tatsuji Iwabuchi. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1994, ISBN 3-518-22178-7 . (BS 1178)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b festival-cannes.fr: L'Atelier du Festival: Gibier d'élevage
- ^ Tokyo International Film Festival : Shiiku
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ^ Variety : The Catch , Tokyo, Russell Edwards, November 20, 2011
- ↑ molodezhnaja.ch: film review , Marco, November 21, 2011
Web links
- The catch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The catch in the online film database