Heaven will wait
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Heaven will wait |
| Original title | Le ciel attendra |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar |
| script | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar Emilie Frèche |
| production | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar |
| camera | Myriam Vinocour |
| cut | Benoît Quinon |
| occupation | |
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Heaven Will Wait is a 2016 French drama directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar .
action
The film follows the story of the teenagers Sonia and Mélanie and their parents.
Sonia is 17, has a younger sister and, without her parents had noticed something that IS facing. One day she is unexpectedly arrested by the French police because she is said to have planned an attack with others in France. She is under house arrest and is not allowed to access cell phones or the internet. Her parents are helpless in the face of their daughter's radicalization. With the help of Dounia Bouzar, they get to know the background to recruitment from the Arab world and can slowly establish contact with their daughter. After a while, Sonia can go back to school and realizes that she has taken the wrong path.
Mélanie is 16 years old, an only child and divorced, and leads a normal life with her mother. She plays an instrument, is interested in make-up and clothes, and does volunteer work. She regularly visits her grandmother in the old people's home. One day she received a friend request online from a man who called himself épris de liberté (“free spirit”), later named Mehdi and finally called himself Abou Hussein. When Mélanies grandma dies, Mehdi supports her online. He begins to familiarize her with Islam and sends her videos that make her susceptible to conspiracy theories. Her friends make fun of Mélanie's theories; But Mehdi flirts with her online, compliments her and finally promises to marry her. Mélanie begins to pray and first to wear a headscarf and later even a niqab , which Mehdi sends her. She keeps all this a secret from her mother Sylvie. Only one Muslim friend has been initiated, who reacts irritated when Mélanie interprets the rules of prayer even more strictly than she does.
A third storyline deals with Sylvie's life after Mélanie joined IS in Syria. She blames herself for not being a good mother and despairs of the authorities' inaction. She wants to travel to Syria herself to save Mélanie, but nobody knows where the young woman is. In Dounia Bouzar's sessions it becomes clear that the young people are usually forcibly married and do not return. One day, Sonia is brought to the meeting at Dounia Bouzar's by her parents. She reports on her experiences. It becomes clear that she was supposed to travel to Syria herself and had to choose two “sisters” to accompany her. One of the selected was Mélanie. While Mélanie was flying to Syria, Sonia passed out in the airport and therefore stayed in France.
production
Heaven will wait is the fourth feature film directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar. The film is loosely based on Dounia Bouzar's non-fiction book Ils cherchent le paradis, ils ont trouvé l'enfer . In the film, Bouzar plays herself. She is the founder of the Center de Prevention contre les dérives sectaires liées à l'islam (CPDSI), which, as shown in the film, is concerned with educating parents of radicalized young people and explaining the mechanisms of indoctrination by fanatical groups explains and helps them to differentiate between Islam and groups like IS.
Filming for the film began on November 16, 2015, just a few days after the terrorist attacks in Paris . The film was shot mainly in Créteil (including Lycée Léon Blum, Center commercial, Place Salvador Allende). Another location was Orly Airport . Virginie Alba created the costumes, Valérie Faynot created the film .
Heaven will wait had its premiere on August 8, 2016 at the Locarno Festival . It was shown in French cinemas on October 5, 2016 and was also shown in German cinemas from March 23, 2017.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Sonia Bouzaria | Noémie Merlant | Maximiliane Häcke |
| Mélanie Thenot | Naomi Amarger | Lina Rabea Mohr |
| Catherine Bouzaria | Sandrine Bonnaire | Maud Ackermann |
| Samir Bouzaria | Zinedine Soualem | Johannes Berenz |
| Sylvie | Clotilde Courau | Sabine Arnhold |
| Yvan | Yvan Attal | Viktor Neumann |
| judge | Ariane Ascaride | Katarina Tomaschewsky |
| Abou Hussein | Akim Mebtouch | Samir Fox |
Awards
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar was nominated for the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno Festival in 2016. In 2017, Noémie Merlant received a César nomination in the category of best young actress . At the 2017 Prix Lumières , the film was nominated for three prizes in the categories of Best Screenplay and Best Newcomer Actress (Naomi Amarger, Noémie Merlant).
Web links
- The sky will be waiting in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heaven will be waiting at allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Heaven will wait . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ aki: Faites connaissance avec Noémie Merlant, espoir féminin du cinéma français . madmoizelle.com, February 23, 2017.
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Hasard macabre on allocine.fr
- ↑ Heaven will wait in the German dubbing file