The March (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The march |
| Original title | The March |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | David Wheatley |
| script | William Nicholson |
| production | BBC |
| music | Richard Hartley |
| camera | John Hooper |
| cut | Tariq Anwar |
| occupation | |
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The march is a British television - drama from the year 1990 , which on a screenplay by William Nicholson based. He assumes an indefinite future in which large parts of Africa have become uninhabitable due to climate change and racist tensions have increased in Europe.
action
The main characters are the Irish Clare Fitzgerald, Commissioner for Development at the European Community , and the North African Isa El-Mahdi, who is organizing a march of refugees from Sudanese refugee camps to Europe. His hope in organizing this march: “We believe that if you see us before you, you will not let us die. That is why we come to Europe. If you don't help us, there is nothing we can do, we will die and you will watch us die and may God be merciful to us all. "
While the march across Libya, Algeria and Morocco is on its way, the Commissioner is working intensively for a negotiated solution, but it fails in the various European bodies as well as in the uncompromising stance of El Mahdi, who does not want to be dissuaded. To reach Europe. A well-armed "Europe Security Brigade" is mobilized, and the African-American US presidential candidate Brown uses the march for his election campaign purposes by staging himself as part of the "show" and wants to arm the refugees.
The participants of the march cross over to Europe in many boats. A boy from the group who reached the Spanish beach first fired a gun he had taken with him into the air and was immediately shot by a soldier from the security brigade. The participants of the march go ashore anyway and cheer about their success. The final image shows that in the middle of the Spanish tourist resort they suddenly come across heavily armed European soldiers. The jubilation fades away on the spot. The film fades out the scene and ends with the commissioner's closing remarks, an address to El-Mahdi: “We need you as you need us. We cannot go on as before. You can help us stop the destruction we are causing. But we're not ready for you [a sentence that is uttered several times during the film], you have to give us more time. "
The film is a plea for more commitment by the industrialized countries for the developing countries , while essentially retaining the perspective of the benevolent Commissioner. The protesting black Africans, however, are seen from the outside.
criticism
“Elaborately produced television film about a case of ecological migration; despite folkloristic interludes and a dramaturgy that rather wants to entertain, a scenario worth considering. "
Web links
- The march in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The March. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .