The journalist (film)

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Movie
German title The journalist
Original title Veronica Guerin
Country of production USA , Ireland , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Joel Schumacher
script Carol Doyle ,
Mary Agnes Donoghue
production Jerry Bruckheimer ,
Ned Dowd ,
James Flynn
music Harry Gregson-Williams
camera Brandon Galvin
cut David Gamble
occupation

The journalist is based on the true story of Dublin journalist Veronica Guerin , who was shot on behalf of drug lord John Gilligan . Jerry Bruckheimer produced the film from the year 2003 with Cate Blanchett in the title role. Directed by Joel Schumacher . The film was shot in Ireland, partly on the original locations. With the exception of Cate Blanchett, only Irish actors played in this film.

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The film recounts the events of the two years that preceded the murder of Irish journalist Veronica Guerin on June 26, 1996.

For 18 months she reported on drug trafficking on the streets of Dublin. While doing research in a district in Dublin dominated by social housing, she comes across dozens of children and young people hanging around, some of whom are currently using drugs or who have obviously just used them. She is so touched by this that she decides to do something about the drug trafficking. Again and again she meets with her informant John Traynor, himself a criminal, and receives information from him about the criminal gangs in Dublin. Drug trafficking has not played a role in her articles so far, but that is set to change from now on.

One day, several people are targeted and killed in various locations in Dublin and the police blame the IRA for the murders . But Guerin's informant John Traynor, himself one of the killers and a member of John Gilligan's criminal clan, tells her that all the murders were carried out by a single gang in Dublin. Guerin believes him first and wants to question the police's IRA suspicions in a large-scale article. But she gets doubts in time and realizes that Traynor has led her on the wrong track, as he wants to provoke a gang war between two rival gangs in Dublin. From now on, her research will focus on John Traynor himself, as she wants to find out to what extent he is himself involved in drug deals and criminal gangs. After she confronted him with her first suspicions directed against him, a few days later a first murder attempt occurs. A man disguised in a black helmet rings the doorbell at her front door and shoots her in the leg after the first shot aimed at the head did not go off. She is hospitalized and makes headlines in all media. Although her family asked her to devote herself to other issues, she was still working a few days later - now under police protection.

In the meantime, while doing research at the police station, she came across the files of John Gilligan, who is on parole and has considerable assets despite official unemployment. One day when she decides to visit him at his home, he brutally beats her right on the doorstep. That same evening he calls her and threatens her to kidnap and rape her son and to murder her herself. Scared but determined to continue, she went to the police station after a hospital visit and filed a complaint. The next day she meets up with John Traynor again. He offered her an apology and £ 100,000 on behalf of John Gilligan so that she would not file a complaint or report anything about him. She refuses and learns during the battle of words with Traynor from his girlfriend that he himself was the one who wanted to have her killed.

When she continued to write articles against the happenings in the Dublin drug scene and gained more and more knowledge about the machinations of the drug lords, especially John Gilligans, her fate overtook her on June 26, 1996. After a speeding trial against her, she was killed with multiple gunshots on the way home while stopping at an intersection.

Your assassination sparks the whole of Ireland into action. Thousands of people gather every week for anti-drug demonstrations in the affected neighborhoods, driving out dealers and forcing the drug scene to flee underground. Just a few days after her death, the government convenes a special session in which parliament passes a constitutional amendment that allows the Supreme Court to permanently confiscate drug lords' assets, which was previously impossible.

When dozens of criminals and bosses of the drug scene are arrested after a police offensive, including guerin's murderers and his accomplices, there are trials with the following verdicts:

  • John Gilligan , the drug lord, was extradited from England and received 28 years' imprisonment mainly for drug trafficking.
  • Brian Meehan , guerin's killer, receives life sentence.
  • Charles Bowden testifies as a key witness and is the first Irishman to be accepted into the witness protection program.
  • Eugene Holland gets 20 years for drug trafficking.
  • John Traynor is charged in absentia with murder. He was able to flee to Portugal in time, where he has been fighting against extradition ever since.

In the same year, a new unit was set up within the Irish Police, with the power to seize unresolved property from suspects. The following year the crime rate drops by 15%.

Reviews

  • After the authentic case of Veronica Guerin, which made waves in the 1990s and led to an unprecedented wave of arrests, the blockbuster specialists Jerry Bruckheimer (' Pearl Harbor ') and Joel Schumacher (' Bad Company ') created a rousing and uncompromising political thriller , in which superstars Cate Blanchett ('The Lord of the Rings') and Colin Farrell (' Minority Report ') impress once again. (Focus: film)

Awards

  • 2003: On the San Sebastian International Film Festival Joel Schumacher for the Golden Seashell nominated and with the Solidarity Award awarded
  • Nominated in eight categories at the British: 2003 IFTA Awards , including the Audience Award (Audience Award) as the best Irish film won
  • 2004: Cate Blanchett nominated for a Golden Globe
  • 2004: British Empire Award for Cate Blanchett for Best Actress
  • 2004: American Golden Reel Award from Motion Picture Sound Editors for Sound Editors
  • 2004: Two nominations for the Political Film Society Award , one of which was won

Soundtrack

The soundtrack, which is also commercially available and released by Hollywood Records , consists of: a. from the following songs that appeared in the film:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Die Journalistin . Youth Media Commission .