The mamba

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Movie
Original title The mamba
Country of production Austria , Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Ali Samadi Ahadi
script Arne Nolting ,
Ali Samadi Ahadi
production Markus Pauser ,
Erich Schindlecker ,
Mohammad Farokhmanesh ,
Frank Geiger ,
Armin Hofmann
music Marcus Nigsch
camera Marcus Kanter
cut Bettina Mazakarini
occupation

Mamba is an Austrian-German action comedy by the German- Iranian film director Ali Samadi Ahadi .

action

The noise designer Hossein Sarivi works in a biscuit factory in Vienna. After being fired for being clumsy, he tries to get a new job as soon as possible. His dominant wife Pari Sarivi is not allowed to find out about the dismissal.

In the meantime, the dreaded contract killer and terrorist “the Mamba” will find out about his new assignment in the Schönbrunn Zoo . Although the Mamba and Hossein do not know each other, they look something like identical twins; but apart from their looks, the two are very different. So Hossein is a naive, fearful, simple worker, while the mamba does not shrink from any crime. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Hossein, sitting on a bench in the zoo, is mistaken for the mamba and is supposed to travel to London for a new assignment. Hossein agrees because he thinks he'll be hired for his sound designs. Mamba, disguised as a zookeeper, is caught in a shootout with a CIA group under the leadership of Carl Bronski who is pursuing her.

The agent Sherazade, who is already looking forward to working with the Mamba, was also engaged for the job. In London, Hossein receives an arsenal of weapons and says that he should improve their "sound". There he meets his assistant Sherazade, with whom he immediately falls in love. Together they go to Casablanca, where secret codes are supposed to be stolen from a target to be eliminated. Only in Casablanca did Hossein become aware of the misunderstanding about himself. The Mamba learns of the mix-up through brutal attacks at the client and in the zoo, where he controls the surveillance videos, and also flies to Casablanca. Pari does not find out until her husband is long in Casablanca that he had been fired from the biscuit factory. She immediately suspects that he is cheating on her, locates him using a cell phone location in Casablanca and also flies there to find him. In her search, however, she meets the real mamba - these two also develop feelings for each other, encouraged by the latent masochism of the mamba.

In Casablanca they end up with the CIA group and the local Al-Qaeda branch, which the Mamba wants to eliminate as unwanted foreign competition. During the fighting and chases, Hossein and the Mamba involuntarily change positions several times. After completing the murder assignment, the Mamba and Sherazade are ordered to Paris to blow up a nuclear facility. However, Bronski Hossein (whom he believes is the mamba), who has meanwhile been dismissed for failure, warns that the client, "the engineer", has prepared a trap.

In the nuclear facility, Hossein and Pari Sarivi meet the Mamba and Sherazade, but are surprised by the engineer when they warn them. Bronski's mission is also unsuccessful, as he faints when he sees the doppelgangers. Nevertheless, the quintet managed to break free while the overwhelmed engineer was blown up with the system.

In the happy ending you see Hossein and Sherazade Nay playing on a camel through a Middle Eastern war zone, while the mamba shoots moles in the Austrian front yard on behalf of his “mistress” Pari.

production

The film was produced by e & a film and shooting began in April 2013 and was completed in June 2013. The filming locations were Marrakech , Vienna , Paris and London . The film was shot in Cinemascope .

publication

The official cinema release in Austria was April 10, 2014. In Austria alone, the film attracted almost 90,000 cinema-goers and was therefore awarded the Austrian Ticket award . In Germany, the film was shown on June 29, 2014 at the Munich Film Festival . It was officially launched in German cinemas on July 3, 2014.

criticism

The film-dienst described the film as "an homage to the comedies of Blake Edwards , which conceptually and technically take over something in the long run". While the main actor "fails in honor because of the double role", "the brilliant supporting actors with convincing performances" would shine. The film website kino.de stated: “Local Gelsenkirchen baroque philistinism meets Austrian-oriental laissez-faire”, but there is “nothing to complain about” with regard to the display values ​​“with this parody that is handled with routine. In conclusion, it says that the film is a "turbulent, entertaining Scheherazade peppered with film quotes that never pretends to be more than what it is: bold, bold action slang".

The film magazine Cinema , however, spoke of "infantile [m] confusion in the style of French 1970s comedies". The film is a "pretty silly mistaken comedy" with "tired gags about the characters' sexual preferences, a completely over-the-top Christoph Maria Herbst as a CIA agent and Arab suicide bombers who blow themselves up". However, all of this is already known from Ahadi's previous film 45 Minutes to Ramallah . At Deutschlandradio Kultur , Anke Leweke judged that director Ahadi was able to “exaggerate the genre, pull it into the absurd”, but “one would have expected at least a hint of a political subtext from this director”.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Austrian Film Prize 2015 in the following categories:

  • Best film score
  • Best mask

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for The Mamba . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 568 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Mamba . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Release Info. The Mamba (2014). Internet Movie Database , accessed October 10, 2014 .
  4. ↑ AUSTRIAN CINEMA 2000–2014 . FILM AUSTRIA, accessed on September 13, 2014
  5. ↑ The Mamba. filmportal.de , accessed on October 10, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Jörg Gerle: The Mamba. film-dienst 21/2014, accessed on October 10, 2014 (short review).
  7. ↑ go: The Mamba - Dangerously funny! Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on October 10, 2014 .
  8. ↑ The Mamba. Cinema , accessed October 10, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Anke Leweke: Rapid cracker. Deutschlandradio Kultur , July 3, 2014, accessed on October 10, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2015. On Oesterreichische-Filmakademie.at, accessed on November 27, 2019.