The invisible trap
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The invisible trap |
| Original title | The Spanish Prisoner |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Mamet |
| script | David Mamet |
| production | JE Beaucaire |
| music | Carter Burwell |
| camera | Gabriel Beristain |
| cut | Barbara Tulliver |
| occupation | |
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The Invisible Trap is an American film directed by David Mamet , shot in 1997 and released in theaters on October 22, 1998.
action
When the scientist Joe Ross presented his revolutionary invention to financially strong customers on a fictional Caribbean island, he met the ominous businessman Jimmy Dell. He confides in this very naively and thus becomes an unsuspecting accomplice in a large-scale economic fraud. When Ross sees through the dangerous game, it is too late.
When a colleague of Ross is murdered, he is wanted as a suspect. He turns to his colleague Susan Ricci to help him obtain exculpatory evidence. Ross wants to fly back to the island, where the hotel complex's surveillance camera could have recorded the conspirators. She takes him to the airport, but secretly swaps his plane ticket for a ticket to Venezuela - a country that is known to have no extradition agreement with the United States. She puts a pistol in his luggage.
Ross renounces the flight because he can think of another way to prove his innocence. He confronts Ricci on a ferry. Dell shows up and wants to kill Ross. Two Japanese tourists turn out to be agents of the United States Marshals Service . They incapacitate Dell with a stun gun, and he and Ricci are arrested.
background
The invisible trap grossed approximately $ 9.6 million in US cinemas with an estimated budget of around $ 10 million . In Germany, 20,670 cinema-goers saw the film.
Reviews
- James Berardinelli compared the film on movie-reviews.colossus.net with the novels by Franz Kafka and with the films by Alfred Hitchcock.
- The lexicon of the international film praised: “A stylishly developed finger exercise in matters of fraud, which is based on Hitchcock's predecessors and uses the stylistic device of the wrong track in a way that can hardly be surpassed. The coherent "arthouse" production relies on the (film) experience of the audience and offers them intelligent entertainment. "
- The film magazine TV Spielfilm says: "Almost as profound as an Alfred Hitchcock film."
Awards
The film was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award , the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Chlotrudis Award .
literature
- Movie Review - The Spanish Prisoner . In: The New York Times . (English, nytimes.com ).
Web links
- The Prisoner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The invisible case when Metacritic (English)
- The invisible case when rotten tomatoes (English)
- Film review : The invisible trap on jump-cut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Invisible Trap. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Box office earnings for The Spanish Prisoner
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ TV feature film
- ^ The Spanish Prisoner (1997). (No longer available online.) Fine-movies.net, 2006, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
