Divines
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Divines |
| Original title | Divines |
| Country of production |
France Qatar |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Houda Benyamina |
| script | Houda Benyamina Romain Compingt Malik Rumeau |
| production | Marc-Benoît Créancier |
| music | Demusmaker |
| camera | Julien Poupard |
| cut |
Loïc Lallemand Vincent Tricon |
| occupation | |
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Divines is a French-katarisches Drama of Houda Benyamina from the year 2016 .
action
The young Dounia, who lives with her mother in the Roma camp , and the black Maimouna are best friends. Dounia does not know her father, like her friend, she lives in precarious circumstances in the Parisian banlieue . Both still go to school, but Dounia prefers to earn a lot of money quickly. She goes on a daily thief tour with the devout Maimouna in the nearby shopping center, where she keeps seeing the security guard Djigui. When she insults her teacher while preparing for the exam, she is kicked out of class and announced that she will never go back to school.
With Maimouna, she begins working for the influential dealer Rebecca. At first both are simple henchmen, but rise to become drug dealers and take over the territory of the young Samir whom they previously set up. Dounia and Maimouna can afford things for the first time in their lives. They hide the money from the drug deals above a theater stage. So both see Djigui again, who is actually a dancer and is now auditioning for a piece. Dounia in particular is fascinated by the young man, but mocks him when she sees him again as a security guard in the mall. In the following years she watches him alone when he dances and he knows that she is there.
Rebecca has a new job for Dounia, so she should seduce her former supplier Reda and steal the 100,000 euros at his home, which actually belong to Rebecca. A first attempt to get into the apartment fails. By chance, Dounia finds out that Samir is sleeping with her mother in order to get revenge on Dounia. This in turn sets fire to Samir's mother's car and films herself. She is arrested by the police along with Maimouna. Now she is registered with the police and therefore worthless to Rebecca. Rebecca drops them.
Dounia goes to a rehearsal from Djigui, who has meanwhile taken her drug money and thus forces her to come from her hiding place on the upper stage to him. He believes she is his lucky charm, especially since he gets the lead role in the dance piece and will go on tour. He not only gives her her money back, but also gives her a ticket for the premiere of the dance piece. Dounia promises to come to the premiere. They both kiss.
Reda contacts Dounia and arranges a rendezvous, so that Dounia becomes interesting for Rebecca again. Reda quickly realizes that Dounia is trying to steal from him and beats her up. When he tries to rape her, Dounia defends himself violently and kills Reda. She finds his money, leaves some with her mother for Maimouna and actually wants to go away with Djigui. At the train station, however, she receives a video message from Rebecca who has Maimouna in her power and is demanding the money from Dounia. Dounia returns to Maimouna and Rebecca. There is an outbreak of violence in which Dounia, Maimouna and Rebecca are trapped in a burning cellar. Rebecca and Dounia escape through a narrow window, but the overweight Maimouna dies in the cellar. The called fire brigade refuses to put out the fire before the police arrive as they have already been attacked in the violent area in the past. After Maimouna's death, violent clashes ensue between residents, the fire service and the police, while Dounia asks Maimouna's ghost for forgiveness.
production
Divines was filmed in Montreuil , Bagnolet , Villeneuve-Saint-Georges , Colombes and Paris. The costumes created Alice Cambournac that Filmbauten were from Marion Burger . After Ghetto Child it was the second feature film directed by Houda Benyamina, where she realized Ghetto Child together with Guillaume Tordjman . As in Ghetto Child , she cast her sister Oulaya Amamra in the lead role in Divines .
The film premiered on May 19, 2016 as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series at the Cannes International Film Festival . On June 26, 2016 it had its German premiere at the Munich Film Festival . Divines premiered in French cinemas on August 31, 2016 and was released on DVD on January 3, 2017.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Dounia | Oulaya Amamra | Tanya Kahana |
| Maimouna | Déborah Lukumuena | Anja Stadlober |
| Djigui | Kevin Mischel | Ricardo Richter |
| Rebecca | Jisca Kalvanda | Anne Helm |
| Samir | Yasin Houicha | Konrad Bösherz |
| Myriam | Madjouline Idrissi | Victoria Storm |
| Monsieur Camara | Bass Dhem | Samir Fox |
| Cassandra | Mounir Margoum | Christoph Banks |
| Reda | Farid Larbi | Simon Derksen |
| Rachid | Wilfried Romoli | Sven Gerhardt |
| Madame Labutte | Tania Dessources | Jana Kozewa |
Awards
In Cannes, Houda Benyamina was awarded the Caméra d'Or for Divines , and the film was nominated for the Prix SACD and the Queer Palm . At the London Film Festival the film received a nomination for the Sutherland Award, which is given to first films. Houda Benyamina won the CineVision Award for young directors at the Munich Film Festival.
In 2017 Divines was nominated for a Globe de Cristal as Best Film and won three Prix Lumières : in the categories of Best Debut (Heike Hurst Prize) and Best Young Actress (Oulaya Amamra and Déborah Lukumuena). At César 2017 , Divines was the winner of the evening. He received prizes in the categories of Best Supporting Actress (Déborah Lukumuena), Best Young Actress (Oulaya Amamra) and Best First Work (Houda Benyamina, Marc-Benoît Créancier) as well as nominations in the categories of Best Film (Marc-Benoît Créancier, Houda Benyamina), Best Director , Best Original Screenplay (Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina, Malik Rumeau) and Best Editing (Loïc Lallemand, Vincent Tricon). At the Golden Globe Awards 2017 , Divines was nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film , but could not prevail against the film Elle , also from France .
Web links
- Divines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Divines on allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Divines in the German synchronous file