Jihad in the city

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Movie
German title Jihad in the city
Original title Britz
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2007
Age rating FSK no restriction
Rod
Director Peter Kosminsky
script Peter Kosminsky
production Steve Clark-Hall
music Stanislaw Syrewicz
camera David Higgs
cut David Blackmore
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Jihad in the City is a two-part TV drama directed by Peter Kosminsky from 2007 .

The film tries to illustrate what makes a British Muslim in the second generation turn against the country of his birth. He sharply criticizes the English anti-terror laws and the dealings with Muslim communities. The film was based on the terrorist attacks on July 7, 2005 in London .

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The film is about two siblings, Sohail and Nasima Wahid, who grew up in Bradford , West Yorkshire , a city with a high population of Pakistanis . Both are students; while Sohail studies law in London, Nasima studies medicine in Leeds. Due to the English anti-terror laws passed in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , Sohail and Nasima are developing in completely different directions. Without telling family or friends, Sohail starts working at MI5 in the first part while he is finishing his studies in the hope that this will help prevent further terrorist attacks. At MI5 he learns that many of his acquaintances and childhood friends are politically militant . Nasima tries to help her childhood friend with demonstrations in the second part, when she is locked up for no reason and experiences the full harshness of the anti-terror laws. Her friend finally hangs herself and Nasima begins to doubt the usefulness of her engagement.

When she tells her parents about her African boyfriend, her father decides to marry her in Pakistan. Before leaving for Pakistan, she contacted the brother of her deceased friend, who gave her the contact details of a jihadist organization. When she arrived in Pakistan, her companion was arrested, she outsmarted her mother and contacted the group. Surprisingly, her boyfriend shows up and asks her to come back to England. However, he is discovered by her family and beaten up by a group of young men in the yard of the house. She escapes from relatives in a terror camp , where she is training to be a suicide bomber. The jihadists lead the authorities and her family to believe that Nasima was murdered and burned. Until the end of her stay at the camp, she keeps it open whether she will really accept a job after completing her training. After seeing the photos of her own funeral, she decides to carry out an attack in London.

Back in England, she builds the explosive belt for a contact man. What she doesn't know is that MI5 is tracking down a group of suspected terrorists. Only her brother Sohail believes that he heard something different from recordings from the contact man's house. He suspects a second attack site. Her brother spots her at the site where the attack is planned and asks her not to do it. You are in the middle of the financial district of London, where an open air concert is taking place which is attended by bankers and their families. As Sohail takes her in his arms, Nasima sees a guard running towards her and pulls the trigger on her bomb. The image of the film is blurred as if the image were disturbed.

Then you see the confession video that Nasima recorded before the attack in the terror camp. In it she declares that the civilian population in western countries cannot distance themselves from the wars in Iraq , Afghanistan and Palestine because they would ultimately choose the responsible governments and keep them in power.

Reviews

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes: “ His drama is grippingly told, precisely researched, and highly topical. "..." "Jihad in the City" is anything but didactic school television, but it contains a subtle, thoroughly appropriate appeal. One can learn from it. "

The Lexicon of International Films says: “ The exciting program impresses with its change of perspective, which not only shows two sides of the same coin. It vividly reflects the atmosphere of general distrust in a traditionally multicultural society and describes ideological distortions. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Jihad in the City" on Arte - They were people like us - FAZ.NET
  2. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2008. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2009. ISBN 978-3894726638