El Clan
| Movie | |
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| German title | El Clan |
| Original title | El Clan |
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| Country of production | Argentina |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pablo Trapero |
| script | Pablo Trapero |
| production |
Pedro Almodóvar Agustín Almodóvar |
| music | Vicente D'Elía |
| camera | Julián Apezteguia |
| cut | Alejandro Carrillo Penovi |
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El Clan is an Argentine crime film from 2015. It is based on the true case of a family from Buenos Aires who earned money with kidnappings in the transition period between military dictatorship and democracy in the 1980s. The film is directed by Pablo Trapero .
action
Arquímedes Puccio lives with his wife and five children in Buenos Aires in the San Isidro district . The family patriarch works for the Argentine secret service, but becomes unemployed after the end of the Falklands War in 1982. He embarks on kidnappings by thoroughly spying on the victims, initially acquaintances of his son Alejandro, kidnapping them together with two accomplices and keeping them imprisoned in his house in San Isidro. After the ransom has been handed over, the victims are shot. The eldest son Alejandro, a talented rugby player , is already used as a decoy in the kidnapping of the first victim, one of his teammates; the other family members only gradually discover the father's criminal activities, but then do not address them in the family circle. The ransom money enables the family to move up in society; the family's delicatessen is closing, and Alejandro is opening a hip surf shop on the premises. The youngest son Guillermo can no longer endure the discrepancy between fake domestic harmony and his father's brutal crime and uses a trip by his rugby team to move to New Zealand. Alejandro succeeds in persuading the second oldest brother Maguila, who also lives in New Zealand, to return to Argentina; he uncritically supports the father's activities. After Argentina's transition to democracy, Arquímedes' former bosses, who had blocked investigations against him, let him know that they can no longer protect him. Arquímedes continues with his deeds. In 1985, the kidnapping of a businesswoman was his undoing when the police monitored the transfer of money, stormed the family property and arrested the entire family.
History of origin
Was produced El Clan , among others, El Deseo, the film company of Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar , and the Argentine television channel Telefe . The film is closely related to the underlying, actual criminal case. Scenes, actors and victims are identical; only the second eldest son Daniel was renamed Maguila. The case gained considerable media coverage in Argentina at the time and continued for the next 30 years. The film was the most successful film in Argentine film history at the box office. Alejandro actor Juan Pedro Lanzani was previously known to a young audience as a performer in teen series and singer in the band Teen Angels.
In the year the film was released, the TV series Historia de un clan appeared in Argentina , which also dealt with the machinations of the Puccio clan.
reception
The Austrian standard emphasizes that El Clan, with its focus on the events within the Puccio family, is "a family film at heart" and, in particular, shows the monstrous in the ordinary in the character of Arquímedes Puccio. The newspaper criticized the fact that the classification of the events in the realpolitical circumstances of the time in the film seemed "erratic". The FAZ stated that Trapero had "put a political story in the guise of a mafia thriller" and assessed that the Fime told his story in a "shockingly everyday way". The news magazine Der Spiegel judged that El Clan “approached the characters with an irritating carelessness” and almost managed to “turn the audience into accomplices (of the machinations of the Puccios)”.
Director Trapero won a Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2015 Venice International Film Festival for El Clan . The film was nominated by the Argentine Film Academy for the category “Best Foreign Language Film” at the 2015 Academy Awards. El Clan also won the Goya 2015 in the category “Best Ibero-American Film”.
Web links
- El Clan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- El Clan at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Trailer for the film on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for El Clan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 157662 / K).
- ↑ BBC.com: Puccio crime clan continues to intrigue Argentina. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
- ↑ a b HollywoodReporter.com: Argentina Selects 'The Clan' for Foreign-Language Category. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
- ↑ The Standard of March 4, 2016: Last Zombies of a Corrupt System. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
- ↑ FAZ of March 5, 2016: There is no ransom for those who have disappeared. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Spiegel.de of March 2, 2016: A murderous family business. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Cineuropa.org: Venice 2015 Awards. Retrieved March 6, 2016 .