Give me back my children!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Give me back my children |
| Original title | Kom niet aan my children |
| Country of production | Netherlands |
| original language | Dutch , Arabic |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ron Termaat |
| script | Marian Batavier Nicolette Steggerda |
| production | Paul Ruven |
| music | Johan Hoogewijs |
| camera | Joost van Herwijnen |
| cut | Bert Rijkelijkhuizen |
| occupation | |
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Give me back my children! is a Dutch drama film directed by Ron Termaat in 2010. The screenplay was written by Marian Batavier and Nicolette Steggerda based on a true story. The film deals with the subject of child abduction by a foreign parent to his home country.
action
Netherlands 2004: Hanne grants her Syrian ex-husband Nizar regular visiting rights for their children Bibi and Azim, nine and eleven years old. However , the three do not return home from an alleged trip to Disneyland . Nizar kidnapped his children to Damascus . The Dutch judicial officer Wouter Siemons tracks down the whereabouts of the children and accompanies Hanne to Syria, where he organized a family reunion. Nizar refuses to return to the Netherlands. Azim and Bibi don't feel very comfortable in Syria. In addition, their father suggests to them that Hanne is only half-heartedly pursuing her efforts to bring the children home. The children are introduced to the religious rituals and learn the Arabic language. Embassy staff should regard the children as a monstrous threat and under no circumstances should they open the door for them, the father teaches them.
After a year, Hanne is allowed to visit her children in Syria again. In Damascus, Nizar presents the shell of his family house and hopes to impress and win Hanne back. Hanne is persuaded to accompany him to a family celebration as his wife. Azim is still homesick. Hanne finds wounds on his back that indicate corporal punishment. After the three failed to escape, Wouter is angry about Hannes going it alone. According to Syrian law, an escape would have been considered child abduction. She would then have lost the children forever.
At the next meeting in the presence of embassy staff, she secretly slips a cell phone into Azim. Bibi has long been carrying the embassy address in a medallion without her father's knowledge. Both children are instructed to flee to the embassy at a favorable moment, because legal repatriation is only possible if the children seek help there on their own initiative. They actually use the confusion of another move to escape. While still in the taxi, Azim contacts his mother in the Netherlands on her cell phone. She gives him instructions and encourages him. Shortly after the taxi arrives in front of the embassy, the children discover their father, who has apparently followed them. Hannes new partner Bertus helps by keeping in touch with the Dutch embassy in Damascus via landline. So he can inform an embassy employee about Nizar's arrival, who then guides Nizar into the embassy building. Then an employee brings the children, who have been under cover for so long, into the house without the father and children meeting.
A few months later, Hanne was overjoyed to hug her children at a Dutch airport.
background
The majority of the scenes were filmed on original locations in the Syrian capital Damascus and the Dutch community of Oude Pekela . For a small part of the Arab scenes, Tunis served as the backdrop.
The film premiered in the Netherlands on May 6, 2010. At the same time, the book on the film was published in Dutch. The author Janneke Schoonhoven is the one whose fate was filmed here. The Dutch actress Karina Smulders embodies her in the film in the character of Hanne Veenhoven.
First performance on German television was on June 24, 2011 on Arte .
Reviews
“[A] uch true stories can get a twist and are told so one-sidedly and unfairly that they become untrue again in their own way. […] Even if the film with the Christine Neubauer-like title Give me my children back seems rather awkward at the beginning, because it leaves no figure time and space with the constant hopscotching back and forth between Syria and Holland to be developed only rudimentarily: The topic is a topic, there are such cases. And director Ron Termaat finally manages to give the characters an inner life. [...] The actors move like actors in an afternoon soap. [...] After all, at some point the scenes become more subtle, the outlines sharper. "
“Even if understandable from the point of view of those affected, the Arab culture is depicted too gloomy. »Somewhat superficial, yet oppressive« "
"Although" Give me my children back "is thematically reminiscent of Brian Gilbert's work" Not without my daughter "(1991) with Sally Field and the Arabs are drawn in a rather gloomy way, Termaat managed a poignant family drama with the convincing Karina Smulders in the role of the desperate Mother."
Awards
In 2011 the film won the Audience Choice Award at the Stony Brook Film Festival.
literature
- Janneke Schoonhoven, Marlou Roossink: Kom niet aan mijn kinderen. Ankh-Hermes BV, 2010 (Dutch)
Web links
- Give me back my children! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Give me back my children! in the lexicon of international film
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb locations
- ↑ IMDb film starts
- ↑ www.imdb.de
- ↑ Give me back my children! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Karin Steinberger: Disneyland looks different. SZ from June 24, 2011, online at süddeutsche.de , accessed February 8, 2013
- ↑ Give me my children back on www.tvspielfilm.de, accessed on February 8, 2013
- ↑ prisma.de: Give me back my children
- ↑ IMDb Awards