Captured in the Caucasus
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Captured in the Caucasus |
| Original title | Kawkasski plennik / Кавказский пленник |
| Country of production |
Russia Kazakhstan |
| original language |
Russian Georgian |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergei Bodrov |
| script |
Aliyev Tagievich Boris Giller Sergei Bodrov |
| production | Sergei Bodrow Boris Giller |
| music | Leonid Desjatnikov |
| camera | Pavel Lebeschew |
| cut |
Olga Grinschpun Vera Kruglowa Alan Baril |
| occupation | |
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Captured in the Caucasus is a Russian-Kazakh drama directed by Sergei Bodrow from 1996. It is loosely based on the short story The Prisoner in the Caucasus by Lev Tolstoy . The anti-war film is about the captivity of two very different Russian soldiers in a small village during the First Chechen War .
The film was awarded the European Film Prize for Best Screenplay in 1996 and four Nikas in 1997 , and was also nominated for both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for best foreign language film.
action
The young Ivan Schilin is patterned. Shortly afterwards, he was traveling in Chechnya with two other soldiers, including sergeant Sascha, who was experienced in the war , when their tank was attacked by a group of Chechens. One of the soldiers is killed while Ivan and Sascha are taken hostage to a village in the mountains and locked in a stable. It turns out that village chief Abdul Murat wants to swap the two for his son, who is in jail in the nearby Russian-controlled city. A ransom had previously failed.
A first surrender attempt fails because the Russians want to trick the Chechens because they do not believe that these two Russian soldiers are holding hostage. Abdul Murat now instructs Iwan and Sascha to write a letter to their mothers asking them to come to town to get their sons released and thus force the swap. It will take ten days for the mail to be delivered. During this time the two Russians are stopped to work. They haul stones and have to defuse Russian land mines. In doing so, they earn respect among the villagers. The relationship with her minder, the mute Hasan, is also warming up, just as Iwan and Sascha treat each other more and more comradely, as the higher-ranking Sascha had initially rejected the recruit Iwan. Ivan also begins to build a relationship of trust with Abdul's daughter Dina, who provides the two prisoners with food.
Ivan's mother appears in town and begins negotiating with Abdul. In fact, she managed to get Abdul's son to be exchanged for the prisoners with the Russian administration, which Ivan and Sascha did not know. They flee one night and kill Hasan and later a shepherd in order to get his weapon. Both are captured again and Sascha is executed shortly afterwards for killing the shepherd. Ivan is now held prisoner alone in a hole in the ground and secretly supplied with food by Dina. While preparing for the prisoner exchange, Abdul's son escapes from prison and is shot while trying to escape. Dina brings this message to Iwan and also the information that he must die the next day. She organizes the keys to his bonds, but Ivan refuses to flee because he fears revenge on Dina for his escape. Ivan is picked up and taken away by Abdul shortly afterwards. Dina pleads for his life and Abdul in the end refrains from shooting Ivan. Ivan can travel back home with his mother after a hospital stay. He admits that he would like to see all the people again in his dreams, but they would never appear.
production
Captive in the Caucasus is a modern adaptation of the short story The Prisoner in the Caucasus . While the short story takes place in the Caucasus War , the film focuses on the First Chechen War , which lasted until 1996. The shooting took about seven months in the Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus; the Caucasian village is the Aul Rechi. Bodrow cast his own son in the role of Ivan, who made his film debut here. During the filming, Bodrow Junior actually received his draft notice.
Captured in the Caucasus came into Russian cinemas on March 15, 1996. It was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 1996 and at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 1996 . In Germany it was first shown on April 3, 1997 as the opening film of the Internationale Grenzland-Filmtage in Selb, was shown in cinemas on May 29, 1997 and was released on video on May 17, 1999.
criticism
For the service movie- was Prisoner of the Mountains a "[n] achdenklicher, sober film [...], the observant-analytical traces the ways to overcome the limits of collective prejudices, and thereby provides the inevitability of war and retribution in question." Der Spiegel described Captured in the Caucasus as an "exceptional film" that resembled the works of Abbas Kiarostami : Like Kiarostami, "Bodrow loves the secrecy that makes the simplest into the most haunting, a cinema that is close to pain."
“Unpretentious narrative about people between the fronts,” summarized Cinema . Bodrow's film is "hard and delicate, in the best tradition of Russian cinema, but completely non-ideological," wrote the Frankfurter Rundschau . For the Tagesspiegel the film was “precise, economical, spring water clear [...] - but what chance does his clever silence have against the show value of the slaughter?” For the Stuttgarter Zeitung “[Bodrow] the tragedy in Chechnya is comparatively unspectacular. Its simple story doesn't need a cannon thunder to convey the cruelty of the conflict. […] Confident in style and without false sentimentality, 'Captive in the Caucasus' refrains from blaming. And this distance makes the rifts between Moscow and the renegade Muslims particularly sharp. "
Awards (selection)
At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , Captured in the Caucasus won the Crystal Globe and the Ecumenical Jury Prize in 1996 . In the same year Aliyev Tagievich, Boris Giller and Sergei Bodrow received the European Film Award in the Best Screenplay category .
Prisoner of the Mountains in 1997 for an Oscar as best foreign language film nominated and received at the Golden Globe Awards 1997 nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film . In 1997 the film was awarded the Nika Film Prize in six categories : in the categories of Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Sound Editor and Best Actor (one prize each for Oleg Menshikov and Sergei Bodrow). Pavel Lebeschew received a Nika nomination for best camera. The 1997 Satellite Awards nominated the film for Best Foreign Language Film .
Web links
- Prisoner of the Mountains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Captured in the Caucasus on kino-teatr.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edward Guthmann: Bodrov's Latest Almost Killed Him / Russian director's was film an Oscar contender . sfgate, February 2, 1997.
- ↑ Christiane Peitz: eyes and testicles. "Captured in the Caucasus" by Sergei Bodrov: A film about the war . In: Die Zeit , May 2, 1997.
- ↑ Anniversary in the borderland of art: Today, the 20th European Film Days begin in Selb . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse , April 3, 1997, p. 1.
- ↑ Captured in the Caucasus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jenny: Angel of Death . In: Der Spiegel , No. 19, 1997, p. 232.
- ↑ See cinema.de
- ^ Josef Schnelle: War & Peace. “Trapped in the Caucasus”, a film by Sergei Bodrov . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 25, 1997, p. 8.
- ↑ Jan Schulz-Ojala: No paradise, nowhere. A different kind of war film: Sergej Bodrov's “Captured in the Kaukausus” . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 25, 1997, p. 21.
- ↑ Patrick Rössler: Trapped in the Caucasus - failed horse trading . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , May 15, 1997, p. 31.