Hunting Party - When the hunter becomes the hunted
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hunting Party - When the hunter becomes the hunted |
| Original title | The Hunting Party |
| Country of production |
USA , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Shepard |
| script | Richard Shepard |
| production |
Paul Hanson , Mark Johnson , Scott Kroopf |
| music | Rolfe Kent |
| camera | David Tattersall |
| cut | Carole Kravetz |
| occupation | |
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Hunting Party - When the hunter becomes the hunted is an internationally produced feature film from 2007 . It was directed by Richard Shepard , who also wrote the script. The world premiere was on September 3, 2007 at the 2007 Venice Film Festival . The widespread release in US cinemas started on September 14, 2007; the cinema release in Germany was on November 29, 2007. The film was first shown on German television on February 5, 2010 on VOX .
action
Five years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the cameraman Duck meets his former colleague Simon Hunt, who was believed to be missing and with whom he worked as a war correspondent in various crisis areas for nine years . He was considered the best in his industry until he lost his nerve in front of the camera due to an incident in the war in Bosnia and was fired for his behavior. The unemployed and indebted Simon wants to convince Duck to hunt down the internationally wanted war criminal "Fuchs". It later emerges that the fox murdered Simon's lover during the Bosnian War when he caused a massacre in her home village. Together with a young colleague they go in search of the fox. The closer they get to him, the more hatred they face from the local population. As they are mistaken for a team of the CIA , they are kidnapped by the fox and are supposed to be killed. At the last minute they are rescued and advised to leave the country. Since no authority is apparently interested in catching the fox, they look for him again and surprise him while hunting. In the trunk of the car they ship the fox to the village where he carried out the massacre years ago, drop him off on the busy main road and drive away. The residents of the village immediately recognize the fox and approach him, obviously with the intention of killing him.
reception
The film's ratings tended to be poor. Manohla Dargis wrote a review in the New York Times on September 7, 2007, saying the film was a "failed would-be satire". It is based on an article that is not really funny and is not funny itself.
Robert Koehler wrote in Variety magazine on September 3, 2007 that the film was alternately "superficial" and "amusing". It stands in contrast to the film Welcome to Sarajevo , which is still the best film showing Western journalists during the war in the Balkans. The flashbacks that show the war and Simon's earlier nervous breakdown are problematic for the plot. Richard Gere offers one of the best portrayals of his career; Terrence Howard seems implausible. In addition, the “strong” performances of the supporting actors James Brolin, Mark Ivanir, Ljubomir Kerekes and Diane Kruger were praised. The production design of the "talented" Jan Roelf ensures "bone-hard" realism; the film music is "unsettling".
Finally, in the film year 2007 , the Lexicon of International Films wrote of a "farce of peace based on a true occurrence that does not bundle its satirical approaches into a credible accusation, but rather runs the risk of reinforcing the myth about the untraceable war criminal."
backgrounds
The plot was inspired by the October 2001 article What I Did On My Summer Vacation by Scott Anderson in Esquire magazine . There the 2001 search by a group of Western journalists for Radovan Karadžić was described. The film was shot in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia , including Sarajevo and Zagreb .
Web links
- Hunting Party - When the hunter is the hunted in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Hunting Party premiere dates, accessed September 18, 2007
- ↑ DWDL.de - Vin Diesel gives Vox excellent ratings
- ^ Film review by Manohla Dargis, accessed on September 18, 2007
- ^ Film review by Robert Koehler, accessed on September 18, 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ Anderson, Scott: What I Did On My Summer Vacation. In: Esquire. October 1, 2000, accessed February 10, 2010 .
- ^ Filming locations for The Hunting Party, accessed September 18, 2007
