IDA - identity anonymous

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Movie
German title ID: A - Identity Anonymous or ID: A - Woman without a past
Original title ID: A
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2011
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christian E. Christiansen
script Tine Krull Petersen
production Louise Vesth
music Kristian Eidnes Andersen
camera Ian Hansen
cut Bodil Kjærhauge
Anders Refn
occupation

ID: A - Identity anonymous (Danish original title: ID: A ) is a Danish thriller from 2011. It is about a woman with amnesia who gradually learns her identity while fleeing from persecutors. The film title is ambiguous; on the one hand it denotes the first name of the protagonist and on the other hand it is the abbreviation for "Identity Anonymous".

action

A young woman wakes up lying in a river in the middle of the south of France and suffers from amnesia. Not knowing who she is or how she got here, she goes to a hotel under the name Aliena. The next morning she discovers a lot of money, a pistol and a drawing of a male face in a duffel bag that she has brought with her. On the TV news she saw a report about the murder of a Dutch politician. Shortly after she has left the hotel to look around town, chasers appear who are obviously after the money. After "Aliena" found out that she was Danish, she decided to go to Copenhagen. Before that, she changed her hairstyle and hair color with the help of the hotel owner's son, Pierre. As a farewell, Pierre gives her his business card and offers that she can turn to him again if she ever needs help again.

During the bus ride, she listens to another passenger's music that sounds familiar. She learns that the interpreter is called Just Ore. After arriving in the Danish capital, she goes to the opera and is greeted there as Ida. Gradually she realizes that the singer is her husband. She doesn't show anything when she goes home with him and spends the night. The next day, Ida takes a call from Marietta, who turns out to be her sister. She visits Marietta and now learns the background. Just and her brother Martin belong to a group of radical activists. Obviously, the pursuers who are still on their trail also have something to do with it. Ida hires a private detective to protect her from the strangers. When Just returns from a short trip to Hamburg and discovers Pierre's business card, he believes that his wife is having an affair. He freaks out and starts to choke her. At that moment, Ida suddenly remembers the events that brought her into this situation.

At that time she had suffered a miscarriage and fled from her violent husband to the Netherlands, where she went to see Martin. Her brother was recently involved in a bank robbery with the activist group . However, he did not want to invest the money in weapons like his colleagues in arms, but rather to make it available to the later murdered Dutch politician for aid projects. Therefore, when Ida arrived, he was on the run from the other members of the group. In a stolen car, the siblings fled to the south of France to the Dutch politician's holiday home in the woods. There they found several bodies before the persecutors caught up with them. While Martin was being shot in the forest, Ida ran away with the money in the duffel bag until she was shot at by her pursuers on a bridge, fell into the river and lost consciousness.

In the fight with Just, Ida succeeds at the last moment in killing her husband in self-defense . But suddenly the pursuers reappear. A shootout ensues, in which the private detective, who hurries to help and hits one of the criminals with the last shot, intervenes. Ida kills the other opponent with a bust of her husband. In the end, she takes the money back to the hotel in southern France, where she meets the young owner Pierre again.

reception

The reviewer from cinema.de thinks that the director has "put together a somewhat lame mix of conspiracy thriller and noir psychodrama, which looks stylish but is far too unsurprising."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for IDA - identity anonymous . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 030 V).
  2. ↑ ID: A - Woman without a past. (No longer available online.) Zdf.de, archived from the original on March 21, 2014 ; accessed on March 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spielfilm.zdf.de
  3. ↑ ID: A. cinema.de, accessed on June 30, 2012 .