Illegal
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Illegal |
| Original title | Illegal |
| Country of production |
Belgium Luxembourg France |
| original language |
French Russian |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Olivier Masset-Depasse |
| script | Olivier Masset-Depasse |
| production |
Jacques-Henri Bronckart Olivier Bronckart |
| music |
André Dziezuk Marc Mergen |
| camera | Tommaso Fiorilli |
| cut | Damien Keyeux |
| occupation | |
| |
Illegal is a film drama directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse in 2010. It was made in a Belgian-Luxembourg-French co-production.
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October 2000: The asylum application of the Russian Tatiana Zimina, who lives with her son Ivan in Belgium , is rejected by the authorities. Tatiana, known as Tania, desperately burns her fingertips with an iron. In October 2008 Tania is still living in Belgium. She works as a cleaning lady. Monsieur Nowak, who rents her an apartment and who is said to have ties to the Mafia, provides her with false papers, which she pretends to be a Belarusian. Since Belarus is considered a dictatorship, Tania hopes to get political asylum in an emergency. However, she behaves cautiously in public and always speaks French with her son. On his birthday, Ivan doesn't feel like his mother's "paranoia" and speaks Russian with her on the bus. Shortly afterwards, Tania is questioned by the police about her papers. She can only show her insurance card. When she is supposed to follow the police officers, she defends herself and makes Ivan run away. Tania is in detention arrested and transferred to the center for 111 women and children. Because her fingerprints cannot be taken and she will not reveal her identity, she is kept under the number 9648 in custody.
While in custody, she shares a room with the Chilean Maria and her daughter Eva. She talks briefly to Ivan, who is staying with her friend Zina Boulibianik. She is Belarusian and Tania has already urged her several times to finally apply for asylum in Belgium. During the night, a new one is assigned to her room: Aïssa is from Mali and was beaten up. She later tells Tania that she has been moved from one deportation prison to the other for several months and that she can prevent her deportation again and again. She makes it clear to her that the authorities will usually release her after five months if they cannot find out her identity, because without an identity no deportation can take place. Tania doubts whether she can hold out for five months, but Aïssa encourages her. After 18 days, Tania is asked about her identity for the first time. The police officer in charge makes it clear to her that she could face up to two years in prison for forging documents if she does not reveal her true identity. Tania is concerned, but her lawyer tells her that no charges can be brought without false documents.
Via phone calls with Zina and Ivan, Tania learns that Monsieur Nowak wants her son to work for him, as the apartment still has to be paid for. Tania is horrified and forbids Ivan any contact with Nowak. However, the longer the mother is away, the more irritated he is. In the end, she threatens that he will no longer be her son if he works with Nowak. When asked again about her identity, the officer repeats his threat to prosecute her. He claims that a police officer saw her insurance card when she was arrested. Tania breaks down and gives her name as Zina Boulibianik. As a Belarusian, she applies for political asylum. Shortly afterwards, her lawyer reminded her that she had already applied for asylum when she entered Poland. She is now a so-called Dublin case and has to be transferred to Poland, where her application will be processed. On the 31st day, the authorities made the first attempt to transfer her to Warsaw . Tania suffers a nervous breakdown on the way to the plane, so that the accompanying psychologist orders the transfer to be aborted. Back in the center, Tania is happy. Aïssa, who was supposed to be deported on the same day as she, is also brought back to the center. She was badly mistreated and can barely stand on her feet. The brutality and the hopelessness of success broke Aïssa. She tells Tania that she will be deported the next day with a special permit. Shortly afterwards she hangs herself in the shower stall. Your case got into the press and caused a sensation. On the 43rd day of Tania's detention, she heard of the protests over Aïssa's death. Maria and Eva, who have shared the room with her so far, consent to a voluntary return to Chile. Tania is brought to the airfield for the second time. This time she is handcuffed so the officers can carry her onto the plane against her will. Shortly before departure, Tania draws the attention of the other passengers to herself and calls out that she has to leave the country against her will. The brutality of the police officers trying to silence them shocked the passengers who took Tania's side. Some are filming what is happening on their cell phones. The flight captain finally orders that Tania and both police officers have to leave the plane. Tania is relieved. On the way back to the center, she is brutally beaten by the angry police officers. Their screams are routinely muffled with a mattress.
Tania wakes up in the hospital. Her lawyer appears and shows her a TV recording that covers her case. A doctor's certificate proves that she was brutally mistreated and that she suffered broken ribs, among other things. After Aïssa's fall, the police did themselves no favors with the renewed attacks. Some time later, Tania sees that the guard fell asleep in front of her door. You manage to escape from the hospital. Despite the great pain, she can run to Zina's house. Ivan steps out into the street, recognizes her and runs to her. She hugs him happily.
production
The shooting took place illegally in Hermalle-sous-Huy and in Liège (including the airport). The costumes created Magdalena Labuz that Filmbauten come from Patrick Dechesne . Main actress Anne Coesens was born in Brussels and married to illegal director Olivier Masset-Depasse.
The film premiered on May 18, 2010 at the Cannes International Film Festival and opened in Belgian cinemas on October 6, 2010. The French theatrical release was on October 13, 2010, with 41,737 viewers. In Germany, the film was shown subtitled on June 28, 2012 on WDR for the first time.
criticism
The film service called Illegal a "gripping drama about the precarious situation of so-called prosperous refugees in the rich countries of 'Fortress Europe'". “Haunting, shameful, award-winning,” summarized Cinema .
Awards
In Cannes, director Olivier Masset-Depasse won the 2010 Prix SACD as part of the Quinzaine des réalisateurs and was honored with the In Spirit for Freedom Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival in the same year. At the Warsaw International Film Festival , Masset-Depasse received the Best Director award; he was also nominated for the festival's Grand Prix.
At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2011, Anne Coesens was honored with the FIPRESCI Award for Best Actress. The film also received a César nomination in the category Best Foreign Film in 2011 .
Web links
- Illegal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See allocine.fr
- ↑ Illegal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de