In This World - departure into the unknown
| Movie | |
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| German title | In This World - departure into the unknown |
| Original title | In This World |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | Pashto , Persian , English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 12 |
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| Director | Michael Winterbottom |
| script | Tony Grisoni |
| production | Andrew Eaton , Anita Overland |
| music | Dario Marianelli |
| camera | Marcel Zyskind |
| cut | Peter Christelis |
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In This World is a British feature film directed by Michael Winterbottom from 2002.
The semi- documentary refugee drama is about two Afghan cousins, Jamal ( Jamal Udin Torab ) and Enayat ( Enayatullah ), who set off to seek their fortune in London. Your way to Western Europe turns into a month-long odyssey.
action
16-year-old Jamal lives in the Shamshatoo refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan . Peshawar is one of the cities with the world's highest proportion of refugees. Over a million, mostly Afghan, refugees live here . As early as 1979 after the attack by the Soviet Union , the first Afghans fled to the Pakistani border town. Enayat's family, who run a small consumer electronics stand in a bazaar , want to give him a better life and decide that Enayat should go to relatives in London . Since the orphan Jamal, unlike Enayat, has a good command of English, he can persuade his family to send him on a trip with Enayatullah.
They buy a ticket to London from illegal people smugglers . A well-developed network of smugglers should allow them to enter Europe without passports or visas. Every year two million people around the world place their lives in the hands of smuggler gangs who make good money from the plight of the refugees. First, they travel to Iran on loading platforms of pick-up trucks and in buses. When their bus is checked by the police at the Iranian border, they are sent back to Pakistan. Only with the second attempt and renewed payment of the smugglers do they manage to escape to Iran. Via Tehran and a small border village, you reach Turkey on foot over the impassable border mountains . There, on their way to Istanbul , they meet an Iranian family who want to flee to Denmark with their little baby . Jamal and Enayat work in a metal workshop in Istanbul for a few weeks and wait for their onward journey.
They are finally picked up by a smuggler who locks them with the family and other refugees in a container on a truck. The truck is being shipped from Istanbul to Trieste in Italy on a cargo ship . The crossing takes forty hours. The air in the container is soon used up and people panic and call for help. But nobody can hear them. Of the family from Iran and the other refugees who were also crammed into the container, only Jamal and the baby survived the escape. Enayat also suffocated . While Italian customs officers take care of the baby, Jamal manages to escape.
Since Jamal has nothing more than his clothes on, he stays in Italy for some time. He has to find the money for a ticket to Paris . He sells bracelets and thefts occasionally. After the trip to France , it arrives at the reception center at the Eurotunnel in Sangatte on the French Canal coast. There he meets Yussuf, who has already been to Great Britain and worked in a restaurant there. He escapes with him from the camp and hides under a truck. With the Eurostar he reaches Great Britain through the Eurotunnel. Jamal's escape took four long months. In London, he calls Enayat's family to inform them of his arrival. When asked how Enayat is doing, Jamal replies: "He is not in this world." His relatives no longer respond to the painful news of death.
The asylum application submitted by Jamal is rejected. However, he receives the right to stay until he is 18 years old.
background
The two main actors are Pashtuns who were cast in Peshawar . You have never been abroad before. After the shooting, Jamal Udin Torab actually fled to Great Britain because he still had a valid visa due to the filming. As announced in the film, he was initially given a stay up to the age of 18. This expired arithmetically in 2004. No further information is known.
The film is based on a very brief script. Many courses of action were only developed at the time of shooting on the basis of discussions and experience reports with refugees. Many actors were cast quite spontaneously in the course of the research that ran parallel to the shooting and in principle play themselves. In the making of the film, for example, it is mentioned that an Iranian military man takes on the role of an inspector who checks all passengers on a coach at a checkpoint. This gives the film a certain authenticity.
Among other things, the film team had to struggle with real problems for refugees. For example, forged papers had to be organized, as no legal residence papers could be organized for the main actors for certain locations.
The film premiered on November 17, 2002 at the London Film Festival .
Reviews
Winterbottom dares to tackle a topic that has repeatedly been suppressed in the western world. As an example, it accompanies two Afghan refugees between fear and hope on their way to Europe and draws attention to the tortures that people endure for a better life without war, hunger and displacement. The film touches with its extraordinary authenticity. He was on location with DV camera and almost exclusively with layman turned ndarstellern that large parts of the film improvised . The film holds back with comments and deliberately dispenses with any ratings. The pictures alone accuse and appeal to the humanity of the viewer.
- The world notes that the film does not strike the necessary balance between the staged and the documentary. "It lacks the authenticity of the documentary, but also the force of the staged."
- Filmspiegel.de criticizes the fact that Winterbottom only documents with his film, but the causes and backgrounds of the escape remain in the dark and no solutions are shown.
- “This film burns like a torch” - Delphine Valloire, Arte
- “Things are what they are and they are shown as they are. […] It happens every day, IN THIS WORLD. ”- André Götz, Epd Film
Awards
- Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2003
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury of the Berlinale 2003
- Heinrich Böll Foundation Peace Prize at the 2003 Berlinale
- British Independent Film Award 2003 for best production and best technical implementation
- BAFTA Award 2004 for the best non-English language film
- Norwegian Peace Film Prize at the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2004
Web links
- In This World - Departure into the unknown in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- in-this-world.org - Film series for In This World
- In This World - Departure into the Unknown with Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Film booklet of the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb .
- ↑ Peter Zander: The price of the world. In: The world . September 18, 2003, accessed August 26, 2008 .
- ↑ (ts): In this World. (No longer available online.) In: Filmspiegel.de. Archived from the original on November 25, 2005 ; Retrieved August 26, 2008 . 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.
- ^ Delphine Valloire: In this world. (No longer available online.) In: Arte . August 11, 2004, archived from the original on February 1, 2009 ; Retrieved August 26, 2008 . 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.
- ^ André Götz: In This World. In: EPD film . Retrieved on August 26, 2008 (from Filmzentrale).
- ^ Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestival: Den norske fredsfilmprisen . Retrieved April 5, 2011 (Norwegian)
