Luna (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Luna |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Russian |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Khaled Kaissar |
| script |
Ulrike Schölles , Ali Zojaji , Alexander Costea |
| production | Khaled Kaissar, Thomas Wöbke , Tobias M. Huber |
| music |
Christoph Zirngibl , Heiko Maile |
| camera | Namche Okon |
| cut | Florian Duffe |
| occupation | |
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Luna is a German thriller from 2017 by director Khaled Kaissar , which makes its cinema debut with the film. The title role is occupied by Lisa Vicari , leading roles with Carlo Ljubek , Branko Tomovic , Benjamin Sadler and Rainer Bock .
The script was inspired by the fate of a Russian family of agents who had worked for the secret service in Moscow in Baden-Württemberg for a long time and were exposed and arrested.
action
17-year-old Luna - smart, self-confident and carefree - spends the weekend with her family in an idyllic mountain hut. But the harmonious trip suddenly turns into a nightmare: Three strangers approach the hut and in cold blood they kill Luna's parents and their little sister. Luna herself escapes the dramatic events by a hair's breadth - pursued by the murderers of her family.
The young woman soon realizes that her life was built on a lie: her father was a Russian agent, the family idyll served to cover him up. For twenty years he lived undiscovered and without his family knowing about his activity in Germany. When he was finally exposed by the BND and wanted to overrun, Luna's family came into the crosshairs of the Russian secret service.
On the run from the employees of the secret service, Luna finds protection with the quiet loner Hamid. The Afghan was her father's best friend and, like him, a Russian agent. Now Hamid is also considered a traitor, because he has sided with Luna and wants to smuggle her abroad. But Luna cannot and does not want to simply accept the death of her family and leave it unpunished. With Hamid's help, she follows in her father's footsteps and takes on the fight against her persecutors. Ultimately, she succeeds in uncovering the true course of events, even against the interests of the BND, and makes it clear that it was not her father who killed his wife and daughter and judged himself, as propagated in the media. Numerous arrests are made, including Victor, who was in charge of the murder of Luna's family, is arrested and taken away when he fled.
production
Production notes
Luna was produced by Kaissar Film GmbH & Co. KG (Khaled Kaissar) in co-production with Berghaus Wöbke Filmproduktion (Thomas Wöbke) and Rat Pack Filmproduktion (Christian Becker). The production was funded by the German Film Fund and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . The world distribution is with Global Screen, the distribution with Universum Film ( UFA ). The shooting took place in Dachau , Oberding , Oberhaching , Munich and Oberstdorf , all in Bavaria .
The building called the headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service is actually the seat of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
The film had an estimated budget of 1.3 million euros.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed mainly by Christoph Zirngibl and Heiko Maile . Antje Wessels wrote on the Wessels film review page that the composers Maile and Zirngibl thought it was “a little too good with their permanently tension-increasing score”. In addition, the track 'Still' from Mailes Band Camouflage was used.
background
In his short film Zarnitsa from 2015, Khaled Kaissar, who was born in Afghanistan, told of a Russian agent by the name of Hamid. According to his own statement, his interest in the long-term consequences of the Cold War is based on personal experience. He was seven years old when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan .
publication
The premiere of the film took place on February 15, 2018 in the Mathäser Filmpalast in Munich. Premiered Luna on 29 June 2017 the Munich Film Festival . It was screened at the Cairo International Film Festival in Egypt on November 27, 2017 . Luna opened in German cinemas on February 15, 2018. The film was screened at the Raindance Film Festival in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018 . It was also published in Brazil, France, Hungary and Italy. The English title is Luna's Revenge .
The film was released on August 31, 2018 by Universum Film GmbH on DVD and Blu-ray.
reception
criticism
Jens Balkenborg from Filmstarts.de said, based on the director's personal experience, “occasionally flashes what could ideally have become out of 'Luna' : an angry tough genre film in which Fatih Akins ' uncompromising attitude is ' Short and painless ' on a dark spy plot ”,“ as well as a cinematic reckoning with the mendacity and amorality of secret service work practices ”. However, the story seems "strangely unimportant despite the good conditions". The figures are "pale decals", for which the actors could "precious little". Balkenborg drew the conclusion: "Despite the exciting premise taken from real life, the spy thriller 'Luna' remains stuck in set pieces and clichés."
For Sonja Hartl from Kino-Zeit , the beginning of the film turned out to be “very promising, just visual”. Hartl stated that political and espionage thrillers in Germany had a credibility problem and it was actually "time" to tell a story about "how active secret services are in this country" - and here Luna is making "at least a tentative start" . It is a shame that Luna "loses the strong beginning [e] - and then loses herself in a sometimes outrageous plot and indecision, whether the film is a thriller or a drama, whether Hamid is a big brother and protector or a potential love interest should [e] ".
The film service awarded two out of five possible stars and rated the film as an “attempt by a German spy thriller”, which scores “with a dynamic staging and ambitious action scenes”, “thanks to which the absurd plot is mostly pushed into the background”. He shows weaknesses "especially in the psychologically hardly believable behavior of the main character."
Awards
Munich Film Festival 2017
- nominated for the young German cinema award
- in the “Best Production” category: Khaled Kaissar, Tobias M. Huber and Jonathan Saubach
- in the “Best Screenplay” category: Ulrike Schölles, Ali Jojaji and Alexander Costea
- in the “Best Actress” category: Lisa Vicari
- in the “Best Director” category: Khaled Kaissar
Cairo International Film Festival 2017
- nominated in the “International Panorama” category: Khaled Kaissar
Cinequest San Jose Film Festival 2018
- nominated in the category "Best Feature Film"
Golden Trailer Awards 2018
- Nominated in the “Best Foreign Thriller Trailer” category: Universum Film ( UFA ) and Trailerhaus
Web links
- Luna in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Luna Official website of the film
- Luna at crew united
- Luna see filmportal.de
- Luna website Kaissar-Entertainment (including trailer)
- FFF Bayern on the set of "Luna" see page fff-bayern.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Luna . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Jens Balkenborg: Luna see page filmstarts.de. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ↑ Wolfram Hannemann: Destroyed family idyll: Luna see page wolframhannemann.de
- ↑ Start of shooting of “Luna” see page fff-bayern.de
- ↑ Luna see page wessels-filmkritik.com. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ↑ a b Jens Balkenborg: Luna , filmstarts.de . Retrieved April 26, 2019.
- ^ For the film premiere of the exciting "Luna" in Munich's Mathäser, see page filmecho.de
- ↑ a b Luna , in: Filmdienst , accessed on April 1, 2020
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↑ Sonja Hartl: Luna (2017) Promising start with considerable blunders see page kino-zeit.de.
Retrieved April 26, 2019