Miral
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Miral |
| Original title | Miral |
| Country of production | France , Israel , Italy , India |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julian Schnabel |
| script | Rula Jebreal |
| production | Jon Kilik |
| music | Olivier Daviaud |
| camera | Eric Gautier |
| cut | Juliette Welfling |
| occupation | |
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Miral is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rula Jebreal by director Julian Schnabel from 2010. It has been shown in Germany since November 18, 2010. Shortly before, on November 9, 2010, the novel was published in German .
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The focus of the film is the story of the pretty Miral, portrayed by Freida Pinto , who grows up in an orphanage in Jerusalem in the late 1980s, and her teacher Hind Husseini (Hiam Abass). But Miral also gets to know the world “outside” - poverty, violence and the struggles between Palestinians and Israelis . When Miral falls in love with Hani, a PLO contact who believes that the conflict between the two peoples can only be resolved by force, the girl gets on the wrong track. The film also tells the stories of the three other women. One of them is the aforementioned Hind Husseini, a Palestinian woman from a rich family who, in 1948, when she found many homeless and orphaned Palestinian children on the street, spontaneously decided to found a girls' school with boarding school, which she largely financed herself. It continues with Nadia, Miral's mother, who was a victim of abuse, as well as Fatima, her cell mate and future aunt Mirals. It tells of one of the key conflicts of our era. The plot bears the autobiographical traits of the novelist. She was born in Haifa in 1973 as a Palestinian Israeli and attended the Dar Al Tifel orphanage school in Jerusalem. Rula Jebreal studied at the University of Bologna with the help of a scholarship from 1993 , worked as a journalist in Italy and now lives in New York .
Criticism (selection)
- Denis Demmerle (kultiversum.de) sees Miral as “a film that tells gripping biographies of women in fascinating images”. He goes on to say that “the accusation of one-sidedness or even propaganda is obvious” because Schnabel “speaks out in favor of an independent Palestinian state”.
- Daniel Kothenschulte ( Frankfurter Rundschau ) calls the film "didactic and poetic".
- Anke Westphal ( Berliner Zeitung ) writes that the film takes sides in the Middle East conflict; the heart of the "renowned American artist of Jewish descent" beats loudly for the Palestinians.
Novel
- Rula Jebreal: Miral - One Land. Three women. A shared dream. , 2010, ISBN 978-3442741489
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Miral . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 977 K).
- ↑ Dennis Demmerle: Miral criticism at Kultiversum
- ↑ a b c criticism at film-zeit.de ( memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Miral in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Information about the novel ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )