No Man's Land (1995)
| Movie | |
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| German title | no mans land |
| Original title | Black Easter |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Bolt |
| script | David Pirie |
| production | Peter Goodchild |
| music | Richard Heartley |
| camera | John Daly |
| cut | David Gamble |
| occupation | |
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No Man's Land (reference Title: Vanishing Point death trap , original title: Black Easter , international title: No Man's Land ) is a British television film in the genre of science fiction movie and political thriller from 1995, set in the near-future in the 2000th The British first broadcast took place on June 4, 1995 on the BBC , the German on August 11, 1995 on Arte , and another on October 18, 1995 on ARD .
action
On the German eastern border, the European Union has set up a 12 km wide buffer zone in which refugees from a Russian civil war are housed, the so-called no man's land , also known as the “strip”. A criminal ghetto has formed there, in which prostitution , the arms trade and drug smuggling are rampant. The multinational police force EUPOL operates there , as does the Russian mafia .
When a Danish nurse , who apparently smuggled refugees from no man's land to Germany from no man's land on her own initiative and for humanitarian reasons, is apparently murdered by a Muslim group , police officer Alex Fischer , who was suspended because of a relationship with an émigré , was called back to deal with the case to enlighten. He works with the Turkish-born civil servant Walter Dix. Both cooperate in turn with the EUPOL official Byrd.
Fischer, Dix and the refugee Anna come across the people smuggling gang during their investigation. Apparently, however, there is a conspiracy or a deal between EUPOL and the Russian mafia: The Russians are supposed to prevent the refugees from entering Europe illegally for a fee . The mafia has already killed thousands of adults and children and made the bodies disappear. Fischer and Anna and other refugees are in mortal danger when they are stranded in a tunnel that the Mafia has set up as a trap for them. He can escape the tunnel with Anna and a little refugee girl. But apparently nobody outside the no man's land is interested in the refugee situation and the (political) criminal machinations in the “zone”.
criticism
Bolt's film spins the fears and problems with which today's Europe is confronted very realistically, expanding them into a depressing framework for a mafia thriller.
literature
- Ronald M. Hahn / Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films. 2000 films from 1902 to today , 2 volumes, 7th edition Munich (Wilhelm Heyne Verlag) 1997, volume 2, p. 655. ISBN 3-453-11860-X
- Short note in Der Spiegel No. 45/1995, p. 299.
- Short note in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated August 11, 1995.
Web links
- No man's land in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film data at screenonline.org.uk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronald Hahn, Volker Jansen: Lexikon des Science-Fiction-Films: 2000 films from 1902 to today / 1 A - L. 7th edition, 1st edition of this edition Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-11860 -X , S. 655 .