Omar (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Omar |
| Original title | Omar / عمر |
| Country of production | Palestinian Territories |
| original language |
Arabic Hebrew |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hany Abu-Assad |
| script | Hany Abu-Assad |
| production | Hany Abu-Assad David Gerson Waleed Zuaiter |
| camera | Ehab Assal |
| cut |
Martin Brinkler Eyas Salman |
| occupation | |
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Omar , Arabic عمر, is a 2013 Palestinian drama film directed by Hany Abu-Assad .
action
The young Palestinian baker Omar and his childhood friends Tarek and Amjad are part of a group that wants to enforce the liberation of Palestine by force. They meet for target practice and one day get serious. Amjad shoots a soldier from an ambush. The next day life goes on normally. Omar bakes rolls and tries to get together with Nadia. Nadia is Tarek's sister and Omar has not yet found the courage to ask Tarek for consent to marry. To make matters worse, Amjad also loves Nadia; she, in turn, chose Omar.
The Israeli police want to catch the soldier's murderer and arrest Omar. After days of solitary confinement and dark detention, Omar betrays himself to a prison spy when he says he will never confess. Omar's lawyer makes it clear to him that this amounts to a confession and means up to 90 years in prison. Omar therefore agrees to work as a spy for the Israelis and to deliver the real perpetrator to them within a month. Released from prison, he learns that the Israelis believe Tarek to be the murderer. It quickly becomes clear that the resistance group has a mole under them. The suspicion falls on Omar, who is supposed to prove which side he is on in a new attack. If he is not a traitor, Tarek would agree to marry Nadia. Meanwhile, Omar realizes that Nadia had doubted his innocence and had chosen Amjad as a confidante during his imprisonment. Omar is disappointed in her. Meanwhile, the group finds the traitor: Hussam admits to having betrayed the group to the Israelis because they promised him a stay in New Zealand in return. Hussam is killed. Tarek now agrees to Omar's marriage to Nadia; he himself will inform Amjad, who has also asked for Nadia's hand, of his decision.
Omar wants to set a trap for the Israelis demanding Tarek's extradition and arranges a meeting point with them in a café. The group wants to lure the Israelis into an ambush and kill them, but is themselves attacked surprisingly. Four group members die in the hail of bullets. Omar, in turn, is captured again. He is ill-treated in detention. Agent Rami, who obtained his first release, admits his hands are now tied. Omar asks for one last chance. From Rami's words, Omar can conclude that the Israelis know Nadia's secrets and would bring them to light if he disappointed them again. He is shackled and released from custody. Nadia knows no secrets, but Amjad admits in a confidential conversation that she got Nadia pregnant. She had to have an abortion, otherwise both would be lost. Omar goes to Tarek with Amjad and tells him everything. Tarek then tries to kill Amjad, but the latter shoots him in the scuffle. Rami transports the body away; the Israelis now have their vengeance and Omar and Amjad are free men again. Omar is now campaigning for Amjad and Nadia to marry and gives Amjad his savings for the child. At the funeral of Tarek, Omar breaks up with Amjad, who despite his guilt is capable of tears.
Two years go by and other resistance groups begin to question Tarek's death. Rami, in turn, appears at Omar's office to blackmail him into working with the Israelis again. Omar visits Nadia for the first time and realizes that she was not pregnant at the time of the marriage, so Amjad did everything to get Nadia to be a wife. Omar is now ready to hand Amjad over to the Israelis. He makes the condition to be allowed to kill himself. Before meeting Rami, where he is supposed to receive the weapon, Omar Nadia writes a letter in which he tells her everything. She remains confused. When handing over the weapons, Omar uses Rami's trust, has the loaded weapon handed over to him and shoots him.
production
Director and screenwriter Hany Abu-Assad wrote the film script in just four days, relying on his own experiences - he was sure there was an informer on set when his film Paradise Now was shot - that of a friend and the reporting in resorted to the newspapers. The shooting for Omar took place in Nazareth , Nablus and in the Far'a refugee camp between Jenin and Nablus. Hamada Atallah created the costumes, Yoel Herzberg and Nael Kanj created the film .
Omar premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 21, 2013 . On October 5, 2013, the film was shown for the first time in Germany at the Hamburg Film Festival .
Awards (selection)
In Cannes in 2013 , Omar won the Un Certain Regard section jury award . In 2014, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . It was the second Palestinian film to be nominated in this category after Paradise Now .
The film won the Peace Film Prize at the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival in 2014. Cinematographer Ehab Assal received the Silver Frog at the Polish film festival Camerimage . Adam Bakri was nominated for a Chlotrudis Award for Best Actor in 2015 .
Web links
- Omar in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nana Asfour: Omar: the Palestinian Oscar nominee made amid panic and paranoia . theguardian.com, February 22, 2014.
- ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: Foreign Language Oscar Preview: A Long List Of Strong Contenders For Such A Shortlist Of Possible Nominees . deadline.com, December 15, 2013.
- ↑ Alex Ritman: Hany Abu-Assad presents a direct hit from the West Bank at DIFF ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . thenational.ae, December 3, 2013.