Pusher II
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| German title | Pusher II: Respect | ||
| Original title | PUSHER II | ||
| Country of production | Denmark | ||
| original language | Danish , Serbo-Croatian | ||
| Publishing year | 2004 | ||
| length | 100 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | Nicolas Winding Refn | ||
| script |
Jens Dahl , Nicolas Winding Refn |
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| production | Johnny Andersen | ||
| music |
Lol Hammond , Peter Peter |
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| camera | Morten Søborg | ||
| cut |
Janus Billeskov Jansen , Anne Østerud |
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Pusher II is a 2004 Danish drug drama subtitled Respect . Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn . It is the sequel to the film Pusher , which appeared eight years earlier. Mads Mikkelsen took on the leading role this time, again as Tonny. Zlatko Burić took on a supporting role.
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Petty crook Tonny has just been released from prison and is trying to get his life back on track. But above all, he wants to win the respect of his father, a gangster well known in the city. But first he has to pay back 3,000 crowns to a fellow inmate, which is not well understood by his father, known as a “blacksmith”. He is temporarily employed in his father's car repair shop. One day he is standing at a crossroads at night and sees a Ferrari from which an arguing couple is getting out. Tonny uses the moment, steals the car and drives it to the workshop. He wants to impress his father with it, has him called, but he only asks him to drive away the car immediately, as it would have "not been ordered". Then he and a few of his father's henchmen steal several BMWs from a car dealership and prove themselves there.
Then Tonny's friend "Kurt, the cunt" shows up in the workshop and asks Tonny to keep his back on a cocaine deal. Tonny agrees and the deal takes place in a hotel room. Milo appears (known from the first film) who - instead of cocaine - only has heroin with him. After an argument, Kurt agrees and disappears into the toilet with the heroin. There is a knock on the door and Kurt thinks the police are there. In affect, he washes the heroin down the toilet. With no money and no heroin, Kurt faces another problem: He hadn't told Tonny that he had borrowed the money from Tonny's father and that Tonny would vouch for him. Kurt confesses that to him and they figure out what to do. They decide to spread the word that Kurt was robbed at his apartment. To make the story clearer, Tonny gets a pistol and Kurt lets himself be shot in the arm.
Later, Tonny's drug addict ex-girlfriend Charlotte shows up and demands support for their son, whom Tonny knows nothing about. Tonny adopts the baby as his child, but continues to argue with Charlotte about maintenance and who takes care of the child. At the wedding party of Tonny's work colleague Ø, who represents everything that Tonny is not for the "blacksmith", and his girlfriend Gry, an incident occurs: the festivities have been going on for some time and Tonny leaves under the influence of cocaine , in the kitchen of the restaurant. There he meets Charlotte and Gry while they are sniffing cocaine. He asks Charlotte several times to bring the now crying baby home, but she rejects him. Tonny gets angry and tries to strangle Charlotte. After a while he can be overwhelmed by Ø and other men.
Sitting outside the door he meets Kurt. He tells him that Tonny shouldn't go to his father now because he is very angry. Kurt asks Tonny to help him ravage his apartment to make the story of the robbery believable. Tonny agrees and they smash a few things in Kurt's apartment. Kurt's girlfriend shows up and Kurt hits her on the back of the head to make things even more realistic. Tonny wants nothing to do with murder and flees back to the wedding party. The company has now broken up and he meets his father and some men. His father asks where Kurt is. Tonny says he doesn't know and they drive off to find him. When they don't find Kurt in his apartment, the father tells Tonny that Kurt's debts are now his debts. Since Tonny has no money, he suggests that the “blacksmith” kill Jeanette, his second ex-wife. The father fears losing a custody battle with Jeanette over little Waldemar. The “blacksmith” agrees and Tonny immediately sets off to the establishment where Jeanette works as a prostitute. He meets Jeannette and pretends to be a customer, but cannot bring himself to kill her. When he goes to his father's workshop and confesses this to him, he gets angry. He slaps Tonny several times, spat at him and dislikes him. Then Tonny gets enraged and stabs his father with a screwdriver.
Tonny sets out for Ø's apartment, but only meets Charlotte, Gry and the child. After a while they both leave the apartment and leave the child behind. Tonny steals money from Gry's purse and takes his son away. He gets on a bus and flees the city.
Reviews
“Director Refn cast many roles with real offenders. And Mikkelsen wrestles unexpected facets from tough Tonny. Conclusion: Great cinema from little Denmark. "
“Anyone who likes Danish films that are set in a criminal environment is in good hands with this film. For action-spoiled and action-expecting viewers, this film is only suitable to a limited extent, as the big fireworks do not appear. The film doesn't need anything like that, because it thrives on the characters, their story and their interactions. And he does this very well. "
“A rough, aggressive and loud film without pronounced arcs of tension that drifts through a dark world with its protagonist. The relentless (milieu) study goes beyond the scope of the genre and outlines an outsider who wanders through his life with no real hope. "
Awards
background
- Director Refn filled many supporting roles with amateur actors, whom he recruited through a so-called "street casting".
continuation
- Due to the success, Pusher 3 was shot, which was released in 2005. Zlatko Burić was the main actor.
Web links
- Pusher II in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pusher II at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Pusher II at Metacritic (English)
- Pusher II in the online film database
- Pusher II in the German synchronous file
- Pusher II at Netzkino
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Pusher II . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 513 DVD).
- ↑ Cinema.de: film review
- ↑ Film review at X-Zine ( Memento from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Pusher II. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ DVD extras "Streetcasting"