Renegades - Mission of Honor

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Movie
German title Renegades - Mission of Honor
Original title Renegades
Country of production France , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2017
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steven Quale
script Luc Besson ,
Richard Wenk
production Luc Besson,
Raphaël Benoliel
music Eric Serra
camera Brian Pearson
cut Florent Vassault
occupation

Renegades - Mission of Honor (Original title: Renegades ) is a French - German action film directed by Steven Quale , which was released in cinemas in various countries in early September 2017. The German theatrical release was on June 28, 2018.

action

A group of five Navy Seals is trying to solve a long-forgotten riddle in Bosnia, which has been torn by civil war. A Nazi treasure worth hundreds of millions of dollars is said to be hidden in a lake. They want to distribute this among the war-torn population. However, you only have a few hours to recover the treasure, because others are after it too.

production

Rod

The director took Steven Quale . The screenplay for the film was written by Richard Wenk and Luc Besson , who also acted as one of the two producers of the film.

financing

The film received funding of 5 million euros from the German Film Funding Fund . The Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg granted production funding of 150,000 euros, and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern supported the visual effects with 275,000 euros. Furthermore, the production was funded with 200,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg .

Filming and film music

Filming began in April 2015. In Germany, the film was shot in Berlin and Potsdam . The Babelsberg studio located there is also the executive production company of Renegades . From April to June, the shooting took place in the Babelsberg film studios, including in the 500,000 liter water tank on the studio premises. In May 2015 the film was shot for two weeks at the Lausitz airfield in Finsterwalde / Schacksdorf . For this purpose, a US Army base was set up there. Other locations were in Malta and Belgium , where filming was done in the AED Studios in Lint . Another large part of the filming took place on locations in Croatia , including Zagreb and Hum , Karlovac , where a bridge was shot in Banija , Ogulin , where a bridge over the Dobra Gorge served as a backdrop, and Lake Lokve in the Primorje-Gorski kotar County . The shooting ended on August 28, 2015 after 73 days of shooting.

The score was composed by Éric Serra . The soundtrack for the film, which comprises a total of 28 pieces of music, is due to be released by EuropaCorp on August 24, 2018 .

Marketing and Publishing

A first trailer for the film was published in November 2016.

After some postponements, a theatrical release was planned for September 1, 2017. The film was released in theaters in a number of other European countries in early September 2017. As of December 2018, the film reached 17,424 viewers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Renegades - Mission of Honor . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 171397 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. German Film Fund. Important for Germany as a film location In: bundesregierung.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  3. MFG awards over 4 million euros for 23 projects ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.mfg.de archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: mfg.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  4. Press releases ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fff-bayern.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  5. ^ Renegades In: crew-united.com. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
  6. Medienboard funding commitments June 2015 In: medienboard.de. Retrieved January 19, 2017 (PDF; 33 KB)
  7. ^ Treasure hunt in Serbia Jana Haase, Potsdamer Latest News of March 30, 2015, accessed on April 9, 2015
  8. ^ "The Lake": Treasure hunt in the Balkans - shooting start for action drama in the Babelsberg Studio Ricarda Nowak, Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung on April 27, 2015, accessed on April 3, 2017
  9. http://filmmusicreporter.com/2018/08/11/renegades-soundtrack-details/
  10. Annemarie Havran: 'Renegades': In the first trailer for the Luc Besson actioner with JK Simmons, Navy SEALS are looking for Nazi gold In: filmstarts.de, November 4, 2016.