Footsoldier

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Movie
German title Footsoldier
Original title Rise of the Footsoldier
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length approx. 120 minutes
Age rating FSK SPIO / JK (indexed) unabridged; FSK No youth approval (shortened)
Rod
Director Julian Gilbey
script Julian Gilbey,
Will Gilbey
production Mike Loveday,
David Shead
music Ross Cullum,
Sandy McLelland
camera Ali Asad
cut Julian Gilbey,
Will Gilbey
occupation

Foot Soldier (dt: foot soldier, infantryman) , also known as Rise of the Foot Soldier is a British film drama from the year 2007 , based on real events. It tells the story of a gangster who joins organized crime from the hooligan scene .

action

The hooligan Carlton Leach is active from the mid-1970s with his cronies of the Inter City Firm at games of West Ham United . He rises through clout and brutality within the hooligan hierarchy. In the mid-1980s, he was recruited as a doorman. Due to his reliability he gets more orders and is dependent on support. Therefore, he hires some of his hooligan friends and later also known thugs from the area. After a serious injury in an away game, he ended his career as a hooligan and concentrated on his work at the "security company", which now takes on all kinds of assignments such as punishments, interrogations and the protection of drug traffickers. With the advent of rave parties in the late 1980s, they get into the drug trade .

Carlton gets to know the group around Tony Tucker, who is a well-known underworld great. Through him he comes u. a. in contact with anabolic steroids . When Turkish dealers lose ten million pounds of heroin in a drug deal they are supposed to be guarding, the Turks accuse Carlton's people of stealing the heroin. After torturing Carlton's friends for three days, they still don't know anything about the whereabouts of the heroin. Eddie, one of Carlton's best friends, survived the torture but is so broken that he takes his own life a few days later. When Carlton wants to take revenge on the Turks, Tony convinces him at the last second to let the matter rest, as a war with the powerful Turks would be very dangerous.

After Tony and his colleagues Pat and Craig lose control due to their drug addiction and are increasingly careless and brutal in their crimes, Carlton doubts his actions. He does not take part in a planned robbery on a drug transport. Tony, Pat and Craig are shot while preparing for the robbery (so-called triple murder by Rettendon ). As a result, Carlton leaves organized crime.

In the credits, the further fate of the people is described: Because of the murder of Rettendon, Mickey Steele and Jack Whomes received three life sentences . You deny involvement, the witness Darren Nichols went into hiding in the witness protection program, Carlton Leach attended an ICF veterans' meeting and now lives with his family in Essex.

Production and publication

The film was produced in 2007 by Carnaby International and Hanover Films and directed by Julian Gilbey . The script was written by Julian Gilbey and Will Gilbey , the music composed by Ross Cullum.

Rise of the Footsoldier was released in cinemas in the UK on September 7th, distributed by Optimum Releasing. The premiere in the USA followed on December 1, 2008. The film was then released on DVD in Finland, Australia and the Netherlands, and in 2008 it was released on DVD in German on Ascot Elite Home Entertainment.

Sequels

In 2010, the film Bonded by Blood was released , which was mistakenly touted by the German distribution company Ascot Elite as a sequel to Rise of the Footsoldier . However, this film is not a sequel, but a remake that simply partly contains the same actors for the same roles. In the plot, however, the story is not reflected as a prequel or a sequel . In addition, the film Bonded by Blood 2 was released in 2017 .

In 2015, an actual sequel was produced with Return of the Footsoldier ( Rise of the Footsoldier Part II ), the plot of which is clearly linked to RotF and Ricci Harnett also returns in the lead role of Carlton Leach. Another part followed in 2017 with Rise of the Footsoldier 3 ( Rise of the Footsoldier - The Pat Tate Story ).

criticism

The film was received very poorly by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes , only 14% of reviews are positive, out of a total of 7 reviews. The Guardian called the film "depressing" and "clichéd". Time Out magazine describes it as "repulsive" and rates it with only one of five possible points.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filmweb - Bonded by Blood
  2. ↑ Moviepilot - Bonded by Blood 2
  3. ↑ TimeOut - Bonded by Blood "
  4. ^ Rise of the Footsoldier (2007). Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
  5. ^ Review on theguardian.com
  6. ^ Rise of the Footsoldier 2007 on timeout.com