Safe House

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Movie
German title Safe House
Original title Safe House
Country of production United States , South Africa , Japan
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Daniél Espinosa
script David Guggenheim
production Scott Stuber
music Ramin Djawadi
camera Oliver Wood
cut Richard Pearson
occupation
synchronization

Safe House is an American thriller written by the Chilean - Swedish director Daniél Espinosa from 2012 . The film had its world premiere on February 7, 2012 in the United States and was released in German cinemas on February 23, 2012.

action

Tobin Frost, a long-sought renegade CIA agent who is now selling secrets to the highest bidder, seeks refuge at the US consulate in Cape Town to escape his pursuers . From there, on the instructions of the CIA's Vice Director Harlan Whitford, agent Daniel Kiefer and his team transfer him to the nearest safe house in Cape Town for questioning, which is maintained and guarded by CIA agent Matt Weston. But just as Kiefer begins waterboarding torture in the Safe House , he is attacked by the mercenary Vargas and other gunmen. Only Weston manages to escape with Frost as a prisoner.

Weston contacted his manager, David Barlow, during the chase. He and the agent leader Catherine Linklater instruct him to go into hiding and call again later. Frost manages to escape and Weston is ordered to stay out of the chase from now on. However, he manages to track down Frost on his own with the forger Villar. There they are attacked again by Vargas and his team, who they find out to work for a traitor within the CIA. Both manage to escape again, and Weston can capture Frost again.

They go to a newly established safe house in the country, where Weston is attacked by the local agent Keller and emerges victorious from the fight, seriously injured. Meanwhile Linklater and Barlow have arrived in South Africa. Barlow - it now turns out the traitor - murders Linklater before going to the safe house with Vargas. He injures Frost life-threateningly, but is killed by Weston. As he dies, Frost hands Weston a data chip listing secret service agents from several global intelligence agencies involved in treasonous machinations, including Barlow.

At the end of the film, Weston is asked by Whitford to manipulate the report on the events in South Africa, and in return he is offered a promotion to officer in charge. During the conversation, he is also approached about the record, but Weston denies knowing about it. In the credits, a collage of various news programs reports on the publication of this same dataset and its far-reaching consequences around the world.

Reviews

"Agent film with some interesting approaches, but which overloads its conspiracy concept with too much thunderstorm action and also suffers from the not very originally drawn characters."

“There may be more exciting films of this kind. The entire " Jason Bourne " series, for example, or the last two Bond films. For a nice Saturday evening with a little popcorn, there is currently little better. "Safe House" sets the bar low and jumps over easily. You can safely say Bravo. "

“In principle,“ Safe House ”is practically a single never-ending chase from the very first minute, and you can never be quite sure which side Tobin Frost is on. It's been a long time since Denzel Washington played such a seedy and ambivalent character. Even in moments when he has all the sympathies on his side, he still looks threatening. Compared to him, Ryan Reynolds looks almost pale and honest. "

Others

For dramaturgical reasons, director Daniél Espinosa resorted to drastic means. The scene in which Tobin Frost aka Denzel Washington is tortured by waterboarding is not staged. Washington was really subjected to this type of torture. Espinosa subsequently admitted that he had suffered with Denzel Washington.

synchronization

The synchronization was carried out by Berliner Synchron GmbH under the direction of Joachim Tennstedt , for which Klaus Bickert wrote the dialogue book.

actor Dubbing voice role
Denzel Washington Leon Boden Tobin Frost
Ryan Reynolds Dennis Schmidt-Foss Matthew James Weston
Vera Farmiga Claudia Urbschat-Mingues Catherine Linklater
Brendan Gleeson Roland Hemmo David Barlow
Sam Shepard Joachim Kerzel Harlan Whitford
Liam Cunningham Erich Rauker Alec Wade
Nora Arnezeder Emily Behr Ana Moreau
Ruben Blades Abelardo Decamilli Carlos Villar
Sara Arrington Silvia Missbach CIA analyst
Robert Patrick Eberhard Haar Daniel Kiefer
Joel Kinnaman Peter Lontzek basement, cellar
Jake McLaughlin Arne Stephan Miller

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for Safe House . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 356 K).
  2. Age rating for Safe House . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Safe House. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Daniel Sander: Agent film "Safe House", caretaker's big break on Spiegel Online from February 23, 2012, accessed on February 27, 2012
  5. Sascha Westphal : How the CIA seizes power and abuses it on welt.de from February 24, 2012, accessed on February 27, 2012
  6. Background information from the Gong program guide , issue 50/2014
  7. ^ Safe House. German synchronous file , accessed on April 26, 2013 .