Shanghai (2010)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Shanghai |
| Original title | Shanghai |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Mandarin , Japanese , German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mikael Håfström |
| script | Hossein Amini |
| production |
Donna Gigliotti Mike Medavoy Barry Mendel Jake Myers |
| music | Klaus Badelt |
| camera | Benoît Delhomme |
| cut |
Peter Boyle Kevin Tent |
| occupation | |
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Shanghai is a thriller directed by Mikael Håfström from the year 2010 . The cast included John Cusack , Gong Li and Chow Yun-Fat , among others .
action
In December 1941, shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , an American agent came to Shanghai and was supposed to meet his agent Conner there. However, he is found murdered. Under his cover identity Paul Soames, which he had already used in Berlin, he begins to search for the background and the murderer.
At a reception in the German embassy, he pretends to be a Nazi sympathizer and meets the influential gangster boss Anthony Lan-Ting and the Japanese secret service chief in Shanghai, Captain Tanaka. Through Conner's contact at the Japanese embassy, Soames learns that Conner was having an affair with a young Japanese woman named Sumiko, who disappeared the night Conner was murdered. While searching her apartment, Soames discovers a darkroom with pictures of Japanese officers, including Captain Tanaka, but also Japanese warships such as the Kaga .
When Soames saves Anthony Lan-Ting's life in an attack by the Chinese resistance on Japanese officers in a nightclub, the two men become friends. Soames realizes that Lan-Ting's wife is part of the Chinese resistance and is the mastermind behind the attack. He decides to help her pass on a message to the resistance, whereupon they can bring a woman to safety before the hiding place is stormed by Japanese soldiers. Together with his Japanese informant, Soames spies out the Japanese fleet and discovers that part of the fleet is missing. However, his superior does not take this seriously, especially since a Japanese delegation is in Washington for peace negotiations. In an opium den, Soames finds out that Sumiko had a relationship not only with Conner but also with Tanaka. He is then convinced that Sumiko betrayed his friend.
Soames provides his Japanese informant with papers so that he and his girlfriend can leave Shanghai. When Soames observes the informant's departure at the train station, he discovers Anna Lang-Ting who is trying to get Sumiko out of Shanghai by train. When the escape is discovered, there is a shootout in which Soames Anna Lang-Ting saves the life by stabbing a Japanese soldier. Back in his hotel room, Soames is picked up by Japanese agents, tortured and interrogated by Captain Tanaka. Tanaka reports that outside of Shanghai, a spy was arrested who was betrayed by his own friend, a Japanese spy. This is Soame's informant, who is then also executed. Soame's boss picks him up and wants to get him out of town because Soame's cover has been blown. Soames still wants to find Conner's murderer, is able to escape and is brought to Sumiko's hiding place by Anna Lang-Ting. She suffers from withdrawal symptoms and is seriously ill.
Anthony Lang-Ting and Captain Tanaka appear at the hideout. Tanaka still loves Sumiko, but when Soames tries to take her to an American hospital, she replies that no one will be found in the hospital, because the Japanese declared war on the Americans an hour earlier by attacking Pearl Harbor and they had already stormed Shanghai has started. Tanaka relieves Sumiko of her suffering and confesses that he killed Conner out of jealousy, without knowing that he was an American agent.
Outside the hiding place, Tanaka wants to interrogate Anna Lang-Ting, which leads to a shooting, in which Tanaka and Anthony Lang-Ting are wounded. Anthony Lang-Ting dies while fleeing through town, but still makes Soames promise to get Anna out of town. Paul Soames and Anna Lang-Ting pretend to be a married couple who lost their papers while fleeing from the Japanese troops. They receive new papers and want to board a ship in the port with which Americans and Europeans are evacuated from Shanghai. Tanaka stands at the foot of the gangway, but lets them both pass.
In a concluding monologue, Soames reports that Anna returned to Shanghai to rejoin the resistance and that they met again in Shanghai after the war.
production
Filming
The film was originally supposed to be shot at the original locations in Shanghai , but due to the drug and prostitution issue, the responsible authorities refused to permit the film to be shot. So it was shot in Bangkok , further shooting took place in London .
synchronization
The film was dubbed based on a dialogue book by Thomas Maria Lehmann . Unlike usual, the main actor John Cusack was not dubbed by his standard German speaker Andreas Fröhlich , but by Torsten Sense .
| role | Actress | German dubbing voice |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Soames | John Cusack | Torsten Sense |
| Anna Lan-Ting | Gong Li | Debora refuses |
| Anthony Lan-Ting | Chow Yun-Fat | Frank Röth |
| Richard Astor | David Morse | Helmut Gauss |
| Tanaka | Ken Watanabe | Tōru Tanabe |
| Leni | Franka Potente | Tanja Geke |
| Conner | Jeffrey Dean Morgan | Oliver Stritzel |
| Ben Sanger | Hugh Bonneville | Erich Rauker |
| Billy | Michael Culkin | Frank Ciazynski |
| German consul | Wolf Kahler | Thomas Kästner |
| Hotel receptionist | Josh Darcy | Benjamin Stöwe |
| Juso day care center | Benedict Wong | Rainer Fritzsche |
| Karl | Christopher Buchholz | Gerrit Hamann |
| Mikey | Ronan Vibert | Gerald Paradise |
| Ralph | Nicholas Rowe | Roman Kretschmer |
publication
The film premiered on June 10, 2010 at the Shanghai International Film Festival . The People's Republic of China was also the first country in which the film was shown in cinemas. The film opened in German cinemas on September 15, 2011. Shanghai was released on DVD and BluRay on February 24, 2012 in Germany.
Reviews
The film received mostly negative reviews. Rotten Tomatoes scored 1 positive and 23 negative reviews. Metacritic scored no positive, 8 mixed and 6 negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average score 6.4 out of 10 was determined from 8,902 users.
The lexicon of international films ruled that the film was a "bloodless" Casablanca "paraphrase in the noir style" that spanned an amorous triangle against the backdrop of occupation, refugee problems and the struggle for freedom "," without the subject being more than honest features to win ".
Several critics complained that the film is quite exciting, but that it ultimately follows the usual patterns of the genre. Lida Bach commented positively in her criticism on kino-zeit.de and noted that the film sent the viewer into a scenario of dark illusions and traps.
Web links
- Shanghai in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Shanghai atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Shanghai . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 251 K).
- ^ "Shanghai" to Hit Chinese Screens in June. Radio China International , accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ↑ Shanghai. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on March 17, 2012 .
- ^ Shanghai (2010) - premiere dates. Internet Movie Database , accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ^ OFDb - Shanghai (2010). Online film database , accessed February 5, 2013 .
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on rottentomatoes.com , accessed February 29, 2020
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on metacritic.com , accessed February 29, 2020
- ↑ What Happened to Monday? on imdb.com , accessed February 29, 2020
- ^ Shanghai in the Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved February 7, 2013
- ↑ Shanghai. cinefacts.de, accessed on October 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Shanghai. filmstarts.de, accessed on October 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Shanghai. kino-zeit.de, accessed on October 6, 2015 .