Sheitan

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Movie
German title Sheitan
Original title Sheitan
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2006
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Kim Chapiron
script Christian Chapiron, Kim Chapiron
production Vincent Cassel, Kim Chapiron, Éric Névé
music Nguyen Lê
camera Alex Lamarque
cut Benjamin Weill
occupation

Sheitan is a French horror film by the up-and-coming French director Kim Chapiron, which premiered on January 27, 2006 at the Gérardmer Film Festival and was released in French cinemas just a few days later, on February 1. Christian Chapiron, the director's father, wrote the script for this.

action

A young woman named Eve invites four young people, whom she had just met in a discotheque, to her parents' large, remote and somewhat neglected country house. Caretaker Joseph, constantly grinning and mentally retarded, sets the tone here and is an enthusiastic entertainer for the group, which apart from Eve consists of Thaï, Ladj ( pronounced: Laatsch ), Bart and Yasmine. But as soon as someone uses violence against animals, Joseph becomes short-tempered. After Eve shows her guests the house, there is a festive dinner in the evening - it's Christmas. What is striking about all activities is Joseph's interest in Bart. Joseph's wife does not attend the meal. She is heavily pregnant and the birth is imminent.

Over the course of the following night, janitor Joseph turns out to be a psychopathic (but extremely animal-loving) choleric, who wildly beats his mentally handicapped son because he had locked a rat in a sack together with some live locusts. Thaï, Ladj and Bart are drawn into the fight because they want to help the son and later also Eve, who seems to be Joseph's daughter. Horrified by the violent escapades, they leave the property at the next opportunity and drive home.

Bart returns to the house one more time, because he doesn't want to leave Yasmine, whom he saw standing by the roadside waving in despair, behind. Joseph knocks him down from behind in the house and cuts his eyeballs out of his eye sockets with a specially made spiral knife and inserts them into a doll that his wife made from defective doll parts for her long-awaited child during her pregnancy. Meanwhile, the child is born as a sudden birth at midnight. Joseph is overjoyed with the new addition to the family. Bart is lying in a closed room of the house with his eyelids sewn up in a mess. His cries of pain are suffocated with an apple.

Looking back, it becomes clear where Joseph's stubborn interest in Bart originated. On arrival Bart had kicked a billy goat violently in the abdomen and had later hit a snake in a similar manner. Joseph had observed both incidents.

background

The film project began with the Kourtrajmé artists' association , founded in 1995 , of which Vincent Cassel is one of 135 members . According to JP's box office, the production company "120 Films" spent 5 million euros on the production.

Monica Bellucci plays a small, silent supporting role. She can be seen as a vampire on the tank attendant's television. The DJ in the entrance scene is played by Mouloud Achour , known in France as a DJ and MTV presenter. The logo of the artists' association Kourtrajmé mentioned above is emblazoned on his T-shirt . The rappers Oxmo Puccino and Mokobé also appear in smaller roles. Vincent Cassel reports in an interview that the character of Joseph pushed him to the limits of his acting. This is particularly true of Joseph's tantrums. Sheitan is the Arabic word for "devil".

criticism

Markus Klingbeil from filmfuchs.de notes "one or the other narrative break in the story", but praises the "excellently ingenious sound design, which gives the cinematic ghost train ride an increasingly violent atmosphere". His conclusion: "With 'Sheitan', director Kim Chapiron has made a nasty, small, varied feature-length debut in which Vincent Cassel plays in his most wacky, devilish role since ' Doberman ' '."

On Filmtipps.at the horror flick is classified as “psychosexual, slightly perverse and diabolically funny backwood grotesque”.

“Psychological thriller, entirely geared towards the viciousness of the grandiose main character. The film, which hardly comes up with Gore effects, builds up an increasingly oppressive atmosphere and condenses into a bilious confrontation with a youthful culture of fun and hedonism. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Sheitan . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2009 (PDF; test number: 119 577 V).
  2. ↑ IMDb Biography: Christian Chapiron
  3. ↑ a b History on www.allocine.fr
  4. ↑ JP's box office
  5. ↑ Cast on www.allocine.fr
  6. ↑ www.filmfuchs.de
  7. ↑ www.filmtipps.at
  8. ↑ Sheitan. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 25, 2014 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used