Sin nombre
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sin nombre |
| Original title | Sin nombre |
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| Country of production | Mexico , USA |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Cary Fukunaga |
| script | Cary Fukunaga |
| production | Amy Kaufman |
| music | Marcelo Zarvos |
| camera | Adriano Goldman |
| cut |
Craig McKay , Luis Carballar |
| occupation | |
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Sin nombre (translated without a name ) is a US / Mexican film from 2009 and the directorial debut of director Cary Fukunaga . The film premiered that same year at the Sundance Film Festival , where it won the award for best director . The film opened in German cinemas in April 2010, has been distributed on DVD and Blu-ray since October 2010 and had its free TV premiere in July 2012 under the name Sin Nombre - Train of Hope on ARD's first program .
With drastic and realistic images, the film deals with the everyday life of Mexican gang crime at the intersection with the poverty-driven stream of illegal Central American immigrants via Mexico to the USA. At the center of the plot are a young Mexican and a young Honduran woman who meet on a freight train heading north and continue on their way to the USA together.
action
Casper, real name Willy, is a member of the Mexican branch of the youth gang Mara Salvatrucha , also known as MS 13 . He introduces the very young, childish smiley face into the corridors. Smiley also has to undergo the usual Mara Salvatrucha ritual. He is beaten and kicked by several gang members for 13 seconds, but he is not allowed to defend himself. The seconds are counted freely. To become a full member of Mara Salvatrucha, Smiley must also kill a captured gang member of rival Mara 18 . This had been tracked down by members of the MS 13 in a marshalling yard belonging to their territory and locked in a wire mesh fence. He had tried to flee further north through the territory of the MS 13 abroad. He shoots the prisoner pleading for his life with a self-made weapon that Smiley is given by the leader. Casper helps him without emotion.
Meanwhile, Horacio wants to flee from Honduras with his brother Orlando and his daughter Sayra to the USA via Mexico. They want to travel to the US border on freight trains. Initially skeptical, Sayra lets herself be persuaded to come along. They migrate to Mexico and are searched by border guards on the Guatemala-Mexico border. However, Horacio knows the procedure and was able to hide the valuables. At a marshalling yard in Mexico, they meet other refugees who are waiting for the next freight train.
Casper has a relationship with Martha, who lives in a different part of town. To protect them, Casper keeps the relationship a secret from the Mara gang. Casper lies to the leader Lil Mago that he has not left his neighborhood. Casper and Martha meet at the La Bombilla freight yard , where Sayra and her relatives are also waiting for the train to the US border. El Sol, second leader of the Mara Gang, happens to come by. He sees the two of them together and tells Casper that the gang will meet in the cemetery the next day. Martha also wants to go to the meeting, but Casper admonishes her not to come. The next day the gang meets in the cemetery, as announced. Martha appears there at the cemetery. Contrary to Casper's wishes, Lil Mago absolutely wants to lead Martha out of the gang-controlled area herself. Meanwhile, Casper and Smiley are beaten up for 13 seconds because both of the gang kept silent about the excursions to the Marthas district. Lil Mago tries to rape Martha. When she struggles, he accidentally kills her.
A freight train is now ready to leave the marshalling yard, where the refugees are gathering. Lil Mago, Casper and Smiley arrive for departure and jump on the freight train with the refugees. After a short drive they start robbing the refugees. They also meet Sayra and her relatives. While Lil Mago tried to rape Sayra, Casper kills Sayra with a machete and throws him off the train. He sends the present and armed smiley from the train. This returns to the corridor, whereupon it sets out and chases Casper. Other chapters of the gang are informed about this. Smiley is now supposed to prove his loyalty to the gang and receives the order from the new leader of the gang, El Sol, to kill Casper.
While the other refugees want to push Casper off the train, Sayra manages to protect him. Casper knows that he is now being pursued by the Mara and behaves rather dismissively towards the other refugees so as not to endanger them as well. During a stopover, Casper is discovered by a local Mara gang and Smiley, but he manages to escape and jump on the freight train again. After another drive, Casper realizes the danger he is putting Sayra in. During another stop, Casper secretly climbs off the train. However, Sayra followed him without her family. You are staying with a friend of Casper's. The friend offers Casper her support, but also lets it be known that she will also serve the Mara. Casper and Sayra can drive near the US border in a car carrier. When the car transporter arrives, Mara Gang, informed by the friend, is waiting - Casper and Sayra have already fled.
In the meantime, Sayra's father died while fleeing the police and her uncle was arrested. She learns about it from a fellow traveler in an interim camp for refugees.
At the US border, Casper hires a smuggler who is supposed to bring both of them across the US border. While Sayra is already translating across the border river, Casper has to flee when gang members discover him again. Finally, Casper faces the young smiley - who shoots him, as do the other gang members. Sayra, who is floating on the river, has to watch helplessly as Casper dies. After arriving in the USA, she made contact with her father's family, who lived in New Jersey. At the end of the day, you see your uncle crossing the river where his brother's journey, who was shot on the way, began - and Smiley, who gets a tattoo on his lower lip for what he did.
reception
The film received mostly positive reviews:
“The drama convincingly combines genre elements from road movies and romance films and condenses them into a haunting inventory of the actual circumstances that drive people towards the USA, as well as the dangers that await them on their flight. The hopes and longings of the people are packed into a story that is as exciting as it is tragic, which especially knows how to address young people. "
"A gripping, brilliantly staged and acted directorial debut that gets under your skin."
“Casper and Smiley's walks over the railway lines seem almost idyllic until a spiral of violence winds up. Everyone instinctively makes a moral choice that makes the difference between life and death - and so in this milieu of poverty, brutality and repression the film spreads more optimism than one would have expected. "
"A gripping thriller with furious images, a touching love story - and a journey into a shadowy world that you don't want to enter."
The reviewer from the Filmstarts editorial team saw the film as a "quite conventional love-couple-on-the-flight story" and gave it 3 out of 5 stars, only a slightly above average rating:
"'Sin Nombre' ultimately turns out to be a commercially available blockbuster with little refinement behind the facade with hinted at political ambitions."
Awards
The film has won several awards. Among others: Sundance Film Festival 2009:
| price | category | Nominated | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austin Film Critics Association | Best foreign film | Won | |
| British Independent Film Awards 2009 | Best foreign independent film | Nominated | |
| Broadcast Film Critics Association Award | Best foreign language film | Nominated | |
| Chicago Film Critics Association | Best foreign film | Nominated | |
| Most Promising Filmmaker | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Nominated | |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association | Best foreign film | Won | |
| Deauville American Film Festival | Jury Prize (tied) | Won | |
| EDA (Alliance of Women Film Journalists) Award | Best Non-English-Language Film | Nominated | |
| Edinburgh International Film Festival | Skillset New Directors Award | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Won |
| Indiana Film Journalists Association Award | Best foreign film | Won | |
| Independent Spirit Awards | Best first film | Nominated | |
| Best director | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Nominated | |
| Best camera | Adriano Goldman | Nominated | |
| 2009 Sundance Film Festival | Director award | Cary Joji Fukunaga | Won |
| Excellence in Cinematography Award: Dramatic | Adriano Goldman | Won | |
| Stockholm International Film Festival | Best first feature | Won | |
| Best Actor | Edgar Flores | Won | |
| FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize for Best Film | Won | ||
| St. Louis Film Critics Awards | Best foreign film | Nominated |
See also
- Immigration to the United States
- Border between the United States and Mexico
- Migration stretch from Central America to the border between Mexico and the United States
Web links
- Official German site for the film
- Official page for the film
- Sin nombre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sin nombre atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sin nombre . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2010 (PDF; test number: 121 439 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Sin nombre . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Sin nombre. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Sin Nombre review at Cinema.de, accessed on September 19, 2012
- ↑ Sin Nombre review at epd-film.de, accessed on October 27, 2014
- ↑ Review at femundo.de, accessed on January 10, 2019
- ^ Critique by the Filmstarts editorial team at filmstarts.de, accessed on September 19, 2012