Easy Money - Feel the Fear
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| German title | Easy Money - Feel the Fear |
| Original title | Snabba Cash |
| Country of production | Sweden |
| original language |
Swedish , Spanish, Serbian , English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniél Espinosa |
| script |
Maria Karlsson (screenplay) Jens Lapidus (based on the novel) |
| production | Fredrik Wikström |
| music | Jon Ekstrand |
| camera | Aril Wretblad |
| cut | Theis Schmidt |
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Easy Money - Feel the Fear (Original title: Snabba Cash ) is a Swedish action - thriller from 2010. The film is based on the novel by Jens Lapidus , who in Germany under the title of the fear tracer was released. The German theatrical release was September 15, 2011.
action
Johan “JW” Westlund lives in Stockholm and lives an expensive life on the Stureplan in the Östermalm district , where the upper class is hand in hand. In order to disguise his simple origins and lack of means, he leads an elaborate double life. To earn money, he drives a taxi at night and sells chores to his fellow students. One day he met the beautiful Sophie, a woman from the upper class. He falls in love with her and they start a romance. Since he wants to offer her the standard of living that she is used to, he is ready to carry out illegal actions for Abdulkarim, who runs the taxi company.
Jorge Salinas Barrio, a Chilean, escaped from prison where he was serving a sentence for drug dealing. Now he is on the run from the police and has only one thought left. He has good contacts with the drug hubs in Europe and wants to take revenge on those who stole from him and put him behind bars, especially the Yugoslav mafia boss Radovan Kranjic. He would only have to make one final delivery to finally be able to leave the country forever.
Mrado Slovovic, a contract killer and debt collector for the Yugoslav mafia, is hired by Radovan to beat up Jorge because he wants to find out when the next drug delivery will be made. However, JW saves Jorge at the last moment on behalf of Abdulkarim and places him in his apartment for good pay. Jorge promises JW in a personal conversation that he will not forget this help. Meanwhile, Mrado lovingly takes care of his 8-year-old daughter, for whom he has taken custody. So he breaks away from his gang and wants to get out of crime entirely with a final coup.
The Yugoslav mafia is extorting protection money from Abdulkarim's taxi company. Jorge and Abdulkarim want to expand their drug business instead of paying protection money to the Serbs. Jorge has relatives in Germany who can deliver a large amount of drugs. JW is hired to launder the money and generally take care of the bookkeeping. Through his contacts with the upper class, he heard about an investment bank with massive problems. By buying the majority of the shares in this bank through JW, Abdulkarim gains control of the bank and has found an accomplice in money laundering with the bank manager.
They plan to reload and monetize a drug shipment hidden in cabbages . Jorge warns JW that Abdulkarim is no longer dependent on him because JW has already solved all financial problems related to money laundering. There is therefore no longer any reason for Abdulkarim to pay JW. JW now decides to contact Mrado so that he and another gangster on JW's behalf rob the delivery. Mrado previously promised him a million Swedish kronor for it, which he will also receive. However, the project is spiraling out of control. The raid will not go ahead without the use of force, as originally planned. Instead, two of those involved die and others are seriously injured, while JW, who was only slightly injured, is arrested. Jorge is the only one who can escape.
background
production
The film was shot in Stockholm , Gothenburg , Sollentuna , Österåker and Hamburg . Dragomir Mrsic was involved in a bank robbery at the age of 21 in 1990 and worked as a sports advisor and trainer after imprisonment before starting his acting career in 2006
publication
After the film opened in Sweden on January 15, 2010 and had an extremely successful start with over 100,000 cinema tickets sold, it was also released in German cinemas on September 15, 2011. From July 11, 2011 he was seen in the USA, where he grossed almost 25,000 US dollars on the opening weekend. Overall, US revenue was over $ 188,000.
German dubbed version
Jürgen Kluckert and his son Tobias Kluckert contributed to the German dubbed version .
| actor | German speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Joel Kinnaman | Sebastian Schulz | Johan "JW" Westlund |
| Mahmut Suvakci | Tobias Kluckert | Abdulkarim |
| Fares Fares | Matti Klemm | Mahmoud |
| Dragomir Mrsic | Jürgen Kluckert | Mrado |
| Lisa Henni | Sonja Spuhl | Sophie |
criticism
"Confidently staged and driven by characters that are as complex as they are believable, the exciting film, as a modern" film noir "variant, is convincing about the price of money," is the verdict of the editors of the Lexicon of International Films .
Marian Petraitis von Filmstarts is of the opinion that the “Eurothriller” and “gangster epic” are “an excellently filmed and dramaturgically clean genre contribution, which at the same time lacks courageous story and character design (sic!)”. “With pale and cool blue-tinged images”, cameraman Aril Wretblad “reinterprets Stockholm as an urban juggernaut”. “The precise camera work makes a significant contribution to the fact that» Easy Money «functions as a thriller: Thanks to tactful close-ups, the distance to the protagonists melts away, who rush restlessly through narrow and labyrinthine spaces and stumble towards a total loss of control." "During» Easy Money "On a visual level it is gripping and coherent, the somewhat unimaginative plot and character designs sober, especially in a scenario that is so trimmed to realism", judges Petraitis and awards three out of five possible points.
Awards
Joel Kinnaman won for his portrayal of Johan "JW" Westlund 2011 the Swedish Film Award Guldbagge as Best Actor , while Aril Wretblad for Best Cinematography and Jeanette Klintberg for Best Director was awarded.
At the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2011 Daniél Espinosa was honored with the 10 Directors to Watch Award.
Sequels
After Warner Bros. acquired the rights during an intense bidding competition that had lasted since the 2010 Berlinale , a remake with Zac Efron as Johan “JW” Westlund is planned. Meanwhile, two Swedish sequels came out, filmed in 2011 and released in theaters in 2012 and 2013, respectively.
Web links
- Easy Money - Feel the fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Easy Money - Feel the fear in the lexicon of international films
- Easy Money - Feel the fear atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : location
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Background information
- ↑ http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/dragomir-forsokte-skydda-mamma/
- ↑ svt.se (Swedish) (January 20, 2010) ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Snabba Cash Success Report , accessed February 26, 2011
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
- ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
- ↑ a b Easy Money - Feel the Fear. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 23, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c d Filmstarts : Filmkritik , Marian Petraitis, accessed on September 23, 2013
- ↑ a b Internet Movie Database : Nominations and Awards
- ↑ hollywoodreporter.com (October 14, 2010) Report on the remake of Snabba Cash , accessed February 26, 2011
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588342/
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2427502/
