Valley of the Wolves - Palestine

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Movie
German title Valley of the Wolves - Palestine
Original title Kurtlar Vadisi - filist
Country of production Turkey
original language Turkish
Publishing year 2011
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Zübeyr Şaşmaz
script Raci Şaşmaz
Bahadır Özdener
Cüneyt Aysan
production Raci Şaşmaz
music Kalan Müzik
camera Selahattin Sancaklı
cut Kemalettin Osmanlı
occupation

Valley of the Wolves - Palestine (original title: Kurtlar Vadisi - Filistin ) is an action film by the Turkish director Zübeyr Şaşmaz from 2011. The plot follows on from the successful television series Valley of the Wolves - Ambush . The film attracted media attention because of its anti-Semitic content and was described by film scholars and critics as a propaganda film . The sequel Valley of the Wolves - Fatherland followed in 2017 .

action

Valley of the Wolves Palestine takes up the Ship-to-Gaza incident . As in the previous film, the protagonist Polat Alemdar and his team invade Israel , this time to avenge nine killed Turkish compatriots by killing the commander in charge, Moshe Ben Eliezer. However, Moshe does not make this task easy for them. In the subplot of the film, the American-Jewish travel guide Simone Levi goes through a change, at the end of which she too is convinced of the Palestinian cause and turns against Moshe.

production

The shooting of the film took place in Tarsus , Adana and İskenderun in Turkey. The premiere should actually have taken place on November 5th, 2010. However, the film company Pana Film had to deviate from the original date because the negatives of numerous action scenes were destroyed in the laboratory and had to be re-shot. The film music was composed by the Kalan Müzik company . This was the first time that Gökhan Kırdar , who had been composing Tal der Wölfes music for all movies and series for seven years, was not active.

Mark Meddings was responsible for the visual effects. Saving soldier Ryan , Black Hawk Down , Kingdom of the Heavens and Valley of the Wolves - Iraq .

Publication controversy

The premiere took place in Europe on January 27, 2011. The world premiere took place in Turkey on January 28, 2011. When it was released in Germany, there were initially difficulties because the film did not receive an FSK label when it was examined by the FSK working committee on January 24, 2011. The reason was that the film “uses the power of clichés in a targeted manner and tends to be defamatory” and is permeated by a nationalistic tone that glorifies violence. Politicians from the CDU, SPD, the Greens and the FDP had also pointed out that the originally planned start date fell on Holocaust Remembrance Day , which was "tasteless and irresponsible". After the German film distributor Pera-Film had lodged an objection against the FSK decision, the FSK decided on January 27, 2011 in the examination of the main committee (2nd instance) to approve the film with the FSK label “No youth release” (KJ) mark. Thus, the film could be shown in Germany for cinema-goers aged 18 and over and was included in the programs of several cinemas. In Kassel and Konstanz the film was canceled prematurely after protests

anti-Semitism

The cinemas were criticized from various quarters for their decision to show the film. The coordination council of the German non-governmental organizations against anti-Semitism complained that the film shows “anti-American, anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic stereotype images with a seditious character, which are not only directed against Israel, but also against Jews using constructions reminiscent of medieval ritual murder allegations in general, ie indirectly also against the Jews living in Germany ”. The Alliance against Antisemitism Kassel (BgA) described the film as an "anti-Semitic work" and called on the cinema chain Cinestar to discontinue the film immediately. The integration policy spokesman of the FDP parliamentary group of Turkish origin, Serkan Tören , called for the immediate removal of the film, which serves racist, anti-Western and anti-Semitic ideas and is "extremely socially disorienting for young migrants". In Austria , the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities (IKG) filed a criminal complaint in Vienna for sedition.

The film was also consistently described as anti-Semitic in the press and film reviews. In Die Welt Richard Herzinger spoke of a “third part of an action film series shaped by aggressive nationalist ideology”, which includes “perfidious ideological indoctrination”. The Jewish characters depicted in the film are drawn on the basis of all known anti-Semitic resentments. The Turks, on the other hand, are seen as "a strong and morally upright savior of the subjugated Muslims all over the world". The film critic and scholar Daniel Kothenschulte spoke in the Frankfurter Rundschau of a “bad propaganda film”. Director Zübeyr Sasmaz incited an "anti-Semitism that is obviously widespread in Turkey". In its “grotesque exaggerations”, this annoying film must also be a thorn in the side of critics of Israel's Gaza and settlement policy. Jürgen Gottschlich wrote in the daily newspaper that the film was primarily ridiculous: The film is anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli, but it is far too flat to develop a suggestive moment. The film is "too bad to have a really malicious effect." This is reminiscent of Turkish foreign policy: Whenever Ankara believes it can pose as the supreme power of the Middle East and the entire Islamic world, it quickly seems a little ridiculous, just as ridiculous as this propaganda film.

Bert Rebhandl compared the production on the online site of the film magazine Cargo with the Nazi propaganda film Jud Suss by Veit Harlan . The film is "a shame for Turkey, for the cinema [...] and an impertinence for the Palestinian people, because they cannot defend themselves against this appropriation". Christoph Petersen wrote on Filmstarts.de that Valley of the Wolves was "a superficial work that uses the same stylistic devices that the National Socialists used to create anti-Semitic moods".

Movie reviews

“Valley of the Lame Ducks: As an action film, a mediocre firecracker at the level of a late 90s video premiere. For a propaganda film of remarkable, almost sympathetic intellectual simplicity. All in all a bizarre Wannabe scandal film , worth seeing for reasons of film science alone. Or as - from an Islamic point of view - not entirely unlawful return coach for countless B-action films produced by Israelis with a not exactly differentiated portrayal of bearded Muslims as fanatics, terrorists and sinister villains. "

- Harald Ladstätter : Film review at Filmtipps.at

“In Rambo II, the aggressive nationalism of the Reagan era took off as a revanchist Vietnam film. In the Valley of the Wolves, Turkish nationalism, with its Islamist list under Erdoğan, wants to really let it rip. "

- film review in time

Awards

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Valley of the Wolves - Palestine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 204 K).
  2. ↑ Bert Rebhandl describes the film for the specialist film magazine Cargo as a "flawless propaganda film"
  3. ↑ Film scholar Daniel Kothenschulte speaks of a "bad propaganda film"
  4. ↑ - ( Memento from January 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Accusations of anti-Semitism: FSK stops "Valley of the Wolves" film. In: Spiegel Online . January 25, 2011, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ http://talderwoelfe.blogspot.com/2011/02/abetzt-kein-tal-der-wolfe-mehr-in.html
  7. ↑ http://talderwoelfe.blogspot.com/2011/02/tal-der-wolfe-auch-in-konstanz.html
  8. ↑ - ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.serkan-toeren.de/
  10. ↑ Legal steps against "Valley of the Wolves", Kurier ( Memento from February 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Richard Herzinger: Violent film: "Valley of the Wolves" is anti-Semitic popcorn cinema. In: welt.de . January 31, 2011, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  12. ↑ https://www.fr.de/kultur/tv-kino/immer-krieg-ist-leiden-muslime-11437155.html
  13. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/leben/film/artikel/1/verkalkisiert-bei-den-emotionen/
  14. ↑ http://www.cargo-film.de/blog/2011/jan/28/tal-der-wolfe-palastina/
  15. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/186716/kritik.html
  16. ↑ Die Welt: Islamist Violence - The West Must No Longer Allow It To Be Blackmailed, September 21, 2012, accessed on September 22, 2012
  17. ↑ http://www.filmtipps.at/films/tal_der_woelfe_palaestina.php
  18. ↑ Maximilian Probst: Film "Valley of the Wolves - Palestine": The new wickedness . In: The time . No. 07/2011 ( online ).