Tears of the Sun
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tears of the Sun |
| Original title | Tears of the Sun |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | Theatrical version: 121 minutes, Director's Cut: 137 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Antoine Fuqua |
| script |
Alex Lasker , Patrick Cirillo |
| production | Mike Lobell |
| music | Hans Zimmer |
| camera | Mauro Fiore |
| cut | Conrad Buff |
| occupation | |
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Tears of the Sun (original title Tears of the Sun ) is a war film by director Antoine Fuqua from 2003 with Bruce Willis in the lead role, which deals with the turmoil of the Nigerian civil war .
action
In Nigeria during the civil war , the elected president and his family are murdered by insurgent rebels who want to exterminate entire tribes and suppress the entire population in a kind of " ethnic cleansing ". During these troubles, Lieutenant A. K. Waters and his Navy SEALs were assigned a mission in which he met the American doctor Dr. Lena Fiore Kendricks and her staff are supposed to evacuate from their Christian-run refugee camp.
Once there, Dr. Kendricks insisted that the settlement's refugees should also be saved if they join the soldiers. The dutiful lieutenant realizes that he can only fulfill his mission by fulfilling the doctor's request and also taking the local refugees with him. He leads the group to his helicopter pick-up point, but leaves the Africans behind amid violent protests from the doctor. Only when the helicopter flies over Kendrick's mission, which has meanwhile been completely destroyed by the rebels, does Waters decide to turn around and first let the old and weak members of the group be brought to safety. More people cannot be transported with the helicopters and so he marches with his men, Kendricks and the Africans through the jungle to bring them to Cameroon , because the requested evacuation of the remaining refugees is not supported.
Via satellite surveillance he learns that he is being pursued by a hundred rebels, which puzzles him in view of the low value of his mission. It turns out that there is a traitor among the refugees who informed the persecutors of the group's movements, since among the refugees is the last descendant of the presidential family. Now a race against time begins in the direction of a safer Cameroonian border, which in the end is just reached with some losses. On the way they witness an ethnic cleansing in a village. They intervene, but can only save a few villagers. Shortly before the Cameroon border, the pursuers are bombed by two F-18 Hornets . The refugees escape across the border.
background
- The film title "Tears of the Sun" was originally intended as a subtitle for the fourth part of the Die Hard series. Bruce Willis was only allowed to use this film title for his refugee epic set in Nigeria after he consented to the shooting of the fourth Die Hard part.
- Charles Ingram , who plays the role of Navy SEAL soldier Demetrius "Silk" Owens, is a former Force Recon Marine with four years of combat experience.
- Most of the film was shot in Hawaii .
- Tears of the Sun had its US premiere on March 7, 2003. The film was released in German cinemas on August 28, 2003. On January 8, 2004 the work was released on video and DVD .
Reviews
On the Rotten Tomatoes review page , the film was rated 33% (i.e. only 51 of the 153 evaluated reviews were positive). The verdict there is that the film tries to be meaningful and “highly intellectual”, but in the end it is “just a stylish action film”.
James Berardinelli wrote on movie-reviews.colossus.net that the film was not a “great film”, but “satisfactory”. He compared it to the films Platoon and Full Metal Jacket , which amazed film connoisseurs because, unlike Tears of the Sun , these films take a critical look at the US military.
“An impressively staged, at the same time very tough war film at an aesthetically high level. He is particularly noticeable because his propaganda message that US troops must save the world is all too clearly brought to the fore. "
Nominations
Monica Bellucci was nominated for the Teen Choice Award in 2003 , Antoine Fuqua was nominated for the Black Reel Award in 2004.
media
DVD
- Tears of the sun (2004)
- Tears of the Sun (Director's Extended Cut) (2005)
Soundtrack
- Tears of the sun . Hans Zimmer , Varèse Sarabande / Colosseum 2003
Web links
- Tears of the Sun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tears of the Sun in the online film database
- Tears of the Sun at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Internet Movie Database (IMDb) . imdb.com
- ↑ Filming locations on imdb.com
- ↑ a b tears of the sun. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Tears of the Sun. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on May 19, 2017 ; accessed on September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Tears of the Sun at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli