Terminal (film)

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Movie
German title terminal
Original title The Terminal
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 124 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Steven Spielberg
script Sacha Gervasi ,
Jeff Nathanson
production Steven Spielberg,
Laurie MacDonald,
Walter F. Parkes
music John Williams
camera Janusz Kamiński
cut Michael Kahn
occupation

Terminal is a feature film directed by Steven Spielberg from the year 2004 with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the lead roles.

The film was shown on September 1, 2004 at the Venice Film Festival as the opening film.

action

Viktor Navorski, a visitor from the fictional Eastern European country Krakosia, lands at New York 's JFK Airport when his homeland goes under in the chaos of civil war and is no longer diplomatically recognized by the United States . Since his passport becomes invalid, the bureaucracy - embodied by the leading border guard Frank Dixon - prevents entry into the country as well as a return flight.

Much to Dixon's annoyance and under constant observation of the surveillance cameras, the stranded man in the airport terminal settles down at home for a long time. Viktor fights against the perils of the airport authorities every day in order to get to his destination. At first he collects luggage trolleys to buy food with the change. When Dixon notices this, he hires an airport attendant who takes the luggage trolleys from Viktor.

Viktor tries to get a job in one of the airport shops, but he does not manage to do this because of the missing papers. When he discovered a construction site at the airport, however, he finished a wall he had begun. This is seen by the workers the next morning and Viktor is hired as a construction worker. During the nine-month wait, Navorski falls in love with the flight attendant Amelia. He organizes a dinner on the terrace of the terminal and builds a colorful fountain for them. He receives support from a crowd of mostly foreign laborers. An Indian, a Latino and an African American are exemplary of the immigrant nations in the United States.

After the end of the civil war in Krakosia, Viktor flies back to his homeland, but not without first keeping the promise to his deceased father: to collect the missing signature of the well-known jazz tenor saxophonist Benny Golson . Viktor's father once discovered the photo A Great Day in Harlem in a Hungarian newspaper and then tried to get the autographs of all 57 musicians shown.

background

  • The film is loosely based on the story of Iranian Mehran Karimi Nasseri , who lived from August 26, 1988 to August 2006 under the name Sir, Alfred (he himself used the comma in his name) at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris . Nasseri's fate was filmed back in 1993 in the French comedy The Fallen from Heaven and in 2001 in the British pseudo-documentary Here to Where .
  • Spielberg moves the story to the United States, where after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, distrust of immigrants has increased significantly. In this climate of isolation, with The Terminal he distances himself from the Ministry of Homeland Security initiated by President George W. Bush and takes a stand for an open society . However, Arabs don't play a major role in the film.
  • At the end of 2009, the case of the Chinese human rights activist Feng Zhenghu , who was repeatedly denied re-entry by the Chinese authorities, became internationally known. He then stayed in the security area of Tokyo Narita Airport for several months . The case has often been compared in the press to Navorski in the film.
  • Although the state of Krakosia is fictional, the protagonist's language is not made up. Navorski speaks Bulgarian .

Trivia

Zoë Saldaña played a Trekkie in the film . Five years after the film was released, she played a leading role in Star Trek (and in 2013 also in Star Trek Into Darkness and in Star Trek Beyond from 2016), namely that of Lieutenant Uhura .

Reviews

“An entertaining fable with an almost weightless playful mood and staged acrobatics, which tries to tackle Steven Spielberg's constant themes of homelessness and being lost in a strange, hostile world from the cheerful side, which ultimately gets stuck in the undecided mixture of comedy and pathos . "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the terminal . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 911 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ Age rating for terminal . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Chinese human rights activist stuck at Tokyo airport . In: The Guardian , November 13, 2009. 
  4. ↑ Terminal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 15, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used