The Antman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Antman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christoph Gampl |
| script |
Marc Meyer , Jürgen Michel |
| production |
Thomas Zickler , Christoph Thoke , Timothy Tremper , Daniel C. Witte |
| music | Ingo Frenzel |
| camera | Alexander Fischerkoesen |
| cut | Markus Schmidt |
| occupation | |
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The Antman (also Planet B: The Antman , DVD title: Antrage - Der Ameisenmann ) is a German horror - trash film from 2002 . Directed by Christoph Gampl , the film was produced by Thomas Zickler , who was responsible for such box office successes as Knockin 'on Heaven's Door , Keinohrhasen and Honig im Kopf . Götz Otto , Elisabeth Volkmann and Gojko Mitić can be seen in the main roles .
action
Don José de Alvarez is considered a Mexican folk hero after he was able to destroy a mixed creature of man and ant that was angry in Mexico City . He marries the journalist Bella Bonita and wants to take her to Campo del Sol, the village where he grew up. There, however, an aggressive mood strikes the two of them. The mayoress El Busto and the old Indian Fumigimo are particularly hostile to them. The psychopathic Loco Satano is José's brother and the only one from Alvarez's family who still lives in the village. José goes to the desert to look for traces of his family and finds the skeleton remains of his mother. Meanwhile, Bella is attacked by countless ants in her house. Loco comes over and helps her by seeming to control the ants. Bella and José notice that apart from the mayor, not a single woman lives in the village. They find out that Loco has become a kind of ant priest who can control and command the animals and considers a mixture of human and ant to be the perfect living being. To do this, he kidnapped all the women in the village into an underground cave in which he tried to create ant people. He cites an ancient cult of the country's indigenous people.
José, who kills several of the ants regarded as sacred in the cave with a burning oil lamp, has to endure a ritual for one night, where he is exposed to the aggressive ants, rubbed with sugar water. He survived the night and was accepted by El Busto and Fumigimo. José and Bella decide to stop Loco. Apparently José succeeds in shooting him, but shortly afterwards Bella is pulled into the earth by ants. Together with Fumigimo, José starts a rescue operation. You enter Loco's cave and find him trying to make Bella his new ant queen. A fight ensues. José is attacked by a huge swarm of ants, Loco is able to defeat him and turns him into a monster: the ant man. When the latter is supposed to beget other hybrids with Bella, José manages to regain control of his actions despite the transformation. Fumigimo and Bella escape from the cave, Loco is killed in the final fight by the ant man. The monster remains in the cave and Bella leaves the village alone a short time later.
background
The Antmann belongs to the B-Movie series Planet B of the Berlin production company TTD Checkpoint Berlin Filmproductions, which was founded in 1999 by Timothy Tremper , Thomas Zickler and Daniel C. Witte. The series also released the films Detective Lovelorn and Revenge of the Pharaoh and Mask Under Mask .
Was filmed The Antmann with a budget of about 800,000 euros in Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam . The film was shown at the Fantasy Filmfest 2002 and the Berlinale 2002 , among others . The theatrical release in Germany was on January 30, 2003, the release on DVD did not take place until 2010 due to legal problems.
reception
For the cinema editorial team, The Antman is “wonderfully outrageous trash”, the conclusion being “worth seeing”. Marcus Littwin sees The Antman as a "homage to the old B-movie classics" with a "harmonious atmosphere" and "own look"; he praises both the self-irony and exaggerations of the actors and Wolfgang Hess as the narrator. Kino.de classifies the film as a “Latino-Splatter-Erotic-Trash-Movie” and ascribes it “exhilarating tricks” and “alternative effects”, but sees the “answer to a crisis in German cinema [...], as the ambitious Plan B of the Checkpoint Berlin production provides “is not a given.
Web links
- The Antman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Antman . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 130 V).
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Long live the trash film in "Planet B": "Detective Lovelorn", "The Antman" and "Mask under Mask". Berliner Zeitung, January 30, 2003, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Fantasy FilmFest 2002. Accessed March 24, 2016 .
- ^ Film data sheet Planet B: The Antman. Berlinale annual archive 2002, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
- ^ Planet B - The Antman (2002). cinema.de, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Marcus Littwin: The Antman. (No longer available online.) Die-besten-horrorfilme.de, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on March 24, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Planet B - The Antman. kino.de, accessed on March 24, 2016 .
