An open account
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | An open account |
| Original title | The Debt |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Madden |
| script |
Matthew Vaughn , Jane Goldman , Peter Straughan |
| production |
Eitan Evan , Matthew Vaughn Kris Thykier Eduardo Rossoff |
| music | Thomas Newman |
| camera | Ben Davis |
| cut | Alexander Berner |
| occupation | |
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An open account (original title: The Debt , literally "The Debt") is an agent thriller from 2010 with the Oscar winner Helen Mirren in the lead role. It is a remake of the 2007 Israeli film The Price of Retribution ("החוב" / English title: The Debt ) by Assaf Bernstein. Directed by John Madden and written by Matthew Vaughn , Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. The film was produced by Matthew Vaughn's film production company Marv Films in cooperation with Pioneer Pictures. Thematically, the endeavors of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad to track down Nazi criminals who went into hiding after the Second World War , in order to bring them to trial in Israel.
action
In 1965, the young Mossad agents Rachel Singer, David Peretz and Stephan Gold meet in East Berlin . Your mission is to kidnap the Nazi criminal Dieter Vogel and bring him to Israel so that he can be tried there. At the time of the “Third Reich” in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, he carried out cruel medical experiments on Jews as a doctor. He now works under the name of Dr. Bernhardt as a gynecologist in East Berlin.
Rachel, who pretends to be treated by Vogel in his clinic, manages to kidnap the doctor with the help of David and Stephan. In their plan to get Vogel out of the country, however, a few things go wrong: It can attract the attention of East German border guards. The team has to discard its original plan and brings Vogel to the conspiratorial apartment, from where the doctor can finally escape. In a panic of the negative consequences of discovering their failure, the three decide to claim to have shot Vogel while he was fleeing. Back in Israel, they are celebrated as heroes. 30 years later Rachel, David and Stephan are caught up with their past: They find out that Vogel now lives in the Ukraine . Rachel feels an obligation to bring the failed 1965/1966 mission to an end. She travels to Kiev , finds Vogel and finally kills him.
background
The original plot is based mainly on the published files and books on the Adolf Eichmann trial . Eichmann was kidnapped by the Mossad in 1961 and sentenced to Israel. The figure of the “Surgeon von Birkenau”, Dieter Vogel, is based on Josef Mengele , who carried out brutal experiments as a camp doctor in the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp .
The shooting locations were Ealing Studios , Budapest and Tel Aviv .
Reviews
“An 'old-fashioned' secret service thriller that emphasizes the craftsmanship, plays with the duration of processes and uses montage and figure perspective to create tension. The entanglement of the time levels is simple, but extremely effective; all in all, the top-class agent thriller tends to be psychological intimate play. "
“In an ideal way, a gripping, political story was merged with profound moral questions without raising a moral index finger. The viewer is asked to weigh for himself which morality he may follow, even if the power of guilt finally prevails against the power of lies. And so it is possible to follow the action to the end of the story, because the dissolution of the political and personal burden cannot be foreseen until the end - this is where people act, not drawing board characters. AN OPEN INVOICE is the stroke of luck of a sophisticated fictional story, set in a real political and historical environment, which does not degenerate into a superficial thriller and moral farce, but entertains the viewer at the highest level. "
publication
The film opened in theaters on August 31, 2010 and has grossed 45 million US dollars with a production budget of 20 million US dollars. After the film was shown in German cinemas on September 22, 2011, it has been available on DVD since January 26, 2012 .
Web links
- The Debt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Debt at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- An open invoice in the German dubbing index
- Official website for the film (German)
- Official Film Website (English)
- Film production notes (PDF file; 454 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for an open invoice . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 574 K).
- ↑ Age rating for an open invoice . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Interview with director John Madden on "An Open Account". September 2012, accessed April 7, 2012 .
- ↑ An open account. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ An open invoice on fbw-filmbütung.com , accessed on December 22, 2011
- ^ The Debt on boxofficemojo.com , accessed December 22, 2011