The East

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Movie
German title The East
Original title The East
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Zal Batmanglij
script Zal Batmanglij
Brit Marling
production Ridley Scott
Michael Costigan
Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson
Brit Marling
music Halli Cauthery
camera Roman Vasyanov
cut Andrew Weisblum
Bill Pankow
occupation

The East is an American thriller from 2013. The film is about an agent who infiltrates an anarchist collective called The East .

action

The former FBI agent Jane Owen ( Brit Marling ) no longer works for state secret or security services, but now for the private "security service provider " Hiller Brood. The company wants to avoid scandals and other disadvantages for its clients, large corporations. For this, employees are smuggled into action groups who want to harm the company concerned.

A new group called "The East" is making a name for itself: To punish a corporation for causing an oil spill, they break into the house of the CEO and distribute large amounts of crude oil around the house. A recording of this action is posted on the Internet, where it attracts a great deal of attention.

Jane is tasked with infiltrating the group. Equipped with a false identity, she calls herself Sarah Moss, she hangs around in drop-outs and freegan circles . Although she unintentionally pursues an FBI undercover agent, she runs into Luca, a transvestite who appears to be working with the group. Since she protects himself in front of him when private security guards attack him because of his sexual identity, she wins his trust. In order to keep in touch, she injures herself. Luca offers to take her to a doctor who, as it turns out, is also a member of "The East" and lives in the same house with the rest of the group.

Jane alias Sarah makes the group believe that they have the same views, motives and ideals as them and apparently wins their trust. She takes part in the next group actions. At the same time, she reports to her clients until one of the members is injured by a gunshot wound and dies, whereupon the group initially breaks up. Jane begins to wonder whether she can continue to be morally responsible for her professional activity or the fulfillment of her specific work assignment.

When the group meets again for one last action, Jane is there and it turns out that she and Hiller Brood are the target of the action. Luca and another member knew their true identity and want to use them to obtain and publish a list of all undercover agents. In the end, Jane falls out with the group, but also with Hiller Brood, and uses the list and her contacts to expose the machinations of the companies she oversees through inside information.

premiere

The film premiered on January 20, 2013 at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival . In the cinemas of the United States, the film came in May 2013. In New Work was The East shown on May 20, 2013. The film started in Germany on July 18, 2013.

Reviews

“Rather coarse than nuanced, but entirely appropriate for a film that thrives on its solid thriller dynamism, Sarah's initiation becomes above all a confrontation with the repressed, both on a political and personal level. The undisguised sympathy with which The East is towards the group quickly catches the eye. Without overestimating that in a film that aims to entertain rather than reflect, it is not a matter of course in the indie mainstream to take the side of a rather extreme ideology. "

- critic.de - the film site

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for The East . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Michael Kienzl: The East. critic.de - the film page, July 13, 2013, accessed on July 15, 2013 .