The Green Prince
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Green Prince |
| Original title | The Green Prince |
| Country of production | Germany , Israel , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nadav Schirman |
| script | Nadav Schirman |
| production | Nadav Schirman John Battsek Simon Chinn |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera |
Hans Fromm Giora Bejach Raz Dagan Hans Funck |
| cut |
Joelle Alexis Sanjeev Hathiramani |
| occupation | |
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The Green Prince ( German The Green Prince ) is a German-Israeli-British documentary by Nadav Schirman from 2014 . The film is based on the book Son of Hamas: My Life as a Terrorist by Mosab Hassan Yousef from 2010.
The Green Prince is about the life of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co- founder Sheikh Hassan Youssef , who worked as an informant for the Israeli secret service Shin Bet under Gonen Ben Yitzhak .
The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary . The official German theatrical release was November 27, 2014.
content
Mosab Hassan Yousef is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, who is considered a leading figure and co-founder of Hamas. After his father was arrested several times by the Israeli authorities in the 1990s, Mosab decides at the age of 17 to illegally acquire weapons in order to offer armed resistance against the Israeli authorities. He is then arrested by the Israeli secret service Shin Bet and recruited as an informant.
Yousef becomes one of the most important informants of the Shin Bet because of his position as the son of Hamas co-founder, under the code name " The Green Prince ". His contact agent Gonen Ben Yitzhak is finally released from the secret service, whereupon Yousef also ends his existence as an informant. He settles in the USA. There he was initially denied the right to asylum because of his connection to Hamas. Yitzhak subsequently informed the American authorities of Yousef's work as an informant for the Israeli secret service, whereupon Yousef was granted asylum.
reception
The Green Prince was received mostly positively by the English-language critics. Jason Gorber of Twitchfilm praised the detailed portrayal of the inner workings of Hamas and the interrogation and recruitment methods of the Shin Bet. Rob Nelson criticized the film in Variety for its "non-filmic staging", which he described as the "cinematography of the talking heads " . Xan Brooks, on the other hand, wrote for The Guardian that The Green Prince was "gripping like a well-designed Hollywood thriller and psychologically complex like a Greek tragedy." Boyd van Hoeij also called the film "gripping and emotional" in his review for the Hollywood Reporter .
The documentation received mostly good reviews in the German media. Frank Arnold ( epd Film ) describes the film as fairly straightforward compared to the complexity of its predecessor In the Darkroom : "Where one film made its protagonists reflect on their actions, this one is content with recording the same". Michael Meyns from the web portal programmkino.de criticizes that Schirman "mostly [...] is content with retelling a résumé that moves somewhere between fascinating and speculative" instead of answering the moral questions that arise during reception.
Remake
The American production company Electric City Entertainment acquired the rights to a feature film remake of The Green Prince in spring 2014 .
Web links
- The Green Prince in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- He was the son of a top Hamas leader - then he became an Israeli informant (+ audio, 10:47 minutes), contribution in PRI's The World on September 10, 2014 (English) - detailed interview with the two main characters of the film
- Description of the film background by director Nadav Schirman , Bayerischer Rundfunk January 16, 2015, accessed March 2, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Green Prince . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 894 K).
- ↑ The Green Prince. Sundance.org, accessed July 8, 2014 .
- ↑ The Green Prince. Filmstarts.de, accessed on September 8, 2014 .
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↑ "[...] there has rarely been a work, documentary or no, that so thoroughly details both the inner machinations of the Hamas operations, or the interrogation and handling efforts of the hyper secretive Shin Bet."
Sundance 2014 Dispatch: GREEN PRINCE and A MOST WANTED MAN Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. 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. In: Twitchfilm.com . September. Retrieved July 8, 2014. -
^ "Cinematography of the talking heads appears standard-issue."
Sundance Film Review: 'The Green Prince' . In: Variety.com . September. Retrieved July 8, 2014. -
^ "[...] as gripping as any high-concept Hollywood thriller and as psychologically knotty as Greek tragedy .."
The Green Prince: Sundance 2014 - first look review . In: Theguardian.com . September. Retrieved July 8, 2014. -
^ "[...] really gripping emotional material as well"
The Green Prince: Sundance Review . In: Hollywoodreporter.com . September. Retrieved July 8, 2014. - ^ Frank Arnold: The Green Prince on epd-film.de, accessed on November 19, 2014.
- ↑ Michael Meyns: The Green Prince on programmkino.de, accessed on November 19, 2014.
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^ "Cinematography of the talking heads appears standard-issue."
'The Green Prince' to Be Remade as Feature Film . In: Variety.com . September. Retrieved July 9, 2014.
