The International

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Movie
German title The International
Original title The International
Country of production USA , UK , Germany , France
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tom Tykwer
script Eric Warren Singer
production Terence Chang
Alan Glazer
Jeffrey Lurie
John Woo
Lloyd Phillips
Charles Roven
music Tom Tykwer
Johnny Klimek
Reinhold Heil
camera Frank Griebe
cut Mathilde Bonnefoy
occupation

The International is a political thriller and banks - thriller from 2009 directed by Tom Tykwer . The worldwide premiere took place as the opening film of the 59th Berlinale on February 5, 2009, and it started in German cinemas on February 12. The cinema release in the USA and Canada took place on February 13, 2009.

action

The Interpol -Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman investigate one of the most powerful banks in the world, the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC), based in Luxembourg . You are investigating money laundering , terrorism , arms trafficking and supporting a military coup . A colleague of the two is murdered by injecting a poison cocktail immediately after meeting an informant in front of Berlin Central Station. The components of the poison cocktail cannot be reliably detected in its blood. So it looks like a heart attack at first. He was supposed to meet with the previously unknown high-ranking IBBC informant. Salinger saw from across the street how his colleague suddenly collapses. He did not notice a perpetrator. The informant, Vice President of the bank, died in a fictitious traffic accident on his return from Berlin. The Luxembourg police cover this accident. Likewise, the Italian arms manufacturer Umberto Calvini, who was ready to talk, was shot dead during an election campaign, and the supposedly responsible sniper was caught by a corrupt captain of the Carabinieri and apparently murdered in self-defense. When Salinger and Whitman themselves investigate the scene of the crime with the permission of a commissioner and come upon the trail of a second shooter hired by the bank, the captain prevents further investigations in Italy by evicting them.

At the airport they can still look through the recordings of the surveillance cameras for clues about the whereabouts of the killer and follow a lead to New York. Salinger identifies him in a photo as the murderer of his colleague in Berlin. During the manhunt in New York , Salinger and two NYPD detectives discovers the killer and follows him unnoticed to the Guggenheim Museum . There the advisor to the bank board, the former Stasi officer Wexler, meets with the consultant for an interview and tells him Salinger as his new destination. Because the bank director, Jonas Skarssen, suspects that Interpol is hot on the killer’s heels, he wants to have him murdered in the museum by a killer squad. The killer squad is armed with submachine guns and begins a wild shootout in which a NYPD detective is shot dead. Salinger escapes with the consultant , but the latter dies, mortally wounded, in his arms.

However, the other detective managed to arrest Wexler and kidnap him to a location unknown to the police and the FBI . Whitman is barely able to remove Salinger from the FBI's access and brings him to Wexler. When questioned, Salinger accuses him of betraying his communist convictions and supporting capitalists in their crimes. Wexler countered that the IBBC would be untouchable, as it were, since it is equally beneficial to drug cartels, terrorist groups, governments and large organizations of all kinds. Even if he could bring down the IBBC, there would be hundreds of other banks to replace it. If he wanted justice, he could only get it outside the system. For this he offers him his help. Salinger thinks this is the only plan that works and convinces Whitman to drop it so he can proceed on his own. He informs the sons of the murdered Calvini about the responsibility of the IBBC for the death of their father, who then let the planned arms trade between their company and the bank and White, board member of the IBBC, murdered. During a subsequent observation in Istanbul , where Skarssen meets with an arms manufacturer to negotiate a cooperation, Salinger tries, with the help of Wexler, to record Skarsson's conversation in order to obtain the necessary evidence for a transfer of the bank, but fails. The sons of Calvini avenge the bank-induced murder of their father by killing both Wexler and Jonas Skarsson.

In the end credits of the film, various newspaper clippings are faded in, the headlines of which show that, despite the murder of the old board member, the bank continued its successful course with the new board member - just as Skarsson had predicted before Salinger was murdered in Istanbul. It also reports on the formation of an in-house department to promote economically weak countries and finally on the bank's quarterly profits. The last fade-in announces the establishment of a US Senate investigative committee into the arms trade against the IBBC, headed by prosecutor Whitman.

synchronization

The German dubbing took place in the Berliner Synchron studios . Alexander Löwe wrote the dialogue book, Axel Malzacher directed the dialogue and also played the role of Martin White.

role actor Voice actor
Louis Salinger Clive Owen Tom Vogt
Eleanor Whitman Naomi Watts Claudia Lössl
Jonas Skarssen Ulrich Thomsen Ulrich Matthes
Colonel Wilhelm Wexler Armin Mueller-Stahl Armin Mueller-Stahl
Detective Bernie Ward Jack McGee Mogens von Gadow
Consultant Brían F. O'Byrne Peter Flechtner
Klaus Diemer Axel Milberg Axel Milberg
Captain Martell Victor Slezak
Martin White Patrick Baladi Axel Malzacher
Ahmet Sunay Haluk Bilginer Thomas Wolff
Umberto Calvini Luca Barbareschi Lutz Riedel
Enzo Calvini Luca Calvani Luigi Fantino
Mario Calvini Gerolamu Fancellu Felix Spit
Thomas Schumer Ian Burfield Olaf Reichmann
André Clement Georges Bigot Bodo Wolf

criticism

“An atmospherically dense thriller that makes masterful use of the cinematic narrative means that critically deals with the global amalgamation of politics and the financial market [sic!]. Even in the creation of furious action sequences, the staging always remains realistic and credibly refers to the existential insight that nobody is entirely without guilt. "

- film service

“Even if a bank has replaced the KGB as an enemy - in the sequence clearly following the thriller laws, there is no political explosiveness. By turning back to older models, The International has neither reinvented nor significantly enriched the genre. It remains good entertainment with some drawbacks. "

- OÖN

"Tom Tykwer's lurid thriller captivates with top-class stars and a pulse-accelerating hunt around the globe and in times of the global financial crisis, for which we owe characterless speculators and their dark billion-dollar deals, stings into a veritable wasp's nest, because the lucrative and corrupt can be No longer deny business with wars. "

- Kronen-Zeitung

production

The German Film Fund increased its stake from four to 5.8 million euros on the grounds that large parts of the film would be shot in Germany and that German actors such as Armin Mueller-Stahl and Axel Milberg would be involved. Shooting for the film began on September 10, 2007 in Berlin, many scenes were shot in the Babelsberg film studios. A replica of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was built there for a scene . The video installations shown there are works by media artist Julian Rosefeldt , but were not exhibited in this form in the Guggenheim Museum. Various recordings were also completed in the Autostadt in Wolfsburg . Among other things, the phæno can be seen as Calvini castle on Lake Garda in northern Italy, which is named in the film as the neighboring Lake Iseo . In addition, the Autostadt itself was represented as the IBBC headquarters. The scene, which is supposed to take place in the Interpol headquarters in Lyon , was filmed in the main hall of the ICC Berlin .

Allusions

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The IBBC bank mentioned in the film alludes to the internationally operating Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which was involved in money laundering, arms trafficking and drug trafficking on behalf of governments, secret services and terrorist organizations. The BCCI also had an important seat in Luxembourg and had to file for bankruptcy. The name of the Italian businessman Calvini is borrowed from the mafia banker Roberto Calvi , who also died spectacularly under mysterious circumstances. The assassination attempt on Calvini alludes to the Kennedy assassination , in which also officially only one shooter shot who was murdered shortly afterwards. The murder of the Interpol agent in Berlin alludes to the poison attack on the Bulgarian writer and dissident Georgi Markov . On an island on Lake Iseo there is actually an estate owned by the Italian arms manufacturer Beretta .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The International . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 701 K).
  2. ^ "The International" - banking crime thriller with a large cast - article in the Berliner Morgenpost , March 5, 2009
  3. ^ Conversation with Tom Tykwer at the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung ; As of February 2, 2009
  4. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The International. Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
  5. ↑ film service 4/2009
  6. ↑ OÖN - Julia Evers on February 14, 2009
  7. ↑ Kronen-Zeitung Christina Krisch on February 12, 2009
  8. ↑ 'International' gets more German subsidies - message on hollywoodreporter.com (English)
  9. ↑ daily mirror
  10. ↑ http://www.theage.com.au/news/arts/walltowall-culture/2007/11/09/1194329483873.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2
  11. ↑ End credits of the film
  12. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.umagazine.de
  13. ^ Alberto Archetti: Isola di San Paolo. Omaggio a Montisola, accessed August 6, 2014 .