Underdog (2014)

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Movie
German title Underdog
Original title Errors
Country of production Hungary ,
Germany ,
Sweden
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 2014
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Kornél Mundruczó
script Kornél Mundruczó,
Viktória Petrányi
production Viktória Petrányi,
Eszter Gyárfás
music Asher Goldschmidt
camera Marcell Rev.
cut Dávid Jancsó
occupation

Underdog (original title: Fehér isten , partly on TV as White God ) is a film drama by the Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó from 2014 . The strip opened in German cinemas on June 26, 2015 .

action

When Lili's mother and her new partner travel to Australia for three months , Lili is supposed to move in with her father during this time. He is not at all enthusiastic that Lili's mixed breed dog Hagen should also move in with him. In Hungary you have to pay higher taxes for mixed breeds, which is why many people give their mixed breed dogs to the animal shelter.

During the rehearsal of the school orchestra, in which Lili plays the trumpet , Hagen disturbs and Lili leaves the orchestra. Then Lili's father unceremoniously releases the animal on a busy street.

Hagen meets more street dogs in a vacant lot in the city, until they all have to flee from the dog catchers. A beggar hides it and then sells it to a takeaway owner who deals in fighting dogs. A former prisoner buys Hagen and uses training and chemicals to make him a fighting dog . In the first fight, Hagen can defeat his opponent and then flee.

Finally, Hagen is brought to the shelter by dog ​​catchers, where he is to be euthanized. However, he can overwhelm a shelter employee and escape with hundreds of other dogs. A campaign of revenge by the dogs on their tormentors follows, led by Hagen .

In the slaughterhouse there is a showdown between Lili with her father and Hagen with his army of dogs. When Hagen threatens Lili with a growl, she pulls her trumpet and plays the song with which she used to get Hagen to sleep. Little by little, Hagen and his dogs lie down peacefully. Lili and her father do the same.

background

Up to 280 dogs were sometimes used for the film sequences. In contrast to many Disney films, they are not “anthropomorphized reflections of humans”, so that they neither speak in a computer-animated manner, nor do human-controlled movements.

The story of Underdog is based on the film White Dog . The camera tells from two perspectives, “the sublime and the submissive. That of the dogs and that of the people, that of the victims and that of the perpetrators. "

Reviews

Filmstarts praises the director's performance and writes: “Without the help of computers (!) He shows us hundreds of dogs that are taking power in Budapest . They chase through the streets, dodging obstacles with wit and intelligence and take revenge for all the injustice and hardship that they endured by people. This is not only spectacularly and grippingly staged, but also a fitting allegory, hardly claused in anti-mixed race legislation, for example, of the political situation in today's Hungary, where minorities of all kinds are increasingly exposed to aggressive persecution. "

Awards

  • In Cannes in 2014, the film won the main prize in the Un Certain Regard series under the title White God .
  • 2014: Palm Dog Award
  • 2015: Award for the best film and award for the best camera for White God at the 5th Festival of Central European Film MECEFF in Mediaș, Romania

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for underdog . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 594 K).
  2. ↑ Katja Nicodemus: Bite your hand! at zeit.de, accessed on November 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ underdog at longtake.de, accessed on 14 November 2016th
  4. ↑ Film review at filmstarts.de, accessed on November 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kate Muir: Inglorious Barksters - White God wins the Palm Dog award at Cannes. The Times , May 26, 2014, accessed September 4, 2016 .