Volt (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | volt |
| Country of production |
Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tarek Ehlail |
| script | Tarek Ehlail |
| production |
Jonas Katzenstein , Maximilian Leo |
| music | Alec Empire |
| camera | Mathias Prause |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
| occupation | |
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Volt is a dystopian police thriller by director Tarek Ehlail from 2016. It premiered on June 24, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on February 2, 2017.
action
The German external borders will be closed in the near future. Migrants are banished to remote transit zones that have become slums and left to their own devices. During a police raid, the police officer Volt and the refugee Hesham, who is killed by Volt, fight. Volt can leave the area unseen. Because he was plagued by guilt, he went back to the camp in plain clothes and met the victim's sister, Lablanche, there. They start an affair.
He confesses to the murder and hands her his service weapon so that she can take revenge on him. But she doesn't shoot him because she doesn't want the whole world to only talk about the "dead bull" afterwards. She throws the gun to the ground, where it is later found by a young refugee.
background
The director Tarek Ehlail was inspired by the unrest in France in 2005 . The film premiered on June 24, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was shown on TV for the first time on July 5, 2018 at Arte .
criticism
On Spiegel Online , Andreas Borcholte criticizes that the film does not “ignite” because every nuance is suffocated under the weight of the “undisguised morality of the plot”. Nevertheless, the film sets "a welcome antithesis to other German investigative dramas in terms of aesthetics alone." Borcholte sums up: "Ehlail asks the brand-new question of what emotional leeway a police officer has when he functions as a tool of a ruthless society."
References
- Volt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Volt at filmportal.de
- Website volt-film.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Volt . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Felix Zwinzscher: "AfD members celebrated my film". Die Welt , February 4, 2017, accessed July 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Andreas Borcholte: The bull heart as a murder pit. Der Spiegel , February 3, 2017, accessed on July 14, 2018 .