Armistice (film)

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Movie
Original title armistice
Country of production Germany
original language German , English , Arabic
Publishing year 2009
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lancelot of Naso
script Lancelot by Naso
Kai Uwe Hasenheit
Collin McMahon
production Florian Deyle
Martin Richter
Philip Schulz-Deyle
Dario Suter
Christoph Daniel
Marc Schmidheiny
Dirk Hamm (co-producer)
Klaus Dohle
music Oliver Thiede
Jonas Bühler
camera Felix Cramer
cut Vincent Assmann
Kilian from Keyserlingk
Lancelot from Naso
occupation

Armistice is a feature film by the German director Lancelot von Naso , who wrote the script together with Kai Uwe Hasenheit and Collin McMahon. Armistice celebrated its world premiere on August 30, 2009 at the 33rd World Film Festival in Montréal, Canada. The European premiere took place on October 1st, 2009 at the 5th Zurich Film Festival . On October 31, 2009, the armistice celebrated its German premiere at the 43rd Hof International Film Festival and received the German Film Award. As part of the Bavarian Film Prize, Armistice was awarded the Young Producer Prize of the VGF (collecting society for rights to use films) on January 15, 2010. The film was shown in German cinemas from April 1, 2010.

action

In April 2004 the situation in Iraq was tense: officially the war was over, but fighting between the Iraqi insurgents and American troops continued in the Sunni strongholds of the resistance. The Dutch woman Kim, who works for the aid organization Medica Mundi in Baghdad , and the doctor Alain Laroche decide to transport urgently needed medical supplies from Baghdad to Fallujah during a 24-hour ceasefire . They are joined by the young TV journalist Oliver, who sees the dangerous transport as an opportunity for an exclusive story. His much more experienced cameraman Ralf is initially reluctant to take on this risky plan, but eventually gives in to Oliver's request. Together with the Iraqi driver Husam, the five participants form a community of convenience that faces numerous threats during the nerve-wracking journey through a country destroyed by war.

At the destination Fallujah, the dangerous situation comes to a head, and the five different idealists can no longer hide their true motives for this trip from one another. Her car is shot at and Oliver is hit. You drive to a back yard of abandoned houses. Ralf and Husam repair the car, meet an old man with a family who takes them in and helps to repair the car. But when the friends want to drive off, Husam and the old man drive away and the four of them have to run. Halfway through, the friends meet the car again and drive to the hospital.

Here you can see that the hospital on the top floor was destroyed, two doctors were killed and one is seriously injured. Alain takes over the management, Ralf conducts an interview with the seriously injured doctor, and Oliver, Kim, Husam and another doctor take a few wounded people with them from the hospital. The friends think it's over, but on the way they are attacked by resistance terrorists . Husam drives off, but Ralf is hit and killed. Only when they reach the city limits do they notice that Ralf is dead. However, they drive without stopping to Baghdad, where they arrive again in the morning. In the hospital courtyard, Kim and Oliver discuss a few more things. In the last scene you can see the interview Ralf did with the doctor. Ralf says goodbye with the words "thank you".

Historical context

Fallujah, a stronghold of the Sunni resistance in Iraq, was besieged by American troops for several weeks after the official end of the Iraq war in April 2004. The humanitarian situation at that time was catastrophic: food supplies dwindled, the only hospital was destroyed, and even basic medical care for the injured was hardly possible.

background

Armistice is the feature film debut of Lancelot von Naso, who previously made a name for himself mainly for his award-winning short films.

Lancelot von Naso on ceasefire : “The ceasefire is about people who are willing to really risk something to fight for what they believe in: people who are otherwise only heard from in the margins of the news. For me, especially in this day and age, an extraordinary life plan that is well worth telling. "

criticism

“Exciting genre film without major political ambitions, which convinces with its sovereign staging. The war film, of course, increasingly relies more on the action qualities of its story than on a critical examination of the crisis region of Iraq or the role of aid organizations and the media. "

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. cf. WG Peace Research at the University of Kassel "Fallujah and the misery of the civilian population"
  2. cf. Cinefacts article on "Armistice"
  3. ^ Armistice in the Lexicon of International Films
  4. cf. Cut, September 7, 2009
  5. cf. NZZ, 5. October 2009
  6. cf. Movie newspaper. February 24, 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmzeitung.de
  7. cf. Digital Production, January 15, 2010
  8. Winners Prix Italia 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed on October 28, 2011 (PDF; 175 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prixitalia.rai.it

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