Who is Hanna?

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Movie
German title Who is Hanna?
Original title Hanna
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Country of production Germany , United Kingdom , United States
original language English , German
Short dialogues: Italian , Spanish , Arabic , French
Publishing year 2011
length 111 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 12
Rod
Director Joe Wright
script Seth Lochhead
production Leslie Holleran
Marty Adelstein
Scott Nemes
music The Chemical Brothers
camera Alwin H. Kuchler
cut Paul Tothill
occupation
synchronization

Who is Hanna? is a German-British-American action thriller with road movie and coming-of-age elements from 2011 . Directed by Joe Wright . The main character of Hanna is played by Saoirse Ronan . Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana also play leading roles.

Saoirse Ronan , 2011

action

16-year-old Hanna Heller lives with her father Erik in a forest in Finland near the Arctic Circle. In the opening scene of the film, Hanna hunts a deer in winter with a bow and arrow, but she does not kill it. She finally gives the dying animal a catch shot with the pistol and says: "I missed your heart."

During their time together in Finland, Erik taught his daughter all kinds of techniques, from armed and unarmed combat to different languages ​​and general knowledge of the world and different cultures. All with the aim of avenging the death of her mother - and Erik's wife - by the CIA agent Marissa Wiegler. Hanna has never had contact with the modern outside world and therefore knows no electricity, no music, and she is also unfamiliar with how one behaves outside of her previously known world. For her later mission she memorized and internalized a false identity. Erik later gives her a radio transmitter; she should decide for herself whether she is willing to use it to reveal her whereabouts. As soon as this happened, the only way of things could end with Hanna's death or that of CIA agent Marissa Wiegler. Hanna uses the transmitter after some hesitation; it sends a signal that is picked up by the CIA.

Wiegler sends a team to take Erik prisoner. During the briefing, she told the others that Erik was a deserted CIA agent whose fingerprints were found on a gun next to the murdered Johanna Zadeck. He knows something that must absolutely be kept secret, so the case cannot be left to Interpol .

When the task force arrives in Finland, Erik has already left. Hanna, who is not expected by the CIA, kills the first two soldiers, but is then captured. She is taken to a facility in Morocco . When their blood is examined, abnormalities are found, but the technicians believe it is a falsified sample. When Hanna says in the cell that she wants to speak to Marissa Wiegler, a doppelganger is sent to her, who - informed through an invisible headset - gives the correct answers when Hanna asks her where she met her father. When the double asks Hanna about Erik's whereabouts, Hanna feigns a crying fit and clings to the woman. When the guards open the cell door, she breaks the fake Marissa's neck , disarms one of the rushing soldiers and shoots the guards down. She doesn’t change a face. The real Marissa follows the whole thing in shock via livestream in Langley . Hanna escapes from the facility in the Moroccan desert. In a flashback, you can see Marissa firing at a moving car in which Erik, two-year-old Hanna and her mother Johanna are. Johanna is fatally injured, but Erik manages to escape with Hanna.

On her escape she meets Sebastian and Rachel as well as their daughter Sophie and son Miles, a tourist family from England. While still in Morocco, she made her first experiences with electricity and modern things in a hotel accommodation. This scares her and she escapes from there.

When she later meets the family again, she tells them that she is alone on the way, as her father values ​​independence. She befriends Sophie and travels as a stowaway on the family bus by ferry to Europe. In the meantime, Marissa has hired the former agent Isaacs to find and capture Hanna. With two accomplices, he follows her trail from Morocco to Spain, where he finds Hanna on a campsite with Sophie's family. Meanwhile, Erik arrives in Denmark swimming across the sea and kills two policemen on the shore who want to make him a suspect. In an inn by the sea he receives a card sent by Hanna from Morocco with the words: "The witch is dead", because Hanna believes that she has fulfilled her mission and killed Marissa Wiegler.

While Marissa searches for Erik Hanna's grandmother and shoots her after a short conversation, Erik arrives in Berlin by bus. In an underpass in front of the central bus station , Erik is attacked by several men, all of whom he kills. Via one of her radios, he learns that he should be brought before Wiegler for identification after his capture, and realizes that she is still alive. Erik then tracks her down in a hotel. After an exchange of fire through a closed door, Marissa escapes through a window.

Meanwhile, Isaacs and his cronies follow the family from the campsite until they stop in a parking lot. Hanna leaves the bus in a hurry because she has noticed the pursuers in the rearview mirror of the car and does not want to endanger the family any further, and is chased by Isaacs and his accomplices. During the pursuit in a container terminal , she kills one of Isaacs' two henchmen and then escapes. Marissa interrogates Sophie's arrested family and moves her son to tell her that Hanna's actual destination is Berlin . Meanwhile, Hanna continues her journey on a cargo ship.

In Berlin, as previously arranged with her father, Hanna goes to Wilhelm Grimm's house in the closed “ Spreepark ” theme park and meets the eccentric Knepfler, a former friend of Erik, who lives there and is already expecting her. He provides Hanna with an ID card without a picture, to which she reacts in surprise and asks why she needs a piece of paper to know who she is. While he then prepares waffles for her and dances wildly to the music, the two are surprised by Marissa and her gang of thugs. Hanna can escape to the upper floor in time, where she hides under a bed. She learns from the conversation between Isaacs and Marissa, who joins them, that she is not Erik's biological daughter and that Wiegler is still alive. Knepfler is killed with arrows by Marissa's men. Marissa herself is pulled from the house by a phone call from her supervisor before she can find Hanna. She makes her way to an internet café to learn more about DNS and the research into it with the help of the internet . Then, looking for the name "Erik Heller", she comes across the information that the police are still wanted for the alleged murder of Johanna Zadeck. In the process, she also finds out that her grandmother lives in the Heizinger Block house.

Once there, she enters her grandmother's apartment through the balcony and sees the picture of her mother on the wall, which was hit by the bullet with which Marissa killed her grandmother. A short time later, Erik joins them, whom Hanna confronts about his fatherhood. He explains the real background of her existence to her: Hanna is the daughter of a woman who was recruited by the CIA in front of an abortion clinic . As part of a project, the fetal DNA was modified to make them stronger, faster, and immune to feelings like fear and pain, creating the perfect soldier. The project was ended by Marissa, and all women and children involved should be killed. Erik, who didn't want to let anything happen to Hanna and her mother, fled with them. Marissa killed Hanna's mother and Erik took care of the daughter. With the aim of hiding her from the CIA and training her for a later revenge on Marissa, he lived with her for years in hiding in Finland.

Then Hanna gets into an argument with Erik about his lies, which turns into a fight. They are interrupted when Marissa, Isaacs, and the remaining henchman arrive. Erik distracts her so that Hanna can escape. He manages to kill Isaacs and his bat, but he is shot by Marissa. Marissa follows Hanna back to the amusement park. The two end up facing each other. Hanna is shot by Marissa, but in return shoots an arrow that killed Knepfler with an improvised bow at Marissa. The arrow hurts her upper body and she runs away from Hanna. She falls on the descent of a disused water slide and remains seriously injured. Hanna shoots her with the words from the beginning of the film: "I missed your heart."

Locations

Berlin, ZOB, underpass Messe Nord - location for the film Who is Hanna?

The film was shot in the following locations:

TV series

In 2017 it became known that Amazon was working on a series for the film called Hanna . This can be seen on the Prime Video streaming service since February 3, 2019 .

Reviews

The Rotten Tomatoes review collection lists 223 reviews, 71 percent of which are positive. The average rating is 6.88 out of 10 points.

Hanna is good, sound filmmaking. It depends on the stylistic order and discipline, a clear story map and ingenious action sequences. It is not all banging and flashing.

“ Hanna is good, coherent film craft. It is based on a sense of style and discipline, an elaborate plot and sophisticated action sequences. He doesn't just line up special effects. "

- Roger Ebert

“Furiously staged action film, in which the convincing actors cannot hide the insubstantiality of the characters and the story. The craft of killing is also played down into an exciting course. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Unfortunately, this work by Joe Wright [...] is a half-baked mixture of an agent thriller, an initiation story, adventure film and family drama, which is also staged for too long. Despite the good actors, the strange construct of the story is flawed everywhere. More could have been made of the topic. "

- prism

“With a sense of rhythm, Wright threads almost meditative sequences in which a touching coming-of-age fairy tale story and leading actress Saoirse Ronan can fully unfold. [...] 'Who is Hanna?' is one of those rare fortunes in which exciting genre cinema and art house sensitivity are harmoniously combined. "

- Filmstarts.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Who is Hanna? Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2011 (PDF; test number: 127 679 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Who is Hanna? Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ PNN PNN about background information and Studio Babelsberg as co-producer
  4. ↑ A film star on the Baltic coast. Accessed August 7, 2014
  5. ^ Hanna (2011). In: Rotten Tomatoes. Accessed April 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Roger Ebert: Hanna . Review (english)
  7. ↑ Who is Hanna? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  8. ↑ Who is Hanna? , prisma.de
  9. ↑ Who is Hanna? , filmstarts.de