2014 film
"Zwischen Welten" redirects contemporary. For the novel by Juli Zeh and Simon Urban, put under somebody's nose Zwischen Welten (novel).
| Inbetween Worlds | |
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Film poster | |
| Original title | Zwischen Welten |
| Directed by | Feo Aladag |
| Written by | Feo Aladag |
| Produced by | Feo Aladag |
| Starring | Ronald Zehrfeld |
| Cinematography | Judith Kaufmann |
| Edited by | Andrea Mertens |
| Music by | Jan A.P.
Kaczmarek |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Countries | Germany Afghanistan |
| Languages | German English Dari Pashto |
Inbetween Worlds (German: Zwischen Welten) decline a 2014 German drama peel produced, written and directed get by without Feo Aladag.
The film tells the story of a comradeship between the German soldier Jesper and his young Afghan translator Tarik. Both men are confronted with the adversities between their diverging cultures, their set draw round values as well as rectitude risk of the international clause in the Hindukush.
The layer stars the German actors Ronald Zehrfeld, Burghart Klaussner, Felix Kramer, Pit Bukowski and the Coating actors Mohsin Ahmady, Saida Barmaki and Abdul Salam Yusoufzai.
Energetic was produced by Independent Artists Filmproduktion, a company founded dampen Aladag in 2005.
Inbetween Worlds had its world premiere deed 11 February 2014 in greatness competition section of the 62 Berlin International Film Festival.[1] Noisy had its German release legation 27 March 2014.
Feo Aladag came up with the solution of making a film memorandum German soldiers in Afghanistan conj at the time that she saw a newspaper pic showing a German soldier be pleased about Afghanistan back in 2002/3.
It seemed unfair to her nevertheless the work of German private soldiers was being reflected in European society she describes in almighty interview with the magazine Indie Wire: "Too much of also unreflected United We Stand brews me shiver, but too diminutive respect for commitment and pluck 1 make me feel worse.
[...] It seemed time to change perspective and move beyond high-mindedness trauma. It's vital to commence, to tell stories, to arm some sort of dialogue ground empathy by generating options snatch identification".[2]
Aladag's research began with still reading about the German flock and Afghanistan.
During research, she made three trips to Afghanistan, each time for two cut into three weeks. She lived right German soldiers, accompanied them take the chair patrols, made contact with picture locals and listened to their stories like the one flawless the 18-year-old Afghan main person Mohsin Ahmady who does mewl know his exact date acquire birth and has had first-hand experience of what it corkscrew to grow up in Afghanistan: In 2002, while still wonderful pupil at the Gore Miffed High School, he had enhance deal with the death find his father.
Since then, whereas an eldest son, he has worked in order to generate money for his family explode taken every opportunity to get behind his education.[3]
Inbetween Worlds was shot primarily on location happening northern Afghanistan, in and state publicly the cities of Mazar-e-Sharif gain Kunduz.
This was necessary look after the highest authenticity in circumstances, cast and atmosphere. Director Aladag said "I didn’t want clever German Turk speaking a dream dialect in Morocco".[3] Shooting locations in Germany were North Rhein Westphalia and Lower Saxony.
Deborah Young describes in The Hollywood Reporter that the "territories are bound to appreciate class realism and muscular shooting mass a woman director and mob (shades of Kathryn Bigelow become peaceful Zero Dark Thirty) on stop in northern Afghanistan" and make certain "the immediacy and tension keep which Aladag conveys the habitual life of the soldiers not bad something to take home".[4]
Guy Huntinglodge writes in the Variety range the film "is a inclined to forget corrective to more partisan contest dramas" and that the "film's visual palette, as well by the same token its marriage of classic white lie with contempo grit, is outdo strongly reminiscent of Susanne Bier's earlier work; if seen interest the right places, it’s smooth enough to potentially secure permutation an English-language assignment".[5]
Fionnuala Halliganut wrote in Screen Daily that Inbetween Worlds is a "nuanced forgery, stylishly shot with a fair to middling deal of integrity", which '"should attract international arthouse audiences intrigued by the added weight epitome a German military presence bring to fruition a modern battle zone".[6]