United 93 (film)

Flight 93 is an American disaster drama from director Paul Greengrass from the year 2006. The film was produced by Universal Pictures and Working Title. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 25, 2006. Theatrical release in Germany was on 1 June 2006.

The film depicts a frame story, the events of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States. Paul Greengrass tries in the movie, the events aboard the real flight UA 93 play as realistic as possible. Moreover, in several scenes is the view of the air traffic controllers, who accompanied the flight of each flight control centers, reproduced realistically.

Action

Be told before and during the flight of United Airlines flight number 93 September 11, 2001 Al- Qaeda terrorists hijacked the plane events. The passengers tried to overpower the terrorists and the plane crashed into a field in Shanksville ultimately in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Nobody survived.

Background

Flight 93 had a budget of 15 million U.S. dollars.

The dialogues and playful illustrations are largely improvised and are intended to convey to the audience the oppressive feeling of being part of the action.

Many U.S. cinemas took the trailer out of the program because moviegoers tears ran out of the halls, and there were cries that it is " too early" is such a film.

Paul Greengrass committed for the film no known actors, but sat on authenticity by making witnesses as well as pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers to actors. Some of the controllers shown in the film were involved in the real events of September 11.

The film was nominated for Best Director and Best Editing at the Academy Awards in 2007 in the categories. In addition to a number of other awards Paul Greengrass won the NSFC Award of the National Society of Film Critics 2007 Best Director.

The German -speaking first television took place on September 9, 2008 in SF DRS and ZDF, two days before the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Following the ZDF presented the associated documentary " Flight 93 - The documentary" by Carl- Ludwig Paeschke and Uli Weidenbach.

There is another TV movie with a similar name ( Flight 93 - Death flight on September 11 ) by Peter Markle, which ran in the U.S. television in 2006. In Germany it was first released on DVD on 10 September 2009 and first aired on VOX. He is very similar to the one here film.

Reviews

" The aufwühlendste and most compelling film of the year. "

" From the Irishman Paul Greengrass ('The Bourne Ultimatum ') in the style of a docudrama largely improvised, the thrilling minutes that held the face of America forever altered, sober and without any sensationalism. A film full of exorcistic force. "

Roger Ebert recognized the strengths of the film is that he let the whole process ( "big picture" ) give " not " recognize no correlations and prehistory (s) aufzeige that the terrorists are depicted as humans, and there is as little heroes.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times referred to a " schläfentrümmernde, sensor- demanding style, which can cause headaches and tears " ( " temple- pounding, sensory - overloading way did can provoke tears and a headache ").

The denigration of the German passenger Christian Adams, as cowardly Abwiegler was particularly criticized in British media largely ignored in the U.S. and hardly noticed in Germany due to the synchronization.

2006 in film Screenplay Tim Bevan Eric Fellner Film score John Powell Barry Ackroyd Clare Douglas Richard Pearson (film editor) United Airlines Flight 93 Accidents and incidents in aviation Shanksville, Pennsylvania VOX (TV channel)
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