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Film de fiction avec Isaach de Bankolé dans le rôle principal basé sur une histoire vraie. Stuttgart, Allemagne. Un simple contrôle de ticket dans le tramway déclenche le drame: Frederic Otomo, demandeur d’asile d’Afrique de l’Ouest, est saisi par la panique et prend la fuite après avoir bousculé les agents qui venaient de l’interpeller. La chasse à l’homme commence… Un fi lm qui explore le racisme institutionnalisé, la xénophobie et la déshumanisation qui en résulte.

 

A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. In the summer of 1989, a Stuttgart newspaper reported the true story of a West African asylum seeker who physically assaulted an intolerant subway ticket-taker; fled, and became the target of a city-wide manhunt. Otomo is a sober, fictionalized reconstruction of a tale that shocked Stuttgart, and a gripping portrait of how institutionalized racism drives a disempowered individual to violence and inhumanity.

  • Year
    1999
  • Runtime
    84 minutes
  • Language
    German
  • Country
    Germany
  • Premiere
    1999
  • Rating
    NR
  • Note
    VOSF
  • Director
    Frieder Schlaich
  • Screenwriter
    Klaus Pohl, Frieder Schlaich
  • Producer
    Thomas Lechner, Claudia Tronnier, Irene von Alberti
  • Filmmaker
    Frieder Schlaich
  • Cast
    Isaach De Bankolé, Eva Mattes, Hanno Friedrich
  • Cinematographer
    Volker Tittel
  • Editor
    Magdolna Rokob
  • Production Design
    Anne Schlaich
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