Border ( French Frontière (s) ) is a French horror film directed by Xavier Hans about a group of young people who were captured by the Nazi family - cannibals living on a border farm. The film premiered on July 1, 2007. The film received an MPAA rating of "NC-17" (for brutal bloody violence).
| Border | |
|---|---|
| Frontière (s) | |
| Genre | horror movie |
| Producer | Xavier Hans |
| Producer | Luc Besson Lauren Tolleron Hubert Bro |
| Author script | Xavier Hans |
| In the main cast | Karina Testa Samuel Le Bian Estelle Lefebure Aurelien Wieck David Sarakino Chems Damany |
| Operator | Laurent Bares |
| Composer | Jean-Pierre Tayeb |
| Film company | |
| Duration | 103 min |
| Budget | $ 3 million |
| A country | France , Switzerland |
| Language | French |
| Year | 2007 |
| IMDb | |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Cast
- 2.1 Robbers
- 2.2 "Family"
- 3 Artistic Features
- 4 References
Story
In France, the far-right candidate wins the election, which provokes unrest and chaos in the French suburbs . Five young people - Tom, Farid, Alex, Sami and his sister Yasmin commit armed robbery. Moving away from the persecution, they engage in a shootout with the police, during which Sami gets a bullet. The robbers decide to split up - Tom and Farid have to go to the side of Holland and stay overnight at a border hotel, while Alex and Yasmin take Sami to the hospital. Yasmin is pregnant by Alex, and before she dies in the lobby of the hospital, Sami asks her to save the child. After that, Yasmin runs away from the hospital guard, and he and Alex go to meet the others.
At this time, Tom and Farid turn to a lonely hotel run by a family of sadists. Tom phone tells Yasmin the address of the hotel, but at that time they are attacked by Karl and Goetz - two members of the family owning the hotel. Farid wounds Karla and the young robbers, having forgotten the bag of money, are fleeing from the hotel by car. An enraged Goetz pursues them and pushes them into the well of an abandoned mine. Farid and Tom get out of the car and through the hole enter the old bunker, where Tom is immediately attacked by Hans - another member of the family. At this time, Yasmin and Alex get to the hotel, where they are also captured by the family. They are chained in a pigsty, but Yasmin manages to escape. Goetz later picks her up on the road and forces her back into the house. Then family members kill Alex. Trying to escape, Farid gets into the boiler room and Hans cooks him alive.
The family is commanded by an old Nazi named von Geisler. His children are subordinate to him - Hilbert and Karl, as well as the rest of the Goetz family, Claudia, Hans and his bride Eva - a quiet, neurotic girl. Eve continuously gives birth to Hans children - that is why she, in due time, was left alive. But the children are born sick, and Hans and Eve hide them away from von Geisler in the mines and feed the remains of hotel guests. The next day, Eva takes Yasmine to a gala dinner for the whole family, where von Geisler makes a speech about the purity of blood and at the same time the need for its renewal, declares Karl the new head of the family, and Yasmin - his bride. Yasmin grabs a knife from the table and takes von Geisler hostage, the brothers take her to the sight, but von Geisler orders them to lower their weapons. Despite this, Hans shoots and kills von Geisler, and Karl, in turn, kills Hans.
Yasmin runs away and hides from his family in the mines. Karl and Goetz pursue her, but she manages to kill Goetz with the help of an ax and a circular saw , and Eve, wanting to help the girl, kills Karl. Yasmin is attacked by the survivors of Claudia and Hilbert. In a shootout, a bullet hits a gas cylinder and Claudia dies from the explosion. After Yasmin in a fight, he kills Hilbert and leaves the farm. Eve refuses to go, saying she will not abandon her children. Sitting in the car, Yasmin clings to his stomach and screams hysterically, realizing that the child has died. On the way, the police stop her, Yasmin gets out of the car and surrenders to the policeman, raising his hands up.
Cast
Robbers
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Karina Testa | Yasmin |
| Aurelien Wieck | Alex |
| David Sarakino | Tom |
| Chems Damany | Farid |
| Adele Bensheriff | Themselves |
Family
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Jean-Pierre Jorry | von geisler |
| Samuel Le Bian | Goetz |
| Estelle Lefebure | Hilbert |
| Maud Forge | Eve |
| Amelie Dore | Claudia |
| Joel Lefransua | Hans |
| Patrick Ligarde | Charles |
Artistic Features
In addition to elements of slasher , the film contains elements of political satire on the far right . So, at the beginning of the film, a nationalist politician running for president of France provokes unrest, and the head of the “family” von Geisler speaks almost exclusively with Nazi clichés, alternating between French and German and not really caring about the meaning of what was said.
Links
- Official website (France)
- Official website (US)
- Frontier (s) on the Internet Movie Database
- Frontier (s ) on the Rotten Tomatoes website
- Frontier (s ) on the Metacritic website
- Frontier (s ) on the allmovie website