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Metallic Blues

Item number (ISN):

388202

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2004

Item number (ISN):

388202

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

PRODUCTIONS BBR INC.

Accession:

2006-0027

Media:

Film

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

2004

Production company:

BBR Productions Inc.
Verete Film-Metro
Gemini Film GmbH and Co. KG
United King Films
Metro Communications

Production credit:

director/producer/script, Danny Verete; producer, Suzanne Girard; Klaus Rettig; Debra Kouri; Sonja Moerkens; Dagmar Niehage; Alain Simard; Jutta Bürsgens; Ilan Sagiv; executive producer, Luc Châtelain; Leon Edery; Moshe Edery; Gerhard Schmidt; coproducer, Miky Rabinovitz; David Silber; photography, Yoram Millo; editing, Rachel Yagil; sound, Jean-Pierre Bissonnette; Ismael Cordeiro; Marc Girard; sound editing, France Leduc; Lucie Fortier; Olivier Asselin; music, Michel Cusson

Cast credit:

Moshe Ivgy, Avi Kushnir, Reut Apota, Tomer Ben David, Harald Burmeister, Ben Cohen, Konstantin Graudus, Christoph Hagen Dittmann, Kalle Haverland, Hannes Hellmann, Lutz Herkenrath, Kai Hufnagel, Stefan Kampwirth, Nilüfer Kiel, Malte Kunstmann, Ulrich Matschoss, Dean Maymon, Hans-Joachim Millies, Rolf Nagel, Lutuf Nuaizer, Trudi Pätz, Marthe Schwiers, Tzufit Shpan, Rita Shukrun, Siegmar Spruch, Carsten Stompel, Atto Suttarp, Renate Tybussek, Oliver Warsitz, Julia Weden, Christopher Zumbült

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Équinoxe Films Inc.

Description:

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METALLIC BLUES is a comedic drama about two misfit Israeli car dealers, Shmuel and Siso. When an Arab customer with a collectible 1985 metallic-blue Lincoln Continental limousine with Québec plates arrives at a small Tel Aviv car dealership, Shmuel, a middle-aged guy who works there, comes up with a brilliant get-rich-quick idea: He and Siso, his unprepossessing partner, will buy the rich Arab's car for $5000 and then transport it to Germany where they will resell it for $50,000 - the model's phenomenal market value as suggested in a respectable auto magazine. Shmuel, a child of Holocaust survivors who speaks thickly accented English, puts pressure on the reluctant Siso, a swarthy-looking Moroccan Jew who has never been to Europe and speaks only Hebrew, to accompany him to the old continent, which the latter, eventually, accepts. Their journey of a lifetime suffers a setback, the first in a long line to follow, when they arrive at German customs. The stark contrast between their schlumpy outfits and luxury car that they drive puts the duo through terrifying search-and-seizure routine before one of the officers suggests that, if they don't want to be hassled everywhere they go, they purchase some clothes that will match their deluxe automobile. In the process of changing their visual aura from two rugged palookas to Western gentlemen, Shmuel forgets his wallet in the soon-closed clothing store and the two misfits are forced to sneak out of their opulent four-star hotel without paying the tab. When the duo takes the limousine to the most reputable car dealer in Hamburg the following day, the vehicle is significantly devalued - although it appears to be in perfect condition, seemingly minor details (mostly replaced and unoriginal bits and pieces) give the dealer a reason to offer far less than the agreed-upon price - sending the luxurious automobile down to $5000, the exact price the two Israelis paid the Arab for it. While the constantly befuddled Sisowants to take the money and run back to his homeland where he feels secure, the stubborn Shmuel decides that he will accomplish what he came to accomplish in Europe. After a series of slapstick tourist mishaps in Germany, the film plunges into murkier waters as the foreign country turns out to be more than the two (anti) heroes have bargained for. The enthusiastic voyage that promised a better future turns into a real nightmare as Shmuel and Siso wind up lost without a bankroll in a strange and savage land, whose restrained, unnaturally polite and disturbingly quiet denizens contrast sharply with their provincial demeanour - Siso's unsophisticated comportment and Shmuel's angry outbursts. Shmuel, who has heard countless horror stories about the Nazi terror during World War 2, starts recalling his parents' frightening memories. Everything in Germany reminds him of the Holocaust and the genocide that destroyed his family - from train whistles and coordinated marching sounds, to gas pipes, police patrols, and a local Jewish motel owner's surrendering disillusionment. As the film indiscretely resurrects the ghost of Deutschland past, what started as the protagonists' innocuous search for profit turns into a misguided crusade for justice in the face of haunting traumas and painful memories. <1h 29mn 41s>

Language:

English / Hebrew / German with English subtitles

Notes:

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1. This film is an Israel-Canada-Germany coproduction, produced with the participation / support of Telefilm Canada; SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles - Québec; The Israel Film Fund; HOT Israel Cable Television Ltd.; FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH.~2. Produced with the support of the Government of Québec - Film and Television Tax Credit administered by SODEC; Government of Canada - The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit; The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports; The Israeli Film Council; The Fund for Promotion of Israeli Films.~3. Produced in association with Astral Media - The Movie Network (TMN); Astral Media - Super Écran (SÉ); Movie Central - A Corus Entertainment Company. ~4. Canadian distribution: Équinoxe Films.~5. International distribution: Warner Bros. Entertainment.~6. Two 35mm film prints, one digital betacam master videocassette, one DVD and one VHS copy of the film received.~7. DVD copy contains optional French audio track and optional French subtitles.

Genre:

COMEDY

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

451579

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2008-03-0714

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

89:41

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

451580

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V8 2008-03-0054

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

89:41

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

451581

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 2008-03-0049

Number of items:

1

Duration:

89:41

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

451817

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2008-04-0095
2008-04-0096
2008-04-0097
2008-04-0098
2008-04-0099

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 2008-03-0049

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Verete Film Productions Ltd., 2004.~Copyright owner: Metro Communications, 2004.~Copyright owner: United King Films, 2004.~Copyright owner: Productions Bleu Blanc Rouge Inc., 2004.~Copyright owner: Gemini Film GmbH and Co. KG, 2004.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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