Colin Farrell saves lives, Sean Penn saves an innocent man, a Russian oligarch only saves Vienna to a limited extent, and Mads Mikkelsen ruins his liver: the film selection at the weekend couldn’t be more different.
1 Thirteen Lives (Saturday, One, 8:15 p.m.)
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The news moved the world in the summer of 2018: 13 teenagers were rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in a sensational rescue operation.
During the monsoon season, a Thai soccer team and their coach went on a trip to the “Tham Luang” cave, an extensive underground cave system in northern Thailand. A sudden monsoon rain caused the water in the cave to rise rapidly, making it impossible to return.
The triumph over the force of nature of a monsoon flood – even if we of course know how it will end: Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton and Viggo Mortensen, directed by Ron Howard (“The Da Vinci Code”, “Apollo 13”), convince in a breathlessly told film drama that makes people come together and spit in their hands, across nationalities, responsibilities and ranks.
2 The International (Saturday, ZDFneo, 10:05 p.m.)
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Interpol agent Louis Salinger and New York prosecutor Eleanor Whitman are on the trail of a powerful bank that is involved in a series of illegal activities.
It’s a high-risk hunt around the globe in which the two also put their own lives at risk. The opponents will stop at nothing – not even murder.
A conspiracy thriller by Tom Tykwer from 2009. The German director has often tried international productions (“Cloud Atlas”, “Heaven”). This atmospherically dense, lurid thriller starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, which critically examines the global connection between politics and the financial market, is one of his best.
3 Caviar (Saturday, 3sat, 11:20 p.m.)
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A Russian oligarch wants to build a villa in the middle of Vienna, modeled on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence – on the Schwedenbrücke. However, his interpreter Nadja and her friends have other plans for the bribe.
The fast-paced feature film debut from the Austro-Russian director Elena Tikhonova as an insider’s look at the Russian chic in Vienna and a fast-paced culture clash comedy.
Also entertaining because one involuntarily thinks of the Ibiza affair that became known in the same year (2019): the publication of a video in which Heinz-Christian Strache, then Vice Chancellor in the Kurz federal government, met an alleged niece of a Russian oligarch in a villa on the Spanish island and revealed his willingness to corrupt and circumvent the laws on party financing.
4 Mystic River (Sunday, Arte, 8:15 p.m.)
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In a working-class neighborhood in Boston, the boys Jimmy and Sean witness their friend Dave being dragged into a car and kidnapped. 25 years later, a tragedy brings them together again: Jimmy’s 19-year-old daughter has been murdered in cold blood.
The oddball Dave, who has never really gotten over his kidnapping, is under suspicion. Sean is now a police officer and tries to solve the crime before Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
Based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane: master director Clint Eastwood shot this dark drama in 2003 about a childhood trauma that still overshadows the lives of the victims years later.
A precise study of the never-ending violence that keeps emerging in the psychological depths of the friends, with stars like Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon and Laurence Fishburne. Eastwood could rely entirely on the acting skills of his actors.
5 The Rush (Sunday, ARD, 11:35 p.m.)
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Is it better to live with a constant alcohol level of 0.5 per mille? The burned-out history teacher Martin wants to find out whether this daring theory from a well-known psychologist is true. He begins a risky experiment with his friends Tommy, Nikolaj and Peter.
Suddenly his teaching even inspires the mutinous graduating class. Martin’s wife Amalie, who has long since mentally said goodbye to him, also experiences Martin as thrillingly as before.
Intoxicated by the initial success, the initiator Peter suggests taking the experiment one step further: perhaps there is “even more” out of it for everyone with an individually higher level?
Mads Mikkelsen shines in the leading role of the globally successful tragicomedy, which won the Oscar for best foreign feature film.
Director Thomas Vinterberg, who accepted the award in Hollywood, remembered his 19-year-old daughter, who was supposed to have played a supporting role and died in a car accident shortly before filming began.