ZULU: PROTAGONISTA, CON ORLANDO BLOOM E FOREST WHITAKER, IL SUD AFRICA

Dal 66. Festival del Cinema di CANNES - PROSSIMAMENTE

"Actually though, I do love this genre. But that doesn’t mean I’m destined to only make detective films. I'm going to set myself the challenge of trying to make a gun-free film next time! I do love watching this type of film though. One of my favourite directors is Jean-Pierre Melville and he’s no doubt had an influence on my work... One of the trickiest aspects was the language. Directing actors is a complex job. On the set, I needed to use exactly the right words to get across my ideas and feelings, in English obviously, and that was a bit frustrating for me. My vocabulary felt like a twelve year old’s, whereas I wanted to avoid giving out overly crude instructions...I almost didn’t make the film because I was afraid that it wasn’t going to be legitimate for me to talk about South African and Apartheid in a country that wasn’t my own. To make up for it, I spent a lot of time out there. I was keen to keep the number of French people involved to a minimum and so we took on a number of South African production directors and actors. I didn't feel unsafe at any time. It’s important to remember that the poor are the ones who suffer most from violence. It doesn’t tend to affect well-off white people residing in Cape Town’s wealthy neighbourhoods...In the book and the film, South Africa is just as much a character in the film as the two heroes. Rather than being a film about Apartheid, it’s about the difficulties human beings or entire societies experience as they live through a trauma... It was essential for me to ring true. Authenticity in a film is a matter of detail: the way people greet each other, the way they kiss".
Il regista e co-sceneggiatore Jérôme Salle

(Zulu; FRANCIA 2013; Thriller; 110'; Produz.: Eskwad/Pathé)

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Titolo in italiano: Zulu

Titolo in lingua originale: Zulu

Anno di produzione: 2013

Anno di uscita: 2013

Regia: Jérôme Salle

Sceneggiatura: Jérôme Salle e Julien Rappeneau

Soggetto: Dall'omonimo romanzo di Caryl Ferey.

Cast: Orlando Bloom (Brian Epkeen)
Forest Whitaker (Ali Sokhela)
Tanya van Graan (Tara)
Natasha Loring (Marjorie)
Sven Ruygrok (David Epkeen)
Adrian Galley (Nils Botha)
Conrad Kemp (Dan Fletcher)
Roxanne Prentice (Judith Botha)
Tinarie van Wyk Loots (Claire Fletcher)
Dean Slater (Rick)
Kelsey Egan (Nicole Weiss)
Richard Lothian (Poliziotto KZN)

Musica: Alexandre Desplat

Scenografia: Laurent Ott

Fotografia: Denis Rouden

Montaggio: Stan Collet

Effetti Speciali: Cordell McQueen (supervisore)

Casting: Mito Skellern

Scheda film aggiornata al: 03 Giugno 2013

Sinossi:

Nel Sud Africa post-Apartheid una coppia di agenti di polizia sudafricani è chiamata a investigare sull'omicidio della diciottenne Nicole Wiese, figlia di un ex campione del mondo di rugby in forza agli Springbok. L'inchiesta è difficile e non decolla. A peggiorare la situazione salta fuori un secondo cadavere di un'altra ragazza bianca che porta sul corpo i sanguinosi segni di rituali zulù. Cosa sta succedendo? E da dove viene la droga sconosciuta trovata nel sangue delle vittime? I due poliziotti scoprono a poco a poco qualcosa di terribile: le miserabili township sudafricane rappresentano l'ideale terra di nessuno per multinazionali senza scrupoli. Ma c'è dell'altro: anche se l'apartheid è sparito dalla scena politica, antichi e spietati nemici continuano ad agire all'ombra della riconciliazione nazionale.

SYNOPSIS:

As a child, Ali Neuman narrowly escaped being murdered by Inkhata, a militant political party at war with Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. Only he and his mother survived the carnage of those years. But as with many survivors, the psychological scars remain. Today, Ali is chief of the homicide branch of the South African police in Cape Town. One of his staff is Brian Epkeen, a free-wheeling white officer whose family was originally involved in the establishment of apartheid but who works well with Neuman. Together they have to deal with crime that inevitably exists in sprawling areas of un -and under- employed people, crime exacerbated by gangs, both local and from other parts of Africa. Their job gets even more difficult when the corpses of two young women are found. A new evil has been introduced in the city and a new drug has been introduced to its residents, including both murder victims. At the chaotic crossroads where brutality and modernization collide, the echoes of...