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Exit (2013)

Drama | 90 minutes
3,15 65 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Boris Paval Conen

Stars: Emmanual Ohene Boafo, Romijn Conen and Werner Kolf

IMDb score: 7,6 (80)

Releasedate: 22 March 2013

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Five aliens who have exhausted all legal remedies decide to resist on the night of their deportation. There is too much at stake for the authorities and they are doing everything they can to get the five out of the country after all. This true incident leads to a long night of struggle and intrigue. A night that can only bring losers.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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That English title will refer to the managers who deal with and decide on these matters. The performers just do their job and through excellent playing by Conen you actually get sympathy for those kinds of people (only those Belgian people, what a horror she is). And that is the power of the film, there is something to say for both sides (the people) and then you have to make a choice. With a very restless camera that is not always convincing and very fine editing, we get a great film. This will probably not have been very expensive, but due to inventiveness, the film does not look cheap. The scenes between Dutch people in which sandwiches are passed on speak most for themselves; a routine job for them is pretty much the death penalty for the other. But you have to stay businesslike, otherwise you can never implement the law,

Well, we were once good at the slave trade, that comes in handy now. The singing scene is typical, soul and R&B once emerged from it. And then they are not allowed to use dogs or pepper spray - the Belgian just looks at it all, but handcuffed on the plane as criminals is allowed? Anyway, I've never fully understood why not everyone is free to travel. We are all children of the Earth, you should be allowed to go anywhere except for private property. You may have to work for the right to facilities, but that seems to me to be the most humane solution. 4.0* by the way.

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Donkerwoud

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Unfortunately, this telefilm has received little attention. Which I can also understand somehow, because the subject of 'refugee deportation' fits nicely in the vein of safe and politically correct subjects that telefilm sometimes seems to have a patent on. At first I didn't feel like it myself, and yet it hit me like a sledgehammer in the end.

It manages to make the hopeless situation of refugees painfully palpable with claustrophobic editing and penetrating acting. One criticism is that while the film strives to visualize the human side of these refugees, it remains a bit like they are more of a symbol than real flesh and blood people. The references to the slavery past do not really help. Yet it is an important matter against the background of a climate in which the status of refugees is increasingly threatened. Let there be a lot of discussion about the frayed edges surrounding the deportation of refugees.

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mrklm

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Arjan van Es [Romijn Conen] is leading an operation in which 10 asylum seekers who have exhausted all legal remedies are flown back via Belgium to Nigeria and Guinea respectively. The five men from Guinea join forces and fight tooth and nail against the Marechaussee in the hope that the flight will leave without them and they will have to return to the deportation center. Paints a penetrating and authentic feeling picture of a broadcast, with a convincing Conen as the man torn between compassion and duty. Aided by the strong cast, Conen gives flesh and blood to the asylum seekers. A flaw is the decision to add flashbacks intended to prove that Amadou [Emmanuel Ohene Boafo] is telling the truth. Those scenes are superfluous and interrupt the tension.

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