Aircraft thriller "7500" celebrates world premiere at 72nd Locarno Festival on August 9

At 9. August präsentiert der Oscar-nominierte Regisseur Patrick Vollrath seinen neuen Film „7500“ vor 8.000 Zuschauern auf der Piazza Grande in Locarno – in Anwesenheit von Hollywood-Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Mit „7500“, der zu großen Teilen in den MMC Studios gedreht wurde, ist Patrick Vollrath ein hochspannender, intensiver Thriller gelungen, der ausschließlich im Cockpit spielt.

In international aviation, the number combination 7500 is the emergency code for a hijacked aircraft.

A flight from Berlin to Paris. Everyday work in the cockpit of an Airbus A319. Co-pilot Tobias Ellis (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) routinely prepares the plane for takeoff. The takeoff goes smoothly, as usual. But then shouting is heard in the cabin. A group of young men, among them eighteen-year-old Vedat (Omid Memar), try to break into the cockpit. A battle begins between crew and attackers, a tug-of-war between the desire to save individual lives and avert even greater harm. The cockpit door becomes the battlefield and Tobias finds himself in the position of having to decide between life and death...

Patrick Vollrath, who won numerous international awards for his short film "Alles wird gut" and received an Oscar® nomination, wrote in collaboration with Senad Halilbasic auch das Drehbuch zu seinem Langfilmdebüt ‚7500‘. In der Hauptrolle brilliert Hollywood-Star Joseph Gordon-Levitt (SNOWDEN, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER). Playing alongside him are Aylin Tezel (ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND, AM HIMMEL DER TAG, „Tatort“) und der Newcomer Omid Memar (DER FALL COLLINI, FÜNF FREUNDE 4, „Tatort“, „M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder“).

7500 at MMC Studios
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Patrick Vollrath on the set of "7500" at MMC Studio 37 © MMC Studios / Hans-Jörg Seibold

Besides shooting on an airplane set in the MMC Studio 37 in Cologne, filming also took place in Mönchengladbach and Vienna.

The film is a Production from augenschein film production (Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo) in co-production with Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion (Franz Novotny and Alexander Glehr), SWR, BR and ARTE.

„7500“ wurde promoted by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, DFFF, BKM, FFA Filmförderungsanstalt, MFG, FFHSH, ÖFI, the Vienna Film Fund and FISA.

The Kinostart in Deutschland ist für Anfang 2020 im Verleih von Universum Film geplant.

Cover photo: Tobias Ellis (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in the cockpit. © Universum Film

 

 

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