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Die Welt is an audacious hybrid between fiction and documentary, showing contemporary Tunisia shortly after the Jasmine revolution in 2011.

Abdelhamid Nawara Ilse Heus Judith Van der Meulen Mohsen Ben Hassen Rahma Ben Hassen

Director

Alex Pitstra

Language

English

drama

80 mins   More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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  • Ken Rudolph

    Review by Ken Rudolph ★★½

    A young Tunisian man at the dawn of the Arab Spring revolution loses his job in a DVD pirating emporium. At loose ends, he wanders around, tries and fails to work for his middle-class father, yearns to escape by boat to Italy. The film is shot semi-documentary style, with a hand-held camera. We get a good idea of our hero's state of mind...but only a narrow, side-wise glance at the world around him from his point of view. This was an interesting enough character study to keep me involved; and the ironic ending made the film for me, even if I had seen the exact same ending before.

  • Vadim Rizov

    Review by Vadim Rizov ★★★½

    You should get on Facebook, protag's sister nags; "everyone in Tunisia is on Facebook." "Everyone in Tunisia is unemployed," he snipes back, then tells her she doesn't live in Tunisia, presumably meaning her head's in an internet cloud, oblivious to the social realities around her. Dude can't get a good job, so he works in a shop that burns (presumably pirated) DVDs on demand; in the opening scene, he gives a monologue to a customer asking for Transporters 2 about the film's imperialist tendencies, denigration and simplification of the Arab world, but for a while Alex Pitstra seems to be making a cash-strapped attempt at outdoing Michael Bay for sheer maximalism, swinging the camera around like it's Tree Of LIfe,…