Year: 2011
Duration: 100'
Jakarta, Indonesia. An apartment building that is impregnable to the police is a hideout for thieves, murderers and rapists. A SWAT team has to storm the building and arrest its owner, Tama, a well-known and powerful drug king. The team moves into action at the break of dawn and manages to enter the building but, when their cover is blown, they find themselves trapped and besieged, with all the entrances blocked and the entire building against them. Their mission becomes a fight for survival, room by room, floor by floor. “When we sent our location manager, we specifically asked to find an old building that could be fitting to set the scenes of the film. When we went to see the building we found which we end up shooting the film in, we were so pleased with how the building looked both for its exterior and interior. It was an old building dated back to 1950s and its lifts, tall glass windows, stone and metal staircases in the building showed authenticity without giving much specific date or place where the story was set in.”
Biography
film director
Gareth Huw Evans
Gareth Huw Evans (Uk) directed the Indonesian action movie Merantau in 2009 and The Raid in 2011, presented at that year’s Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, editing
Gareth Huw Evans
fotografia/cinematography
Matt Flannery
scenografia/production design
Moti D. Setyanto
musica/music
Fajar Yuskemal, Aria Prayogi
suono/sound
Fajar Yuskemal, Aria Prayogi, Bonar Abraham, Sandika Widjaja
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Iko Uwais (Rama), Doni Alamsyah (Andi), Yayan Ruhian (Mad Dog), Ray Sahetapy (Tama), Joe Taslim (Jaka)
produttore/producer
Ario Sagantoro
produzione/production
Merantau Films, Xyz Films
distribuzione/distribution
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