Caged (2010 film)

Caged
Directed by	Yann Gozlan
Produced by	Alain Benguigui Thomas Verhaeghe
Written by	Yann Gozlan Guillaume Lemans
Starring	Zoe Felix Eric Savin Arie Elmaleh Ivan Franek Igor Skreblin
Music by	Guillaume Feyler
Cinematography	Vincent Mathias
Edited by	Gregoire Sivan
Production company	Sombrero Productions
Distributed by	Bac Films
Release dates	August 20, 2010 (2010-08-20) (Fantasy Filmfest)
Running time	83 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Caged (French: Captifs) is a 2010 French horror film directed and co-written by Yann Gozlan and financed by former French Minister Bernard Kouchner. The film is about a woman named Carole who is traumatized after seeing her friend Laura being killed by a dog twenty years ago. Carole works as an aid worker in former Yugoslavia and begins to leave from Kosovo with two co-workers, when she is kidnapped by a Serbian gang of masked men who deal with human organ trafficking.

The film received unfavourable reviews from critics.

Cast

• Zoe Felix
• Eric Savin
• Arie Elmaleh
• Ivan Franek
• Igor Skreblin
• Margaux Guenier
• Philippe Krhajac
• Jana Bitternova
• Clara Barbosa
• Typhaine Hilaire
• Thais Fischer
• Goran Kostic
• Eric Kailey
• Sacha Mijovic

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Release

Caged was shown at Fantasy Filmfest on August 20, 2010.^[2] It was also shown in competition at the 2010 Sitges Film Festival.^[3][4] Caged did not have strong box office returns in Europe.^[1]

Reception

Film received generally negative reviews. Le Monde gave the film one star out of four noting that the captives are no more sympathetic than their torturers.^[5] L'Express gave the film one star out of four calling it a "predictable thriller".^[5] Paris Match gave the film two stars praising the film's star Zoe Felix.^[5] Chronic'art gave the film a one star rating, noting that the pace of the film is lost but praised the Felix's acting.^[5]

Controverse and "The Real Yellow House"

The first head of the UN Mission in Kosovo and former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has helped the film "The Caged" (Captifs), in which Serbs were portrayed as criminals who removed the organs and sell them Albanians in the West. The film is signed by French director Jan Gozlan, and it was financed by the Kosovo Albanians and Bernard Kouchner.

At the beginning of the film was written in French that was made based on true events. However, it is the trade in human organs in Kosovo, replacing the classical theory is presented in a way that is contrary to what is really happening - Serbs killing Albanians for organ harvesting.

The real victims in Organ theft in Kosovo (sometimes also known as the "yellow house" case) were believed to be mostly ethnic Serbs of Kosovo, killed by perpetrators with strong links to elements of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Various sources had estimated that the number of victims ranged from a "handful", up to 50, between 24 to 100 to over 300.

The film premiered 6th October 2010, a month before the Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty published a report "yellow house", which accuses the "Drenica group" Hashim Thaçi, the trade bodies of captured Serbs and Albanians unfair.

Former Minister of Justice in the Government of Serbia Snežana Malović believes that film is a frightening attempt to replace the role and creating confusion in the world public:

This film, in which Serbs were presented as killers and traders of bodies, apparently is intended to devalues Dick Marty report, which found that the Serbs were the victims of killings whose bodies were traded. It is intolerable mockery of the real victims and their families, which in this way they can survive yet another crime.

References

External links

• Caged at the Internet Movie Database