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Kimliksiz

Unknown

Movie · 2011 · 15 people

Didier van Cauwelaert's 2003 French novel became the basis of Kimliksiz, released internationally as Unknown, a 2011 action thriller directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and adapted by Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell. It follows a man who wakes from a coma to find that nobody recognises him. A German-British-Japanese co-production, it opened in the US on 18 February and in Turkey on 22 April 2011. Reviews were mixed, but it grossed about $136 million worldwide against a $30 million budget.

The story begins in Berlin. Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) arrives with his wife for a conference, is hurt in a taxi crash and wakes four days later to find that his wife Elizabeth (January Jones) does not know him, while another man (Aidan Quinn) claims to be Harris. The police dismiss him and unknown pursuers close in and his only ally is the taxi driver from the crash, the illegal immigrant Gina (Diane Kruger). Bruno Ganz, Frank Langella and Sebastian Koch complete the cast, and Turkish-German actor Adnan Maral appears briefly as a taxi driver.

Joel Silver, Leonard Goldberg and Andrew Rona produced it with Dark Castle Entertainment and StudioCanal, and John Ottman composed the score. It marked the first collaboration between Neeson and Collet-Serra and screened out of competition in Berlin.

DirectorJaume Collet-Serra
Production companyDark Castle Entertainment
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Adnan Maral Adnan Maral Actor · 58 years old Taksi Sürücüsü Kida Khodr Ramadan Kida Khodr Ramadan Actor · 50 years old Liam Neeson Diane Kruger January Jones Aidan Quinn Frank Langella Bruno Ganz Sebastian Koch Karl Markovics Mido Hamada Stipe Erceg Rainer Bock Eva Löbau Petra Schmidt-Schaller

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

The premise is a great hook: you wake up after a crash, nobody knows you, and someone else is going by your name. With the police not believing him, every move by a man left alone against unknown pursuers gets riskier. Because the uncertainty and the chases are woven together, the tension rarely lets up. A good evening pick for anyone after a fast-moving thriller that also makes you think a little.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Collet-Serra builds the idea of lost identity on the legacy of the classic paranoia thriller: a world in which the hero doubts his own reality and institutions refuse to believe him. The first part works through that uncertainty patiently and uses Berlin as a cold, alien maze. In my view the reason for the mixed reviews lies in the second half: as the investigation turns into an action thriller, the psychological tension it has built gives way to the genre's familiar solutions. Still, roughly $136 million in takings on a $30 million budget proves how strong the premise was, and as the first Neeson–Collet-Serra collaboration it's an interesting starting point.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

A tense thriller: a car crash, a pursuit, danger and a story where it's unclear who can be trusted. Not suitable for young children; it can feel both frightening and confusing. Fine to watch together with teenagers, and its puzzling plot can even spark a family conversation afterwards. That the hero's only ally is an undocumented immigrant taxi driver is also a detail worth talking about.

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