New Talent
Feature Film

7500

The number combination 7500 is the international air travel emergency code for a plane hijacking. It’s business as usual in the cockpit of an Airbus A319 before its flight from Berlin to Paris. Co-pilot Tobias Ellis expertly goes through the routine flight preparations. The take-off is smooth. Suddenly, screams can be heard from the cabin. A group of men, including 18-year-old Vedat, try to force their way into the cockpit. A fight between crew and terrorists ensues, and a psychological struggle between saving individual lives and preventing even greater harm is under way. The cockpit door becomes a battle zone and Tobias finds himself in the position of having to decide between life and death.

Data

Category: Feature Film, New Talent
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 90 Min
Release: 10.01.2020
Distribution: Luna Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 16.157
Funding Film Institute: 270.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 45 %
Share of total production costs: 6 %
Co-production: augenschein Filmproduktion (DE, 86%)
International funding: Filmstiftung Nordrhein Westfalen, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderungsanstalt, der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Deutscher Filmförderfonds
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Cologne, Vienna
Shooting time: September - December 2017
Days of shooting: 27
Completion: 20200930
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer Austria: Franz Novotny, Alexander Glehr
Director: Patrick Vollrath
Script: Patrick Vollrath, Ko-Autor*in: Senad Halibasic
DOP: Sebastian Thaler
Editor: Hansjörg Weißbrich
Sound engineer: Erik Seifert (BVFT)
Sound design: Daniel Iribarren
Costume design: Christine Zahn
Set design: Thorsten Sabel
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Tobias Ellis), Omid Memar (Vedat), Aylin Tezel (Gökce), Carlo Kitzlinger (Michael), Murathan Muslu (Kenan), Paul Wollin (Daniel)
Production manager: Peter Kreutz
International distribution: FilmNation Entertainment
Television investment: SWR/ARTE/BR