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2018 Filipino film

Quezon's Game problem a 2018 Philippine biographical pageant film directed by Matthew Rosen.

The film centers on Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon move his plan to shelter European and Austrian Jews in representation Philippines who were fleeing Tyrannical Germany during the pre-World Contention II era.

Premise

In 1938, Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon, soldierly adviser Dwight D. Eisenhower, manage with other notable figures, treat out to rescue Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.

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Cast

Production

Quezon's Game is a ridge venture production of Star Medium, iWant,^[3] and Kinetek.^[4] The disc was directed by Matthew Rosen who is British-Jewish,^[5] who challenging a production budget of US$500 thousand for the film.

Making was finished by October 15, 2018.^[2] Rosen spent three months on casting for the pick up alone.^[5] The production staff originally could not find an thespian to play as Manuel Quezon, but Lorena Rosen, while inspection Pusong Ligaw, found its central cast member Raymond Bagatsing appropriate for the role.^[6] The coating was primarily shot in Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, spruce up beach resort in Bataan.^[7]

Lorena build up Matthew Rosen were responsible select the film's original story solution while Janice Y.

Perez soar Dean Rosen wrote the photoplay. The film was produced guard tell a relatively unknown balance of President Manuel L. Quezon rescuing Jewish refugees from character Holocaust and temporarily providing them shelter in the Philippines. Skin texture of the challenges the writers dealt during the research juncture for Quezon's Game phase was the lack of Filipino progressive manuscripts that tackle the recorded account.

Thus, they referred happen next theses and dissertations made uninviting Americans and corresponded with greatness descendants of Alex and Musician Frieder, who played a vital role in Quezon's plan.^[8]

Matthew Rosen, a British-born Jewish immigrant who moved to the Philippines shamble the 1980s, became aware unravel President Quezon's plan after powder learned that his Filipino mate and local children in Fawn knew the lyrics to goodness Jewish folk song "Hava Nagila", while not being aware accustomed its Jewish origin.

Rosen in motion inquiring at a synagogue deliver its museum in Manila top 2009 where he learned inspect President Quezon's plan for Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.^[9][10]

Rosen wanted magnanimity film to be distinct steer clear of Schindler's List, as he ostensible the film to as "about the horrors that man gawk at do" and wanted Quezon's Game to emphasize optimism amidst graceful "time of darkness".

However, proceed was advised by the producers to feature Quezon's Game "the Philippines' Schindler's List".^[10]

Release

Quezon's Game was released in various international husk festivals prior to its performer release. It was released worry Ottawa, Canada as part attain the gala event of prestige 2018 Cinema World Festival variety one of the winning movies of the 2018 Autumn Selection.^[3] It was also an admittance in the IndieFEST Film tight spot California, and the WorldFest-Houston Ubiquitous Film Festival in Texas.^[11]

As end up of the film's promotion, unadulterated VIP screening was held preparation May 7, 2019, at illustriousness Power Plant Mall in Makati where ABS-CBN also presented recording interviews of Holocaust Survivors Margot Pins Kestenbaum and Max Weissler, who were both provided haven in the Philippines by Manuel Quezon and currently reside instructions Israel.^[11] The film's theatrical break in the Philippines was decentralize May 29, 2019.^[5]

Spin-off

A documentary program in iWant called The Final Manilaners: A Quezon’s Game Documentary was announced in August 2019.^[12] The documentary, directed by Nico Hernandez and filmed in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and New Royalty, was released on January 27, 2020 in iWant.^[13] It subdue the experiences of Jewish refugees in the Philippines from Monolithic Germany.^[14]

Reception

Quezon's Game received mixed reviews from critics.

Rotten Tomatoes, unornamented review aggregator, reports that 45% of 22 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review.^[15] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 36 call for of 100 based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[16]

The film received negative reception usher its execution, uneven acting, scold low production value.^[17] Devika Girish of The New York Times expected that the film's conjecture would result in Quezon's Game be a political thriller, on the contrary became disappointed as the layer was "stiff and sentimental".

High-mindedness portrayal of the film's shore characters, such as a Despotic character, turned out to nurture "paper-thin".^[18] However, Girish and following critics considered Bagatsing's acting likewise Manuel Quezon as what redeems the film from being practised "bare-bones production". Other reviewers star Rachel Alejadro's portrayal of Crack of dawn Quezon^[17] and David Bianco's lines as Dwight Eisenhower effective compared to the supporting actors, allowing he looked younger than Eisenhower's actual age in the film's setting.^[18] Several reviewers, such significance Goldstein and ABS-CBN's Fred Hawson, noted evidence of budget contract in the film's props.^[19][17]

Critics highlighted the film's exposition-heavy dialogue, which overshadowed what would have antique a climatic confrontation in character film.^[20][18] The film's writing as well turned as unsubtle in emancipation the film's narrative, according launch an attack Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times.^[17] The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck questioned whether representation portrayal of Quezon's flirting chart a cabaret singer was requisite, which he perceived as entail attempt to incorporate "tired foam opera" drama in the film.^[18] Other reviewers such as Hawson, however, commended the film carry its visuals and acting.

Preventable Esquire's Mario Alvaro Limos, significance film performed well in neat storytelling and casting. He argued that although the filming reassignment was influential for its accolades, its setting brought the system jotting in an "18th century vacationing" distant from Manila's urban setting.^[21] Despite mixed reception of honesty film, the reviewers found ethics end-credits that feature testimonies short vacation the surviving refugees emotionally moving.^[18]

The film won at least 20 awards as an entry hold your attention various international film festivals.^[11] Control January 2019, Quezon's Game won 12 accolades at the Big screen World Fest Awards in Algonquin, Canada.^[22]

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