The Hamburg Cell (2004) (TV)

Director:

Antonia Bird

Writers:

Ronan Bennett (writer)
Alice Perman (writer)

Release Date:

10 January 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

A fictionalized account of the September 11 hijackers.

Plot Keywords:

Muslim | Flight School | Terrorist | Hijacker | Martyrdom

Cast

Karim Saleh	...	Ziad Jarrah
Maral Kamel	...	Mohammed Atta (as Kamel)
Agni Scott	...	Aysel (as Agni Tsangaridou)
Omar Berdouni	...	Ramzi bin al Shibh
Adnan Maral	...	Marwan Shehhi
Kamel Boutros	...	Mohammed Atta (as Kamel)
Tamer Doghem	...	Zacarias Moussaoui
Khalid Laith	...	Abdul Aziz AlOmari
Nasser Memarzia	...	Assem
Omar El-Saeidi	...	Said al Ghamdi
Bassem Breish	...	Yasser
Mark Clifton	...	Flight Simulation Instructor
Navíd Akhavan	...	Salim
Joel Kirby	...	FBI Agent
Clayton Nemrow	...	Pan Am Instructor
Peter Gilbert Cotton	...	INS Officer Miami (as Peter Cotton)
Alexander Siddig	...	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Jeff Caster	...	INS Officer Miami
Ben Lourdjane	...	Said Bahaji
Ziad Adwan	...	Bashar Musleh
Stefan Kalipha	...	Zammar
Kammy Darweish	...	Makhadi
Abbas Kazerooni	...	Nawaf al-Hazmi
Fahri Ogün Yardim	...	Shahid (as Fahri Yardim)
Omar Mustafa	...	Khalid al-Mihdhar
Badia Obaid	...	Bouthayna
Patrick Dreikauss	...	Lothar Kessel
Michael Samuels	...	Catalano
Ahmed Khalil	...	Mohammed el-Amir
John Early	...	Light aircraft instructor
Michelle Crosby Jones	...	Check-in attendant
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Neil Malik Abdullah	...	Ahmed al Haznawi
Abdullah Fahim	...	Ahmed al-Haznawi
Ralph Fellows	...	FBI Attorney

Directed by
Antonia Bird

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ronan Bennett		writer
Alice Perman		writer

Produced by
David Aukin	....	executive producer
Darren Bender	....	development producer
George Carey	....	executive producer
Finola Dwyer	....	producer
Michael Frenschkowski	....	co-producer
Roman Gustke	....	co-producer
Charles Salmon	....	line producer

Original Music by
Paul Conboy
Adrian Corker
Adrian Maral

Cinematography by
Florian Hoffmeister

Film Editing by
St. John O'Rorke

Casting by
Ingeborg Molitoris
Jill Trevellick

Production Design by
Richard Hoover
Phil Roberson

Art Direction by
Ulrich Schröder
Nicholas Scott
Iris Trescher

Set Decoration by
Regina McLarney
Detlef Schulte

Costume Design by
Antje Gebauer

Makeup Department
Jeanette Kellermann	....	hair stylist
Leza Ann Rawlins	....	hair stylist: NY
Leza Ann Rawlins	....	makeup artist: NY
Mark Wittenberg	....	makeup supervisor
Kathi Zimmermann	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Polly Duval	....	post-production supervisor
Michael Hogh	....	production manager
Peter Pastorelli	....	production manager: New York
Missy Ramsey	....	unit manager (as Selinde Ramsey)
Adam Rogers	....	unit production manager: Florida
John Watson	....	production manager: UK

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Josue Aguilar	....	second second assistant director
Sabine Janneck	....	second assistant director
Alexandra Puia	....	second second assistant director
Anna Slater	....	third assistant director
John Watson	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Robert Crowley	....	lead man
Michael De Silva	....	property master
Endres Löber	....	assistant property master
Bernd Markmann	....	construction manager
Markus Richard	....	property assistant

Sound Department
Scott Blynder	....	sound mixer
Alfonso Calvo	....	dubbing mixer
Richard Davey	....	assistant dubbing mixer
Anthony Faust	....	adr mixer
Graham Headicar	....	sound editor
Haresh Patel	....	assistant dubbing mixer
Haresh Patel	....	foley editor
Becki Ponting	....	dialogue editor
Eric Rueff	....	sound mixer
Eric Rueff	....	sound recordist
Axel Wyludda	....	boom operator

Visual Effects by
Simon Frame	....	visual effects supervisor
Tom Hocking	....	digital compositor
Isaac Layish	....	digital compositor
Victoria McDowell	....	visual effects line producer
Gruff Owen	....	digital compositor
Kai Van Beers	....	colourist

Camera and Electrical Department
Paul Echeverria	....	loader
Claus Gerling	....	grip
Thorben Hvid	....	electrician
Philipp Krovoza	....	assistant grip
Timo Moritz	....	assistant camera
Timo Moritz	....	second camera operator
Barry Ryan	....	grip
Gary Ryan	....	gaffer
Jorg Santjer	....	electrician
Michael Schmidt	....	best boy
Gilmar Steinig	....	gaffer
Katinka Sternebeck	....	assistant camera
Katharina von Weidenburg	....	clapper loader
Nick Wall	....	still photographer

Casting Department
Silvia Weihermüller	....	extras casting agent

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Anja Kaninck	....	wardrobe
Maria Poppek	....	assistant costume designer
Leza Ann Rawlins	....	wardrobe: New York
Susan Salzano	....	set costumer
Silke Schäfer	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Cecile Jambon	....	assistant editor
Des Murray	....	on-line editor

Transportation Department
Grueter Daniel	....	driver
Endres Löber	....	property driver
Bernd Meier	....	driver
Santiago Munoz	....	driver

Other crew
Craig Barwick	....	key production accountant
Corey Bodoh-Creed	....	production assistant: Washington D.C.
Birgit Brückner	....	production accountant
Anne Cabral	....	assistant production coordinator
Grueter Daniel	....	production assistant
Steve Faughnan	....	production assistant
Daniel Grüter	....	production assistant
Claudia Hentschel	....	location manager
Aaron Hurvitz	....	assistant location manager: New York
Andrea Icheln-Soditt	....	production coordinator
Steffen Klünter	....	production assistant
Thomas Krätzig	....	location scout
Malte Kühl	....	set paramedic
Dirk Laabs	....	consultant
Kate McCullagh	....	assistant to producer
Santiago Munoz	....	production assistant
Andrew Nathanson	....	location manager
Kate Penlington	....	production coordinator: UK
Joan Puma	....	script supervisor
Juliana Ruhfus	....	factual researcher
Ronald Russell	....	set medic
Herb Silverman	....	production coordinator
Zoe Simijonovic	....	script supervisor
Jürgen Sommerfeld	....	caterer
Dagmar Steinhoff	....	on-set propman
Maren Thom	....	production assistant
Bettina Truemper	....	production assistant
Kirsten Vetter	....	production secretary
Alex Werdes	....	factual researcher

Production Companies

• Mentorn Television
• Inner Circle Pictures GmbH

Distributors

• Channel 4 Television Corporation (UK) (TV)

Other Companies

• Clarity Post Production Sound  sound post-production
• Fatts  post-production script services
• Molinare Studio  post-production facilities

Runtime:

Germany:100 min | USA:106 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English | Arabic | German

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Central Station, St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany

Company:

Mentorn Television

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: When one of the hijackers looks into the cockpit he sees one of the pilots in the right seat who is wearing four stripes. Four stripes means Captain, and he sits in the left seat, not right.

Quotes:

Ziad Jarrah: [On a cell phone] I'm at the departure lounge.
Marwan Shehhi: Me too.
Ziad Jarrah: Our time has come at last...

Soundtrack:

Forsaken

still left questions

The Hamburg Cell is a docudrama about the cell of Muslim fundamentalists that conducted the 9/11 attack. It starts about 5 years before 9/11 and follows many of the pilots in their efforts to get flight training and covers what was going on in some of their private lives. Not sure how much of it was accurate, seemed pretty realistic to me. Most seemed to just be looking for some fulfillment in their lives, but chose an extreme way to get it. It also shows the missteps, in hindsight, by US law enforcement agencies as these people could have been caught many times during their training. I don't think it really explained the reasons the terrorists chose to conduct their attack, but I guess we will never really know all the facts behind it. Technically a good film with few continuity errors and some good cinematography. The acting seemed a little hollow.