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The Kidnapper's Opera

🎞️ Movie 98 min CA
2013

The Kidnapper's Opera is a video-artwork based on a true story: On December 21, 1990, several young men, some of them teenagers, kidnapped the daughter of Canadian billionaire Jimmy Pattison in Vancouver. After receiving a $200,000 first payment on their ransom demands, the kidnappers decided to go on a shopping spree in a rented limousine; they were caught later that day conspicuously spending large amounts of cash at local shopping malls. Inspired by a quotation from Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera - 'What is the robbery of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?' - the film considers how inequality is psychologically experienced in our society. The explanation for the behaviour of the teenagers focuses on the false desires of fortune and personal grandeur created by advertising, the media, and a sense of lack perpetuated by globalization. Structured like a play, each scene of The Kidnapper's Opera is set and shot uniquely. Colour, HDCAM. 90 mins.

Cast

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Sarah Kathryn Young
Mother
David Lloyd
David Lloyd
Bully
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Daniel Prakash
Kidnapper
James Kot
James Kot
Kidnapper
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Eric Beauchesne
Kidnapper
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Ian Collins
Kidnapper
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Brandon Nicholson
Kidnapper
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Troy Turi
Kidnapper
Gaalen Engen
Gaalen Engen
Pattison
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Jim Peskin
Pattison
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Lief Hall
Composer
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Maksim Bentsianov
Cinematographer
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Nigel Edwards
Cinematographer
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Wayne Wapeemukwa
Cinematographer