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    ‘Take No Prisoners’ Evaluate: An Inside Have a look at America’s Prime Hostage Negotiator and His Battle Towards Wrongful Detention

    David GroveBy David GroveMarch 16, 20253 Mins Read
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    There’s no simple job description, or relaxation for that matter, for Roger Carstens, formally the particular presidential envoy for hostage affairs (SPERA) till simply this January. Carstens was one of many negotiators behind aiding Brittney Griner to freedom in addition to the discharge of Russia-held prisoners Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Paul Whelan. Now, in Adam Ciralsky and Subrata De’s transferring and successfully edited documentary “Take No Prisoners,” we see the fallout and wrongful detention of Eyvin Hernandez, a public defender hailing from California who, in 2022, was arrested in Venezuela and held there by present president Nicolás Maduro.

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    Ciralsky and De observe Carstens all through the state division, on the personal jets that shuttle him to prisoner exchanges, and all the way in which to Caracas, the place he finally helped free Eyvin Hernandez in 2023. Because the movie factors out, we’ve seen a 175 % enhance in wrongful detentions over the past decade — from Robert Lenvinson to Trevor Reed — and it usually happens in international locations making an attempt to have an effect on change in coverage, utilizing prisoners as political pawns, similar to in China, Russia, Iran, Syria, and as we see, Venezuela. Sadly, Eyvin Hernandez was held at one in every of Venezuela’s most infamous prisons, known as The Home of Goals, however as one in every of Hernandez’s members of the family level out, it must be known as the Home of Nightmares.

    There, Venezuela’s Common Directorate of Army Counterintelligence holds political prisoners it suspects of being international brokers, which is why the federal government arrested Hernandez on the border whereas on a visit to Colombia. The filmmaking on “Take No Prisoners” isn’t particularly standout — it is a political assertion and never essentially an immersively cinematic one, although the uncommon entry to and photographs of Carstens usually makes for an exhilarating narrative. Editor Scott Sheppard interweaves footage of Hernandez’s household in heart-rending emotional moments, recollecting Hernandez’s jail sentence and their very own efforts to assist get him out. It could have been moreover fascinating, too, to listen to and see extra concerning the many different wrongful detainees this documentary name-drops, although finally, it retains the concentrate on Hernandez.

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    Among the many speaking heads right here is former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who outlines Carstens’ singular strategy, which is a mixture of empathy towards the households affected but in addition eager negotiation skills in and of themselves. The entry the filmmakers have right here, with Carstens exhibiting an openness in entrance of the digital camera that enables the documentary crew to grasp a part of his psychological strategy. “Take No Prisoners” is most heart-tugging, although, when it chronicles how Hernandez’s household, after he was freed, has pivoted to activism within the hopes that there not be one other Hernandez in historical past. After all, there may be each day.

    Grade: B

    “Take No Prisoners” premiered on the 2025 SXSW Movie & TV Competition. It’s at present in search of U.S. distribution.

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