Killing Blue
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Killing Blue |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Patzak |
| script |
Julia Kent Paul Nicholas Peter Patzak |
| production |
Karl Spiehs Luggi Waldleitner |
| music |
Carl Carltron Bertram Engel |
| camera | Anton Peschke |
| cut | Michou Hutter |
| occupation | |
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Killing Blue is a German action film filmed in English in 1988 and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl , Morgan Fairchild and Michael York . Directed by Peter Patzak .
action
Persecuted by the demons of his past, Berlin inspector Glass lives in a dilapidated, sloppy apartment and has been torn from his nightmares again and again bathed in sweat since he accidentally shot a little girl in a wild exchange of fire with a gangster through the smoke of a shot fire extinguisher. His colleague was also killed in this operation against a major dealer. Glass, with its dirty look, is an old-fashioned reminiscence of Duisburg's Horst Schimanski, is free of any illusions, which has led to a shrewd snottiness that his new assistant Shirley May, a young woman in a disco look and with an increased tussi factor, also found on her first day at work , gets to be felt. Soon Shirley, who has not fallen on her mouth, can show at the side of the grumpy, worn-out police veteran that she has quite useful skills. Both of the first cases are tough: a 16-year-old schoolgirl, ballet student Ines Berger, was found dead smeared with Vaseline, and the trail quickly leads to the Berlin baby line and the drug milieu of Halbstadt. Studies show that Ines died of a heroin overdose. And as you could see shortly before, the "golden shot" was forcibly administered to her while the girl lay in the twilight state. The American pimp Miskowski, who is currently up to mischief in Berlin, is considered to be the girl's main drug supplier.
Glass is already so tired and exhausted from the same misery cases that flooded Berlin in the 1980s that he only takes on this case very listlessly, almost reluctantly. But one day another girl murder happens, and this time it hits Monika Carstens, the stepdaughter of an old friend, the public prosecutor with whom he often worked. Monika was also on Miskowski's list, which contains the names of his drug customers. Now the ambition awakens in Glass to respect the madman who is responsible for it. On the hunt for Miskowski, Shirley May now also falls into his hands for a short time. When Glass appears, he is knocked down by the gangster and both police officers are stripped of their clothes. When Miskowski met with public prosecutor Carstens under conspiratorial circumstances in an old train station shortly afterwards, Carstens stabbed him in cold blood and took away a suitcase with compromising photos, with which Miskowski had apparently blackmailed the German public officials. Glass wants to set a trap for the perpetrator, who has not yet been known to him, and has it spread that Miskowski is seriously injured in a hospital. In his darkened room he lies in wait for the perpetrator, in the hope that he will also appear to complete his work.
In fact, Carstens appears and sneaks into the room with the allegedly seriously injured man. Glass surprises his old friend, but he can make it credible that he only appeared here on business. Carstens also learns from Glass, to his secret delight, that Miskowski is actually already dead. With the whore Lisa, once Miskowski's partner, as a decoy, Glass wants to lure Carstens, whom he is now beginning to suspect of being behind a series of Vaseline murders, out of his hiding place. Lisa Carstens lets it through to her that she has the photo negatives that Carstens is urgently looking for. In front of a cold store where Lisa is waiting for Carstens to allegedly hand over the negatives, there is a showdown. Carstens pulls Lisa into the meat hall, pulls out a knife and smeared Lisa with Vaseline, in order to then stab her. But Glass and his people are already waiting outside and save Lisa. Carstens collapses crying in Glass' arms. In the final scene, Alexander Glass, who is planning a future together with Lisa, can finally arrest the gangster who went through his rags in the fatal shootout at the beginning of the film while working with Shirley and his people.
Production notes
Killing Blue was created between May 20 and June 24, 1988 in Berlin and was premiered on November 3, 1988.
Dieter Nobbe was the production manager, Rainer Schaper designed the film structures. Detlev Fichtner was responsible for the sound, Milan Bor for the sound mix.
criticism
“Peter Patzak… doesn't like sentimentality and longs for the warm, dark coldness of the crime worlds, against which he once had the mad Kottan investigated. His film is bursting with ironically broken melancholy. "
“A rather tense game with set pieces from the psycho crime novel; strange the half-baked mixture of tough action on the one hand, puns and slapstick on the other. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Killing Blue. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 9, 2018 .
Web links
- Killing Blue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Killing Blue at filmportal.de