Bloody Friday

Movie
Original title	Bloody Friday
Country of production	Germany , Italy
original language	German
Publishing year	1972
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Rolf Olsen
script	Rolf Olsen ; Valeria Bonamano
production	Karl Spiehs
music	Francesco De Masi
camera	Franz Xaver Lederle
cut	Eva Zeyn ; Amedeo Giomini
occupation
	Raimund Harmstorf : Heinz Klett; Amadeus August : Christian Hofbauer; Gianni Macchia : Luigi Belloni; Christine Böhm : Heidi Hofbauer; Ernst H. Hilbich : Ernst Pylobar; Gila von Weitershausen : Marie Lotzmann; Daniela Giordano : Dagmar Neuss; Walter Buschhoff : Walter Lotzmann; Horst Naumann : Dr. Mayer-Lippe; Totò Mignone : Stevo; Ursula Erber : Irmgard future;

Bloody Friday is a German-Italian crime film from 1972. Director Rolf Olsen directed Raimund Harmstorf and Amadeus August in the lead roles. It was released in theaters on April 18, 1972.

action

The young criminal Heinz Klett is freed from prison by two accomplices and then plans an attack on the Deutsche Finanzbank in Munich with the Italian Luigi, his girlfriend Heidi and her brother Christian. When this - following a brutal attack on an American arms transporter - went differently than planned, the three men in the bank took hostages - among them the daughter of a wealthy financier - and demanded a ransom of four million Deutschmarks. In order to avoid further victims after the cardiac death of a woman and the wounding of a man by Heinz, the police provide an escape vehicle with which they and three hostages flee. You meet with Heidi. There are other victims on the run, said one policeman; but Luigi is also badly wounded by a dog. Heinz and Heidi manage to escape to a log cabin, where they are tracked down and killed.

criticism

“Everything is available here that makes the lover of sleazy creations cheer”, Karsten Thurau praises what the lexicon of the international film criticizes: “A visibly hastily conceived and filmed crime thriller that reacted to the bank robberies in major German cities in the early 1970s . At the center of this bank robbery version - with a dose of class struggle, bold slogans and several portions of brutality - is a strangely composed group of stranded people ”.

Remarks

The film takes up the contemporary discussion of bank robberies and connects them with other elements of the reality of the 1970s: allusions to the early history of the Red Army Fraction can be found as well as the stylistic device of the staged questioning of passers-by.

The film was shot in and around Munich. The location of the "Deutsche Finanzbank" was Josef-Retzer-Straße 47 in Pasing . Recordings in the area were made in Schäftlarn and Aumühle (Egling) , among others .

The Italian title is Violenza contro la violenza .

In May 2017, a version of the film five minutes longer than the theatrical version was released on DVD and Blu-ray.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ in: Der Terror directs. 1999, p. 30
↑ Bloody Friday. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
^ Thomas Groh, Philipp Stiasny: Germany in March. Rolf Olsen and his Bloody Friday (1972) In: Filmblatt , Vol. 18 [Winter 2013/14], No. 53, pp. 32–45, here 40f.
↑ Comparison of the theatrical version and the long version on schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 21, 2017

[1] : Der Terror directs. 1999, p. 30

[2] Bloody Friday. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] Thomas Groh, Philipp Stiasny: Germany in March. Rolf Olsen and his Bloody Friday (1972) In: Filmblatt , Vol. 18 [Winter 2013/14], No. 53, pp. 32–45, here 40f.

[4] Comparison of the theatrical version and the long version on schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 21, 2017