Boomerang (1960)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | boomerang |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Alfred Weidenmann |
| script | Herbert Reinecker |
| production | Ludwig Waldleitner for Roxy-Film (Munich) |
| music | Hans-Martin Majewski |
| camera | Kurt Hasse |
| cut | Lilian Seng |
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Boomerang is a German crime film from 1959 by Alfred Weidenmann with Martin Held and Hardy Krüger in the leading roles. Herbert Reinecker wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name (1959) by Igor Sentjurc .
action
Berlin-West, late 1950s. Three young men, Robert and Willy from Berlin and Georg from Hamburg, get to know each other in the city that was still undivided at the time. Robert and Willy are unemployed, Georg, however, has a family at home and improves his meager life with one or the other crime. All three dream of the colossal break that will bring them big money, great freedom, great independence. And so one day Robert suggests breaking into a safe. When a former friend of Roberts, Else, turns up, the plan threatens to become obsolete. The young woman is not a food lover and now lives with Willy, but is still quite interested in Robert. But he makes it clear to her that she is in the past for him. Willy doesn't really want to believe Roberts' assurances and gets mad with jealousy. He is even ready to betray the dream of the big break and the subsequent wealth and anonymously gives the police a tip.
Robert and Georg have no idea of Willy's betrayal and pull through the break. When they stand in front of the safe, they are suddenly surrounded by police officers. The chief inspector Stern unexpectedly recognized Robert as the man who had once saved his life in World War II . He had been looking for him for a long time to express his gratitude to his savior. Stern is all the more shocked by the adverse circumstances of this reunion. Robert's thoughts at this moment are only on his escape. There is a wild exchange of fire. While trying to escape, Robert is shot and falls to the ground. Now he also realizes who the man is who now has to arrest him. Stern offers him his hand and asks his life saver of yore to give up. But he grabs Stern's pistol and runs away to end up in the hail of bullets from the police waiting for him.
Production notes
Boomerang was shot in Berlin in October / November 1959. The film passed the FSK exam on January 5, 1960 and was premiered on January 14, 1960 in Essen's Lichtburg. The strip was first seen in Vienna on January 29 of the same year. On April 28, 1969, Boomerang was shown on television for the first time when it was broadcast on ZDF .
Heinrich Schier was in charge of production. The buildings are by Wolf Englert and Ernst Richter , the costumes were designed by Ursula Stutz.
Boomerang was the fourth cinema collaboration between Martin Held and Hardy Krüger in just four years. They had previously worked together in Alibi in 1955 and in quick succession in Bank Vault 713 and The Fox of Paris in 1957 .
criticism
“Herbert Reinecker ('Canaris', 'Der Stern von Afrika'), who has come to terms with the past among German scriptwriters, has come up with this boomerang to save life: a detective is pursuing a criminal who saved his life during the war. Director Alfred Weidenmann, who had previously staged Thomas Mann's 'Buddenbrooks' with a dull hand, turned the story, which was tempting for ideological meditation, into a visually agile crime entertainment. As always in Weidenmann films, the cast list is mainly made up of male actors: Hardy Krüger, Martin Held, Mario Adorf, Horst Frank. "
"Above average in form and tension, without being able to deny foreign role models."
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A story to be guessed right from the start, but whose directorial continuity, milieu details and haunting actor performances force you to follow along. Dynamic dialogues, background music and careful photography. "
The film's large personal dictionary called Weidenmann's film “a tight money robber crime story”.
Web links
- Boomerang in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Boomerang at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boomerang. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Boomerang in Paimann's film lists ( memento of the original from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 300.
