Secret code: wild geese
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wild geese secret code |
| Original title | Code name: Wild Geese |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M. Dawson ) |
| script |
Tito Carpi Gianfranco Couyoumdjian Michael Lester |
| production |
Erwin C. Dietrich Antonio Margheriti |
| music |
Eloy Jan Nemec-Bolek |
| camera | Peter Baumgartner |
| occupation | |
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Secret Code: Wild Geese is a German-Italian action film from 1984.
action
A group of mercenaries under the command of Captain Robin Wesley receives an order from the American drug enforcement agency DEA through the Hong Kong businessman Brenner to destroy a large heroin warehouse belonging to a corrupt general in the Golden Triangle in Indochina . The aim of the operation is to obstruct the supply of drugs to the US and Europe.
Captain Wesley personally has an open account with drug smugglers and traffickers because his son died of a drug overdose while underage and is buried in Hong Kong.
Supported by local underground fighters, a radar post is captured and the camp is captured and destroyed. Before the warehouse was destroyed, Wesley discovered papers and computer disks that indicated a second warehouse.
With his remaining men and a female Canadian hostage freed from the first camp, he makes his way to the second camp and destroys a train that is laden with opium, but many of his men have already been shot.
Before the capture and destruction of the second camp, the remaining group around Wesley is attacked by their own support team, which is led by Charlton, because Charlton is the owner of the second camp with Brenner and has only arranged the whole Wesley action with Brenner so that the General loses his stock and the price of his drugs increases accordingly.
In an action-packed final battle, Wesley manages to escape with the hostage and his pilot Trevors, as well as the thermal destruction of the camp and the liquidation of Charlton. Besides Trevors, only one man from Wesley's original combat group survived, because Kowalski was seriously injured while taking the radar station, but was able to break through to base camp.
After his return, he flies directly from base camp in Hong Kong to Brenner and liquidates his former friend.
In the final scene, the head of the DEA and Wesley are at the burner's funeral, and an old Latin sentence could be the conclusion: De mortuis nihil nisi bene (“Only benevolent about the deceased”).
production
The idea for this story was titled Rainbow Warriors and came from Willi Baer . It was bought by the producer Erwin C. Dietrich in order to realize the sequel to The Wild Geese Come . The shooting took place, accompanied by Dietrich, in the Philippine jungle. As a special coup, Dietrich used several Berlin voice actors as actors in addition to the international stars.
On October 5, 1984, he was able to present his work at the Mifed film fair in Milan. The FSK officially upgraded the film from 16 to 18 on November 27, 1984. With almost 800,000 entries, the secret code: Wild geese in the Federal Republic of Germany fell short of expectations, but this was offset by sales throughout the world.
criticism
"Bland Legionnaires' film, the logic of which is exhausted in cold-blooded murder, unbearable in its non-stop slaughter."
literature
- Benedikt Eppenberger, Daniel Stapfer: Girls, Machos and Monets - The incredible story of the Swiss cinema entrepreneur Erwin C. Dietrich . Verlag Scharfe Stiefel, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-033-00960-3 .
Web links
- Secret code: wild geese in the German synchronous file
- Secret code: wild geese in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Secret code: wild geese. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .