The Command (1982)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The command |
| Original title | Who Dares Wins |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ian Sharp |
| script | Reginald Rose |
| production | Euan Lloyd |
| music | Roy Budd |
| camera | Phil Meheux |
| cut | John Grover |
| occupation | |
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The Command is a 1982 British action film based on the book The Tiptoe Boys by James Follett .
action
Special Air Service Captain Peter Skellen is accused of torturing two men, the German GSG 9 member Freund and the American Rangers member Hagen, and is released from the SAS. This feigned dismissal is supposed to enable him to penetrate a group of terrorists who are instrumentalizing the peace movement in the interests of a foreign power. Frankie Leith leads this group and Skellen initially succeeds in gaining their trust and love.
Other leading terrorists in the group distrust Skellen and have him shadowed. They receive confirmation that he is playing a double game with them.
At the reception of the American Secretary of State Currie in the US embassy in London , the group succeeds in bringing the banquet participants there under their control. Skellen blackmail them with the fact that the German terrorist Helga and a helper played by Mark Ryan are holding his wife and young daughter hostage. They are demanding that the British government detonate an atomic bomb over a Scottish military port in order to show the people the horrors of the nuclear arms race and thus force unilateral disarmament.
Still, Skellen is still keen to fight the terrorists. He manages to contact the SAS and the embassy is stormed at the same time as his family is liberated. All terrorists are killed in the process.
criticism
- film-dienst : A cynical film that only attracts attention because of its inhumane attitude.
- Film critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times about The final option (that's the title in US cinemas): "There are so many mistakes in judgment, strategy, behavior and the simplest logic in this film that you can at some point gives up and just waits for the end. You know you have a problem when the audience knows more about terrorism than the terrorists themselves. "
- Some critics accused the film of showing a right attitude; Sight and Sound described the film as glorifying violence ("hawkish")
literature
- James Follett : The Tiptoe Boys. Mandarin, London 1994, ISBN 0-7493-1286-6 (so far there is no German translation).
- Werner Schmitz: The professionals: On the trail of the CI5 - the big book for the series. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89602-704-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Roger Ebert: The Final Option (review) , Chicago Sun-Times. October 3, 1983. Retrieved January 10, 2007.
- ↑ quoted in John Walker (ed) Haliwell's Film & Video Guide 2000 , London: HarperCollins, 1999, p. 908
Web links
- The command in the Internet Movie Database (English)