The dirty game

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Movie
German title The dirty game
Original title True Believer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Joseph Ruben
script Wesley Strick
production Lawrence Lasker ,
Walter F. Parkes
music Brad Fiedel
camera John Lindley
cut George Bowers
occupation

The Dirty Game (Original Title: True Believer ) is an American drama film directed by Joseph Ruben from 1989 with James Woods in the leading role. The dubbing company Cine Adaption GmbH, Munich was responsible for the dubbing and Pierre Peters-Arnolds for the dialogue book and dialogue direction.

action

The once idealistic-minded attorney Edward Dodd now predominantly defends drug traffickers in criminal trials. Roger Baron is a young attorney and recently a university graduate. He admires Dodd and knows his work in well-known trials of the 1960s by heart. He therefore introduces himself to him. Dodd and Baron work together from now on.

Baron persuades Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a Korean man who has been imprisoned for eight years and who is alleged to have killed another person in prison during a fight between rival gangs, who said he was there Acted self-defense. He gets help from the private detective Kitty Greer

Dodd discovers numerous weak points in the testimony of the witnesses to the first murder trial. He finds out that the murder was committed by a man on the witness protection program who worked as an informant for the judicial authorities and looked like a bearded Asian man on a dark street at the time of the murder. He did it because he was having an affair with his wife. The then public prosecutor used his own power for his own power interests and had three corrupt police officers blame the completely innocent Shu Kai Kim for the murder in order to be able to continue to have him as an informant, whose help was decisive for his Benefits of being able to become a district attorney.

Dodd manages to get one of the corrupt police officers to make a truthful statement in order to ease his conscience. Later the real culprit is killed by the other corrupt police officers when he was about to kill him because he knew about everything. They realized that it was all over, didn't want things to get worse, and let him go.

The defense attorney later called the public prosecutor involved at the time to the stand and made sure that he represented the retrial before the court. This cannot oppose the evidence and statements now presented. Shu Kai Kim is acquitted and, through the acquittal, also acquitted in the other death. He is then released.

Reviews

Hal Hinson praised Robert Downey Jr. and Margaret Colin in the Washington Post on February 17, 1989. The portrayal of James Woods - who puts " his heart and soul " into the role - is intense, but also has " panic " features. This kind of intensity is not pulling in.

The lexicon of international films wrote that " whipped up action in the milieu of the New York Chinatown gangs " distracts from the " interest in the psychology of the character ". The film is " exciting ", yet " pathetic "; his staging is " too hectic ".

In the opinion of Kino.de , the film is a skilfully staged court thriller crackling with tension in the best “Suspect” manner with James Woods in a parade role, which, in addition to suspense, can also boast a good dose of social criticism.

Awards

Joseph Ruben won the Grand Prix of the French Cognac Festival du Film Policier in 1989 . Wesley Strick was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1990.

background

The film was in Oakland ( California turned). It grossed approximately $ 8.7 million in US cinemas .

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  1. ↑ Das Dreckige Spiel (1989) German dubbing index . Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  2. ^ Review by Hal Hinson
  3. ↑ The dirty game. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ True Believer Kino.de . Retrieved December 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Filming locations for True Believer
  6. ↑ Box office / business for True Believer

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