Deadly Cargo
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Deadly Cargo |
| Original title | Cámara oscura |
| Country of production | Spain , Mexico |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pau Freixas |
| script | Pau Freixas |
| production |
Álvaro Augustín Xavier Catafal |
| music |
Manel Gil Rudy Gnutti |
| camera | Julián Elizalde |
| occupation | |
| |
Deadly Cargo (alternatively: Death at Sea) is a Spanish-Mexican thriller from 2003. Directed by Pau Freixas .
action
In Senegal , Africa , a small group, consisting of the photo reporter Sara, the pregnant Thais, her husband Victor and their two friends Edgar and Iván, meets for a diving trip. The small motorboat is steered by the approximately twelve year old Drui.
On the high seas, the young people suddenly discover the body of a man and bring it on board. The black man's throat was cut. When the worried Victor then pulls out a weapon, there is a brief panic in which the motor of the boat is hit by a bullet. The group can barely escape into the water before the boat explodes.
After several hours in the water, the young people, especially the pregnant Thais, feel worse and worse. Hope grows when they discover a cargo ship near them, but then they witness how a man on board the ship is murdered and then thrown into the water.
In order not to drown or freeze to death, the castaways nevertheless secretly climb on board and hide in one of the lower holds. When Thais is bitten by a rat, Sara and Victor go to the crew's quarters to get disinfectant.
Since Victor was seen by one of the sailors, he surrenders voluntarily so as not to endanger the other stowaways. However, the sailors suspect that Victor is hiding something and mistreat him badly. Finally, Thais, Sara and Edgar go in search of Victor, while Iván refuses to risk his life and therefore remains in hiding with the little Drui.
After Thais has found her seriously injured husband, she is shot in cold blood by the sailor Salomón. Sara and Edgar can hide and watch as the dead Thais and the seriously injured Victor are thrown overboard. The two stowaways find out that the five-person crew are smugglers, who not only illegally ship exotic animals, but that some of the crew also take refugees with them for payment, who they then murder during the crossing.
On the way back to their hiding place, Sara and Edgar are seen by the sailor Lince, whom they then kill. Since they now have to expect to be discovered at any moment, Sara, Edgar, Iván and Drui make their way to the lifeboats. The small group is separated. Sara and Drui manage to send a call for help over the radio, but then they are tracked down by the captain, who is bitten by a poisonous snake that Sara has released.
Iván and Edgar, who was seriously injured after a fight with one of the sailors, were initially able to use a lifeboat, but then witnessed how the captain locked Sara in a cage and lowered her into the water. Iván, who regrets his previous selfishness, swims back and dives down again and again to ventilate Sara. In the water there is a fight between Iván and Salomón, in which the captain Iván finally comes to the rescue and shoots Salomón. The captain then succumbs to the snakebite and Drui can pull the cage out of the water.
In the end, Sara, Iván, Edgar and Drui are saved.
background
The film was first shown in Germany in July 2005 at the Munich Fantasy Film Festival and was released on DVD in March 2006 .
Locations
Although the film is set in Africa , it was shot entirely in Mexico .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “a thriller developed without tension or surprises, with echoes of serial killer and poorly developed to undeveloped characters” .
Web links
- Deadly Cargo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deadly Cargo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .