The Madonna Man
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Madonna Man |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| script |
Jonathan Thornhill Hans-Christoph Blumenberg |
| production | Michael Bittins |
| music | Manfred Schoof |
| camera | Theo van de Sande |
| cut | Annette Dorn |
| occupation | |
and as guests: Dieter Kosslick , Ingmar Zeisberg , Magdalena Ritter | |
The Madonna-Mann is a German feature film from 1987 by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg with Marius Müller-Westernhagen in the title role.
action
The Australian geologist Martin Graves is on his way from Australia to Helsinki. Because of bad weather in the Finnish capital, the plane has to make a stopover in Hamburg. In order to spend the unexpected evening in the wintry cold Hanseatic city, the spindly stranger decides to visit the Hansa-Theater variety theater. When the show begins, a mysterious, seductive young woman sits by his side, who he later learns is Juliane Mundt. She begins to flirt with him, makes clearly ambiguous offers ("Are we going to see you or me?") And mistake him for the hired contract killer Bonner, with whom she had arranged to meet here. Then she takes Martin to a mysterious meeting in the backdrop of the Studio Hamburg . Graves is not averse to an erotic adventure, but what awaits him there is pretty much the opposite. Here the stout, art-loving gang boss Tanzmann presents him with a photo with the words “Your customer, Mr. Bonner” and expects Graves to convey the person shown to the afterlife.
But Graves only knows how to drill your way through the rock world, killing people is not his profession. When Tanzmann realizes that Martin is not the ordered killer, a chase through nightly Hamburg begins, during which the blonde siren, who took him out of the Hansa Theater as a decoy, more and more takes his side . As in Alfred Hitchcock's The Invisible Third , the two run for their lives, always with the ice-cold dance man and his people on the neck, who know his dark secret is kept and only wants to see the false hit man dead. On his own, Graves can only really trust one person: his old radio friend from bygone days, Schirmer. He lends the geologist his car and important airtime to avoid his captor.
Production notes
The Madonna-Mann was created in Hamburg in 1986/87 and was premiered on October 1, 1987 as part of the Hof Film Festival. The mass start was on January 7, 1988.
Christian Bussmann designed the film structures .
Reviews
“Blumenberg, no doubt, loves the great film myths and wants to pay homage to them on film. He also loves the smaller German film past of the fifties. (...) Blumenberg now knows better than in his first films that cinema is deception, deception, confusion, and he works confidently with sets that are really just sets, with mix-ups, with interchanges. "
“The director is clearly trying ... to emulate British and American suspense cinema. (…) The story is not without a joke, the actors are good, the setting is convincing. However, Blumenberg does not manage to combine all of this into a convincing whole. Despite some good approaches, 'The Madonna Man' remains strangely colorless and unsatisfactory. "
"Excellently photographed, but overloaded with dialogues, the night thriller tries largely unsuccessfully to combine suspense entertainment with an ambitious exchange drama of being and appearances using little modified patterns from classic film genres."
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- The Madonna Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Madonna man at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Madonna Man. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 4, 2018 .