The blue diamond
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The blue diamond |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Otto Retzer |
| script |
Julia Kent , Anke Schwarz |
| production | Lisa Film, Munich |
| music | Michael Hofmann de Boer |
| camera | Marc Prill |
| cut | Norbert Herzner |
| occupation | |
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The Blue Diamond is a television film from 1993, based on a book by Julia Kent , who played one of the leading roles alongside Pierre Brice , Ernest Borgnine , Barry Newman , Harald Leipnitz and Sonja Kirchberger .
action
Pierre Latouche, Dr. Axel Trank, Joe di Franco and Hans Kroger are in the mountains of Thailand looking for a rock cave, which is marked there according to a map from the flea market. There is said to be a blue diamond in this cave. The search remains unsuccessful and Trank drops out of the active search and drives back to Vienna, where he runs a law firm.
The following night, Joe single-handedly searches for the diamond. By chance he observes two monks emerging from a rock cave behind a waterfall. He waits until these are apparently gone and then climbs into the cave. There he finds the blue diamond on a small altar, but is caught by the two monks who suddenly reappear. When the younger of them tries to hold Joe, Joe hits the monk with the diamond, who falls with his head on a stone and is dead. Panicked, Joe runs back to the camp and wakes his wife Barbara. Hans and Pierre also wake up. Joe tells what happened, whereupon Hans is shocked and says that murder in Thailand is punishable by death.
During the escape with the car, Hans, Pierre and Barbara have to leave the wounded Joe behind to avoid being shot themselves. While fleeing from the police, Pierre manages to hide the blue diamond in the root of a palm tree. They do not notice that a monk is watching them from a safe distance.
Pierre and Barbara fly back to Europe, where they try to find a lawyer with whose help they want to get Joe out of prison. Meanwhile, Joe is found guilty of the monk's murder by a Thai court and sentenced to death by shooting.
Seven years later ... Pierre is waiting for Barbara at the airport, who has meanwhile become his wife. A mysterious man approaches Pierre and suggests a deal, which Pierre refuses. However, the man claims that there will be a reunion soon. In the meantime, Barbara is kidnapped by a taxi. The concerned housekeeper informs Pierre that his wife has disappeared. A call from the airport gentleman confirms a kidnapping and invites Pierre to meet. At this meeting, it is made clear to Pierre that Barbara is in the hands of an Otto, who is the gentleman who had previously spoken to Pierre. This Otto demands the blue diamond from Pierre in exchange for Barbara.
Pierre then looks for the less than enthusiastic Dr. Axel drank in his office and asks for help. While Pierre is now on his way to Thailand, Axel calls a young lady named Wendy Hill and gives her the job of following Pierre to Thailand and shadowing him. Pierre visits the hiding place from seven years ago and finds that the blue diamond is no longer there. At the same moment Joe appears who, to Pierre's great surprise, is not dead. After Joe's explanation and allegations that Pierre, Hans and Barbara did not do enough to get him out of prison, it turns out that Joe was behind the kidnapping of Barbaras and Otto is in his service. Pierre is attacked and goes down. He ponders where the blue diamond could be and suspects it to be with Hans, who broke off contact by letter and went to a monastery. In the search for Hans, Pierre falls into a trap set by Joe and executed by Otto, which should serve to bring Barbara back close to Joe so that he could win her back. However, Hans can save Pierre.
After Joe realizes that neither Hans nor Pierre have the blue diamond, he goes back to the cave in which the diamond was discovered at the time and actually finds it. When he comes out of the cave with the blue diamond, Pierre is already waiting for him. Since both men want to keep Barbara, a fight ensues between them. All of a sudden Barbara is there and tells Joe to stop. As if out of nowhere, Axel Trank also appeared and held a gun to the young woman's head. He demands the diamond from Joe. Joe throws him into the water in front of Axel. When he tries to pick him up, Barbara gives him a push. Pierre wants to rush to her aid and is shot in the back by Drank. Badly injured, he collapses. A scuffle breaks out when Joe Trank tries to take the revolver away. All of a sudden, Wendy Hill is there too, grabs the gun and announces: "Anyone who touches the blue diamond gets a hole in the stomach." She shoots Drank. Joe, who hangs on a vine above the waterfall, is saved by Pierre, despite his gunshot wound. Barbara has decided to stay with Pierre and to maintain a friendship with Joe.
In a final scene, Otto pushes Wendy across the airfield in a wheelchair. There is a small box on her lap.
Production notes
The film was shot in 1992 in Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand as well as in Vienna . Media Vision Co. Ltd., Lisa Film GmbH (Munich) acted as the production company on behalf of RTL plus Deutschland Fernsehen GmbH & Co. Betriebs KG (Cologne), producer Georg Mertensmeyer. The film was first broadcast on December 7, 1993 on RTL.
Pierre Brice was not dubbed in this film.
criticism
TV Spielfilm pointed the thumbs down and spoke of “adventure nonsense” and of the fact that RTL “copied a lot from blockbusters like 'Indiana Jones'” and came to the conclusion: “To the chuckle: Pierre Brice as 'Indian Jones' . "
"Adventure film based on conventional patterns."
media
- DVD : The Blue Diamond - MCP Sound & Media AG (2007)
Web links
- The blue diamond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The blue diamond at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The blue diamond. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ The blue diamond ... lures Pierre Brice and Sonja Kirchberger into the jungle of Thailand at tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
- ↑ The blue diamond. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 6, 2017 .