Desperado City
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Desperado City |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vadim Glowna |
| script | Vadim Glowna |
| production | Vadim Glowna |
| music | Stanley Walden |
| camera | Thomas Mauch |
| cut | Helga Borsche |
| occupation | |
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Desperado City is a German feature film from 1981. The film is the directorial debut of the actor Vadim Glowna .
action
The film is set in Hamburg . Skoda is a former student from a wealthy family. His father is a banker. Skoda is looking for an alternative life away from the capitalist abundance of his parents' home. He finds accommodation with Eva Buchholz, with whom he starts a love story and shares a taxi. He takes this taxi to St. Pauli . Here Skoda gets to know the girl Liane, who is just as tired of her life as he is. She has just quit her hairdressing training. The two now spend the days together and dream of emigrating to America. The two outsiders slowly begin a love affair. Eva discovers this and takes her own life for fear of renewed loneliness that she no longer wants to endure. The stripper Hilke also dies. She is murdered by pimps. In this world of dirt and death, Skoda is now looking for a decision for his own life. He raids his father's bank and is shot dead by a security guard.
background
The filming of the film took place from May 27 to July 4, 1980 in Hamburg. The film premiered on April 23, 1981 in Munich .
Reviews
- Lexicon of international films : a pessimistic story about social dependence and futile dreams. Narrated episodically, sometimes with dramaturgical flaws, but largely accurate, empathetic in the figure drawing and in parts atmospheric very dense.
- Fischer Film Almanach 1982: A story about the impossibility of escaping tiredness and realizing vague dreams of dropping out on an individualistic basis. This basic topic is really not very new, especially in German films. But how it is varied here by Vadim Glowna and thrown onto the canvas, that is impressive and powerful!
Awards
The film was shown in the subsidiary program of the Cannes International Film Festival in 1981 and was awarded the Caméra d'Or . The Guild of German Film Art Theaters awarded the film the Gilde Film Prize in gold in 1982 .
Web links
- Desperado City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Desperado City. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 24, 2017 .