Only the wind knows the answer
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Only the wind knows the answer |
| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1974 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Vohrer |
| script | Manfred Purzer |
| production | Luggi Waldleitner |
| music | Erich Ferstl |
| camera | Petrus Schloemp |
| cut | Ingeborg Taschner |
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Only the wind knows the answer is a Franco-German action film by Alfred Vohrer from 1974 . It is based on the international bestseller of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel .
action
An insurance company investigator is supposed to find out whether the death of a German banker in the explosion of his luxury yacht was an accident or a murder. Then the investigative Robert Lucas finds out that behind it all lies a criminal ring of the international money nobility. In order to create a comfortable life for himself and his beloved, he does not shy away from blackmail. He will fail because of his own greed for money.
background
The film was shot from August 24 to October 30, 1974 in Cannes , Nice , Eze , Zurich , Munich and Frankfurt am Main . It was Alfred Vohrer's sixth and last film adaptation of Simmel. Friedrich Nowottny can be seen as a television announcer in a short appearance .
The first performance of the crime drama took place on November 20, 1974 in Mainz in the Rex cinema.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "[p] audience-effective mixture of dream factory, action cinema and love story."
According to Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz was known only to the wind The answer is a "tightly staged narrative cinema with convincing actors. (Rating: 2½ stars = above average) "
Awards
In 1975 the film was nominated for the Golden Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival .
literature
- Johannes Mario Simmel : Only the wind knows the answer. Novel . Complete paperback edition (23rd edition). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1995, 511 pages, ISBN 3-426-00481-X .
Web links
- Only the Wind Knows the Answer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Only the wind at filmportal.de knows the answer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Only the wind knows the answer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 12, 2015 .
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz : Lexicon "Films on TV" . (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 47.