The Cat (1988)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The cat |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script |
Uwe Erichsen , Christoph Fromm |
| production |
Georg Feil , Günter Rohrbach |
| music | Andreas Koebner |
| camera | Martin Schäfer |
| cut | Christel Suckow |
| occupation | |
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The Cat is a German crime film directed by Dominik Graf and released in 1988 . The film based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Erichsen was at the time one of the few German films of this genre that was successful in the cinema. More than 1.3 million cinema-goers saw the film in Germany in 1988.
action
The film is set in Düsseldorf on June 16, 1987. It begins with a sex scene in a room on the 6th floor of the Nikko Hotel. He is a probationary, wanted felon, she is Jutta Ehser, wife of the branch manager of the "Credit Bank" opposite the hotel. Exactly this bank is attacked shortly afterwards by Probek's accomplices Junghein and Britz. While Britz expects a quick bank robbery, Junghein is privy to Probek's plans. They want to extort three million DM ransom with the seven hostages . The task force, anonymously informed by Probek, is headed by Voss, who caught Junghein during his last bank robbery in Cologne . Junghein reveals itself to Voss and thus gives Voss a decisive advantage in further investigations.
Probek can spectacularly prevent bug bug attacks and anesthetic gas attack. After these setbacks, Voss thought that Junghein and Britz would be supported by a third man outside the bank. He quickly came up with Probek's name, since Probek and Junghein had already organized a bank robbery in Frankfurt . Junghein was caught at that time and revealed Probek's name during an interrogation.
The ransom demanded has now arrived. Jutta is supposed to pick it up and, according to Probek's plans, reload it into a car parked nearby, where Probek joins her. But Jutta has her own plans. Since her husband found out about her affair with Probek, she sees him as a potential threat to their future together with Probek and wants to force him to shoot her husband. When she leaves the hotel, she can shake off her pursuers and transfer the money unnoticed.
The hotel has since been evicted, so that Probek can target the group leaving the bank from the swimming pool on the top floor of the hotel. When attempting to shoot Ehser, Probek fatally injured Junghein, and an advancing special squad found it difficult to shoot Probek, who then threw himself to his death. Britz is led away in handcuffs.
In the last scene you can see the Ehser couple on the roadside: They force Jutta to continue the marriage that had actually failed, otherwise he would hand her over to the police. After she showed him the three million marks in his trunk, he sat down with her in the ditch with two beers. From a passing car you call to them "Are you okay?" And Mr. Ehser happily replies with "Yes!"
Locations
Filming began on June 5 and ended on August 28, 1987. The film is set in the Hotel Nikko with the German-Japanese Center in Düsseldorf . Outdoor recordings took place in Düsseldorf and Munich, studio recordings in the Bavaria studio in Grünwald .
criticism
“Technically perfectly staged, exciting gangster film thriller. Remarkable as an independent German genre film with extraordinary performance and craftsmanship. "
Awards
Dominik Graf won two prizes at the Cognac Festival du Film Policier in 1988 ; In addition, he won the German Gold Film Award in 1988 for best director .
Web links
- The cat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The cat at filmportal.de
- Interview with screenwriter Christoph Fromm on vierundzwanzig.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the cat . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; re-examination March 2017 (formerly FSK 16); test number: 59 047 V).
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (international) 1988 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Filmförderungsanstalt, queried on September 16, 2009
- ↑ Dominik Graf - director . In: CineGraph - Lexicon for German-Language Film , Lg. 19, F 10 f.
- ↑ The cat. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 13, 2016 .
