A dead diver does not take gold

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Movie
Original title A dead diver does not take gold
Country of production Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1974
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harald Reinl
script Jürgen Goslar
production Wolf C. Hartwig for Rapid-Film GmbH Munich
music archive
camera Franz X. Lederle
cut Herbert Taschner
occupation

A dead diver takes no gold is a German adventure and action film from 1974. Directed by Harald Reinl .

action

Three adventurous young Germans have come across a plan. This shows the place where a Spanish sailing ship loaded with several boxes of gold is said to have sunk during a storm over four centuries ago. The treasure hidden on board is said to be worth 4.5 billion DM. The three friends then set out for the Caribbean to find the gold treasure together with a diving instructor and his partner.

However, life on board the rescue ship is soon made more difficult by tensions between the individual protagonists. The heavily armed diving instructor and his girlfriend are also playing a wrong game - they want the treasure for themselves. But also in the sea the danger lurks during the dives in the form of aggressive sharks and a giant octopus. Finally, other adventurers get wind of the treasure hunt and attack the five with their boats. When the treasure was finally recovered after much effort, the police confiscated it.

Production notes

The film was made between November 19 and December 14, 1973 in South Africa and Mauritius . The underwater recordings were shot in a special basin in Eckernförde . A Dead Diver Takes No Gold premiered on March 15, 1974.

This film was based on a novel by Heinz G. Konsalik . Gert Günther Hoffmann appeared as the narrator.

The buildings were designed by F.-Dieter Bartels , the underwater camera was designed by Peter H. Krause. Archive recordings were used for the background music. Due to the international cast, the film was shot in English.

The film's origins were accompanied by various production problems. The actor Jürgen Goslar had in Windhoek in in the still of South Africa mitverwalteten South West Africa , now Namibia , founded a production company that wanted to establish with which he this adventure strips Centaurus film. As a director, was Jürgen Roland provided. When Goslar left this production, Roland also had to leave and Reinl was hired by the new producer Wolf C. Hartwig instead .

A dead diver does not take gold was also considered a "couple film": Both the Germans Horst Janson , who did not synchronize himself, and Monika Lundi as well as the two South Africans Marius Weyers and Sandra Prinsloo , two movie stars of the 1970s in their home country, were in a relationship at the time of shooting. Weyers and Prinsloo worked together at the time in a considerable number of South African films that were quite successful in their home market. Their biggest international, collective hit was the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy . The exiled Centaurus producer Jürgen Goslar filmed another Konsalik adaptation with the couple shortly after A dead diver does not take gold in South Africa with incapacitated in 1974, which ran in Germany under the title … and the night knows no mercy .

As a result of the great success of Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a dead diver takes no gold under the intriguing title Deadly Jaws in the US with little success brought out.

criticism

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: "Adventure film with a roughly crafted story."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinl's colleague Jürgen Roland started shooting in November 1973, but was then replaced.
  2. ↑ after leaving production, Goslar's name was replaced by the pseudonym George Merlon
  3. ↑ The production started by Jürgen Goslar's production company Centaurus-Film, Windhoek
  4. ↑ The well-known South African actress Sandra Prinsloo was listed under "Sandra Prinzlow" in this film
  5. ↑ Klaus Brüne (Red.): Lexikon des Internationale Films Volume 8, p. 3869. Reinbek near Hamburg 1987.