Footsoldiers of Berlin - Your word is law
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Footsoldiers of Berlin - Your word is law |
| Original title | St. George's Day |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Harper |
| script | Frank Harper Urs Bühler |
| production |
Warren Derosa Nick Hamson Steve Harvey Lars Sylvest |
| music | Tim Atack |
| camera | Mike Southon |
| cut | Nick McCahearty |
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Footsoldiers of Berlin - Your word is law (Original title: St. George's Day ) is a British gangster film and heist movie from 2012 . Directed by Frank Harper , who plays one of the leading roles alongside Craig Fairbrass , Charles Dance , Vincent Regan , and Dexter Fletcher . The film had on 29 August 2012 at Cinema Odeon in Covent Garden , London 's British premiere . In Germany, the film was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray in July 2014 .
action
Notorious in the London underworld, cousins "Mad" Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw run one of the top gangster companies. Only Ray is getting tired of it and wants to open a golf resort with his girlfriend in Spain. In order to secure their finances, they are planning a 50 million pound drug deal with their Dutch partner Alfred Ball. When Lol and Kootz try to take drugs to the Russian mafia together with the brother of mafia boss Vladimir Sukhov across the North Sea in stormy weather The situation escalates: the Russians want to turn around because of the bad weather and draw weapons, a scuffle ensues. The rubber dinghy runs aground, Lol and the Russian are dead, the cargo is gone.
Vladimir Sukhov is demanding his money and £ 1 million in damages for the loss of his brother. Their supremacy is threatened, and the Russian mafiosi make this clear with an attack during Lol's funeral. After negotiating with the Russians, they only see one chance. The influential and powerful gangster Trenchard acts as an intermediary. After murdering several gangsters in Amsterdam, Trenchard informs them that they have a traitor in their own ranks. Together with Alfred Ball, they plan to raid a diamond shipment in Berlin in order to raise the money. With the help of Eddie Mannock, Mick's brother, a leading hooligan in the English scene, they plan a big cover-up game to outsmart the police and the Russian mafiosi. They take advantage of the fact that on April 23rd, St. Georges Day , the Three Lions , the English national soccer team , will play against the Germans in the Olympiastadion Berlin and thousands of English soccer fans and hooligans will make their way to Berlin. In Berlin they attack the diamond delivery and murder the rival gangsters. They also expose the informer and he helps them and draws attention to the Russian mafiosi. In return, they let the spy live. In the end, they make their way to Los Angeles to get off.
background
Several actors in the film had starred in The Football Factory : Tony Denham, Frank Harper, Neil Maskell and Jamie Foreman.
The film was shot in 2012 mainly in London , Amsterdam and Berlin (including Olympiastadion Berlin , Gendarmenmarkt and Molkenmarkt ) by the production companies Double D Productions and Elstree Studio Productions .
The film premiered on August 29, 2012 at the Odeon Cinema in Covent Garden , London . Actors from the film such as Frank Harper, Craig Fairbrass, Keeley Hazell, Tony Denham and other actors such as Bruce Payne were present at the premiere . The film was released in UK cinemas on September 7, 2012.
reception
The film was shot differently. Joanna Ebuwa described it on Britflicks as “the best British gangster film since Jack, Dame, König, gra ”, he was thoroughly entertaining, funny, nostalgic and made fun of the police as well as the establishment, “Harper has with Guy Richie learned and definitely made a film worth seeing. ”Conversely, the Daily Telegraph only gave the film two out of five points, and the Independent only one out of five. Stephen Kelly found in Gamesradar (originally published by Total Film): " Frank Harper's film offers a realistic, down-to-earth realism, but in reality it is a crude, chauvinistic male fantasy." Still others, like Matthew Bond in the Daily Mail and John Parrot in The Film Review assumed that the film would achieve cult status because it was “celebrating a genre” or “excessive, filthy and real Cockney ”. From the user side, Footsoldiers of Berlin got four out of five stars from Time Out magazine .
Web links
- Foot Soldiers of Berlin - your word is law in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Foot Soldiers of Berlin - your word is law atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Footsoldiers of Berlin - Your word is law . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 003 V).
- ↑ Brit flicks Reviews St George's Day. Retrieved April 26, 2018 .
- ↑ Tim Robey: Film in brief: Queen of Versailles, Shut up and Play the Hits, St George's Day, review. In: The Daily Telegraph . September 6, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Anthony Quinn: St George's Day (18). In: The Independent . September 7, 2012, accessed September 20, 2012 .
- ↑ St George's Day review . In: gamesradar . ( gamesradar.com [accessed April 26, 2018]).
- ^ Poor Keira, she's out for the count . In: Mail Online . ( dailymail.co.uk [accessed April 26, 2018]).
- ^ The Film Review . In: The Film Review . September 7, 2012 ( thefilmreview.com [accessed April 26, 2018]).
- ↑ St George's Day (2012). In: Time Out. Retrieved September 20, 2012 .