Gambit (film)
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| Original title | gambit |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 96 minutes (part 1) 110 (part 2) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Peter F. Bringmann |
| script | Matthias Seelig |
| production | Wolfgang Hesse |
| music | Paul Vincent Gunia |
| camera | Helge Weindler |
| cut | Annette Dorn |
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GAMBIT ( capitalization in the opening credits) is a two-part German television film that was produced in 1985 for ZDF and first broadcast in February 1987; in the credits of both parts the copyright year "1986" is given. The title refers to a strategy in chess in which an advantage is gained through a pawn sacrifice .
action
The first part begins with the death of the atomic physicist Professor Ott in a brothel in Morocco. The petty criminal Steinbrenner, who is also there, is forced by the owner to dispose of the body. Steinbrenner appropriates the deceased's passport, apartment keys and other documents and then flies to Germany.
The reporter Sybille Seeger, known as Billy, of the newspaper "Rundschlag" is contacted by the right-wing terrorist Stromberg, who is wanted in a wanted list. He asks to meet because he wants a statement published. Seeger, on the other hand, is only willing to conduct an interview. To get the reporter to print his statement, he reports on a final action that is imminent. This corresponds to a series of faxes received by the Federal Chancellery in which a group called "ODIN" is demanding one billion D-Marks in gold, otherwise it would be an attack called "Aktion Feuerkeil" and a large number of civilian victims give.
A German security agency (it remains to be seen which one it is) has eavesdropped on Seeger's meeting with Stromberg, intercepts them and flies them to a headquarters in Bonn for interrogation. At the same time, there is a majority in the editorial team of disinterest in the Stromberg case. Only the permanently drunk editor Dreibrodt supports Billy, who continues to research on her own. On the way to another meeting with Stromberg, Stromberg dies in a car accident, which is kept secret.
Steinbrenner contacted Seeger and offered her documents marked as secret on a scenario of an attack on a nuclear power plant, which were owned by Otts and entitled "Gambit", for 12,000 D-Marks. Inside there is a drawing that shows the impact in a dome of a nuclear power plant. After supposedly the "ODIN" group was able to drop a red color bomb on the dome of the nuclear power plant in Meerbusch and blow up an old armed forces bunker in the Eifel, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl agrees to hand over the gold.
It turns out that Ott is behind "ODIN" and that he wanted to point out the dangers of nuclear energy through his action. He does not want to recover the gold that was thrown in three steel containers from a Transall over a lake on the instructions of Otts, but rather to leave it in the lake as evidence.
The neo-Nazi group, to which Stromberg belonged, managed to get the Gambit documents into their possession. They recognize the potential and the two-part series ends with the receipt of a new, identical fax at the Federal Chancellery, this time sent by the neo-Nazi group.
background
According to an article in Der Spiegel magazine, the shooting was completed in 1985, but the first broadcast of the thriller was postponed several times to February 15 and 18, 1987, until immediately after the 1987 federal election . In addition, a connection with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is made in the article .
Web links
- Gambit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gambit at filmportal.de
- Gambit in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article "The GAU and the Girl" by Klaus Umbach . In: Der Spiegel from February 9, 1987.