Hostage ride to paradise
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hostage ride to paradise |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans-Erich Viet |
| script | Hans-Erich Viet |
| production | Hans-Erich Viet |
| music | Kambiz Giahi |
| camera | Konrad Kotowski |
| cut | Mona Bräuer |
| occupation | |
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Geiselfahrt ins Paradies (working title: Sterna Paradisa ) is a German feature film produced in 1998 by Hans-Erich Viet . In addition to the performers Hubertus Hartmann and Gesa Badenhorst worked Armin Rohde , Martin Wuttke and Horst Frank with his last roles in one.
production
The film was produced on behalf of Norddeutscher Rundfunk by Viet-Film Produktion in cooperation with ARTE . The shooting took place from August 18 to September 26, 1997 in Leer, Münster, Osnabrück and on Borkum. The film premiered on January 31, 1998 at the Max Ophüls Festival . The film opened in German cinemas on May 11, 1998 and was first broadcast on television on August 21, 1998 on Arte.
action
Hubert, who works in a schnapps factory, is unexpectedly fired. He cannot implement his plan to travel to China and get married there. Hubert therefore raids a lottery acceptance point in order to raise the money for a ticket to Beijing. The booty is quite high, but the employee at the acceptance point and her ten-year-old daughter unexpectedly accompany Hubert as hostages. Disguised as a small family, they flee from the police and the owner of the lottery point and finally land on a North Sea island.
criticism
The film premiered in 1998 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , but the reactions to the film differed.
“It's the details and the ludicrous situations that make the crime comedy Geiselfahrt ins Paradies so worth seeing. Cab drivers, for example, will shed tears of joy when Martin Wuttke, as an involuntary escape driver, finally roars from the hearts of the entire guild of the taxi industry. Another highlight is an uncanny encounter between the mature and the young Horst Frank. These and many other wonderful scenes always make up for the fact that the flow of the story sometimes gets stuck. "
Web links
- Geisel trip to paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hostage ride to paradise in the lexicon of international films
- Hostage ride to paradise at filmportal.de
- Hostage ride to paradise at kino.de