Heroin (1968)

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Movie
Original title heroin
Country of production GDR
original language German
Publishing year 1968
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Heinz Thiel ,
Horst E. Brandt
script Gerhard Bengsch
production DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music Helmut Nier
camera Horst E. Brandt,
Horst Orgel
(underwater recordings)
cut Hildegard Conrad-Nöller
occupation

Heroin is a German crime film of the DEFA of Heinz Thiel and Horst E. Brandt from the year 1968 .

action

The corpses of Frenchman Henri Ledaux and train waiter Max Runge are found on the railway line to Berlin . Both appear to be implicated in transit smuggling cases. Runge had a few cans of tomato juice with him, which turned out to be a hiding place for heroin . He regularly drove the route from Berlin to Budapest . Customs commissioner Peter Zinn begins to look for the people behind the crime as an undercover agent.

Since he was murdered, Mr. Armiac from the Berlin Lindenhotel has repeatedly called Runge's apartment. Peter goes to the hotel, where he pretends to be Runge's colleague and soon meets with the Parisian Armiac and his partner Chevonne. After they have successfully tested him, he hands both of them the cans from Runge's suitcase. He claims to have known about Runge's business for a long time and has now taken his place. Armiac and Chevonne recruit him as a courier for the Berlin – Budapest route. Peter now works as a head waiter on the track, meets with the chief inspector of the Hungarian customs administration Doboka in Budapest and coordinates the next steps. The handover of the heroin is said to be handled by the seedy Csaky, who, however, becomes suspicious. He knocks Peter down on the train and tries to flee, but is arrested by the waiting police. He reports to the investigators that Runge increasingly failed as a courier. He learned from Ledaux that Runge was poached by a Yugoslav who wants to get Armiac and Chevonne out of the heroin business. In fact, a hiding place with 20 cans of heroin was found in Runge's boat in Berlin. Peter learns from Doboka that the Yugoslav is the singer Florian Garashin. His girlfriend, the flight attendant Danuta Tisza, is active as a courier.

Peter meets with Garashin and offers himself to him as a courier. He pretends to know a safe way to smuggle heroin to Austria: in a diplomatic car. Garashin suggests that he wants to smuggle around 80 kilograms of heroin. Before any further arrangements can be made, Garaschin is murdered by Chevonne and Armiac. Danuta Tisza is also threatened and taken into police custody. She doesn't know where the heroin is hidden, but says that the supplies always came from Lucia Nemanja from Belgrade . Peter travels to Belgrade, makes contact with the local customs investigator Ivo Borbić and meets with Lucia Nemanja. She works with her brother, the hairdresser Ferri Nemanja. After numerous tests, the two bring him to the landlord Branco on the Adriatic. Chevonne and Armiac followed them too, but were arrested together with Branco in the bar. Peter tried in Branco's bar to inform customs officials of the next steps, but Ferri had cut the conversation. Lucia secretly re-establishes the connection and now knows that Peter is wrong. She informs Ferri, who nevertheless does not want to interrupt the campaign. You go out to sea in a boat organized by Branco and retrieve the heroin canisters from an underground cave. Ferri finally tries to stab Peter underwater, but Peter manages to steal the oxygen device from him. The passed out Ferri is brought ashore, where the investigators arrest him and Lucia. Peter's mission is over and he's flying back to Berlin.

production

The Gellért Bath, a location in the film

Heroin was filmed in locations in Berlin, Budapest, Belgrade and the Adriatic. Filming locations included the Gellértbad (Peter's first meeting with Doboka) and the Fisherman's Bastion (Peter's meeting with Julian Garaschin). The film was previewed on March 2, 1968 in the Leipzig Capitol as part of the Leipzig Spring Fair . The actual premiere was on March 14, 1968 in the Berlin Kino International . The following day the film was shown in GDR cinemas, where it was seen by more than 820,000 viewers. Heroin was first shown on GDR television on September 27, 1969 on DFF 1 .

After Bread and Roses (1967), heroin was the second feature film directed by cameraman Horst E. Brandt. The dramaturgy was in the hands of Hans-Joachim Wallstein . Lydia Fiege created the costumes and Paul Lehmann designed the film . The music was played by Günter Hörig and the Dresden Dance Symphony Orchestra.

criticism

Renate Holland-Moritz called the dialogues “remarkably dry, and the plot drags on like a sailing ship with no wind. [...] here one is confronted with the seriousness and the tiring plague of the customs officer life. "

For the film service , heroin was a "honest, entertaining film without any particular artistic demands."

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See heroin on progress-film.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.progress-film.de  
  2. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz: cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 16, 1968.
  3. ↑ Heroin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used