In China, they eat dogs
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| German title | In China, they eat dogs |
| Original title | I Kina spiser de dogs |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | approx. 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Let Spang Olsen |
| script | Thomas Jensen is different |
| production | Steen Herdel |
| music | George Keller |
| camera | Morten Søborg |
| cut | Let Spang Olsen |
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In China they eat dogs (original title: I Kina spiser de hunde ) is a black - humorous action comedy by the director Lasse Spang Olsen from 1999.
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The bank clerk Arvid is a notorious bore in the eyes of his girlfriend Hanne. However, his life changes suddenly when he is able to incapacitate a bank robber with a squash racket. He is then celebrated as a hero on television. When he comes home with a swollen chest, however, it is already too late: Hanne has left him. The apartment is empty, only the television and the phone are left to him. Suddenly a woman named Astrid rings the doorbell and claims that the bank robber named Franz whom Arvid knocked down is her husband and that he had robbed the bank to raise money for an artificial insemination . Now Arvid has ruined her whole life.
Plagued by his conscience and also beaten up by a rock band because Arvid had refused a loan to one of the members, he decides to put everything back in order. He seeks out the only criminal he knows - his brother Harald, owner of a dubious restaurant that he has not seen for more than nine years. Together with the two chefs Martin and Peter and the poor kitchen assistant Vuk, a dumb Serb with a grotesque streak of bad luck, they want to iron out Arvid's "mistake" again. First they attack a money truck to get Astrid the money for the artificial insemination. During the attack, the honest Arvid is shocked by his brother's tough crackdown on the driver of the transporter, but later proudly delivers the captured 671,543 Danish kroner to Astrid. She is not grateful to him, but slams the door in his face.
Next, Arvid tries, with the help of Harald and his employees, to free the bank robber: They want to blow up the cell with C4 explosives . During the explosive force test of the explosives on a remote industrial site, Vuk, who appears there late at the time of the detonation, is captured by the explosion and deafened. Two policemen are shot and the bank robber injured when they are released from prison. During treatment by an obscure doctor in Harald's restaurant, Franz wakes up from unconsciousness and gives Erling a headbutt by surprise, whereupon Erling collapses dead. Arvid, who tries to calm things down by two shots in the air, hits the kitchen assistant Vuk through a ricochet, who also collapses dead. Since Harald has no use for the awakened bank robber, he shoots him, which now leaves three dead in the kitchen, which Martin and Peter are supposed to bury in the city park. One problem arises from Vuk's mafia family being alarmed by his disappearance. In addition, it turns out that Astrid was not the friend of the bank robber, but his greedy sister, who has since gone to South Africa with the money and a new fur coat.
After Arvid has killed a person for the first time, Harald wants to teach him not to let "pee on his leg". To this end, the two visit the rock band, whose members beat Arvid days beforehand. Because Arvid can't handle the submachine gun that Harald gives him to take revenge on the band's guitarist with a shot in the hand, he accidentally shoots the entire rock band. After he has learned not to be bullied, the next day he kills his ex-girlfriend Hanne, who wants to take his television away from him. Arvid then decides to move abroad, but still needs money for travel and accommodation. This gave rise to the idea of robbing the bank where Arvid worked.
However, the attack does not take place, as the group is attacked shortly beforehand by Vuk's family with heavy weapons because Peter and Martin apparently did not bury his body well enough. There is a shooting that moves to the Café "Paradis". Both Arvid and some of those who happened to be present died there. An angel in the form of an American tourist named Richard, who has played poker with a devil - the bartender - in the café throughout the film, takes Arvid to heaven, even though he has now killed six people. The other, uninvolved dead go (partly by mistake) all to hell. In the dialogue that unfolds in the credits between Arvid and Richard, Arvid asks whether he belongs in heaven despite his numerous murders. Richard addresses this epistemological question of good and evil based on the dubious intentions of the opponents, but ultimately it turns out that Arvid only goes to heaven because of the friendship between his father and Richard.
Reviews
“This sometimes quite drastic strip is certainly not to everyone's taste. But if you like bizarre humor à la ' Pulp Fiction ', you will get your money's worth here, because director Lasse Spang Olsen ('Operation Cobra', 'Old Men in New Cars') - a popular stuntman by the way - goes here with black Sarcasm of the crudest sort. The grotesque humor and absurdity of the film are hard to beat. "
“A film with a cynical attitude that is staged entirely for its independent and increasingly brutal action scenes. The grotesque absurdity of the plot is never caught, not least because of the poorly developed characters. "
“The weird and macabre stupid thing always has tangible surprises in store, always goes one step further than you would expect, and also has dialogues that you never forget. Tasting: 'I killed my girlfriend.' - ,Where is she now?' - ,At my home. In the living room and ... uh ... in the kitchen. ' So now it's official: Danes can do anything! "
Prequel
In March 2005, a prequel produced by Lasse Spang Olsen in 2002 under the title Old Men in New Cars - In China they eat dogs 2 (original title: Gamle mænd i nye biler ) was released in Germany's cinemas , which has also been available on DVD since mid-2005 is available.
Web links
- In China They Eat Dogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In China They Eat Dogs at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- In China, they eat dogs in the online movie database
- In China they eat dogs in the German synchronized files
- In China they eat dogs on danskefilm.dk in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
- In China they eat dogs on dfi.dk in the Det Danske Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for In China They Eat Dogs . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 85 100 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ In China they eat dogs . In: prisma-online
- ↑ In China they eat dogs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Gernot Gricksch : film review . In: Cinema.de