Inside Man - The man from the cold
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| German title | Inside Man - The man from the cold |
| Original title | Slag fighters The Inside Man |
| Country of production | Sweden United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Tom Clegg |
| script | Alan Plater |
| production | Euan Lloyd |
| music | Stefan Nilsson |
| camera | Jörgen Persson |
| cut | Susanne Linnman |
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Inside Man is a Swedish-British agent film by Tom Clegg from 1984. The main roles are played by the US-American Dennis Hopper , the German Hardy Krüger and the Swede Gösta Ekman junior . The film is based on the novel Slagskämpen (Swedish for "fighters") by Harry Kullman
action
The film follows a real problem that the Swedish national defense was increasingly exposed to in the 1980s. In the coastal waters of the Baltic Sea , Soviet submarines are increasingly being located, which are undoubtedly on a spy mission and apparently want to test the reaction speed of the Swedish military. This is where this agent thriller comes in: The Swedish scientist Paul Mandell is currently researching a green-colored laser system that can be used to track down submarines faster and more accurately, even from a great distance. Not only does the Swedish Ministry of Defense show great interest in Mandell's work, but also the Americans, who force two “advisers” on him, who were undoubtedly sent by the CIA . Mandell's research is already very advanced when an arson attack was carried out on his laboratory one night and the prototype of his work was stolen. Who is it? One cannot trust either friend or foe. And so the head of the Swedish secret service SÄPO , Stig Larsson, sends a slim but boxing-experienced marine man named Thomas Kallin, who had previously served on the coast patrol, to the espionage front in order to get the missing Mandell device back at any price and as quickly as possible. As Mandell's driver, Kallin is supposed to go into his environment and get to the bottom of things.
But the opponent does not remain idle either, and so soon all interested parties get in each other's way, especially since their own side does not deal honestly with Kallin. When the inventor Mandell meets the notorious Hungarian arms dealer Laszlo at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport, Kallin gets a hot lead for the first time. Does the Swede want to sell his own tracking system to the highest bidder? But then Kallin makes a crucial mistake and is fired by his boss Larsson. But then a hot lead leads to the CIA man Baxter, who is negotiating with Laszlo about the laser device. Has Kallin been watching the wrong man all along? Finally it becomes clear that the Swedes and America want to outsmart the Russians: the laser does not work properly and is supposed to be sold to the Soviets via arms dealer Laszlo, who get a bad device for good money. Meanwhile, Kallin doesn't give up. At the handover point in the port, he knocks down Laszlo and removes the laser device he just received. Baxter ambushes him, however. There is a scramble and a wild escape in the car. Baxter falls into the water with the car and drowns. Baxter's colleague Miller and Kallen's superior Larsson appear at the scene of the accident. Larsson act completely clueless when his subordinate tells him that Baxter went down with the laser device. Larsson coldly informs him that he should contact him on Monday to see if he can return Kallen to the coast guard. Frustrated, Kallen resumes his boxing training. He has just become the owner of a new sports car. From then on he is watched by men in a black Mercedes.
Production notes
Inside Man was filmed in Stockholm and Arlanda Airport from October to December 1983 and premiered in Sweden on August 31, 1984. In Germany, the film was first released as a video in January 1986, but was then released in cinemas on September 25 of the same year. German TV premiere was on November 19, 1988 on ARD .
With this film, Hardy Krüger largely ended his four decades-long cinema career.
Historical background
On October 28, 1981, a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish territorial waters in front of the top-secret Karlskrona naval base . Since Sweden did not want to come to terms with the penetration of a foreign submarine, appropriate countermeasures were decided after no Soviet submarine could be successfully seized so far. The officially neutral country was now in the middle of the East-West conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact .
criticism
The lexicon of the international film says: "Exciting espionage thriller against a realistic background, which exposes the cynical game of the secret services."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inside Man - The Man from the Cold. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Inside Man - The man from the cold in the Internet Movie Database (English)