Beyond the white line

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Movie
German title Beyond the white line
Original title Deep cover
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bill Duke
script Michael Tolkin
Henry Bean
production Henry Bean
Pierre David
music Michel Colombier
camera Bojan Bazelli
cut John Carter
occupation

Beyond the White Line (Original Title: Deep Cover ) is an American action thriller from 1992 . Directed by Bill Duke and written by Michael Tolkin and Henry Bean . The film is also a noir crime thriller.

action

The African American Russell Stevens is a police officer. He often thinks of his drug addict father, who was killed before his eyes during an armed robbery he committed during his childhood.

Gerald Carver of the Drug Enforcement Administration , who realizes the latent aggressiveness that has developed, recruits Stevens for an undercover operation in Los Angeles to destroy a drug ring led by Felix Barbosa, Anton Gallegos and Hector Guzmán, a Latin American politician becomes. Under the name of John Hull and disguised as a drug dealer, which he can maintain thanks to this aggressiveness, he rises in the drug world with the help of David Jason, who becomes his partner in this world.

Through him he comes close to the sadistic Felix Barbosa. Carver then begins to torpedo his investigation. After killing Barbosa and approaching Gallegos, Carver tried to force him out of the case for a flimsy reason, but he overwhelmed him and through questioning, Carver confessed that he was only using it on behalf of the government to to protect these very drug barons because Hector Guzmán could be useful for US foreign policy in Latin America. In order to achieve this, he should ensure that his investigations are in vain at precisely this moment at the first opportunity so as not to arouse suspicion in Congress in this regard .

He therefore changes fronts out of disappointment in order to be able to arrest them alone. He also has to face his demons from his past. He finally manages to take down Anton Gallegos and confiscate a lot of drug money. In addition, he stops Jason when he kills a police officer who had made him realize how close he was to becoming a criminal. However, to a friend of his who had laundered drug money but got out when she realized how wrong it was to be able to criminally protect against Carver and the government, he cannot mention it in front of Congress, like the drug agency on instructions from the government Guzman covers. For example, according to a written agreement with the government, he testifies how it was all Carver's work and he only acted on his instructions in return for their leaving him and his girlfriend alone forever.

Nevertheless, with the help of a hidden video recording, which Carver knew nothing of, he manages to expose Guzman in public as a drug dealer before Congress without Carver being able to do anything about it, which means the end of his ambition to get a job in Washington . As a result, Stevens leaves the Drug Enforcement Administration. After these events, he defeated his ghosts from the past, but realizes that while he handed over $ 89 million in confiscated drug money, he had to keep $ 11 million for this purpose in order to get that drug money and expose Guzman, the was looking for that money. And now he has to wonder what to do with that money.

Reviews

Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader that the film was a powerful thriller full of surprises, original approaches and rare political clarity. The impressive portrayal of Jeff Goldblum in the role of a Jewish gangster is added.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was an “attempt to make the dividing line between the essential affinities of crime and criminology visible within a psychodrama,” which “got stuck in the beginning” . It is “after all an exciting entertainment film with atmospheric density and formal ambition based on familiar patterns from critical police films” .

The magazine TV Spielfilm said the film was a “surprisingly profound noir crime thriller” and Laurence Fishburne mastered “his first leading role with flying colors” .

Awards

Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 1993.

backgrounds

The film was shot in Los Angeles , including Hollywood . It grossed approximately $ 16.6 million in US cinemas . The title track of the same name was composed by Dr. Dre and the then newcomer Snoop Doggy Dogg .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beyond the White Line Cinema . Retrieved April 18, 2017
  2. ^ Film review by Jonathan Rosenbaum, accessed March 22, 2008
  3. ↑ Beyond the White Line in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on March 22, 2008
  4. ↑ Beyond the White Line TV feature film . Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  5. ↑ Filming locations for Deep Cover, accessed March 22, 2008
  6. ↑ Deep Cover grossing results, accessed March 22, 2008