Killing Cars
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Killing Cars |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Verhoeven |
| script | Michael Verhoeven |
| production | Michael Verhoeven |
| music | Michael Landau |
| camera | Jacques Steyn |
| cut | Alfred Srp |
| occupation | |
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Killing Cars is a German thriller from 1986 by Michael Verhoeven , who was also responsible for the script.
action
The engineer Ralph Korda has developed a revolutionary new prototype of an automobile. However, the unsophisticated loner encounters all sorts of resistance when realizing the project. Although the vehicle is already ready for series production, the production of the environmentally friendly vehicle, which is independent of gasoline combustion, is blocked by the CEO of the BAG Group. Representatives of the oil industry also use their influence to prevent the vehicle from being launched on the market. Other companies show a strong interest in the technology developed by Korda, but have their own motives. Korda fights to get possession of his invention in order to bring the vehicle onto the market after all, but he rejects the million dollar offer from an armaments company. Meanwhile, a group of young punks attacked the car company BAG and stole the prototype.
background
Killing Cars , also known as Blitz , was created under the leadership of Sentana Filmproduktion in cooperation with Hessischer Rundfunk .
The shooting took place in West Berlin and New York . You can see, among other things, the old AEG site in Gesundbrunnen, the strip of wall seen from Kreuzberg, the not yet rebuilt Oberbaumbrücke and the Westend train station (which was closed at the time and is now in operation again as the S-Bahn station of the Ringbahn).
The film was released on February 13, 1986 in German cinemas and was first broadcast on German television on July 13, 1988 on Erste . The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
The so-called World Car in the film is a modified version of a Sonic GT , which was later marketed under the name Albar Sonic . The title song was written by Mario Argandoña, other songs in the film such as "Children of the Night" are sung by Todd Canedy . Stefan Meinke, who plays one of the young people in the film, was also seen as punk in Peter Keglevic's The Bull and the Girl with Jürgen Prochnow in 1985 .
criticism
“Confused mix of action film and political thriller; illogical, hardly exciting, only played well in a few supporting roles. "
Web links
- Killing Cars in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Killing Cars at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to IMDb
- ^ Killing Cars in the Lexicon of International Films